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I'm pretty sure those domestic gross numbers are purely box office numbers (and Bloodrayne was $2.4MM, not $1.55MM (which was opening weekend), but that's just nitpicky). It's very possible, though I haven't found numbers to support the theory, that the DVD sales/rentals can add significantly to these figures. Does anyone know if generally how box office revenue compares to DVD revenue, specifically from the studio's perspective?

However, beyond financials, you're right - why would a studio want to associate themselves with such utter crap? All three of the movies you identified are listed in IMDB's worst 100 movies of all time, with House of the Dead claiming the worst of the 3 at the #20 worst movie ever. That's quite a track record.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0164085/

Heckuva job, Negroponte and McConnell.

Or, should I say, Bush has shown his contempt for intelligence once again, and will yet again when he doesn't fire anyone for this serious secrecy breach. Of course, Bush will continue to keep more secrets than all previous American governments combined, and illegally invade Americans' privacy all day with wiretaps and the datamining that Orwell described. America serves at the president's pleasure.

I guess terrorists must have infiltrated the government's Powerpoint training program, because they're always the culprits, and Bush's divine right is never wrong.

Julius Levinson: You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?

{cough}http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085959/{/cough }

Your post reminds me of the film "All Gone Pete Tong (The Legend of Frankie Wild)". Odd title, but a light-yet-deep story about an Ibiza DJ who deals with the effects of a deafening work environment.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0388139

Watch it if you like.

Wouldn't you agree that although a D&D freak may take obsession pretty far, they still are able to discern reality from entertainment (except for Tom Hanks, of course)? It's one thing to obsess over fiction, but once you embrace that fiction as reality, build your life around it, and work to promote this delusional state to others, that's when it crosses the line from entertainment to near-madness (but sanctioned madness, which seems to make it OK).

Dude, you forgot 2005 http://imdb.com/title/tt0407304/.

Dude, you forgot 2005 http://imdb.com/title/tt0407304/.

Dude, you forgot 2005 http://imdb.com/title/tt0407304/.

Paraphrasing Contact:

Palmer: Did you love your father?

Ellie: Yes.

Palmer: Prove it.

We know all sorts of things. Our knowledge is vast, but compared to the infinity of space, insignificant. If nothing else, quantum physics teaches us that there are many gray areas, where things are not as cut-and-dried as they seem. Belief and/or faith in something without scientific proof is not the death of Mankind -- belief and/or faith in something when the evidence before contradicts that belief/faith is where the madness lies.

Dude, you forgot 2005 http://imdb.com/title/tt0407304/.

The images reminded me of Forrest Gump carrying men back to the shore in the movie.

I don't know about you guys, but as soon as I heard teddy bear + robot, I immediately thought of Screamers (http://imdb.com/title/tt0114367/).

I see that one got some pretty low "user ratings".

"Politics" is not the right word. Many people use the GPL because of "politics"? No. People use the GPL because of freedom. Didn't you see this movie?

He uses the caves as a place to hide from the aliens.

Quit smacking them every time you see "PC LOAD LETTER"!

What the fsck does that mean?

If there were such a thing as a boogieman, he'd be a Disco Stu lookalike, with a bitchin' afro that won't quit the dancefloor.

Actually, he's more likely to look a lot like Dean Stockwell.

"Who gave you the right to go BUNGLING around in time, putting right what I made wrong?"

Binoculars? No way man! I kick it old school Jimmy Stewart style with an Exakta VX and a Kilfit 400mm lens.

Goes to show my age. When I heard that I didn't think "Hellboy is doing the voice overs", I thought "Oh man Vincent is doing the voice overs" :).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092319/

Used in English a lot too.

We could've picked it up from 'Neighbours' (and it's ilk) though, so who knows it's origin :)

For an interesting look at the Monsanto history, GM foods, risks and impact across North America, I recommend you watch the documentary "The Future of Food" (torrent).

Description:

THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade.

From the prairies of Saskatchewan, Canada to the fields of Oaxaca, Mexico, this film gives a voice to farmers whose lives and livelihoods have been negatively impacted by this new technology. The health implications, government policies and push towards globalization are all part of the reason why many people are alarmed by the introduction of genetically altered crops into our food supply.

Shot on location in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today.

IMDB link.

I remember that documentary.

Actually The Crucible was made into a movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115988/

I just watched two movies: Control Room (2004) about the media coverage of the invasion of Iraq and Al Jazeera's role and The revolution will not be televised (2003) about the role of the private media in the coup in Venezuela in 2001. Neither of the two might be called very objective, but I see how difficult it would be to find an audience for more scientific analysis.

The common theme in both is how important the media has become. Now this is not really news, but during the last decade the media reaction has been part of e.g. military operation (embedded journalism) and there is a tremendous effort to control the pictures. Not so much to suppress any reporting, since it has become obvious that this will never work, but to control what is fed to the press. And unfortunately the press is not yet up to speed to get their informations from a wider number of sources.

Now with blogging, youtube, flickr etc. there seems to be a much wider range of possible information sources, even harder to suppress than in the past. But today we face the problem which of these sources to trust, there are just so many. There are attempts like newstrust, which tries to be a sort of slashdot moderation system on top of existing news. But I think we need much more of this. Like greasemonkey allows you to attach things to websites that the authors did not intend to be there, we need the option to attach other sources to any news and have a large body of people vote on which of these sources should be taken into account. I have no clue how to realize this, but this is a typical case: the government using FUD to strengthen their position. People can react and argue with the claims, but there should be a way for these comments to reach the public, not only via sites like slashdot, but by default. With the increase of media sources and media power we have to become better at using and evaluating media as a group, not only as single viewers and readers.

