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A lot of the duke nukem lines are from the movie They Live. It includes the "It's chew bubble gum and kick some ass. But I'm all out of gum."

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On the day a bank robbery scene is to be filmed at Pritchard's bank, four supposed actors who have joined the troupe turn out to be bank robbers for real.

13th floor anyone?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/plotsummary

Sorry, forgot to add something (and format text properly come to think of it), for those who don't know, he is producing the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time movie, due out in 2009.

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A quote from Jerry's Bio (trivia section):

"I think that there's a certain synchronicity, so far, with what I like and with what the audiences like. But I don't make the movies for them. I make them because I wanna go see them myself."

Perhaps this works for making movies, but when you're an old fart who has likely never touched a controller (yes, I'm jumping to conclusions here - but there's a very good chance I'm right, based on the other 62 year olds I know) this sort of self-indulgent logic falls apart.

Perhaps if he'd grown up with the gamer generation his method of production would work. Unfortunately, he didn't, and it's likely to be a disaster when he tries it here.

BANK EMPLOYEE: (typing on a check) So, people hire you to break into their places... to see if you can break into their places?

BISHOP: It's a living.

BANK EMPLOYEE: (looks at check, hands it to BISHOP with sympathetic expression) Not a very good one.

After that animal crackers scene, I'd rather put my faith in Robert Duvall and his team of young, but dedicated, astronauts.

Hello, my name is Philo and welcome to Secrets of the Universe. Today we are going to learn how to make plutonium from common household items.

Hello, my name is Philo and welcome to Secrets of the Universe. Today we are going to learn how to make plutonium from common household items.

There was a documentary about how we would respond. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/

Doesn't London get destroyed by dragons?

Bruce Willis and the world's best deep core drilling team will save us again

London - http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0790665/

Most hysterically, the government spent two weeks saying "No the movie is alarmist, this is all bollocks, etc". After that they turned around and said "Hey we are not committed to building a new Thames barrier" (they still have not got the brain to make it electricity generating, but brain and UK gov do not mix well).

...without the appropriate movie reference!

The coveredinbees tag seems to be a reference to a skit of his he did during his Glorious tour:

My father was a beekeeper before me, his father was a beekeeper before him. I want to walk in their footsteps. And their footsteps were like this... [Runs screaming] AAAAAAAH! I'm covered in beeeeees!

Or simply because the movie sucks maybe?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385752/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/his_dark_materials_the_golden_compass/

Occam's razor is everyone's friend.

Would need to get Charleton Heston to narrate and as old Hurin.

I think you seriously overestime the meaning of "executive producer". Contrary to how it sounds, it's a title usually given to people who were important to the project but who were only remotely involved in its actual making (typically studio suits), people who needed to be thrown a bone ("we cut your part but we'll make you executive producer") and people whose name sells tickets (Steven Spielberg has executive produced a 100 movies for example). The LotR movies for example had 5 executive producers, none of whom I think added anything substantial.

Where'd this come from, then? Out of your nostril?

I may be reading too much into 3 words, but are you implying that was a bad thing to have him do the role, or are you merely trying to inform the GP of other roles that the gent who played Gandalf has undertaken?

If you were implying it was a bad thing, what about having Agent Smith become Elrond, from worst of enemies to best of friends, as well as V where we can't be sure if he was the good guy or the bad?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915989/ <-- clicky clicky for Hugo Weaving imdb entry

Ooooh, maybe we can get Peter Jackson to collaborate with the Wachowski's for The Hobbit

Don't forget AVP-R.

I liked AVP, I would put AvP 2 but I haven't seen it.

Mmm Mmm Sana Lathan

Martin Freeman played Bilbo in flashbacks during the LOTR. He'd be a better choice to play Bilbo in The Hobbit.

I always say the exact same thing about Crossroads. When you get exactly what you expect, and you think about it in that regard, it's actually a pretty good movie.

Scientists announced today that REBA is in fact an alien.
Dr. Jason Bandis referred to the discovery as an "important step" in the search for intelligent alien species, though other members of the scientific community, including University of Michigan's Professor Jonathan Kemp, are not as enthusiastic: "What we're seeing here is a first-of-its-kind discovery, yes. But we need to stay focused on the task at hand. If REBA is representative of what's out there, we might as well stop looking."

