Konami's Decade of Disasters

We all love(d) Konami.
But they're starting to slip.
This is the collected timeline of insanity!

2004:

                      - Renamed Room 302 to Silent Hill 4: The Room and forced Developers Team Silent to change it into a sequel, not a new style of game.

2004-2011:

                      - Lost Developers over this period from Team Silent to other places.

2011:

                      - Dissolved Team Silent (the Developers behind Silent Hill 1 through 4).

2012:

MARCH 1     - Dissolved/absorbed Hudson Soft.
MARCH 20   - Silent Hill HD Collection:  Poor quality graphics compared to original games.
OCTOBER    - Zone Of The Enders HD Collection: Bad gameplay compared to original games.
DECEMBER - David Hayter not rehired as Snake for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

2013:

JUNE 6          - Kiefer Sutherland announced as new Snake for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain.

2014:

MARCH 17   - Castlevania series Producer Koji Igarashi leaves Konami.

2015:


MARCH 19   - Metal Gear series Creator Hideo Kojima (allegedly) fired.
                       - Developer Kojima Productions removed from the Metal Gear series.
(Traces of company COMPLETELY removed from promotional materials, social media, everything.)
APRIL 27      - Konami delists itself from the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange).
APRIL 27      - Silent Hills cancelled despite P.T demo being a hit worldwide.
                         (Letting go of Director Guillermo del Toro and lead Norman "Darryl Dixon" Reedus.)
MAY 5          - P.T (AKA Playable Teaser) pulled from PlayStation Store.
MAY 11        - Castlevania Producer Koji Igarashi condemns Konami's actions over Kojima incident.

JULY 29        - Pachinko Castlevania game announced (WHY?!?!)
AUGUST 4    - Pachinko Silent Hill game announced (WHY?!?!)



Did I miss any headlines worth adding?
Let me know and I'll add them!

Dead (Wo)Men Act Many Tales

Warning: Mildly morbid celebration of artistry below.

It's an unfortunate side effect of life: Death.

But in the field of acting, and what many actors strive to do, is entertain, enlighten and bring out the best in people with their craft.

Sometimes this happens, quite unfortunately, after their own passing.

This is a list of actors, from various mediums, who left one last performance (sometimes more) after the fact.

Mako

Mako was a beloved voice/on-camera actor for many, passing away during the second season of the brilliant Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon. It's unknown how much of the voice acting was from him and how much was filled in by Greg Baldwin (the next performer to play General/Uncle Iroh), but he was known for many roles audience members will continue to treasure.

He left two last performances after Avatar:

- TMNT (2007) Splinter
- Rise (2007) Poe

Marlon Brando

This legendary actor died in 2004, but thanks to already filmed footage and CGI talents, Marlon played a few more roles (and even Don Vito one last time in The Godfather video game).

There are numerous credits, but of note to many is:

- Superman Returns (2006) Jor-El [Footage and CGI]
- The Godfather (2004) Don Vito [Video game adaptation]

Justin "JewWario" Carmichal

Justin was an internet performer who's reviews have been a hit for years on Channel Awesome, sadly passed in 2014. But he had two posthumous performances left. One via fellow internet performer "Nash" of Radio Dead Air (who debated lengthily about uploading the review in light of Justin's passing and gags in the review relating to injuring JewWario), the other via internet performer James "The Nerd/AVGN" Rolfe's long-in-the-making movie, as a cameo among many internet performer clips, Justin's recorded in 2013. He played JewWario in both.

- Dr. Strange - A Review (25 March 2014)
http://radiodeadair.com/2014/03/25/review-dr-strange/
- Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014)
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/avgn

Gloria Foster

Known better to modern audiences as The Oracle from The Matrix (1999), her performance in The Matrix Reloaded (2003) was unknowingly posthumous to many (she had passed away in 2001).
This left the Wachowskis to add a reason why The Oracle had swapped faces to the script.
Her character was played in The Matrix Revolutions (2003) and tie-in games Enter The Matrix (2003) and The Matrix Online (2005) by Foster's friend and fellow actress Mary Alice.

- The Matrix Reloaded (2003) The Oracle

Heath Ledger

You may be thinking I'm about to list The Dark Knight (2008) below. I'm not, despite it being his last completed film. His last unfinished work was actually after that! His final work was a film by Monty Python veteran (and Director) Terry Gilliam called The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Heath had died during filming, but two things eased the pain for all involved in the production. Especially for Heath's immediate family.