I just watched two movies: Control Room (2004) about the media coverage of the invasion of Iraq and Al Jazeera's role and The revolution will not be televised (2003) about the role of the private media in the coup in Venezuela in 2001. Neither of the two might be called very objective, but I see how difficult it would be to find an audience for more scientific analysis.

The common theme in both is how important the media has become. Now this is not really news, but during the last decade the media reaction has been part of e.g. military operation (embedded journalism) and there is a tremendous effort to control the pictures. Not so much to suppress any reporting, since it has become obvious that this will never work, but to control what is fed to the press. And unfortunately the press is not yet up to speed to get their informations from a wider number of sources.

Now with blogging, youtube, flickr etc. there seems to be a much wider range of possible information sources, even harder to suppress than in the past. But today we face the problem which of these sources to trust, there are just so many. There are attempts like newstrust, which tries to be a sort of slashdot moderation system on top of existing news. But I think we need much more of this. Like greasemonkey allows you to attach things to websites that the authors did not intend to be there, we need the option to attach other sources to any news and have a large body of people vote on which of these sources should be taken into account. I have no clue how to realize this, but this is a typical case: the government using FUD to strengthen their position. People can react and argue with the claims, but there should be a way for these comments to reach the public, not only via sites like slashdot, but by default. With the increase of media sources and media power we have to become better at using and evaluating media as a group, not only as single viewers and readers.

Anyway, it's still a Cube.

">gnl|ti|1741299340 name:1094373133426" contains "GATTACA" toward the end. Now I know where they got the name for the movie!

Watch out for that tree

Is this an indication of movie quality, or another notch in the belt for the Blu-ray format?

Is this an indication of movie quality, or another notch in the belt for the Blu-ray format?

For example, Serenity http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/ was released after Firefly ended. Stargate just ended, and Stargate: The Ark of Truth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942903/ is being made to conclude the final season's storyline with destroying the Ori, and Stargate: Continuum is also in production. Even 24 has a movie being made now http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813980/.

Given that when Battlestar was revived, it came back in the form of a 2hour miniseries, there is always the possibility that they could find earth in a movie to be released after the show ends. I mean, most likely the season will have a definitive end and they will find earth and ??? will happen, but there's always that possibility. I don't think it's too far-fetched considering I'm not sure even the show's producers know how the series will end at this point.

For example, Serenity http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/ was released after Firefly ended. Stargate just ended, and Stargate: The Ark of Truth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942903/ is being made to conclude the final season's storyline with destroying the Ori, and Stargate: Continuum is also in production. Even 24 has a movie being made now http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813980/.

Given that when Battlestar was revived, it came back in the form of a 2hour miniseries, there is always the possibility that they could find earth in a movie to be released after the show ends. I mean, most likely the season will have a definitive end and they will find earth and ??? will happen, but there's always that possibility. I don't think it's too far-fetched considering I'm not sure even the show's producers know how the series will end at this point.

For example, Serenity http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/ was released after Firefly ended. Stargate just ended, and Stargate: The Ark of Truth http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0942903/ is being made to conclude the final season's storyline with destroying the Ori, and Stargate: Continuum is also in production. Even 24 has a movie being made now http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813980/.

Given that when Battlestar was revived, it came back in the form of a 2hour miniseries, there is always the possibility that they could find earth in a movie to be released after the show ends. I mean, most likely the season will have a definitive end and they will find earth and ??? will happen, but there's always that possibility. I don't think it's too far-fetched considering I'm not sure even the show's producers know how the series will end at this point.

This is a parody of a movie quote. I can't believe no one has seen that scene from "This is Spinal Tap".

June 8, 2007

06 08 2007 -> 6+8+2+7 = 23

It's the number 23!

To see The Number 23 movie.

Died Atlantis space shuttle after died Columbia space shuttle.

our solution is at the end of the movie where Edgar says "I wouldn't answer that call.

Now think about portrayals of Natives, when is the last time you've seen a native actor in a movie or television show who isn't either some kind of medicine man, unsavory charcter from a reserve, or some other caricature?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098878/

Germany has actually sprouted some of the great minds in the security industry , one has to wonder how they let this slide by.

I cannot really agree with these tests that just compare "start up tasks" like opening a file or booting the OS. There often is a good reason not to focus too much on these events, because don't happen that often. Responsiveness during use is a better comparison, and this is much harder. Modern machines do a lot of things in the background, like running full blown TCP/IP stacks, something the Mac Plus could not have done. And while opening a file 0.2 seconds faster will not really improve my productivity by much, having instant access to Google and Wikipedia does.

But anyway: Here is a quote from Andy Hertzfeld about how Steve Jobs motivated them to make the Mac boot faster (taken from the documentary The triumph of the nerds by Robert X. Cringley.)

Steve was upset that the Mac took too long to boot to boot up when you first turned it on so he tried motivating Larry Kenyon by telling him well you know how many millions of people are going to buy this machine - it's going to be millions of people and let's imagine that you can make it boot five seconds faster well that's five seconds times a million every day that's fifty lifetimes, if you can shave five seconds off that you're saving fifty lives. And so it was a nice way of thinking about it, and we did get it to go faster.

Oh you saw that movie too?

Go rent this movie and STFU.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/

How many people died on 9/11? 3000? Whoopie-doo. Probably more people die each day from other kinds of assaults in the USA.
After watching Hotel Rwanda, go and rent this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424435/

Go rent this movie and STFU.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395169/

How many people died on 9/11? 3000? Whoopie-doo. Probably more people die each day from other kinds of assaults in the USA.
After watching Hotel Rwanda, go and rent this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424435/

They watched Three days of Condor and got great idea on how to get new great ideas ... head explodes.

Have you seen this boy?