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I suspect Barry Evans has watched way to much Wallace & Gromit

I'm trying to figure out just what the fuck this movie IS about...or have the gist of it before I go see it.

Think: "Dances with Blue Aliens"

I still like it though :)

Instead of spending $430million making one bloated FX crap-test they could have made 10 regular films.

SciFi tried that couple of years ago.
We got Mansquito, Man-Thing and Alien Apocalypse.

Wonderful movies all, and a great addition to the culture of the world. If you are drunk enough, that is.

Instead of spending $430million making one bloated FX crap-test they could have made 10 regular films.

SciFi tried that couple of years ago.
We got Mansquito, Man-Thing and Alien Apocalypse.

Wonderful movies all, and a great addition to the culture of the world. If you are drunk enough, that is.

Instead of spending $430million making one bloated FX crap-test they could have made 10 regular films.

SciFi tried that couple of years ago.
We got Mansquito, Man-Thing and Alien Apocalypse.

Wonderful movies all, and a great addition to the culture of the world. If you are drunk enough, that is.

The "plot." Pretty much the same: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/

Alternativly you could think of it as the offspring of "Fern Gully" and "Dances with Wolves".

Don't forget smurfs.

The "plot." Pretty much the same: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/

Alternativly you could think of it as the offspring of "Fern Gully" and "Dances with Wolves".

The "plot." Pretty much the same: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104254/

Numerous reports on TV and a lot of newspaper articles. Two are a few that a quick Google search turned up:

Third World Farmers Hit By Unfair Rules

The Seed Gestapo And Third World Farmers

Also, We Feed The World is kind of a starting point.

I briefly recalled that when I was born not all movies were even shot in color, yet.

So you were born before 1993? :-)

Unfortunately, there are quite a few authors who misuse FLOSS terms - even those terms that have a very specific meaning - as synonyms of "piracy". For another example, here's a (translated) citation from one fairly popular Russian sci-fi/fantasy writer, Sergey Lukyanenko (the guy who wrote the book on which this movie is directly based), from his essay on author's rights and Internet:

"The text is stolen? This is the inevitable destiny of any good (and not even necessarily good) book. It will spread through various "online libraries" (mostly owned by proponents of "copyleft" - that is, theft of author's rights)."

He repeats the word "copyleft" three more times within the same chapter, repeatedly stressing his understanding of the term as equivalent to "pro-copyright infringement".

Pope shits in the woods.

No... wait... that's not it.
Because popes must first take off their hats? Not that one either? DAMN!

Because Allah loves various varieties and since Morgan Freeman IS God and the president of the USA and Irish and a friend of Batman that must be true?
God damn! That sounds crazy enough to be true! It must be so then!

Pope shits in the woods.

No... wait... that's not it.
Because popes must first take off their hats? Not that one either? DAMN!

Because Allah loves various varieties and since Morgan Freeman IS God and the president of the USA and Irish and a friend of Batman that must be true?
God damn! That sounds crazy enough to be true! It must be so then!

Pope shits in the woods.

No... wait... that's not it.
Because popes must first take off their hats? Not that one either? DAMN!

Because Allah loves various varieties and since Morgan Freeman IS God and the president of the USA and Irish and a friend of Batman that must be true?
God damn! That sounds crazy enough to be true! It must be so then!

Pope shits in the woods.

No... wait... that's not it.
Because popes must first take off their hats? Not that one either? DAMN!

Because Allah loves various varieties and since Morgan Freeman IS God and the president of the USA and Irish and a friend of Batman that must be true?
God damn! That sounds crazy enough to be true! It must be so then!

In fact, Oedipus Rex must have been the summation of centuries of literature - a beautiful distillation of a multitude of plot devices to their purest form. It seems fairly certain. Today such a thing could be neither written nor performed. Does Oedipus not share some protected attributes with Beowulf, of recent cinematic success? Is not Jocasta too close a representation of the intellecually protected Cleopatra?

