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At least we may get to see prince Namor on the big screen. http://www.countingdown.com/movies/260279

I wonder if the first movie sold on the Internet will be Rendezvous with Rama. I just hope Freeman works a little faster on this idea...

not quite shark infested but... they've done this already

http://www.countingdown.com/movies/14748/board?vie wpost=1056394&folder=0

nope - here it is:

http://www.thezreview.co.uk/comingsoon/t/tron2.sht m

they had a script in 2003, Jeff Bridges was slated to be in it. then disney said it was happening no more. Then it came back with more scripts: http://www.countingdown.com/movies/291442/news?ite m_id=3464520

this is probably an extension of the same project.

For reference to other movies, Minority Report was published in 1954, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Total Recall) published 1965, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (Blade Runner) published 1968, Second Variety (Screamers) published 1953, Impostor published 1953.

Personally i really enjoy the cheesy wit that most of his short stories are innundated with, and am looking forward to Paycheck, despite my apprehension with Ben Affleck (god, that jaw!).

If you want to read PKD, i think his best stuff was from the late 60's early 70's. The short stories from the 50's and early 60's feel like quick thoughts that PKD was shooting out on the fly, stuff he was thinking through on his way to later full thoughts. His stories after the mid-70's (there aren't many) are too ethereal and "out there", almost to the point of being unreadable. And for a very different sort of work by PKD, read Confessions of a Crap Artist.

Disclaimer: I've read a substantial amount of PKD, but as he was such a prolific writer, i've read nowhere near all or even most of his work.

As for John Woo, I've enjoyed his style in Face/Off and Broken Arrow, and in both he had to overcome the Actor Wraith John Travolta (lately seems to act so bad that he sucks the acting ability out of others). Hell, Hard Target even had some style thanks to John Woo, and it's a Van Damme movie. Presumably he'll be able to work through Ben's jaw as well.

It's too bad the rumours of John Woo doing a TMNT movie aren't true.

The company is currently using these machines on ... "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines."
From the CNet article

Oh, I think they already are.

apparently the movie will be called John Carter of Mars.
there's a countdown to the movie at http://www.countingdown.com/movies/johncarterofmar s

A preview is available at UpcomingMovies.com

The official site is here.

Go look at some professional sites instead of hanging around geekboards.

Except that the most popular commercial sites (Yahoo, MSN, Google, Amazon, etc) don't use it. Among the most popular commercial web sites, only the movie brochure sites (the matrix, the time machine, etc) use Flash to present the main content, and I find their navigation frustrating, not to mention their performance over a dial-up line.

As for predicting what happened billions of years ago: of course its hard. We are mealy humans, we try to scrounge up clues and come up with a reasonable explanation. I think it is very likely that evolution is right but I doubt we'll ever be able confirm with 100% assurance since that would require a time machine.

What you fail to comprehend is that if you disprove evolution it automatically proves that creationism is true. There may be another explanation which we limited humans cannot see. See Plato's allegory of the cave if you don't understand what I mean by that.

... in at least two places: here in medium resolution and here in high resolution.

they also have a new clip in multiple languages at www.countingdown.com/shrekclip

That's funny - I was just looking at the Tomb Raider previews, and I was most impressed when I realized that Lara Croft's breasts were NOT computer generated! ;-)

Angelina Jolia as Lara Croft

Dunno if it uses Linux (I do), but who cares!

The trailer

The trailer for *what*?

See how the story title is "ICan'tRead Movie Promo" and the link is to "http://images.countingdown.com/images/media/trail ers/ICan'tRead/ICan'tRead _trailer2_h.mov" and the AICN story is headed "Strange ICan'tRead Site Online"? There's a hint in there somewhere.

Christ. If this is journalism, then I'll just read M-x psychoanalyze-pinhead for news.

Wow! I didn't know EMACS had an AOL mode. Is there no end to its power?

P.S. Whatever the codec is for that .AVI, it's unsupported in XAnim.

.AVI != .MOV It's Sorensen <include std_flamewar.h>

So could you please just *tell* me something about the movie in a coherent fashion this time?

Dude, there's like this film [?] with like this trailer [?], and like these guys[?] used like the inernet [?] an stuff [?] to make[?] like these sites [?] about it, ya dig?

For those of you who never felt like disgracing your computer with a .mov player (quicktime), get the windows movie here.