1: Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell agreed to help finish Heath's role.
2: The above gentlemen (in the best sense of the word) gave ALL their earnings on this film to Heath's daughter Matilda, so her financial future would not fizzle away.

- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) Tony

And with the light in the darkness from those three men above, I shall leave this list as an internet oddity perused out of curiousity!

Cloaked Disabilities

Often it's forgotten in this world that not all of us are 100% complete. And no, I don't mean in a typically average person's everyday emotional troubles.

I'm talking about disability. Quick, what's the first image that sprang to mind when you saw that word "disability"? I'm betting $20 it was involving wheelchairs, crutches, bandaged/missing body parts. The visible, the tangible, the easily identified.

Often it's not realised until it's discussed: the "cloaked disabilities". Where people seem to function just fine. So why do they pull in a pension while you miss out?
You may not realise it, but some are so subtle, it takes just one small moment to lock onto the not so obvious factors. The moment that makes you raise an eyebrow at the "abnormal" event. A slur. A stumble. A hand shaking unsteadily.
(Michael J. Fox was diagnosed long ago with his Parkinson's, and reportedly hid his hand in his pants pocket during the filming of Family Ties to hide the shaking, which is why the press and public took so long to find out.)

There are many, but media has locked onto epilepsy as the easiest and most dramatic to demonstrate.
Not a bad thing, the more press for cloaked disabilities the better. We "dented" people could use the information to help our position in life.
(Except disinformation like "Psychotic Epilepsy". Thanks The Exorcism of Emily Rose.)


Just remember: You don't need a wheelchair or crutches to have a disability.
It extends beyond the external to the internal.

When in doubt/shy, look for a Medic Alert bracelet (or similar).
(Although not everyone is guaranteed to own one.)
Or even better, just ASK.
(We may tire of sharing the same details ad nauseum, but we know it's with good reason. Curiosity, not harassment.)

Assuming someone's "faking it" reminds me of two old sayings:

"Don't judge a book by its cover." and "Judge not, lest ye be judged.".

OZ COMIC-CON: Charged nearly $100 for nothing.

Oz Comic-Con:
Anyone with medical problems that may stop you attending,
be careful before buying tickets in advance.
"My epilepsy has prevented me attending twice now, 2012 and 2014 (details below).

Since I was lovely enough to book in advance, I was hoping since I couldn't make it, you could send me those years' DVDs instead.

I highly doubt out of my $97.22 spent, a couple of delivered DVDs would hurt.
(I did help 2012 succeed despite missing out on the live experience.  )

Below are the ticket details so you can double check my story, and this year's ticket has address, email and mobile number."

Oh and my email was lovingly re-subjected:
"Subject: *****SPAM***** General: Health preventing attendance twice question."

The response?

"Hi [MR],

We're very sorry to hear about the fact that you were unable to make our events. Sadly, we are unable to provide you with an event DVD. They are available to be purchased from our website, in the merch area.

Kind Regards,

Oz Comic-Con"

Yep, after giving them nearly $100 for NOTHING (full weekend tickets), they can't part with (estimated manufacture cost of) $5-10 DVDs they made, and then told me to GO BUY THEM ON TOP.

Be aware: You buy, no replacement/compensation/refund/ANYTHING.

#OzComicCon #ComicCon #Conventions #VideoGames #Australia #Nerd#Geek #Tech #Money #Comics #Gaming

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Pop Culture Things That Kids Of The 80s Will Need To Explain To Their Kids - Part One: MOVIES

"That stainless steel car with ridiculous gullwing doors does WHAT?!"

"Captain Kirk wasn't a muscular badarse but a flabby wigged guy in his late 30s in a girdle?!"

"Han shot FIRST?!"

"Why can Batman barely fit in his car?!"

"[INSERT REBOOTED 80s MOVIE] wasn't the original?!"

"Dolph Lundgren?! The Punisher?!"

"THIS is the first TRON movie?! Where's Daft Punk?!"

"Wait, Superman can fly but CGI wasn't used?!"

"Wait, this is The Karate Kid?! Where's Mr. Han?!"

