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The plot to the film Serenity http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/ comes to mind.

The film in question was The Island where Ewan McGregor, as the clone Lincoln Six Echo, has been secretly drinking alcohol given to him by the sympathetic company man James McCord played by Steve Buscemi. The toilet was detecting the deleterious metabolites of alcohol breakdown being passed the morning after the drinking binge by Lincoln.

The film in question was The Island where Ewan McGregor, as the clone Lincoln Six Echo, has been secretly drinking alcohol given to him by the sympathetic company man James McCord played by Steve Buscemi. The toilet was detecting the deleterious metabolites of alcohol breakdown being passed the morning after the drinking binge by Lincoln.

The film in question was The Island where Ewan McGregor, as the clone Lincoln Six Echo, has been secretly drinking alcohol given to him by the sympathetic company man James McCord played by Steve Buscemi. The toilet was detecting the deleterious metabolites of alcohol breakdown being passed the morning after the drinking binge by Lincoln.

I did, in fact, once see the 1970's 3D porn "Disco Girls in Hot Skin." The 3D effect was understated (you only noticed it here and there), as was true of a lot of 3D movies of the era. The novelty couldn't distract that this was a laughably bad 1970s porno. Very entertaining, though, because it is one of those "so bad it's good" kind of films, like the Evil Dead saga. So, if you ever get a chance to see it, give it a go.

Jack Lint:
It's not my fault that Buttle's heart condition didn't appear on Tuttle's file!

It's Brazil! all over again...

Not much meat on her, but what's there is cherce.

with apologies to Spencer Tracy

What's all of this 'reboot' shite?
Do I need a kernel upgrade to watch this? Re-compile, or 'emerge'?
Log-out, log-in? make && make install?
'Kill -9' my brain, then start it back up?
WTF?

You marketdroids and your inane, warped, and twisted lexicon are getting to be too much.
Where's the 'synergy'?, the 'leveraging', and shouldn't this be 'value-added' or 'feature-rich'?

You don't 'reboot' a movie, only the computer it was running on.
Fscking kids, can't see any 'generational accomplishments' except to rename everything...'What Would John Wayne Do?'...*makes bumper sticker:WWJDD?'*... *mumble*

Now 'get off my lawn!', and 'turn that crap down!'.
And yes, I am older and more crotchety than usually found here!

I have prior art on being a grumpy old man!

P.S. I'm only semiserious, some of my tongue is 'in-cheek', but not all of it...YMMV.

...I am always up for some sex and violence!

So that's where you've gotten to, droogie?
How 'bout some 'ultraviolence' to go with that? :-)

it will influence your opinion (although whether that influence is towards more funding, privatization, or better management can vary).

No it wouldn't, waiting is part of why I do not like socialized medicine.

Just in case someone out there has the numbers, what about the relative life expectancy of people over 65 in Canada and the United States, broken down by annual income or personal net assets?

It's not broken down by income or wealth but the List of countries by life expectancy does list average life expectancy. Oh, lest someone objects to wiki, it was the first result when I googled "life expectancy" canada "united states". However "a casual look at life expectancy statistics reveals no obvious pattern".

The Barbarian Invasions

Reading it I see one of the comments, by a Quebecois, says "Yes the health care is that bad here. But then again where is it perfect? The population is growing old, hospitals are overcrowded, our government spends most of our tax money for it and its still not enough. But at least we don't have to pay for health care. I'm happy to pay taxes that help elders and sick people get treated."

Falcon

If we can learn to grow specifically an organ, then you're right.

But growing a clone of you in order to destroy it for parts? They've made movies about that. Do you really define "natural people" in a way excludes clones from being people?

The only way your comment makes sense is with the assumption that a human at the "embryo" stage isn't yet a "person". And if you want to say that, you need to make it explicit--don't take it for granted. And you'd better have a pretty clear understanding of why. The human race has a poor history of deciding who of us are "people".

If we can learn to grow specifically an organ, then you're right.

But growing a clone of you in order to destroy it for parts? They've made movies about that. Do you really define "natural people" in a way excludes clones from being people?

The only way your comment makes sense is with the assumption that a human at the "embryo" stage isn't yet a "person". And if you want to say that, you need to make it explicit--don't take it for granted. And you'd better have a pretty clear understanding of why. The human race has a poor history of deciding who of us are "people".

I hear that Dead Men Don't Wear PLAID.

First the bible, now The Land Before Time!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095489/

They already made a movie of it.

you never saw Philadelphia, did you?

Reminds me of the movie The Green Slime I saw when I was way too young to be watching late-night TV.

"I'd say that I'm surprised that there isn't a religion based on quantum mechanical terminology."

Actually there is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399877/

I can't imagine my emails being sold, much less for this value !

I can't imagine my emails being sold, much less for this value !

You mean likeI Downloaded a Ghost?

Yes, someone has already done this. Hard to believe but it's true!

