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Um, Alien Nation is definitely a movie. It led to the TV show, in fact.

Yeah, I wasn't too impressed with Independence Day either.

You guys in america probably won't have seen it, but Moon was awesome. And didn't "Star Trek" count as sci-fi, at least to most people?

You forgot Moon.

This film should vault Neill Blomkamp into sci-fi stardom, on par with George Lucas and the Wachowski Brothers (of Matrix fame).

Are you saying that this movie is as good/groundbreaking as Star Wars orThe Matrix? I am somewhat dubious.

Don't get me wrong, it looks a whole lot better than most sci-fi movies. I especially like how the first commercials I saw for it were public service announcements about District 9. Then commercials with non-human sympathizers being arrested. Then later you see a commercial with "glick gluck mcglorlock" (translation: "We just want to go home.") and you kinda realize that there's going to be more depth to the story than Starship Troopers (the movie, not the book). Looks interesting, I'll definitely Netflix it.

It might be the best sci-fi movie of '09 but you've still got

• Gamer
• The Fourth Kind
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• Pandorum
• Splice
• The Surrogates
• 2012
• 9
• AstroBoy
• The Box
• The Sky Crawlers
• Radio Free Albemuth
• Hunter Prey
• Deadland

While a lot don't have release dates yet and could be pushed back and most will probably suck, that's a lot of competition to dismiss at this point. And lastly, I have great hope for Franklyn (to be released here in the states).

found it, last season - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343619/ , will there ever be another original idea

Didn't you ever see Raising Arizona? Nick Cage served a lot of time in the Maricopa County Correctional Facility for Men. He was what you call, a repeat offender. Clearly it's not working.

That pix looks a lot like Sylar (of Heroes), a pretty evil dude himself... and the actor who plays Sylar, Zachary Quinto:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm744327936/nm0704270

also play young Spock, in the newest Star Trek flix... and the character of Spock (Nimoy) as originally imagined by Rodenberry, had those pointy ears to make him look slightly Satanic on purpose... Rodenberry's notion that pure logic can lead to evils... (indeed there were several "evil Spock" episodes...

So I suppose EVIL now has a face... One Face...

Apparently the design for the original Cylon basestar and the Viper had some strong design similarities to stuff made at Industrial Light and Magic, and the actual production shared some of the same special effects crew that jumped ship after Episode IV:ANH was released.

Notably John Dykstra.

One of the best scene in the film 'The Thing' (1982) was when the scientist realizes that they are dealing with an alien foe who can replicate and imitate other species. He rapidly writes a computer program and creates his own equations within it to accurately calculate, based his cellular observations of the alien organism, the best projection of how quickly the alien could take over earth's population should it reach mainland (they are stranded on an arctic base with the alien creature).

Below is the IMDB link to the movie (and as a /. user if you haven't seen The Thing yet please deactivate your account and hand in your geek card) and the exact start of the scene in question courtesy of YouTube.

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=the+thing&x=0&y=0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUxPer4lmGo&feature=related

Not to mention, shades of "Gattica"...

See it now, before it's too late...(actually, it probably already is too late...sigh...)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/

Mod parent up, this is Gattaca.

Gattaca Plot Summary: "A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/

Compare that with this from the title info, "The scientific results, combined with observations by experts throughout the week, will be used to make recommendations to parents about what their child should pursue."

The genetically inferior will be placed at a disadvantage. If someone has intense interest in a subject they are going to learn a lot about that subject and so will become an expert in that area, but if they are never allowed to pursue their interests being told relentlessly they are not genetically likely to succeed, it'll destroy their self image and make them feel incapable of achieving their dream.

Wes Craven's Serpent and the Rainbow http://www.imdb.com/title/tt096071

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The CIA doesn't want fusion, the world economy would crash if there were free energy. They'll even level several Chicago city blocks in a hydrogen explosion and kidnap or kill scientists to prevent it from getting out.

I was thinking more along the lines of the electro-magnetic force being freakin strong.

Perhaps my reference didn't work well. I was jokingly referring to the movie "Chain Reaction".