All art is derivative. The protection of individual pieces of art ignores this fact and grants to the author a super position over those (hopefully) great shoulders he stands upon as if newer thoughts were superior to older ones. The only purpose for this can be to completely halt progress in the arts.

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Awwright! He finally gets recognition for that ever-lasting impression he made in Lifeforce!

have you heard about this. what with tron sequel coming out next year it's going to be awesome

From IMDB re Yes Men: "Anti-corporate activists travel from conference to conference, impersonating member of the World Trade Organization".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379593/

From IMDB re Yes Man: "...A guy challenges himself to say "yes" to everything for an entire year".

I would be looking at this with tongue firmly in cheek.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068680/

(yeah, that was the best I could come up with...)

US-made Metal Hurlant ?

This had a great "Planete Sauvage" flavor to it. Bilal, Moebius, Segrelles, all come to mind. The Humanoïdes gang and their spiritual kindred and general spawn... And a whole unending fountain of diverse but familiar oeuvres since then. Usually characterized by refined, intricate and tasteful artwork. On the manga front, Miyazaki and others : Nausicaa, Totoro, Laputa, Memories, Blue Submarine, etc.

The list increases greatly if perfect artwork can be slightly overlooked. As in Blue Gender, for example.

Of course, being US-made, its about soldiers, war, aggression, etc. But then, even The Good Doctor 'fessed up to something similar - early in his days.

... Rudy, he always practiced real hard, a real die hard ... but I don't recall if he ever got to play in any actual games.

I applaud your autodidactic instincts, but in this case I was spoonerizing an old geeky meme.

Personally I think the quote's origin is crap, apart from the beautiful production design and Rutger Hauer's speech at the end. However I won't let that get in the way of a cheap laugh.

Despite also being visually brilliant, I don't think Avatar has the same problems -- the characters actually talk like real people for the most part, and their interactions are believable. Unfortunately the plot turns into a hackneyed cartoon about halfway in. That doesn't make it bad, but merely ordinary.

I'd still recommend it though, if you can see it on the big screen. It's an experience on a par with seeing Toy Story for the first time.

Storyline of the Smurfs:

These blue creatures live in a perfect Volksgemeinschaft under a wise and ominpotent Fuh^hather and respect Earth and Nature. An evil, greedy wizard looking like the caricature of a stereotypical Jew is trying to catch, eat or turn them into gold, but is too dumb to breathe and fails spectacularly on everything. The only attractive female of their species was initially created by the Jewish caricature with the intent to subvert and catch them but is turned good (and blonde of course!) by the righteous smurfs and aids them instead.

Fuh^h^hather knows best, people with dominant long noses want to turn you into gold, females are sent by the Jewish devil and one woman is enough for the entire squad.

Very nice.

His evil but equally inept sidekick cat is called Azrael (=USrael) for crying out loud.

Now what about Avatar:

Nature knows best, blue characters live in perfect harmony. Suspiciously White Anglo Saxon Protestant from a Greedy Corporation people come to kill them and turn their homeland into gold, but are too dumb to breathe and produce epic fails in the process. An attractive WASP male is sent by them to subvert and catch them, but he is turned good by the righteous Blue People and aids them instead.

The bad guys:
Stephen Lang http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3726346240/nm0002332 - symbolizing White Anglo Saxon Protestant male
Giovanni Ribisi http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3037960960/nm0000610 - symbolizing a "Southern European" complexion similar to people from Italy and, well, Israel. Compare him to Michel Friedman, vice president of the Jewish conference in Germany from 2000-2003 and decide: http://2005.euroforum.cc/2005/pix/main/Michel_Friedmann.jpg

In short: greedy Jews/USrael/AmeriKKKans are trying to kill the perfect Volk to get their money/oil/resources.

The Smurfs give this "conflict" in full length and Avatar concentrates on the story of Smurfette. The special effects are better.

