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For those who don't know the reference.

I was hoping to find a screenshot from the movie, but I'm blocked from most image hosting sites. I'll just suggest you watch the movie.

mandatory "here watch these gory movies" classes that make up drivers ed

I've never seen "Blood Flows Red on the Highway" or any of the like.

But I do remember those commercials reminding people to keep the seat-belts on their watermelons ("...or just lying there, stunned in the road" [squish]).

Hey, that reminds me: I don't have the movie Moving Violations (1985) in my DVD library yet.

History Channel ran a story about him in Modern Marvels - it was a good show and if you can, you should watch the show to see the DeBeers vs Small Man battle and some other cool theories he has on geological/ice drift that prompted him to look below the ice based on patterns of deposits from a glacier. Very interesting stuff indeed - despite all the rants - this is a good topic about innovation, forward thinking and the challenge of David vs. Goliath in modern terms... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0877223/ http://www.amazon.com/History-Modern-Marvels-Diamond-Mines/dp/B001CU9486 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthepiratebay.org%2Ftorrent%2F3592588%2FModern_Marvels_-_Diamond_Mines&ei=lbFCSeKZPNG3tweKqP3TCA&usg=AFQjCNFANj1cetx6DEkhjYL2v1NJmGwaVA&sig2=rvJ3z4L9GKhe_vyIQZn02w

heh.. this is a better paprika for the mind
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098063/

Idiocracy

Yeah! I didn't read the article or the summary and I can tell you I have the following strong opinion: There's no need for breathalizers for computers because if I pour alochol onto my computer it would short out.

Either that or attain sentience.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087197/synopsis

Kind of like Brainstorm. http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0085271/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/

Record your experiences/what you see on a disc, play it back for others. Great concept, great movie. Really!

> Have you actually paid attention to the quality of most human conversation? I don't think I'd call most of what we express through a day unique. Phrased differently, but humans tend to just have a set selection of canned replies as well.

True... so, uh, do you come here often?

That's pretty much like building a mind-reader to figure out if a person has ever committed a crime. Good luck with that.

Or like exploiting three people capable of seeing into the future in order to generate police reports and make arrests.

As we learned, nothing can possibly go wrong!

From Dark Star.

Does she play the Mac startup chime when she's fully charged?

Lars and the Real Girl. A great film about a guy's relationship with his "Real Doll" partner.

Idiocracy (2006): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/

That's Jeffries, of whom the series of Enterprise tubes are named after.

Really? I thought you were thinking of this one

reminds me of the movie A Boy and His Dog

Reminds me of the ending of a popular movie... "Physics? Gentlemen, the World is threatened by chemistry!" :) The resemblance is frightening...

You forgot this gem :)

something for you to watch.
prohibition is actually a large part of the problem.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1033467/

The movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/ does a great job of showing the dynamics involved at the birth of the 'Personal' computer.

In the beginning of The Fifth Element, Leeloo was created from triple-helix-structured nucleic acids. So does this mean the scientists are just trying to create a punk-haired girl? Typical.

1970 called, they want their technology back.
When are we getting rail gun launch systems?
Single Stage to Orbit?
Aurora?

1950 called, Heinlein wants his plots back. Or maybe it's that 1865 telegraphed and Jules Verne wants HIS plot back.

Come ON you guys, this is SCIENCE FICTION. Fiction. You guys watch too many instructional videos for your own good.

Rocket Science is HARD. No easy way off this planet. No pony.

is the first email referring to The Island? Scarlett was in that movie, and she was a clone in the movie, so I could see the confusion, just like it's reasonable to believe that Arnold is a killer robot from the future who is now governor of California.

Does this make anybody else think of the "sim-stims" of Neuromancer?

Yep. That and the squids from Strange Days

Malkovich? MALKOVICH!

Do the test patients inexplicably end up at the New Jersey turnpike once the experiment has concluded?

You're used to permanent online Internet access.

in cases where internet access is prohibitively expensive or even impossible, it makes perfect sense to have everything in easily-syncable git repositories.

You missed a few scenarios.

You're used to permanent online Internet access.

in cases where internet access is prohibitively expensive or even impossible, it makes perfect sense to have everything in easily-syncable git repositories.

You missed a few scenarios.

You're used to permanent online Internet access.

in cases where internet access is prohibitively expensive or even impossible, it makes perfect sense to have everything in easily-syncable git repositories.

You missed a few scenarios.

At first, I read that as "42 minutes of Helfer

Yes Please!

(Or maybe I'm just not nuts enough yet. Yikes.)

"You will be. You will be."
- Yoda

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/quotes

How can a TV episode from 1980 be a ripoff of a movie from 1985?

How can a TV episode from 1980 be a ripoff of a movie from 1985?

There isn't much of a fence around the solar system.

Unless you are Jim Carrey.
   

Truly madly deeply

I seem to remember seeing a really good (although creepy) documentary about this very thing. Ah, here it is.

"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it."

It does have Bruce Boxleitner, which is why we watched it in the first place, but should have turned it off after he died 20 minutes in.

Lots of blood, guts, and gore, and some weird religion element that they don't bother explaining. Maybe if I made it through the game I'd learn what that was all about.

But you'll be praying the main character dies the whole time, because she's annoying as hell. Yeah, it's one of those movies.