NY Times - Alien Life-Form REBA

I don't know if I would use the phrase "poor actor" (in a sympathetic tone), as he seems to be doing fairly well for himself: http://www.wilwheaton.net/. He's got two books published and is still an active actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000696/. All things considered, I think he's better off than the Startrek.com people.

Don't Paramount have a movie coming out, by the very name "Star Trek", for Xmas next year? Seems like a dumb time to drop the site.

I wasn't responding to your post, I replied to this one

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=390868&cid=21723276

I don't disagree with this post

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=390868&cid=21723180

In fact I'm sure Mr. Rasczak would explain the morality of dealing with alien enemies of the State, especially ones that are numerous but low tech and and rely on suicide attacks and indiscriminately targetting civillians ;-)

"Some say US foreign policy has encouraged militancy in the Middle East and a live and let live policy would have been preferable"
"I'm from New York and I say KILL EM ALL!"

Breeding means you're evolutionarily fit, passing IQ tests or learning Klingon or Vi doesn't. The right people are breeding, by definition. Elitist nerds aren't breeding, but that's not a problem with evolution, just for them.

Speaking of stupid people, let's introduce alcohol to the situation and instead we get stupid, drunk, inhibitions-diminished desperate people instead! Great fun!

Yeah, it is actually.

Wow...sounds like Idiocracy may have hit a little too close to home for you.

It's:

Fletcher: "Your honor, I object!"
Judge: "Why?"
Fletcher: "Because it's devastating to my case!"
Judge: "Overruled."

(Only Jim Carrey movie I didn't walk out of midway....)

No kidding

Umm.. http://imdb.com/title/tt0096256/plotsummary/

Isn't this called a remote control? Just because they moved it into a phone, etc. doesn't change that. I think they already have these.

The only problem would be that now a hacker could take control of your robot from anywhere in the world. Might have worked out better for Syndrome if he had gone that way, but sounds like a waste of effort to me...

Hand in your geek membership card immediately!

Oh. Well if the only difference is whether it was an internal or external decision...
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2003-08-28#film3
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2003-08-29#film4

There you have it. The government caused censorship.

I increasingly get the feeling that it is more what you agree with than an issue with censorship in general.

Though we're off-topic and karma-draining here, so I'll bow to you sir, and move on.

Oh. Well if the only difference is whether it was an internal or external decision...
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2003-08-28#film3
http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2003-08-29#film4

There you have it. The government caused censorship.

I increasingly get the feeling that it is more what you agree with than an issue with censorship in general.

Though we're off-topic and karma-draining here, so I'll bow to you sir, and move on.

even in 1995 (and obviously, plenty of times before), this had already been addressed; however, the premise is intriguing, especially if the general public is finally becoming aware of it http://imdb.com/title/tt0667998/

On the IMDb boards, there's already a lot of speculation on who would play Freeman. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0239023/board/nest/65756292

Everything you ever needed to know about falling in love with robots is contained in Cherry 2000.

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I've always liked Galaxina myself....
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080771/

Woody Allen already covered this in a movie from 1973:

Sleeper.

Worth a rental if you haven't seen it.

People often overlook things they care about when there is no risk they won't get it. Look at the dating sites. People make a list of what they like, then they date people who match. Then they realize what they should have listed.

Then again, in an overpopulated society, I definitely would not want to encourage more people to be breeders, and I see lot of good in this notion, even if I think it won't solve all the problems people have. Overcoming people's basic animal and getting more in control of explosive population growth may be a prerequisite for a robot-based society, which simply doesn't function well with large numbers of people. And having people voluntarily fail to breed is the least invasive way of reducing population numbers.

The worst case, of course, would be that each of these robot-human pairs would feel a need to have a human child, which would actually make the situation worse. But I doubt that will happen.

Btw, for an excellent and entertaining treatment of this robot love issue, see the underrated B-movie Cherry 2000.

That's the idea behind the movie Cherry 2000.

If there is one constant in human history: War kills people. Always has, always will.

There's an episode of Star Trek where two planets have waged war for so many years that they simply began to accept it as a way of life. They used computers to simulate their battles and then systematically exterminated X amount of their own people in order to avoid "real" war.

They took all the collateral damage out of war and it allowed them to wage war ceaselessly until it never even occurred to them to want peace.

My explanation is pretty bad, but it's an interesting episode and a great example of classic, thoughtful sci-fi.

KLYTUS (seeing one of Hitler's speeches): Now he showed promise!

Case in point...