Storyline of the Smurfs:

These blue creatures live in a perfect Volksgemeinschaft under a wise and ominpotent Fuh^hather and respect Earth and Nature. An evil, greedy wizard looking like the caricature of a stereotypical Jew is trying to catch, eat or turn them into gold, but is too dumb to breathe and fails spectacularly on everything. The only attractive female of their species was initially created by the Jewish caricature with the intent to subvert and catch them but is turned good (and blonde of course!) by the righteous smurfs and aids them instead.

Fuh^h^hather knows best, people with dominant long noses want to turn you into gold, females are sent by the Jewish devil and one woman is enough for the entire squad.

Very nice.

His evil but equally inept sidekick cat is called Azrael (=USrael) for crying out loud.

Now what about Avatar:

Nature knows best, blue characters live in perfect harmony. Suspiciously White Anglo Saxon Protestant from a Greedy Corporation people come to kill them and turn their homeland into gold, but are too dumb to breathe and produce epic fails in the process. An attractive WASP male is sent by them to subvert and catch them, but he is turned good by the righteous Blue People and aids them instead.

The bad guys:
Stephen Lang http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3726346240/nm0002332 - symbolizing White Anglo Saxon Protestant male
Giovanni Ribisi http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3037960960/nm0000610 - symbolizing a "Southern European" complexion similar to people from Italy and, well, Israel. Compare him to Michel Friedman, vice president of the Jewish conference in Germany from 2000-2003 and decide: http://2005.euroforum.cc/2005/pix/main/Michel_Friedmann.jpg

In short: greedy Jews/USrael/AmeriKKKans are trying to kill the perfect Volk to get their money/oil/resources.

The Smurfs give this "conflict" in full length and Avatar concentrates on the story of Smurfette. The special effects are better.

If only there were a way for them to stay on their side of the border,
yet still do work on our side of it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804529/

There were some wery good Bible-themed movies (most notably by Cecil B. DeMille) in the past, so I think it's entirely possible to have a good Bible-themed video game. It's just that nobody has put enough effort in it yet.

Um, don't you mean Charlie Wilson's War ?

Luckily, a similar situation was addressed and resolved in a Better off Ted episode.

I recommend THX 1138 (1971 George Lucas). 89 on the Tomatometer RottenTomatoes.

Even if cocaine and other drugs were completely harmless, their ability to give serious but unearned pleasure would seriously warrant their banning. I admit, that this sounds religion-motivated, but that's hardly a drawback of an argument...

Consider sex (yes, I said it) — the intense pleasure most participants derive from it is the reward for the excruciating pains of childbirth and hardships of the childrearing. Contrary to the wide-spread misunderstanding, the mainstream religions want us to have sex — as much as possible. They just want it all to be for the purpose of reproduction, rather than simple self-indulgence.

Now, what is the justification for a cocaine-user's pleasure? What did he do to deserve, what a Trainspotting's character describes as "thousand times the most intense orgasm you've ever experienced"?

Of course, one needn't necessarily have earned all the pleasures of life — as long as one's habits don't interfere with others, one ought to be able to enjoy them. This is an individualist view, and I don't fully disagree. I would, however, be rather wary of such people: I wouldn't want one of them to marry my daughter, for example, as he may decide one day to stop caring for her. I wouldn't want my daughter to become such a person either, because I not only want my own grandchildren, I also want the Humanity to continue to exist (preferably — my brand of it, the Western Civilization).

So, even if cocaine did absolutely no harm to the body by itself — and the devices in TFA promise the cocaine-like effects without the chemical additiction — I wouldn't want to be near a user. Not saying, it should be illegal, but certainly frowned upon.

I'd suggest, we use these methods on the people either condemned to death for their crimes (capital punishment), or desiring to end their life on their own (suicide)...

I often go to the cinema alone, because I love non-Hollywood stuff the most, and my geek friends can't stand any of that "indie shit". Met my last girlfriend while watching Fish Tank.

However, Avatar is a flashy, shiny collection of great CGI, and I'd like to see it with other people I know so that we can comment on things mentioned in the TFA over a beer and things like that. I don't want to see Fish Tank with my geek friends, and I don't want to see Avatar with my (former) girlfriend.