I say let the Russians make the good sci-fi movies, I mean, everybody is referencing 2001 but nobody mentioned Solyaris by Andrei Tarkovsky http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069293/, the brilliant story by Stanislaw Lem I like the totally different approach to science fiction, in a more sensitive way, without big budgets or special Fx. This would be the way I'd like to see future production (yeah, a man can dream) but consider what a good russian or french director with a half decent budget would make with a good science fiction story , since they have different perception of the matter. Also Ripley Scott proofed that Hollywood directors can make good sci-fi movies (I liked Bladerunner and Alien). Luke Beson made a beautiful masterpiece with the Fith Elemen. some director had potential but most of the Hollywood jerks can't get through it. what they made with Indy an Star Wars was just wrong, what they made with the new Bond, wrong, I-robot-wrong, Dark Knight....hell yeah! but the majority of the recent Hollywood movies are utterly bad bad bad... so, pleas let the real artists make the good movies and leave the action-sex-gore flicks to the rest....

But that fails the "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" test.

So unless its Battlefield Earth, the progress of the arts is not served by withholding it.

6.9/10 on imdb and 93% on Rotten Tomatoes.

making in 33 years ahead of its time...

http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=2001

If you truly are an adult, then you should leave the insults in the playground.

I've tried that.
But every time I came close to a playground carrying a pickax and a shovel and started digging the hole kids would start complaining to their guardians and I was asked to leave or they would call the police.

No a 16 year old acts much as yourself (a supreme belief that only HIS view matters, and anyone else is an idiot).

I don't mind that you disagree with me, because not everybody has the same perspective, but I do mind being insulted as a person half my age. If you truly are an adult, then you should leave the insults in the playground.

Its not a belief - its a proven fact. Like... with graphs, pie-charts and all.

As for "only mine" perspective... Check the imdb.
Most of the "OMG I LOVE THIS MOVEI!!one11eleven" votes came from "Males under 18", and grades go down after that age.

Add to that the "LOTR is boooring... not enough sex and killing, not at all like the movie" comment I've heard mostly from humanoids born in the '90s, and obvious (probably TV-induced) lack of imagination ("I don't know how it can be adapted to a movie") - I'm afraid that at least as far as movie and book tastes are considered you are underage.

Why do film makers always do such a bad job with sci-fi classics?

Probably because SF stories - especially the "classics" - often involve a lot of exposition and have plots based on intellectual puzzles rather than outright adventure. This would require a slow-paced, art-house style.

Unfortunately, (a) the demand for aliens, space ships, time machines, robots etc. makes them require action/adventure-type special effects budgets and (b) the anti-SF snobbery in the arts brigade would make "arthouse" SF even harder to sell than regular arty films.

For a good example of how SF can be done properly without expensive effects, try The Man From Earth. Now try and sell that to multiplexes.

PS - for my money, though, some of the "inspired by" Philip K Dick films made much better movies than a faithful adaptation of the stories would have done - "We can remember for you wholesale" had an even dafter plot than "Total Recall" and although the premise and set-up of the original "Minority report" was great, the actual story didn't really work for me.

I think you're too close to the situation.
The movie I, Robot just wasn't Asimov as pure as you suggest. Yes, the 3 laws were mentioned but Susan Clavin had such a small part that none of her skill was used but rather usurped by WS.
Calvin is really the human mind working with a robotic mind. Most of Asimov's Robot stories were how the 3 Laws could be circumvented by logic.
It was also a statement on a Turing-like event, that Robots can synthesize thoughts, and not just respond to situations like a GPS unit.
The positronic brain was not treated sufficiently in my opinion. Another gloss-over when more can be made from it.
I did like it, but when I read the originals in the 60s - the 'future' envisioned in the 60s is very different to the future envisioned today.
If Asimov was to be translated well, then that should be taken into account.
But the movie fails as an introduction to Asimov in this regard, that it was a detective/corporate thriller rather than the story of the 3 Laws of Robotics.

For example- George Pal made a movie 'Destination Moon (1950)' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042393/ and the big problem with that was it was too technical and not entertaining enough. I, Robot as a pure Asimov translation could fall into that trap with too much exposition, but I think the movie as we have it today went too far the other way.

... in the ATC software written for the FAA. All you need to do is line up two 747s on a collision course and it plays a randomly selected "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit ..." clip from Airplane!.

Oh, the irony... So now most nations in South America are "either dictatorships or oligarchies" and the USA are the defenders of democracy across the world... Well, leaving aside the fact that the first part is a glaring lie (except, to some extent, the oligarchies part, which could also be said of the US and almost every country), the US not only has supported all coups that took place in the subcontinent in the past decades, they even take care of training the military... Honestly, get a fucking clue. I would suggest reading a book, but that's probably asking too much. Let me point you to this instead: The War on Democracy

Seriously. Environmentalists need to set the jihad switch to off and try rational discussion with the deep sea outfits for a change.

You guys should see The Secret Life of Words with Tim Robbins. Not only it's a wonderful movie, with some of the best acting I've ever seen, but it takes place on an oil rig and it has a slight environmentalist bent (thought it doesn't have a huge stupid oversimplified one like in many Steven Seagal movies).