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I didn't see Daredevil have any problems with his monetary tokens. And what's good enough for a crime-fighting, toxic waste surviving superhero is good enough for me.

They did release a movie based on the game. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/ Looks pretty decent too!

Bingo http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097303/

It's called Aliens:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/

It came out a little earlier than I expected (like oh 20 years ago) but it even has some of the same characters!

Comparison fun:

Dropship Design - Pelican Design
Sarge - Apone
Elites - Xenomorphs
Flood - Facehuggers
Space Marines - Space Marines

Good times!

PS - yes I know that there is a Jonesy "Lost Cat" poster in one of the levels, but some of this stuff (Sarge especially) goes a little past homage ;)

Interesting question... IMDB currently has records on:

• 363,000 movies released theatrically. (Average of 2 hrs)
• 367,000 TV episodes. (Average of 30 minutes)
• 57,000 made for TV movies. (Average of 90 minutes)
• 51,000 direct to video movies. (Average of 2 hours)
• 5,300 mini seris. (Average of 3.5 hours)

Assuming storage capacity continues to double every 18 months ( big assumption!), and that we currently have 500G drives commercially available, we can expect to see this capacity in a single drive in less than 20 years.

grnbrg.

I see. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ And I thought I was being funny...

Cannibal Mercenary.

Look here and you'll find them.

"Whats wrong with being a socalist? We have great healthcare, educaton and transportation system here and even gret unemployment benifits!"

Oh brother, are you serious?

What is wrong with socialism, is that it allows no respect for the individual. It assumes that we are all the same, that we can all function and achieve at the same rate, and in an effort to equalize the playing field, it is the achievers who suffer in favour of the under-achievers.

You think you have great healthcare? You must be daft. What you have is common availability of AVERAGE healthcare. The best healthcare in the world, like just about any other endeavour is right here in the United States of America. Why? Because self-interest is attached to our achievement. We don't work to glorify the state, we work to sustain and better ourselves. We have a stake in how good or bad our lives can be, so we take risks that socialist countries never imagine.

"What good is a phone call when you cannot call"(*)

Sure you have all the tech but most people is not able to access all of this health care. In fact if the for profit research teams were left alone we would have millions of dollars in research of cosmetic and the solution to erection problems while real diseases that kill lots and lots of people would have much less money invested. Oh wait...

You think your education is great? I couldn't tell that from your spelling, but whatever. Most nations strive to send their best and brightest to America for a college-level education. Where we DO have socialism (public schools, welfare) you also find our least productive people. The average American puts in more work hours per week than the workers of any other nation, and our poor people live better than 90% of people in other nations.

Strange, in Brazil we have the exact opposite happening. We have a lot of payed universities popping up that are in fact factories of diplomas, people come in and teachers are discouraged to give bat rates so people don't leave. The worst part is that the student feels like that the institution has an obligation to give him good grades, he's paying them for that after all.

The real good universities are the free, that are supported by tax money. The only problem is that short sight from the society in general is allowing that corrupt politicians trash those universities by drying up their funds. One of the best universities in Rio de Janeiro, UERJ the state (in opposition to federal) funded university, has the best design course in Rio and probably one of the best from the country. This university barely survived a dry out from a really bad governess that is allied with evangelical churches.

In Socialist nations, they tax success and achievement until many pick up and head for the closest tax shelter. (Ask Bono)

What is wrong with Socialism, is that it negates human individuality and talent, punishes achievement, subsidizes failure, accepts the average as "good enough" because it is available to all, crushes initiative and creativity, and prevents people from reaching beyond their imagination.

And what exactly makes the market ruled capitalist better in those aspects, sure you can believe that you can create and become rich. But the truth is that in a market and profit economy it takes money, and usually a lot of money, to be successful in almost everything. The problem is that, in every government and economy form there is always some distribution of power, in our west civilization money represents power. The more unequal this distribution, the worst people are.

I have a suggestion for you, go see a documentary about soviet animators called "magia russika". In this documentary we see one of the animators speaking about how much more freedom of creating he had during the communist regime that he has now. The problem is basic, he then could create almost everything he wanted as long as

So we aren't considering using the earthquake brick?

Here's what your glorious Christian leader Ted Haggard had to say about Arrogance. Preacher, heal thyself.

Ted Haggard: But you see, you do understand, you do understand that this issue right here, of intellectual arrogance, is the reason why people like you have a difficult problem with people of faith. I don't communicate an air of superiority over the people because I know so much more, and if you only read the books I know, and if you only knew the scientists I knew, then you would be great like me. Well, sir, there could be many things that you know well. There are other things that you don't know well. As you age, you'll find yourself wrong on some things, right on some other things. But please, in the process of it, don't be arrogant.

I'd say it's pretty arrogant of you to proclaim that gays are sinners, and to condemn the "homosexual lifestyle". Especially since you pay to suck gay hooker cock an snort crystal meth yourself.

Arrogant Christians who think they know what's right for other people, and like to tell people how to run their lives and call them names and say they're going to hell, should Shut the Fuck Up.