Ha, reminds me of the "Freudian Slip" that Meg Ryan wore to a costume party in the old movie DOA.

If you look at it with fresh eyes, the original three had a weaker plot line, worse acting, worse special effects, and significantly worse choreography.

Let me refute each of these points.

Weaker plot? What was the plot of Episode 1? Seriously. I can't figure it out. It's just a bunch of stuff. No one is motivated to do anything. So the whole thing is just to make Palpatine chancelor? Wouldn't it be simpler to just to have Palpatine already a corrupt chancelor? What was Episode 2 about? I honestly don't know. It didn't even have a big six movie plot point. It's just stuff blowing up for two hours. Episode 3 just built up to an overly long sword fight, that honestly got boring, and an annoyingly huge inconsistency with Padame dying in childbirth of a broken heart (I'm sorry, she died because "she lost the will to live." As Stewie said in Family Guy parody, "Oh come on!") even though Leia is supposed to know her as a child.

Episodes 4-6 are a traditional story. ANH is a complete story. It has a start, a middle and end. ESB and ROTJ on contrast are the middle and third acts of the 3 act story. ROTJ is just a a big battle (which probably makes it your favorite), but ESB is about losing. It's all about failure. The good guys lose. As the review linked above asks, "Who is the main character of the Phantom Menace?" It's not Anakin. He's not seen until 40 minutes into the film. It's not Obi-Wan. He's a sidekick. How about the New Trilogy? Anakin? Why do we care about him? The Original Trilogy? Luke. It's all about Luke. He's a nobody we identify with, rises to the occasion in ANH, gets kicked down in ESB, and overcomes and ultimately defeats the bad guys in ROTJ. Where's the plot arc? It's all so rushed. Anakin turns evil because he thinks Padame is going to die, but doesn't make sense. He kills Sand People in E2, but it's just a snap. He's whiney in E3 for some reason. There's no character growth. There's nothing.

Worse acting? Hayden Christensen is bad. He's just very very bad. There's a reason why he doesn't really work, even though Natalie Portman and Ewan McGreggor have since E1-3. It's not all their fault. There's only so much you can do with the script you're given. The writing is just very bad. Not only are there glaring plot holes, but the dialog is atrocious. The reason why the dialog is better in the original trilogy is simple. Lucas didn't write nor direct them. He only wrote and directed ANH, the one with the weakest dialog and weakest direction.

Worse Special Effects? Yes. Let's compare movies on special effects that are 28 years apart. Let me repeat that. TWENTY EIGHT YEARS. My god, if the effects weren't better, then there'd be something wrong. It's not how the effects are executed. It's about how they're used. There's just too much shit going on in the new trilogy. It's distracting. Even Lucas himself said during the production of the ESB back in 1980 that special effects that don't serve the story are pointless, but now we get stuff crammed into every frame. It's like watching one of the damn "punch the monkey for a free iPod" ads, or a chinese website. ("Renao" or "hot and noisy" is the Chinese term for that design. And yes, they consider crowded flashing colors a feature.) Just because you can make a dinosaur walk in front of the camera, or have a construction robot punch a tiny robot, doesn't mean you should.

Worse choreography? I assume you're talking about the lightsaber battles. Let's examine those. There are three in the original triliogy, and all three are better. Why? They mean something. Especially Luke vs Vader 1. Vader vs Kenobi is about letting go. It's the rematch of the old teacher and fallen student. It's the old teacher giving one last instruction to both his old student and his new one. It's about sacrifice. It's about saying that you w

An extremely amusing, tongue-in-cheek short movie about the problem you are talking about is the Norwegian "Cold and Dry".

If you have a chance to see it at some festival or perhaps find it somewhere on the net, I recommend it http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1223897/.

I headed over to IMDB to see what George Lucas has actually made and it sadly boils down to two franchises and one great movie.

He made Star Wars, and should have stopped at ROTJ.
He made Indiana Jones, and should have stopped with Last Crusade (1989)

Oddly his best work might have been American Graffiti (1973).