American healthcare, like American education, has some of the best institutions in the world. It also has quite a few that aren't so impressive, and a large number of people who don't enjoy the level of access that most western countries consider the basic minimum (some get it anyway, but bankrupt their families as a result).

The general argument of the Canadians is that allowing differential healthcare, where rich people can bypass the public system, will make it easier for the government to let the public system slide. As the author of your cited article mentions, the rich will often bypass the system by going abroad for specific treatments, but a large number of people who could afford to go abroad use the public system anyhow. Those who went abroad for care can be very vocal about how the current system is not providing the level of care that they expect. Which is the point, really.

When the current system was adopted, everyone knew that pulling the entire population to a single system would pull some down as well as up. Naturally, some people are unhappy with the system as it is. If your mother dies while waiting for surgery, it will influence your opinion (although whether that influence is towards more funding, privatization, or better management can vary). On the other hand, it's the third rail of Canadian politics. Nobody who wants to be re-elected would suggest changing it. That suggests the average voter believes that care would, for most people, get worse in a two-tier system.

Just in case someone out there has the numbers, what about the relative life expectancy of people over 65 in Canada and the United States, broken down by annual income or personal net assets? The article gave only Europe, and only for the total population.

A very interesting exploration of this exact topic is available in The Barbarian Invasions, which was nominated for the 2004 Best Writing Oscar, and won the 2004 Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar.

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5 minutes to find that out? (time between your two posts)
the world changed in 1984

Just for that, I'm putting annoying beeps on every computer readout in 2012. Just because I know you like them so much...

I believe the were planning on using Lance Henriksen as the terminator. The original concept was to have a plain ordinary looking person turn out to be a robotic killing machine.

Uh, relatives? Children's Children?

The question would be, would anybody care about Paul Newman's image in 100 years. Arguably, the people who would recognize him and go, "Wow! That's Paul Newman!" would be dead. Which means using his image would be about as useful as using, say, mine.

Go look at the names in movies 100 years ago (1909). Frankly, if they used Julia Arthur, Flora Finch, or David Miles, who'd know?

Stalker is quite a good adaptation of the already good novel "The Roadside Picnic".... ("good adaptation" being defined as "absolutely mind blowingly extraordinary superior")

Robert Zemeckis already did use Bogart in a 1995 Tales of the Crypt: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0716912/ It's good to see Paul Newman's clause in his will. I only hope that Rob Schneider uses the same clause in his will.

Olivier's made like 30 appearances since he died. You can't get some actors off the stage.

One amusing thing about Sky Captain was the way Angelina Jolie is in all the ads and trailers and only appears in the movie for about 5 minutes. "Launch the amphibious attack!"

I worry that the new movie will be too CGI-heavy, but the Terminator series has done pretty well with the special effects so far, so I guess we'll just wait and see.

Don't pin your hopes on this one being worthwhile. It's directed by McG, who is best known as the visionless tool who does producers' bidding to churn out crap like Charlies Angels. Other than music videos, Charlies Angles has been his biggest gig. This isn't the kind of movie where a creative genius presents a bunch of images and concepts that expands our imaginations. This movie is the product of a bunch of meetings among studio executives who asked each other, "What would the audience like to see?" Their answers to that question is derived from other films. From the trailers, it looks like a lot of what will be in this movie is Transformers imitation.

Seth

Ever see Benjamin Button? Sure they created a digital version of Brad Pitt for the entire first half as he aged backwards, but it's not like he wasn't involved in that process at all. S1M0NE isn't exactly possible yet, they're still a human under those bits.

stop the CGI! I would prefer a puppet to a CGI model.

Before we know it there will be movies completely in...oh wait. My original point still remains valid.

Robin: [sees a pirate attached to Batman's leg] Holy sardine!
Batman: Hand down the pirate repellent Batspray!
Reference: Batman TV Movie, 1966

For the love of all things binary, I thought it was common knowledge that you cannot compare rated R movies to PG-13 movies. Every single Batman & Spider-man movie has been rated below R.

Let's compared it with Sin City then. Data from imdb:

Watchmen
Released: March 6, 2009
Budget: $100,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend
$55,214,334 (USA) (8 March 2009) (3,611 Screens)
£3,243,001 (UK) (8 March 2009) (419 Screens)

Gross
$106,418,446 (USA) (12 April 2009)

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/business (TFA data may be more current than this)

Sin City
Released: April 1, 2005
Budget: $40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend
$29,120,273 (USA) (3 April 2005) (3,230 Screens)
£2,452,299 (UK) (5 June 2005) (395 Screens)

Gross
$74,098,862 (USA) (7 August 2005) <- 129 days after opening
$12,300,000 (Worldwide) (5 June 2005) (except USA) <- 66 days after opening

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/business

For the love of all things binary, I thought it was common knowledge that you cannot compare rated R movies to PG-13 movies. Every single Batman & Spider-man movie has been rated below R.