Falcon

Even better than Pirates! at the Field Museum is the Dinosaur Exhibit, Sue, the world's largest, most complete and most famous T. Rex., and the Tsavo Lions upon which the film "The Ghost and the Darkness" was based.

... the sentence that Dade received

But my question is ... for how long are they "banned" (cause for example a life sentence doesn't mean life anymore)?

Gattaca will arrive in a much more subtle way than Hollywood's portrayal.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/

In our large, socially disconnected and hurry up society, using a universal method like a credit report as a background check is a great way to mitigate risk.

we have become horribly risk averse. when the only thing being measured is number of failures, the bureaucracy will do everything possible to remove the risk of failure. Thus, if you have the wrong DNA, or the wrong credit number, you are not worth the risk.

No matter what you say.

gak out

Is there a chance that the bees need a drink rich in electrolytes?

This should be good enough to start your research

Doom has already been done?

the youngsters aren't confused.

When I searched "1234" on google and bing, the top results are about that Feist song. Thank goodness it doesn't mention anything about it being my root admin password and my luggage combination

Well, duh... that's because your luggage combo is 12345.

When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer. This can happen whether you are near the computer or have suddenly been called away from it.

And if you're not careful, attempting to delete it can turn you into a Freakazoid!

@[=g3,8d]\&fbb=-q]/hk%fg

For you youngsters who are confused. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059793/

Douglas Trumbull, the man who created the effects for 2001, told Kubrick that Saturn was too hard to depict realistically

And then ripped the footage off for his own movie!

According to IMDB:

Originally the Discovery was to have traveled to Saturn, but the special effects crew was unable to make convincing-looking rings around the planet. Effects artist Douglas Trumbull eventually perfected a technique for making the rings after production was completed, and used Saturn's rings to great effect in his directorial debut, Silent Running (1972).

I wonder, though, if the District 9 movie will help (reasonable) people make the connection between scammers and our oft-ignorant American society. It's not just a sci-fi flick about oppressed aliens...

I was going to mod this up, but an example is more useful. Bill S. Preston, Esq.

You should watch those Comedy Central roasts. The truth does come out. Apparently Denis Leary went to a gay college in high school. Mr. Tough Crowd Colin Quinn knows what's up. The two of them were roommates.

We worshipped Denis Leary as kids. Why not, he was a badass. Dice Clay too, sad to say. Hey, is that a pink shirt on Weird Al Yankovic? Yeah, we liked him too.

Oh my God, is that Weird Al Yankovic with Jack Black? He's not gay at all.

Which is good, cuz I think I've seen Jack Black with Robert Morton Downey Jr. Robert Jr. is a great actor, one of the best. But you ever wonder why he had so much difficulty with coke and strippers a few years back?

He had difficulty liking it.

You should watch those Comedy Central roasts. The truth does come out. Apparently Denis Leary went to a gay college in high school. Mr. Tough Crowd Colin Quinn knows what's up. The two of them were roommates.

We worshipped Denis Leary as kids. Why not, he was a badass. Dice Clay too, sad to say. Hey, is that a pink shirt on Weird Al Yankovic? Yeah, we liked him too.

Oh my God, is that Weird Al Yankovic with Jack Black? He's not gay at all.

Which is good, cuz I think I've seen Jack Black with Robert Morton Downey Jr. Robert Jr. is a great actor, one of the best. But you ever wonder why he had so much difficulty with coke and strippers a few years back?

He had difficulty liking it.

You should watch those Comedy Central roasts. The truth does come out. Apparently Denis Leary went to a gay college in high school. Mr. Tough Crowd Colin Quinn knows what's up. The two of them were roommates.

We worshipped Denis Leary as kids. Why not, he was a badass. Dice Clay too, sad to say. Hey, is that a pink shirt on Weird Al Yankovic? Yeah, we liked him too.

Oh my God, is that Weird Al Yankovic with Jack Black? He's not gay at all.

Which is good, cuz I think I've seen Jack Black with Robert Morton Downey Jr. Robert Jr. is a great actor, one of the best. But you ever wonder why he had so much difficulty with coke and strippers a few years back?

