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Windows: I can't allow you to do this.

That sounds familiar

http://imdb.com/find?s=all&q=Phonebooth&x=0&y=0

Actually, Deliverance was set in Georgia http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/plotsummary

They apparently watched Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea's episode "Escape from Venice"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0742263/

and thought they could break the encryption. They had the notes wrong... shoulda been:

"La lah lah lah, lah lah luh luh lahaha, luhu, luha, haha la..."

Next time, they should get somebody with phantom of whatever music to decrypt the ms keyboard... Logitech's will need Bach or Beethoven or something better...

Nope

Yes, in that respect it's a bit like Primer.

So don't worry about Jurassic Park happening anytime soon.

Phew! Thanks, that's a relief.

Now, is there anything you can do to stop Jurassic Park IV?

Not to go too far OT, there was a great documentary by the same name. If you haven't seen it, rent it. It's a fascinating look at the "behind the scenes".

Yet another "war room". And like the parent, I've never heard it called anything else.

The hard-line Christians question the ethics of cloning and the existence of dinosaurs, so how well would dinosaur cloning research go down?

Magnificently.

Not letting them escape. Here in Australia we're having enough problems dealing with cane toads, can you imagine having to deal with velociraptors?

It's okay. We can put them on an island off the coast of Costa Rica. Put up a lot of fences. We could even make it a tourist attraction. What could possibly go wrong?

Trying to tell them that everything they ever knew and loved is gone. They wouldn't know about the Soviet collapse or the World Wars, or that these days most large animals grow their children inside of them, how would they deal with that shock? Is it ethical? These dinosaurs have never even seen anything with hair before, how would they cope?

I believe Mel Gibson learned to cope when he woke up from that coma after all those years. One minute, he's a test pilot in 1939, and then the next minute, he's in 1992, and the love of his life has grown old and grey. He survived..well enough... You never know, maybe the cloned dino is actually in love with Nessie...

Not to worry, with the right genetic engineering, we can give it the proper four asses.

Looks like someone hasn't watched Gattaca.

They may have a nice privacy statement, but that doesn't mean any thing if they aren't really enforcing it. Who knows?

Actually, it's a quote from The Big Lebowski. And if you think that's brilliant, I highly recommend you watch the whole flick.

What a great idea!
They should get Rowdy Roddy Piper to be their spokesman here too!

I could say the same to you, Mr. Anderson...

"Move or I'll Shoot!"

Oh, never mind -- nobody saw Heartbeeps anyway...

As Satan once put it: "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes."

IMDB thinks that the last three movies will be released in 2008. I imagine that we're gonna get about one a quarter. reference

There is a Wes Craven movie about this - The Serpent and the Rainbow, loosely based on the nonfiction story "To Circle the Rainbow" by Wade Davis. The Wiki entry says Wade wasn't too pleased with the movie.

No, no, no nothing like that! I'm .... I'm... batman

You know that was Ethan Hawke, not Tom Cruise, right? Good movie, I just watched it again the other day.

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

Fire a DU round from a tank down the road

Humpty Hump FTW!

Bush made one of the classic blunders: Never start a war when you are having diplomatic success.

Come on, this is Slashdot. We know you've seen Transformers. Don't try to deny it.

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0418279/Ss/0418279/T14446EDIT.jpg.html?path=gallery&path_key=0418279

Yeah, that would be one of the exceptions to that probably. In addition to the wadding, it was also apparently stuck against his temple, and it was the fact that it shattered his skull that did him in. The fact that he fired a gun with a blank in it at his temple shows he didn't really understand that blanks can still be deadly at close range. It's possible to kill with one, just not likely. Had he instead held the gun a foot from his temple, or pointed it at something other than his head he would have most likely lived.

Of course, the force of the gases leaving the barrel from close enough can still cause some damage, but probably not enough to kill you.

Tell that to Jon-Erik Hexum. Okay, so that gun had wadding in it, but it was mainly the force of the gas that did him in.

A back door in AES would have been found by now. There are enough brilliant security experts hacking on the big public schemes, with full access to the algorithm (it is open source after all), that something would have been found by now. The only weakness known in AES is weak passkeys.

Locking your files with the password "12345" is about as brilliant as it has been for the past 20+ years.

TV Judges are Like Televangelists look the part, thats ALL.