-BMojo

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I went to the west coast premier of the X-Men. It was held at 12:01 a.m. Friday at the Avco Theater in Westwood (a part of Los Angeles), CA. I had a great time.

It appears the premier was organized by Counting Down. You can find their X-Men fan site here. People started lining up the Monday before the movie. At 5:00 p.m. Friday night a mock "rally" was held to "protest Senator Kelly and his poisonous agenda." It was all in good fun, and some of the drivers on Wilshire Blvd. honked their horns in support.

The nicest thing about the premier was that Tyler Mane, the actor who plays Sabertooth, showed up. (A former WCW wrestler, he is a *big* guy.) Tyler was a great guy, introducing himself to the people in line, signing autographs and even taking the tickets at the door. (Got an autograph for a friend.)

The theater let us in about an hour early. Everybody got a X-Men pin and/or poster, plus Senator Kelly's campaign literature. They tossed beach balls into the audience to keep us occupied (it did), and then held an X-Men trivia contest. Among the prizes were t-shirts, trading card sets, red sun glasses (very popular), and a Sony Playstation complete with X-Men game. (I won a Xavier School for Gifted Youngserts t-shirt.) I very much liked the fact they made sure the little kid next to me got a set of trading cards.

As you will suspect, the audience *loved* the movie. Everyone had a great time

I also saw the movie with a friend on Saturday night, which was interesting. While this audience also obviously enjoyed the movie, it was clear that they didn't get a lot of the inside jokes. Still, it was worth seeing twice.

If you want to know if you are a mutant, you might want to check out Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters. (Warning: Flash "enabled" site -- but fun. :)

If you are concerned about mutant rights, you might want to check out Mutant Rights. They don't have much there yet, but promise more in the furture.

Ham on rye, hold the mayo please.

• Paul Thurrott's Wininfo: Either this guy really likes that sort of thing or there's something he's not telling us...
  
• Obsessive Fan Sites: Does this site really point out which fan sites are silly wastes of bandwidth or does it get secret funding from fan site operators in exchange for linking to their pages? It's not terribly bad publicity, once you think about who these sites are trying to attract.
  
• Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon fan pages: Are all of these really run by Sailormoon fans, or are some really run by friends and family of Takeuchi Naoko? For love and justice indeed!
  
• slashdot.org: Is this really a geek-run open-source-friendly news site or is it a secret joint venture between Redhat/SUSE/Caldera (with additional help from the X10 "price slasher") to stir up buzz? The fact that it's not all about Linux could be an attempt to throw people off the trail and make /. look "genuine".
  

I have encountered this problem before -- the solution then was to move the file to the NT boot drive and run it from there. Appears to be a bandwidth / caching issue. Now, this solution won't work. I can't even get it to work by streaming the file off my server (10 Mbit ethernet) -- another previous solution.

This isn't just the 25 MB trailer having problems -- it appears to be a Quicktime player problem. My other quicktime files experience the same problem. Does anyone know of a solution? Perhaps the (Quicktime?) settings need to be tweaked?

On the topic of trailer downloads starwars.countingdown has links to mirrors of this file. If someone is good enough to make a MPEG conversion, I have no doubts a link will show up there. Just so countingdown doesn't get /.ed (too badly), the mirrors (as of this writing) are: Mirror 1 Mirror 2 Mirror 3 Mirror 4

With presales, the kids who would have sat in line all night for tickets will whine to their parental units about using their credit cards to buy tickets in advance. Presales caters to the older crowd who'll snatch up the first five days worth of tickets and leave the kids whose parents can't or won't use their cards on some silly Star Wars movie tickets out in the cold.

All of this is being done for the theaters' sake. I appreciate the fact that Lucas promotes a better viewing experience for our benefit, but maybe he can take the extra step and let the faithful sit in line to get in first.

-S. Louie

I got the trailer from the UK at almost 100 Kbps (kissing my ADSL modem right now ;-)....

They moved the page to: http://starwars.countingdown.com to handle the load, they say the file is 23 megs, and will be available @ 7:30 EST....
I emailed Rob about this and hopefully he'll update the article..

Luke "ace" Petre
petre@jhu.edu

Do behave and lay off the countdown server! I can't log on to the countdown to Austin Powers 2 page.
Now there's a movie that's going to rock!