He had difficulty liking it.

You should watch those Comedy Central roasts. The truth does come out. Apparently Denis Leary went to a gay college in high school. Mr. Tough Crowd Colin Quinn knows what's up. The two of them were roommates.

We worshipped Denis Leary as kids. Why not, he was a badass. Dice Clay too, sad to say. Hey, is that a pink shirt on Weird Al Yankovic? Yeah, we liked him too.

Oh my God, is that Weird Al Yankovic with Jack Black? He's not gay at all.

Which is good, cuz I think I've seen Jack Black with Robert Morton Downey Jr. Robert Jr. is a great actor, one of the best. But you ever wonder why he had so much difficulty with coke and strippers a few years back?

He had difficulty liking it.

You should watch those Comedy Central roasts. The truth does come out. Apparently Denis Leary went to a gay college in high school. Mr. Tough Crowd Colin Quinn knows what's up. The two of them were roommates.

We worshipped Denis Leary as kids. Why not, he was a badass. Dice Clay too, sad to say. Hey, is that a pink shirt on Weird Al Yankovic? Yeah, we liked him too.

Oh my God, is that Weird Al Yankovic with Jack Black? He's not gay at all.

Which is good, cuz I think I've seen Jack Black with Robert Morton Downey Jr. Robert Jr. is a great actor, one of the best. But you ever wonder why he had so much difficulty with coke and strippers a few years back?

He had difficulty liking it.

we wouldn't have this silly evolution vs. intelligent design argument at all

I heard, er read, where people have said God used evolution in his design. Personally I don't believe in any supreme deity. I think the hypothesis in "Mission To Mars" to be more probable. Of course those who promote ID avoid saying who the designer is, so as to fool people into accepting it.

Falcon

secure

I see "Velociraptors" there while I'm playing "Jurassic Park". Though there aren't any velociraptors in it Tremors II: Aftershocks has a window scene.

Falcon

Actually, it's less then 20% of smokers who get cancer from their smoking. Still a high number but we take higher odds and risk our life every day.

You take a 1-in-5 risk of death every day? I think I saw a movie about you, God bless you and the amazing work you guys do over there.

You got something against chainsaws?

Bruce Campbell: "I've gotten a lot of use out of chainsaws over the years. Killed a lot a zombies, saved a lot of lives, but at the end of the day when push comes to shove... they're just too damn heavy. "

Forget the shovel I want a cricket bat

Where I live there's an indoor shooting range with a projection system. I remember one afternoon in the late nineties when a couple of us went and had a huge amount of good, clean, violent fun with the street battle scene from the movie Heat - must have been a year or two after it was released.

After that I've often wondered how one could go about creating a 3-D projection system for total immersion. One of the walls I ran into was the problem of running onto a wall :-) And then soon after, paintball took off....

A lot of people tend to think that "If it costs money, it must be worth it" regardless of the actual quality. I don't mean to go all tin-foil-hatty, but I see it becoming very 1984-ish in some (more) ways, polarizing the media even more into an "us or them", making the independent/free journalism seem like terrorists, running around behind the cameras, spreading the awful truth about what's actually going on, becoming physically locked out of more and more things, until they basically have to become a sort of terrorist (in the loose "war on terror" meaning) just to actually find out what the hell is going on.

Not like this is "new"(s), it's been happening for, well almost forever, just getting more in-your-face about it now. How long before the internet itself gets split in two? The paid-for/tracked/censored/"legitimate" internet, it's 12 websites in pale shades of happy colors, and the underground/hacker/truth-seekers that are "destroying the world as we know it, they're coming for your kids constantly being rounded up and thrown in pits by the World Communications Agency's new "Communications Synergy & Harmony Squad" in some weird war of the web. I digress.

But I imagine that simple subscriptions, isn't their ends, but just a means to their desired goal of partitioning the internet the same way Cable TV is/was... "channels" of internet, Fox "Network", Comedy "Network", Outdoor Life "Network" a lot of their names wouldn't even have to change, you "log on" to their weird little virtual reality (suddenly reminded of Strange Days) all Matrix style, not that the technology is bad, just "their" (my idea of their) idea of how it should be used.