Want to see a real Judge in action go watch the DVD set of the OJ trail, not the current one the Judge Ito one. Long grueling boring and accurate. if "Judge Judy" who is as much a Judge as Judge Reinhold, were to act that way in a court room she would be rightly disbarred (i.e. Benched).

I kind of suspect that every single person who hears this news reacts the same way, as I just did as well.

I can even imagine the screen writer trying to pitch it to the various production companies only to be told "WTF?!?"

To which he replies:

"Ok ok ok ... I know it sounds stupid at first ... but hear me out...

Pleasantview is one of the most delightful neighbourhoods to live in, everybody is happy, the grass is always green, children are always well-mannered. But newcomer Andie starts to uncover the 'real' pleasantview, for not only are Pleasantville full of cheating, lying, decieving, secret-ridden people like the Goths, Don Lothario and the struggling Newbies, but they are being ruled by a greater power. Andie is terrified to discover they are stuck in a video game being played by millions universally. ...

A young woman, Mary Waldeck who is a budding reporter,moves to Pleasantview too. She soon realizes to her horror that everyone in pleasantview is being subjected to a great new live human experiment, and have had their brains implanted with the idea that they're actually in a universally popular video game, and that their names even are the names of the people from the game itself. All except for Andie who becomes Mary's poor insane accomplice driven out of his mind from what the scientists of the world had been doing to him, but also determined to save himself and the other citizens of Pleasantview."

Plot synopsis taken from IMDB

It actually sounds kind of intriguing. Though if past video games turned movies are any indication it will blow.

The dang sandworms come up underneath them and bump them a little! Where's the big mystery?

    And if it isn't the sandworms, well, it's them giant ants! They ..uhhh...were over the border at the testing range and...uhh..saw some dung beetles! That's the ticket! Saw the dung beetles and decided to try their luck at pushing stuff around! And there's no tracks because the wind blows the tracks away, not blows the rocks around , that's just silly, plus, no proof! If people see UFOs yet other people claim no proof, sp be it! Well, just because some rocks *looked* like they moved, that is no proof! Photoshop! Swamp..uhh..Desert gas! Those aren't rocks, those are *weather balloons*!! Of course the wind can blow around 9/10ths deflated weather balloons!

Eggheads, can't see the forest for the trees sometimes..walk..chew gum...go to school with shorts on the outside of their pants...double duh... wind pushing the heavy rocks..uh huh, s-u-r-r-r-r-r-e they do... ritalin junkies... I bet they can count toothpicks though!

Reminds me of The Prestige, only in the movie, the duplicated subject had to be killed after the fact.

Eurotrip. I saw it the other day and it's surprisingly entertaining for a teen comedy.

Though I don't think it was the size of a football field, I remember this concept from Waterworld. As I recall, the kite gave the Mariner's boat quite a boost.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Inigo Montoya

A whaling party?
Or Shatner celebrating a 25 year reunion at the Wonderland Center with co-stars?

I give up. What?

Or are we talking zombies and ninja assassins here? 'Cause that'd make a great movie.

Nope, Dante. Look at this, about a quarter of the way down. Randal does the bit about the janitors on the Death Star.

...or indeed any of the actors. It's Lucas. The actors can only do what the director wants. I posted about this after Episode 1 was released. Hayden Christensen has been fairly criticized for a terrible performance, but unfairly characterized as a terrible actor. He's anything but. In fact, he's actually quite talented, as anyone who saw his performances in "Life as a House" and "Shattered Glass" can attest. All the featured actors have proven in other films that they can act, but their performances in the prequel trilogy were uniformly cringe-worthy. The common denominator is the director: George Lucas.

I remember an interview with Carrie Fisher from maybe 1978, in which she talked about her experience in "Star Wars" as a young actress (I believe it was only her second film, and she was about 19 when it was shot). Fisher is quite witty, and it's a delight to read interviews with her. She said something to the effect that Lucas wasn't really an actor's director, and spoke particularly about the set-up for the scene in which Leia witnesses Alderaan being destroyed. She asked him what he wanted her to do: "I mean, there goes home, family, record collection, everything. He kind of grunted and waved his arm in the general direction that he wanted me to face. That was it."

Recipe for Star Wars Episode 1:

1) one shitty story;

2) liberal amounts of crappy script;

3) mix in lousy director;

$) PROFIT!!!