"Who the hell is Reb Brown?! This isn't Captain America! It got a SEQUEL?!"

"Aliens is great! What the hell happened to the Alien franchise and James Cameron?!"

"...this is Indiana Jones, right? How did it get so bad after Last Crusade?!"

"This is the first Transformers movie?! Looks nothing like those other nine movies! It's animated!"

"Original trilogy Star Wars? You mean Episode One to Three right?"

Pre-Digital Age Cavemen 1 : Pre-Death Blockbuster Video

Blockbuster Video is seen as a joke these days, as the last refuge for anyone who doesn't know the magic words "Downloadable/Streaming Online Video".
(Even modern day pop culture like TV show True Blood is taking jabs at it, the latest show mocking their business practices.)

But before the Internet was widespread, kids of the 80s, now in their teens in the 90s, had no such luck when seeing video media. The Internet was choking on Real Media.
(Barely known now, but was a streaming technology used often for some of the first videos you could stream online.)

Be it for TV shows, movies, documentaries or..."documentaries on anatomy" (hint: "The Internet is for..."), the only choice was to go to the local video store and pay between (AUD)$1 to $7 for a video. If it was new it cost $7, having only a day to bring it back. If you were lucky and the video was old it was $3 with a week to return it. If you were late for returns? Expect your ability to rent frozen until fines were paid.)

And it gets better. If you go to before 1999, you didn't have streaming video services. You lacked Blu Ray. You didn't even get DVD. You had two options, one a flash in the pan with its existence.
LaserDisc or VCR cassette, AKA VHS tapes.
(LaserDisc dying almost as quickly as it arrived.)
So with the wide option of VHS tapes or...VHS tapes, we'd head off to the local video store for a big black rectangle of  plastic containing reels of magnetic tape. It's seen as bad resolution now, but it was fine for back then.

VHS tapes rarely had anything exciting. No extras. Only rare movies had widescreen.
(Most TVs were 4:3.)

But sadly one thing carried across since the 80s: The adverts.
In the beginning of pretty much every movie we paid to rent, adverts.
However, back then we got the one thing they deny us now.
The adverts could be fast-forwarded through.
(When was the last time you could skip or speed through ads on a DVD/BR rental?)


Back then I went to a local store called Focus Video. Dead now, but a good company while it lasted. Bought out by Blockbuster Video, the Internet was so small I had never heard of this new company.
(For a teen in the early days of the Internet, it wasn't as quick as now. No smartphones. No Twitter. No Wikipedia. No Google. Nothing helping the search yet. You had the Library, the phone book and slow PCs with screaming 56k modems running Windows 3.1.1 or Windows 95 in '96 and Windows 98 in '99.)

Much like McDonald's, Pizza Hut and many other American businesses, they had expanded into Australia to gauge their success. Blockbuster did pretty well, and even now in Australia, unlike the US headquarters, is still alive with many stores open.
(Although I don't know if they'll survive if the US H.Q pulls the plug.)


In the 90s I rented a lot of the VHS tapes from them as a teen. Picture your smartphone/tablet's book application that shows a shelf of book covers. Now imagine a large building (or small, depending on their success) filled with shelves of titles in a similar way, some shelved like books on a bookshelf, spine to you.

No download time, no broken streams, just get the box, collect the tape at the counter, pay, leave.
(And the one thing they have over DVD and BR discs: the discs get one small scratch, the film skips. You could hurl a VHS tape across a football field and STILL play it without a problem.)

(To be continued...)

Telstra Bedside : Flaws and Future.

SPEED: Okay. Stutters with YouTube. Even below 480p. 480p should be fine for the screens made for 480p!

PHONE: Works great! You don't need the "Ext" for anything except Helpdesk calls.
Only flaw? 13 calls to Telstra fail to work.

TOUCHSCREEN: Bearable. Simple one finger touch, which makes the on screen keys a pain in the arse. Way better to use the...

PHYSICAL KEYS: GREAT! Top row not activated yet, but the rest work fine. The whole lot I've written on the system is on it. Turns behind screen and fold-locks behind it! Screen and keys have grabbing bars to adjust angle of screen and keys' placement.