But I want my yoctobook! It would go so well with my cell phone and my projector.

-- White Goodman

It is sort of see: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105946/quote for the origin of that quote.

take my quote out of context. I was talking about specifically about the keyboard hack.

O... then I retract my previous agreement with you... I was under the impression that you had come round and realized that since someone has demonstrated a working firmware keylogger that you had come to your senses as someone who claims to work on firmware everyday for what I guess would be a business somewhere. Thus realizing that everyone should start taking this 'generalized firmware threat' serous. They should have been doing this all along but eh...

In my opinion, all devices should have a jumper, switch or button that keeps firmware write protected. A button that turns off this protection for 30 minutes would add a trivial amount to the cost of a product and, I for one, would be willing to pay the extra 2 cents for the peace of mind.

Fuck off.

and I am only saying that because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/quotes

All jokes aside, I am truly sorry that I have caused you such grief, I was trying to point out that this is a REAL problem and NEEDS to the addressed before some jackass hacker starts turning my nice new toys into trash or something much worse like a keylogger or infection vector.

I can understand that as a firmware developer you would rather see your work used for evil... O wait... No I really can't understand that, where-in lies my confusion.

9. Little David Lightman realized his HelloWorld script was a bit out of control and turned off his computer. Should have stayed with WarGames.

Jeff: I'm afraid that Earth, a-all of Earth, is nothing but an intergalactic reality-TV show. Man: My God... we're famous! [Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0705900/%5D

How about a Ballmer Borg?

When I see Ballmer I think of the Peter Boyle as the Monster in Young Frankenstein. Of course, that reference is even older than the Borg reference.

Once the robots have eliminated all their human creators, the world-wide war will be Honda vs Toyota.

Sadly, the goal of the war will be to eliminate all commercial competition for the car divisions of Honda and Toyota but there will be no humans left to buy them.

And like a house of cards, it's going to be checkmate right in the bullseye.

Reminds me of Mutant Chronicles.

In 2707, the depleted world is ruled by four Corporations: Mishima, Bauhaus, Capitol and Imperial that are in constant war.

(the movie sucks, though)

Or just have a most excellent project welder bring home the core component and play some music to figure out the secret acoustical sound. The story doesn't mention how upset some organiszations will be, willing to blow up lots of things to keep this technology secret.

That's odd. I'm pretty sure I submitted some of those and corrections for others, but they're not in my update history. In particular, the stage direction of Gorman turning back to the monitor and the first lines submission.

Anyway, judging from the size of the thumb in the scrollbar, I think there are more quotes for Red vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles.

But I love some of the meta-humor you can get from entering some lines:

Caboose: Enters stage left.
Caboose: [enters stage left] Hello, I am Stupid Private Tucker. I am going to set off a big bomb now, and totally mess things up for everyone! Because I am stupid!
Caboose: Turns around.
Caboose: [turns around] Hello, Present, I am going to set off a bomb in you.
Grif: Don't do that, Stupid Private Tucker, that might kill me!
Caboose: Thinks about this... for a moment.
Donut: [as Caboose thinks about this for a moment] Caboose, stop reading your stage directions!
Caboose: You said I was supposed to read anything with my name in front of it!
Donut: Just the lines, not the blockings. You're ruining my big debut!

You seem to forget that Alien predated Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and most of the other "classic horror" movies:

Alien (1979)
Friday the 13th (1980)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Only Halloween (1978) predates Alien, and by a short enough period that I think it's safe to say that Alien was well underway before Halloween hit the theater.

It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)

"Out of the fifties 'B' Science-Fiction monster movies, this easily ranks as the best. It's most notable as the film that ALIEN is an unaccredited remake of, thus giving it a certain historical significance."

Also, if you're into this kind of stuff, Them! (1954) was probably an inspirational precursor to Aliens, just watch it and you'll see the parallels, some are glaring.

Alien and Aliens were both done very well. There's nothing wrong with derivative work, as long as it's done well. I'd bet anything that the writers saw the above linked films as children.