Let's compared it with Sin City then. Data from imdb:

Watchmen
Released: March 6, 2009
Budget: $100,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend
$55,214,334 (USA) (8 March 2009) (3,611 Screens)
£3,243,001 (UK) (8 March 2009) (419 Screens)

Gross
$106,418,446 (USA) (12 April 2009)

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/business (TFA data may be more current than this)

Sin City
Released: April 1, 2005
Budget: $40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend
$29,120,273 (USA) (3 April 2005) (3,230 Screens)
£2,452,299 (UK) (5 June 2005) (395 Screens)

Gross
$74,098,862 (USA) (7 August 2005) <- 129 days after opening
$12,300,000 (Worldwide) (5 June 2005) (except USA) <- 66 days after opening

Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401792/business

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409459/business

after factoring in advertising (-) and dvd (+), the whole thing should be a wash: they should make a small profit or small loss

so it wasn't a success, but it wasn't a failure. just an exercise in moving a lot of dollars around to little overall effect

be glad it wasn't a failure, but also be glad it wasn't a success: if it was a success, we would have to deal with "watchmen ii: electric boogaloo"

(whoa! holy double '80s reference batman!)

Sequel to The Tuxedo: Jackie Chan faces off against a killer robotic penguin!

Do either of them run Linux?

When Watchmen shot out of the blocks to an opening weekend of $55m in the US back at the start of March, there were some mutterings of discontent that this wasn't quite the kind of number that Warner Bros was looking for.

Well, to be fair, stateside that puts it at #6 for opening weekend for a Rated R movie. And 64th overall. Worldwide so far it's sitting at $180+ million and, like the article said, DVD and Blu-Ray sales often make a big difference.

I've heard that the estimated budget was $100 million. So they've made $80 million over that ... so what is the problem exactly? You've made the #6 most popular R rated movie by opening weekend in the United States. Job well done. I assure you that DVD and Blu-Ray sales will net you a lot of money. Especially with that Curse of the Black Freighter stuff you withheld from the movie.

It was always going to be a harder sell than a Batman or Spider-man movie ...

For the love of all things binary, I thought it was common knowledge that you cannot compare rated R movies to PG-13 movies. Every single Batman & Spider-man movie has been rated below R.

The movie did well and I'm sure it was worth it.

One of the big things that bothers me is that the american entertainment industry is such a tiny part of the economy.

But as we've seen, the American entertainment industry can allow those in power to wag the dog.
That sentence works on so many levels!

It looks like Guardian has finally been uncovered. Everybody act really friendly, no fast moves to the on/off switch.

"taste" of monsanto's evilness? LOL

How about injecting dairy cows with chemical crap to maximize production, at the expense of the animal's health and resulting in milk that belongs in a "bio-hazard" container as opposed to a milk jug?

See "The Corporation": http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225

Not to mention Monsanto using their muscle to prevent investigative journalists from actually reporting on the story. This company gives me the creeps.

A pig would have to not only escape from one pen, but also break into another pen.

Pigs are the Houdinis of farm animals. To make an escape proof pig pen is more difficult than most realize. Also they will at one time or another need to be transported/moved between pen and slaughter house, providing oppurtunity for escape.

If these GM Pigs were to become common it is not a question of if but when an escaped GM pig will mate with a Non-GM either by finding the mate in the wild or as you suggest by breaking into the pen of a pig of the other kind,"life, uh... finds a way".

Yeah, but what if every congressional district did that: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317676/

god this reminds me of a quote from a star trek movie...

McCoy: How much and how soon?
Alien: How soon is now. How much is, where?
McCoy: Somewhere in the Mutara sector.
Alien: Oh, Mutara restricted! Take permits many; money more.
McCoy: There aren't gonna be any damned permits! How can you get a permit to do a damned illegal thing? Look, price you name, money I got.

...sink my balls into a robot! Wake me up when there's a Cherry 2000 I can nail.

This system has been around for a while; I've seen it demonstrated live twice, and it didn't work at all either time. In my opinion, even in best conditions (bald patient, shit-tons of electrodes, professional setup, well-trained subject) it doesn't work well enough to fuel science-fiction fantasies, and probably never well. For locked-in patients, who can do nothing but move their eyes, though, it's an awesome technology. They made a movie recently about such a patient who spent years using it to write a novel: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/.

Here's how it works - metal electrodes on the brain (EEG) pick up an analog signal, and *any* stimulus which is particularly salient to a subject creates a spike in the signal 300ms after that stimulus appears (this spike is called the P300, there's a good wiki article on it). If you have a dude staring at a grid of letters, you can tell which one he's looking at by hunting for the big spikes 300 ms after the right letter flashes. The only problem is the signal-to-noise ratio, which is notoriously terrible in EEG, though of course there are people out there working on improving it.

The Emperor: You have paid the price for your lack of vision.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086190/quotes

Cloak and Dagger

IMDB link

"Cloak & Dagger" (1984)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087065/

Distrubing for a kid to have an imaginary friend that's a chain-smoker.