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oxygen is actually harmful, but our body chemistry is fit to exploit small amounts without killing us very quickly. also, the very earliest, most primitive forms of life on this planet found oxygen very poisonous. http://www.allmovie.com/movie/earth-story-oxygen-the-poison-gas-v196928

At the end of this film Schmidt somewhat resembles those borgs in The City of Lost Children. Using some pictures from this film on Google stories on special occasions would be cool indeed.

6. The discussions are a waste of time
7. There is too much irrelevant information

eg a search for Clint Eastwood turns up this sort of stuff:

Filmography-

# The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV) (also archive footage) .... Himself - Winner: Best Picture, Best Director/Nominee: Best Actor in a Leading Role

Personally I rely on The All Movie Guide (http://www.allmovie.com/ much more, the writing is more mature and the information isn't diluted with crap you're not interested in.

Orlando..

If it helps, there is also AllMovie which is pretty decent. It's not a bad alternative, I suppose, but it's not nearly as complete as imdb. I still use imdb, but at least if you're going to list 15 bitches about imdb (which, for the record, you only list 7), might as well list an alternative.

As a sidenote, AllMusic is bad fucking ass. Completely OT, but I thought I'd mention it as a sidenote for any readers who've never been there.

It is going to suck. While Stephen can crank out a dud once in awhile, Michael Bay taints almost everything he touches. The guy is truly a hack. Here, go look at the movies he has done: http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:203853

Everything but 'The Rock' was abysmal, and even that one wasn't amazing. I already have images of Optimus Prime trying to land jetfire on a asteroid to blow it up, while bumblebee goes apeshit and starts killing autobots in the background. I mean, Jesus, this was the guy that made a bad movie about Pearl Harbor.

It's going to suck...

Look it, only 1 & 1/2 stars.

the new Fahrenheit 451

Oh, you mean this?

<Sigh>... Why is it people are always remaking movies, is Hollywood not inventive to come up with new plots itself? (Yes, that was rhetorical.)

Xanadu (1980). Oh, the horror.

Jeez, people - get it right. You should be looking for Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis, Jr, Peter Lawford, etc.
A much better cast and a much better movie.

...from the naive/evil scientist in Christian Nyby's 1951 The Thing.

Other important points:

Don't sleep with an electric blanket near a frozen alien.
Vegetables can be preserved by freezing, but not by cooking.
When isolated in an artic research station, don't feed blood-eating vegetables your reserve plasma supply.

This has got to be one of the more flawless and better choreographed films, which had my attention all the way. It feels like a manga. If violence, blood and a beautiful asian heroine is your thing, then I highly recommend this movie. A review can be found here and another (more ltd. review) here.

Very few films comming out of Hollywood caught my imagination this year. Pirates of the Caribean and the Matrix were the biggest ones I guess, not neccessarily the best though. Some other good ones include Kill Bill Vol. 1, the Hulk, American Splendor, and of course, Sea Biscuit.

And I have very high expectations of Return of the King.

This has got to be one of the more flawless and better choreographed films, which had my attention all the way. It feels like a manga. If violence, blood and a beautiful asian heroine is your thing, then I highly recommend this movie. A review can be found here and another (more ltd. review) here.

Very few films comming out of Hollywood caught my imagination this year. Pirates of the Caribean and the Matrix were the biggest ones I guess, not neccessarily the best though. Some other good ones include Kill Bill Vol. 1, the Hulk, American Splendor, and of course, Sea Biscuit.

And I have very high expectations of Return of the King.

This has got to be one of the more flawless and better choreographed films, which had my attention all the way. It feels like a manga. If violence, blood and a beautiful asian heroine is your thing, then I highly recommend this movie. A review can be found here and another (more ltd. review) here.

Very few films comming out of Hollywood caught my imagination this year. Pirates of the Caribean and the Matrix were the biggest ones I guess, not neccessarily the best though. Some other good ones include Kill Bill Vol. 1, the Hulk, American Splendor, and of course, Sea Biscuit.

And I have very high expectations of Return of the King.