Future addditions seem to be:

- Remote Control (unless leftover and unneeded like the cam panel up top)
- SIM chip credit card slot (for payment for phone etc.)
- Barcode reader (for patient wristbands and stickers)

The system is still new (and had a flaw that let me open new windows in IE last visit - fixed now) but is promising. Especially once the NBN is used and doctors can use it in medical ways like heart monitoring.

It definitely beats the old system.
(Although curious why Telstra charges for basic FTA TV when in an older interview they said that would be free and the rest would cost...)

Telstra Bedside : iView!

Prefer to see the ABC shows you want to when you want to?

Simply fire up https://abc.net.au/iview.
The Telstra Bedside system runs the service perfectly!

I saw Doctor Who and The Checkout (x 3) while I was here.

Cost nothing, saw them at my own pace.

And the whole collection is there to see!
(Especially handy if you have a little one upset and only news or adult shows are on. Fire up Play School (etc.) and away goes the unhappiness!)

You might need the physical keyboard's trackpad for accurate clicking on the interface, but player buttons (except volume) are easy with touchscreen.

Telstra Bedside : How to save $6 (x ?) on movies.

YouTube has the ability to create playlists.
If you also look up "full movie","Full film" or something similar, you will see several cheeky sods have posted full movies from the 1900s to now!

Add films you discover to a new playlist ("Movie List" or the like) and you now have a ton of films to see while trapped in hospital, that costs nothing!

If you dig deeply, you will also find TV shows.
(I found "My Little Pony", "The Girl From Tommorrow" and many more on one look alone!)

Trust me, it's not High Def and will play just as well!
(Plus for my lovers of international cinema, there's plenty of other countries' cinema too! Korea has many full movies on YouTube!)

Am I promoting piracy? Not if you can afford it.
If you cannot afford it? It's not you who uploaded the movies YouTube take time to remove!

But by all means, if you can afford $6 per movie, purchase it.
(Or you could see an older classic for free. Even you sir, who saw Dracula in the 30s, I saw that on YouTube for free too!)

Telstra Bedside : Filter? What filter?

If, like me, you can't stand filters if you can surf with reasonable judgement, then this short post will come in handy for you.

(At time of typing - 12/04/13 - this is accurate and works.)

Firstly, if a site is blocked, or you simply get "Access to the selected page is unavailable from this service", type this into the address bar:

https://hidemyass.com

The secure URL "S" will break past the security in place.
If you remove the "S" from "HTTPS" you will get the "Access to the selected page..." alert.

Hide My Ass is a popular site for bypassing overly filtered links.
Once you're there, click on the "SSL Off" button to turn it On.

The advanced options allow for other ways to attack the filter to bust through.

ALWAYS best to leave Server and IP Address as Random, but you can either use Encoded or Encrypted on the connection. Encoding should work, but failing that, use Encryption.

The last two options are for Javascript and Flash in pages. Usually best to leave those.
(However, note that Disable Flash leaves any potential video players alive, but will kill adverts, so adding that is recommended if no Flash games are on your site.)

Once set, type the address you want in the yellow text box and click "Hide My Ass"!

Many sites load, even if porn sites won't play video (that I tried anyway).
(If porn is on your mind, images and fic seem to work fine!)

If your site is loud or offensive, please, ask for or bring earphones.(Common courtesy isn't it?)

That's as in depth as I got, since I am here as a (doctor? nurse? patient? janitor?) myself!

Enjoy!

Cinemas: Why Home Theatres Are Winning

After a visit to the local cinema to see The Dark Knight Rises, it became overwhelmingly clear why home theatres are so popular.

Here are my costs from going to the cinema:
(Event Cinema at Marion, formerly Marion Megaplex.)

Ticket: (Concession): $19.50
Popcorn and drink: $11.00
Total: $30.50
(Could already buy two pizzas, a drink and garlic bread with this and get change! And add 3D and/or change it to normal tickets/Gold Class, and it's higher still!)



And the best part? The drink and food section used to be run by paid staff who made your food and drink.
Now they make customers do that part.
(Clumsy/messy people making the equipment trashed and sticky as hell. The serviettes being in a tiny wall hole easily messed up by others was great too.)

Sure, the staff is still there (the poor girls in skimpy candy cane stripe maid outfits), but all they do is take the cash.

Oh and the $4.00 waters are insane as well. Supermarkets sell them for $2.50 TOPS.
(And that's the expensive chain.)