He had other crap like Howard the Duck and Captain EO. He should just retire and stop making toys.

Not stopping there, there is at least one major study [slashdot.org] that shows no significant link between cellphones and cancer -- not just a lack of any confirmation.

Your quote reminds me of a very excellent movie that (sort of) brings up this exact same topic. Check out Thank You for Smoking. It's also a pretty good movie, too.

...directed by Dan O'Bannon.

IMO, the best adaption of an H.P. Lovecraft story ever brought to the screen.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105242/

R.I.P. Dan!

I didn't mean to imply that you thought it should be illegal (euthanasia, not suicide). I apologize if I came across like that.

And while you're right - someone's contemplating suicide, and a lot of people are going to go "meh" and shrug or yell "jump you bastard". That's how we humans are.

Sometimes a plea to their future possibilities (like children) are a good way to sway the argument in favour of living. But if they're involuntarily sterile, want kids but aren't allowed to adopt for whatever reasons (money, sexuality, health issues etc.), talking about kids is likely to be a bad direction to go at it.

Talk about how they'll miss out on the beauty of sunrises and sunsets, and you're going to piss off someone who's blind. Not hearing symphonies and you'll piss off the deaf people.

Without knowing the person, we cannot really counsel them properly. I imagine that the biggest nightmare for someone like the original poster is pain. Pain makes us do all kinds of really irrational things. If not that, then it's probably the nightmare of having to live every single day, not knowing if your next breath will come easily, gasping or at all. Every single breath being quite literally a life or death struggle. It is to all of us - but we don't know what it feels like to face it constantly.

Often when I'm in my dark places (which happens quite often), someone talking to me about how things can be better will push me further down into the depression. Oh, sure, life can be oh so good. Why not just dangle a bottle of 25-year-old scotch in front of a recovering alcoholic? A huge bag of narcotics in front of a recovering addict?

Spoiler
Ever seen The Gift? In it, Giovanni Ribisi's says: "If I look into a blue diamond, and I think a negative thought, am I gonna die?" and keeps talking about that blue diamond, and even what appears to be the person closest and most intimate with him thinks that blue diamond is a happy place. Except it's not. That's a tattoo his dad has just below the belly button.

That's just mental stress. That can be worked out in therapy. Lots and lots of therapy. But now imagine him standing on the top of a building, contemplating jumping off, and someone tries to talk him down, talking about all the beautiful things in the world and mentions the beauty of blue diamonds, and him getting all his memories of the abuse back at that particular point in time?

Mental stress is bad enough as it is. But here we're talking about someone who has a disease, whose primary symptoms are pain, and without even looking at the charts, a trained medical professional sends him/her away in tears, because obviously he's a drug addict looking to score.

Not only does he have chronic pain, difficulties breathing to the point of being bedridden for half a year at a time, I'm assuming living in the US so bills are going to be piling up, probably unable to do any kind of regular work (you try working with 20+ bowel movements a day), and now the people who are supposed to help him, supposed to turn his life around from a daily scary as hell nightmare into a manageable bad dream, are calling him a big, fat liar who, I suspect, they could probably have arrested for trying to scam drugs from a doctor.

If I were in the shoes of the original poster, a post talking about how sweet the future could be wouldn't make me go "yes, you're right, I should keep on living and hope for the one in a trillion chance that it'll be alright". If anything it'd push me closer to suicide, because it'd be reminding me of all the things I can't hope to achieve. It'd make me realise that even if I would be able to father children, I wouldn't want to - why would I put any child through the nightmare of watching me going through that kind of nightmare?

Will there be a cure or even something that'll turn if from a daily living nightmare into something that makes it c

"Liebe Freunde Freien Wissens, durch eine vor dem Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg am 17. Januar 2006 erwirkte einstweilige Verfugung wurde dem Verein Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Forderung Freien Wissens e.V. untersagt, von dieser Domain auf die deutschsprachige Ausgabe der freien Enzyklopadie Wikipedia (wikipedia.org) weiterzuleiten."