-Don

I remember a show about another superhero named Ultraman played by Quinn from Sliders (or "the fat kid" from Stand By Me.) I remember it being a fun show, but I think that was because I was so young and his powers were so silly.

He floated.

He couldn't actually propel himself forward. He had to used some sort of spray cans for propulsion. Spray cans.

He must have typoed this time and linked to IMDB

Why didn't you just put "Being John Malkovich" and "Bubba Ho-tep" in your post instead of using unnamed links?

If you don't know about Bubba Ho-Tep then you are not in a thread on Slashdot reading about a Revenge of the Nerds Remake.

You just aren't.

How long before we will hear something like:

"John Spartan, you are fined one credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute."

blaring from a camera unit?

(from the movie "Demolition Man"

Sounds like they didn't want to make a winter movie. The REAL question though is if they are going for next August, how good is this movie really going to be? They have to change colleges and set up completely somewhere else and if they are waiting for after winter, that's only a few months of shooting

Odd about this production company. They are making two sequels to moderately decent movies (The hills have Eyes" and "28 Weeks Later" and their first movie "Turistas" is coming/out now (ref: here) Are they just rolling the dice to see what movies stick?

Hollywood never had many original ideas to begin with. They take alot of shit from Japanese animes, who flatout do sci-fi, horror and anything fantasy better than us.

Interesting - can you point out which Japanese movie this one is based on, or this?

Hollywood never had many original ideas to begin with. They take alot of shit from Japanese animes, who flatout do sci-fi, horror and anything fantasy better than us.

Interesting - can you point out which Japanese movie this one is based on, or this?

The point is that you give people power, and they will abuse it to the degree they are permitted

What is the TCM? Control. The Trusted Computing Module is a computer-generated cryptographic cage, built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this...

[holds up eyeballs]

between copyright and patent.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023027/

Yes, I am joking.

It seems that someone missed the joke.

I shudder to think how Jackson will butcher the story...

Anyone remember The Core? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/

Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix)

America Ferrera (Ugly Betty)

Jessica Alba (Dark Angel, Fantastic 4)

Carrie Fisher (Star Wars)

Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager)

I mean, come on C-Net, if you are gonna pick fillers, at least come close!

Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix)

America Ferrera (Ugly Betty)

Jessica Alba (Dark Angel, Fantastic 4)

Carrie Fisher (Star Wars)

Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager)

I mean, come on C-Net, if you are gonna pick fillers, at least come close!

Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix)

America Ferrera (Ugly Betty)

Jessica Alba (Dark Angel, Fantastic 4)

Carrie Fisher (Star Wars)

Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager)

I mean, come on C-Net, if you are gonna pick fillers, at least come close!

Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix)

America Ferrera (Ugly Betty)

Jessica Alba (Dark Angel, Fantastic 4)

Carrie Fisher (Star Wars)

Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager)

I mean, come on C-Net, if you are gonna pick fillers, at least come close!

Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix)

America Ferrera (Ugly Betty)

Jessica Alba (Dark Angel, Fantastic 4)

Carrie Fisher (Star Wars)

Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager)

I mean, come on C-Net, if you are gonna pick fillers, at least come close!

No, I believe you're thinking of this.

The world needs ditch diggers too...

The poster was not trying to be informative...this is a quote from Caddyshack:

Danny Noonan: I've always wanted to go to college.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.

This is the problem with US High Schools; they no longer teach the classics.

The world needs ditch diggers too...

The poster was not trying to be informative...this is a quote from Caddyshack:

Danny Noonan: I've always wanted to go to college.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.

This is the problem with US High Schools; they no longer teach the classics.

Did you have a proposed solution? Or were just cryin' like a little bitch with a skinned knee and shit?

So you say that non-believers have to read all the scripture to understand Christianity, but why won't Christians read any of the science books to understand Evolution?

When Richard Dawkins interviewed Ted Haggard about evolution (video, quotes), Haggard accused evolutionists of believing the eye formed "by accident".

Dawkins retorted that he never met any evolutionists who believed that. So Haggard replied: "Or maybe you haven't met the people I have." Then he chuckles, mounts his self-righteous high horse, shifts into his most arrogant, haughty, accusing tone of voice (see the video, it's hillarious!), and lectures Dawkins about intellectual arrogance, capping his diatribe with "don't be arrogant".

Let's see how your own argument applies to Ted Haggard: By using the age old argument of accidental eye formation you are just demonstrating one thing, you really don't know evolution that well and will be dismissed as just another disgruntled person biased against science, therefore it is unlikely that you will be listened to.

Now back to your argument: it's arrogant. You made the ridiculous claim that "Homosexuality is not a sin, just the offenders are." That's absolutely incorrect, and it's morally wrong to believe it, and reprehensible to spread that belief.

If Paul can "dismiss most all of mosaic law with a few exceptions", then why can't you dismiss all the rest of your medieval hatreds and supersititions about gays and witches? Science has proven them wrong: it's time to throw them out.