Let's do the math on a full cinema showing.

Even on the lowest income for the cinema, a room full of concession holders with just medium popcorn and a drink:

$30.50 x 250 seats = $7625


$7625 x 32 showings a day = $244,000


Sure, the film costs a bit to hire from the company, but hell, with $244,000 a day surely you can afford to:

- Keep tickets reasonable
- Get the staff to SERVE THE FOODS in LESS HUMILIATING UNIFORMS
- Keep food and drink prices reasonable

THIS is what's killing cinema viewings. It's not DVD, not Blu Ray and not Streaming Media becoming easier/cheaper to use. It's GREED and IDIOCY.

Which is sad, because I used to love going to the cinema.
Now? Just going to invest in a good home theatre, be more comfortable, have affordable foods, pay $10.00 for a movie I can KEEP, and have the ability to pause the film if my friends and I need to.

And I'm sure I'm not alone in taking that over cinema viewings.
(The sad part is I don't even have something like my kids stopping me from going - don't have any yet. It's just unappealing to pay a metric ton of cash for a poor experience.)

So, if anyone from the cinema/film industry is reading (doubtful yet possible), THIS is what needs fixing for more profits. Otherwise the home industry will overtake the cinema industry.

Balance the profit and the fun experience of the cinema and we all win.

Is that so hard?

Average Gamer's Tips to Game Studios: First Impressions.

Any gamer, when they first get a game they think or know is good, wants to enjoy the game.

First impressions count, and many, many, many games make bad to very bad first impressions.
The solutions? Very simple to implement with little cost to you!

And to help, here's a few tips on making a good impression every time a gamer uses their purchase.
(Trust me, you keep them liking the product, they'll come back for more!)

Beginning with funny and/or mood setting intros: GOOD!
This amuses people and/or sends tingles up their spine, stands hairs on the back of their necks in a good way!
Game example: "Sam and Max Hit The Road" 
The short musical credit sequence even leads to one of the first gag lines after it ends:
"That was a pleasantly understated credit sequence."

Quick game startups: GOOD!
Lack of legal crap and logos is a GREAT thing! If the gamer is even slightly interested, make a "Credits And Logos" entry in the menu. Nine times out of ten, gamers ignore these intro screens completely.
Game example: "Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock"
There are so many logos to chew through, you'll need jaw surgery.

Slow startups: BAD!
Impatient gamers are annoyed/irate/frustrated gamers, and this seeps into the like or dislike of a title and the company that made it!
Game example: [Any games with long load times and lots of legal and logo screens.]

Annoying and/or repetitive startups: BAD!
"Kill it with fire!" yell the annoyed. "Oh shit, my HDTV!" cry the shocked who threw their controller at the TV in anger, shattering the screen.
Game example: Any game with one or more of the following: 
- Loud/irritating intros (You really thought we'd like it the Nth time?)
- Company logo overload (The box tells us you did this! QUIT telling us!)
- Long load times (I could go for a drink, go to the bathroom and take a holiday by the time this is ready!)
- Unskippable cutscenes (X...Y...A...B...triggers...[]...^...O...JUST SKIP ALREADY!)

Pages and pages of logos and legal crap: BAAAAAD!
You can't use ONE combined page for EVERYONE/EVERYTHING?!
This is the age of decently big HDTVs not tiny SDTVs!
(Even those owning SDTVs now have the big screen models!)
Game example: [Many of the games where multiple companies join forces. One to make the game, one to make the boxes, one to make the graphics engine, one to distribute...you get the idea.]

Take this advice if you want to make gamers love your work and not get irritated with your products and company name from the start.

Just look at Rockstar. Very short intros, and their credits set the tone for the game.
(Like say, GTA Vice City. The music and mock Commodore 64 credit screen made the logos FUN and set the 80s mood. This was furthered by the Miami Vice style credit sequence for the design team.)

Or RARE. Their intros since Donkey Kong Country have amused, brought smiles/grins and sparked nostalgia from being colourful and not just showing off.

Or (90s) Lucasarts. Their logo did something different every single time, and one of the fun parts of getting the Lucasarts adventure games in the 1990s was seeing what insane things the logo would do next.
(The trend has sort of been brought over to new titles like The Force Unleashed, but it lacks a little of the warmth it once had, like the tradition isn't for fun anymore but just to drag old fans in.)