This roughly translates as, "Dear friends and comrades, Wikipedia has been shut down as of January 17th, 2006 due to a court injunction by the government of Germany, due to extensive support by Wikipedia for the Jews and the state of Israel".

This type of support was made illegal in Germany in 1939 by the Berlin Pact, signed by Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany has announced that this injunction will not be lifted until Wikipedia stops supporting "Die Juden".

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On my to-watch-list, there's a recent-ish documentary about Berlusconis Italy, titled "Videocracy". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1500516/

http://www.atmo.se/film-and-tv/videocracy/ :

In a videocracy the key to power is the image.

In Italy one man only has kept the domination of the image over three entire decades. As a TV-magnate and then as Presidente, Silvio Berlusconi has created a perfect system of TV-entertainment and politics. [...] ...a remarkable story, born out of the scary reality of TV-republic Italy, a country where the step from TV-showgirl to Minister for Gender Equality is only natural.

Coming soon to a festival (or internet) near you!

It talks about space battles the way someone from 16th century (or earlier) might imagine late 20th century naval battles.

All those limitations author gets stuck at (gravity, trajectories, armor, weapons, energy limitations, shields... even dropping space-marines on a planet FFS) are basically what WE would face TODAY.
Not some civilization that considers an actual possibility of battles in space. Heck... you could take out today's spacecraft with a slingshot - once in space.

With all those limitations, which ARE correct, there would be NO space battles.
Worst case scenario - there would be some orbital bombardment platforms with limited shuttles and most probably completely robotic crews.
Why drop humans when you can drop terminators or screamers. Or just chuck an asteroid at the rebellious colonists.

On the other hand, if you have the capability to launch (or have permanently stationed) several fighter squadrons into space - you are way beyond most of those limitations.
Energy, fuel, efficient and maneuverable non-rocket engines are certainly not your problem at that stage.

Set up a reoccuring transfer at your bank's website.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a bank transfer in the US. I wish there was. There are wire transfers, which cost $15-$25 on each end and require lots of proof of identity. Maybe if the UK does get rid of checks, the US banking system and regulations will start on the same path.

Disregarding how stupid it is to give someone a blank check,

Sorry, it was a reference to a movie, Blank Check.

If you have never watched The Fog of War (Robert McNamara), you must. One of the things I learned was that the Cuban Missile Crisis was very nearly The End. It truly could have come out either way. So in a sense, the "expected value" of casualties due to the Cold War is about 40% of however many would have died. You can say it makes no sense to talk about probabilities in retrospect, but does winning Russian Roulette justify playing it in the first place?

Of course, none of this really matters unless somebody finds a way to "un-invent" nukes, which isn't happening anytime soon.

Who is Sam Rami? Is it some cheap knock-off of Sam Raimi?

In case you didn't realise, Basel actually has a casino.. :-)

I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic, but I know from personal experience that your attitude has a lot to do with how people perceive you (and I'm not just talking about how attractive you are).

Consider the story of Johnny Lingo.

I've always had a thing for blue skinned alien girls.

This should be a happy week for you then.

This research has inspired me to save the planet.

Consider, what are the 3 big problems with AGW?

1. The climate gets warmer than we'd like.

2. The sea levels rise.

3. Mass famine as the farmland goes dry.

4. The extra CO2 acidifies the oceans screwing with the fishies and shellfish.

So now I give you the perfect geo-engineering solution to all these problems!

Step 1: Set off a bunch of Nukes in a desert somewhere, excavating giant holes in the ground.

Step 2: Dig a little path to the ocean and have it fill in the holes.

Benefits: First the ocean levels go down to their regular levels, yay! Second the resulting Nuclear winter offsets global warming, another yay!
Third the desert is now ocean front property and not as deserty, maybe more farm land (do this in Africa for bonus famine offsetting points).

And lastly to handle the acidy oceans... the fallout from the Nukes mutates the fishies and shellfish to adapt to the carbonic acid oceans!

Now can I have my Nobel Peace now? Other than some minor side-effects this should be a pretty effective solution.