We see a situation whereby engineers feel (maybe can't substantiate it at the moment) or know something "isn't right". They pull the rip cord and are made to feel like an idiot, usually instigated by a herd of PHBs. There were stories of this happening in this story. Engineers thought something wasn't right but were afraid to stand forward. Unfortunately, this likely helped cause the loss of the mission. Sure, the engineer(s) should have stood their ground, even to the point of their job(s)/reputation(s), but...suppose they'd hit the red button and nothing bad happened?

Secondly, Look at the missing tiles, et alia? They're applied manually, one-by-one. Do we need sensors (e.g., a filament) on every one of them so we know which ones are still there (or not)? The same goes for all of the other sections of the shuttle. Sensor mesh ingrained to various parts of the body, inside & out, learning to know "what's normal" and "what's not"? We take a lot of chances simply because we've gotten away with it. (It's good if it works - not unlike the software industry) If we had to make another landing on the moon, could we do it (and return safely) without a lot of flights to start over, just as we did in the 60s (for those reading this who were alive in the 60s) to get us "ready" for such a trip? How long will it be before we have a real-life "Capricorn One" (including OJ Simpson in the cast) and this is the twenty-fifth anniversary of that movie: Capricorn One There really wasn't any science in this movie - it's the suspense from finding out what happens with a doomed flight to Mars and the fact the public can't be told it fails. (Let's hope no schlockmeister gets the opportunity to remake it just as they did with other classic such as RollerBall.) Seriously, Capricorn One is worth the rental or late-night viewing.

Strange Brew, starring Bob and Doug McKenzie...YOU HOSER!

Allmusic.com

They have many reviews, essays and maps of how a style of music came to be. I enjoy being able to look up a song and hunt down what album it was on. They seem to be a one stop answer for most question on music.

They also have sister sites that are for Games and Movies.

Plus I like to support a company in home state.

hey folks...remeber D.A.R.Y.L. the Data Analyzing Robot Youth Lifeform? common he hacks the ATM machine and gets all the money for his foster dad....

Tarkovsky's movie, also named Solaris, is one of the rare cases where the movie is superior to the book itself (IMHO). For me the movie is a masterpiece.

You're a little off the beam here: Consider each step in the release sequence as part of the same marketing process.

First off, most theaters pay a percentage-- typically 40 to 90%-- of their gross ticket receipts to the film company. (Sometimes there is also a guaranteed minimum payment involved.) Obviously, for a big hit at $6/ticket, these payments can be tens of thousands of dollars per screen. This is why most theaters make more money off their concession stand than they do from ticket sales (and explains those $3.50 Cokes).

It's important to realize that the whole sequence is intended to maximize profits at each stage of release. The company makes more money when the film is "more valuable" (new), and takes a smaller cut at each later step. (It also gives them a chance to sell you the same thing several times: As a theater ticket, on cable, as a rental, and in hard copy.) And keep in mind that while film production and distribution has high initial costs, once those costs are recovered, profits can be very high.

You're right about the initial cost of rental tapes being in the $100 range. That's intended to keep them out of the hands of the casual buyer (who's supposed to go rent the tape if he wants to see it at home). Later on, after the first rush of rentals, they drop the price (sometimes several times), each time picking up another (less interested) segment of the "buying" market. But all the while, those initial costs are being paid off, and this is where you go wrong: Your contention that $30 VHS tapes don't make much money. If this is the case, why are there thousands of VHS titles now available, especially when many of them required expensive pre-production work (unearthing source material, striking new, color-corrected prints, renegotiating subsidiary rights, etc.). The answer is that, although there's not as much money to be made on video sales, the costs are much lower. In the case of a hit, the picture may be "already paid for". If it's something out of the library (or a flop), the costs have probably already been written off. In either case, almost anything over manufacturing expense is pure profit. Believe me, there is money being made with VHS... a lot of it.

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And as an aside (which gives me a chance to relate a somewhat off-topic story), another reason that VHS is the last stage of the selling process is that if the VHS came out first, the theater owners wouldn't play the picture. In 1983 Paramount released a film version of The Pirates of Penzance [credits here] starring Linda Ronstadt, Kevin Kline, and Angela Lansbury. (BTW, it's great fun. I highly recommend it.) Unfortunately for them, Paramount also decided to use it as a test case for simultaneous release to home video. The long and short of it is, the major first-run theaters boycotted the picture. I know because I was working for a dollar theater at the time. Because no one else would give the film a booking, we got first run and played it for three months.