Repeat steps 1) through $) for Episodes 2 and 3.

...or indeed any of the actors. It's Lucas. The actors can only do what the director wants. I posted about this after Episode 1 was released. Hayden Christensen has been fairly criticized for a terrible performance, but unfairly characterized as a terrible actor. He's anything but. In fact, he's actually quite talented, as anyone who saw his performances in "Life as a House" and "Shattered Glass" can attest. All the featured actors have proven in other films that they can act, but their performances in the prequel trilogy were uniformly cringe-worthy. The common denominator is the director: George Lucas.

I remember an interview with Carrie Fisher from maybe 1978, in which she talked about her experience in "Star Wars" as a young actress (I believe it was only her second film, and she was about 19 when it was shot). Fisher is quite witty, and it's a delight to read interviews with her. She said something to the effect that Lucas wasn't really an actor's director, and spoke particularly about the set-up for the scene in which Leia witnesses Alderaan being destroyed. She asked him what he wanted her to do: "I mean, there goes home, family, record collection, everything. He kind of grunted and waved his arm in the general direction that he wanted me to face. That was it."

Recipe for Star Wars Episode 1:

1) one shitty story;

2) liberal amounts of crappy script;

3) mix in lousy director;

$) PROFIT!!!

Repeat steps 1) through $) for Episodes 2 and 3.

Threepio and Artoo were intended to be the witnesses to the entire saga from the very beginning. As 'droids, they are basically immortal, so long as someone keeps replacing worn out parts. So, who else to take notes?

The Whills, the mysterious entities whose journal is the "source document" for the Star Wars saga, get the story from Artoo, according to some accounts of Lucas' original ideas.

They were inspired by the two bickering peasants in The Hidden Fortress, the Kurosawa chambara movie which inspired the original Star Wars movie.

The original Star Wars leaned very heavily on Eastern narrative traditions (drawing particularly on Hidden Fortress by Akira Kurosawa.

The Eastern narrative commonly relies on two classes of hero: one who is pure of heart and destined for great things and one who initially joins the quest out of self-interest, but finds himself affected by the actions and idealism of his companions. The first type cannot succeed without the strength of the second, and the second cannot succeed without the first showing them the path to enlightenment.

This archetype can be traced back at least as far as Journey to the West (circa 1590, the source for the TV series Monkey) in which the pure hearted monk Tripitaka (Xuánzàng) is aided by three characters, all of whom have fallen out of favour with the gods and seek redemption.

Luke is pure archetype number 1. Han Solo was archetype 2, an unreconstructed rogue even to the point of casually shooting Greedo in the Mos Eisley cantina. When he flew back at the Death Star scene, he redeemed himself. Even so, in ESB he was still not fully converted, planning to head off just before the imperial attack started. His buddy Lando Calrisian stepped in to bolster the "soul in need of redemption" role, and by the end of the film, both Lando and Han were fully redeemed. Who did that leave for ROTJ? Yup, the big one: Darth Vader, whose hatred, bitterness and resentment was purged by love.

Now, when Lucas redid the original trilogy, he took away that first defining moment in Han's character, that cold-blooded, unflinching murder that showed us just how much of heartless, self-driven piece of scum he was. This was when Lucas started moving back into modern Western narrative. In the West, bad guys don't get reformed -- they get "what's coming to them!"

By the time he finally wrote the first three episodes, any aspirations to Eastern narrative was gone and he we had good people who were good, evil people who were evil and one good guy who was stupid and let the bad guys win. No-one was redeemed, and we made do with western "punishment": Maul, Dooku and Grievous were all cut to pieces before death.

Oh, if only the story had stayed eastern....

HAL.

We already know how it ends, we already know pretty much what happens. So there's no tension and no surprise.

Come on! Someone else admit it.
I can't be the ONLY geek and "WarGames" fan to have once used "CPE1704TKS" or "CPE-1704-TKS" as a password. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/goofs

In 1980, when they made a sequel.

You have clearly never watched Dr. Strangelove, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The movie should be required viewing as an artifact of cold-war culture; even if its lessons aren't directly relevant today (we longer live in a world defined by two nuclear powers in an eternal standoff with a hair trigger) it captures the absurdity of the era very well. Plus, as a pure comedy, the movie has aged well.