Or Bioware. They proudly show off their logo, then jump right into the title screen.

(There are more factors than just that behind their success, but this is one of them.)

Or Valve Software.
(The Half-Life series for example. One or two screens, then game menu! At most an intro video to add to this - see Left 4 Dead - but that sets the mood for that game's zombie survival gameplay.)

All you need is a great start, and you'll reel us into playing.

The next step, an amazing game, well...

This, my developer friends, is up to you.

Shorts: Would you like fries with--oh wait, PIZZA place!

 Okay, I know working at a Pizza place is hard, but when you try entering 32 as the month for a VISA card and call the owner to figure out why you're getting error messages, you REALLY need a break.

The Rename Game

Ah, renamed movies.

We're all familiar with at least one. The best known one among horror fans at least: BRAINDEAD.
Renamed as Dead Alive in the U.S, it was harmless enough, but prompted much head scratching in the Australasia region.

 

 Same movie, changed titles. Why? 

Why rename it? Was Brain Dead not obvious enough? Did we really need to hammer it home by simplifying a simple title?

"Hey Jeff, want to see "Brain Dead"?"
"Is that a new comedy?"
"Not sure. Let's see Hostel instead. That title sounds like a European road trip movie!"

But it gets even more ridiculous from here.

To get the elephant in the room out of the way, yes, the U.S had Mad Max 2 titled "The Road Warrior" when it's actually called Mad Max 2. And the re-dubbed Mad Max accents sucked. Mistakes made. Moving on!

 

 Differences? Only visually. On the posters. 

Four Christmases right? WRONG! Four Holidays. Holidays? Wait...presents...pine tree...stockings...oh yeah, because everyone brings THOSE on vacations....

 

 CHRISTMASES Holidays! Really! See the gift boxes suitcases? 

Ice Cube in XXX : State of the Union. Nope! The Suits in charge decided that no-one outside of the U.S paid attention to what a State of the Union address was, despite the film having one, so they renamed it.

 

 Oh the stupidity... 

XXX 2: The Next Level. The hell? When did this become a video game?! Next thing you know Ice Cube'll be stealing cars and blowing up city blocks randomly with an R.P.G, taking the cash from the collaterally damaged.

American Wedding? Again, changed. They decided that the wedding suits and the bride in the poster were obvious enough, but thought no-one would know who the hell these people were. End result?

       

 NO, REALLY?! They're from THAT series?! 

American Pie: The Wedding. Feeling insulted by the simplification yet? I know I am.
(They even increased the size of the supporting cast for the benefit of the retarded foreigners.)

Shrek The Final Chapter becomes...

 

   No Sh[REK], really?  

...Shrek Forever After. We know what the phrase FINAL CHAPTER means you Armani Suited dullards!

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's The Rundown? Here's the Suits showing their intelligence:

 

 Oh for ROCK's sake... 

Welcome To The Jungle. Uh...Suits? You just renamed the movie after looking at the soundtrack for a second, didn't you?
(And the world DOES know what a rundown is. The new name comes off as cheesy, not to mention treating us like idiots. "LOOK! It's in a JUN-gle! JUN-gle!")

Oh but the best one is the Batman one. Batman Beyond, a brilliant animated series, was renamed with a real head-desker.

Batman Beyond becomes...

 

  I swear this isn't Photoshopped. 

...Batman of the Future.

Let that sink in.
And no, it's not just Germany and the rest of Europe. As proof, I offer the cover to the Playstation game!

A show, based in the future, with flying vehicles, technology use is rampant, Bruce Wayne is a grey haired grumpy old fart, and Alfred is likely dead.

Nooo, it MUST be present day Batman, surely. See? Bruce suits up and...



...oh wait, the villain handed Bruce's arse to him, and no, it's not Bane.
(Inque to be precise.)

Anyone who watches Batman Beyond and thinks it's based in a modern day setting needs to sign up for the short bus.

That was just a handful of renamed movies, the ones I could find at least. Here's hoping there's none left to be found, but hey. This IS Hollywood we're talking about.

Am I alone in thinking we all want to be treated like we're smart until proven stupid, and not the other way around?

Questions and comments below!
(And if you know more badly renamed movies, let me know about them and I'll do a follow up!)