The Bible didn't say anything about computers and cell phones, yet you take advantage of them every day. So if you're going to reject science, then at least be consistent about it like the Amish.

-Don

Memorable Quotes from Root of All Evil? (2006) (TV)

Ted Haggard: We fully embrace the scientific method, as American Evangelicals. And we think, as time goes along, as we discover more and more facts, that we'll learn more and more about how God created the heavens and the earth.
Richard Dawkins: The scientific method clearly demonstrates that the world is four and a half billion years old. I mean, do you accept that?
Ted Haggard: Yeah, you know what you're doing, is you are, you are accepting some of the views that are accepted in some portions of the scientific community as fact, where in, in fact, your grandchildren might listen to the tape of you saying that and laugh at you?
Richard Dawkins: [dead serious] Do you want to bet?

Ted Haggard: Sometimes it's hard for a human being to study the ear, or study the eye, and think that happened by accident.
Richard Dawkins: I beg your pardon, did you say by accident?
Ted Haggard: Yeah.
Richard Dawkins: What do you mean, by accident?
Ted Haggard: That the eye just formed itself somehow.
Richard Dawkins: Who says it did?
Ted Haggard: Well, some evolutionists say it did.
Richard Dawkins: Not a single one that I've ever met.
Ted Haggard: Really.
Richard Dawkins: Really. You obviously know nothing about the subject of evolution.
Ted Haggard: Or maybe you haven't met the people I have.
[chuckles]
Ted Haggard: But you see, you do understand, you do understand that this issue right here, of intellectual arrogance, is the reason why people like you have a difficult problem with people of faith. I don't communicate an air of superiority over the people because I know so much more, and if you only read the books I know, and if you only knew the scientists I knew, then you would be great like me. Well, sir, there could be many things that you know well. There are other things that you don't know well. As you age, you'll find yourself wrong on some things, right on some other things. But please, in the process of it, don

I think you fail to get it. A low performance engine cannot lift ANYTHING into space. No matter how cheap a reliable.

Tell that to the Duchy of Grand Fenwick :)

With Jackson not directing the Hobbit I think we should should suggest a director that has done interviews here: Ben Edlund!

He created The Tick and has worked on Angel, Firefly and Supernatural - He'd do a great job, he's sort of a proto-jackson too.

Maybe Slashdot could have a poll about who we'd like to direct the Hobbit?

how do you respond when you try to say something serious and the cool kids laugh at you?

Trollin' Trollin' Trollin'
Keep them doggies Trollin'
Man your ass is spewin'
Rawhide!

Anon Coward says
And no this isnt trolling. I am not doing this for the sole purpose of pissing people off. I am saying this because its my opinion. Tolkien is boring. He was a linguist not an author. It was an experiment. Get over it.

Congrats. You are a successful troll and I have taken the bait. You have pissed me off.
Tolkien was also a reader and researcher of epic poems and tales. The Lord of the Rings was meant to have a little of that in it. Just because you are a wanking Phillistine doesn't mean the rest of us don't have any taste or respect for the classics.

I plan on boycotting any Hobbit film without Wingnut films being involved. Lest we go back to well meaning, but skanky adaptations http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/.

Core, really?!

The era of restoration comes. However, when people blow the dust off those old DVDs and players, they discover that the DVDs have decayed to the point of unreadability. Massive quantities of archived data and knowledge are irretrievably lost.

There goes my copy of Just Like Heaven! Oh the humanity!

You mean like this?

It's true, there's nothing original anymore.

Yeah, but once you eat the apple there's no going back!

If you ever get the oppertunity, take a look at La Vallee. It's a movie about a group of hippies trying to return to Africa to do exactly what you describe.

Apart from that, the only other example that I can think of was the BBC radio adaptation which is pretty much the most faithful version of all. The only thing that I can think to say against it is that the superb cast made it sound like it was all taking place on the playing fields of Eton ("I say old boy is that a Balrog behind you?). But that is a very minor complaint.

I was actually going to post my thoughts, but since this article is slashdotted, and I still have the window open, i'll post my thoughts + the article text below them, for anyone who missed the article due to /.ing

WOW. Let me say, respect to Peter Jackson for telling it as he sees it. ...Obviously there are two sides to every story, but he really digs into some of the gritty details (naming names, etc), and the story he tells sounds like typical hollywood modus operandi to me. He is rather scant on details regarding the "accounting" irregularities, but nontheless he still vents pretty heavily in other regards.

I am a filmmaker myself, and have to deal with a variety of industry business annoyances on a daily basis, and I can sympathize with his frustration. This is an industry predicated upon many absurd practices. My assumption is that Peter Jackson must be pretty ticked off to be willing to vent in public like this.

Unfortunately for him, last we heard, he's hit a snag with HALO as well. Although general slashdot community concensus seemed to be "oh gawd, not another video game movie," so perhaps that snag is a bit less depressing than The Hobbit troubles.



11-19-06 Latest News
Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh Talk THE HOBBIT
Xoanon @ 10:32 pm EST

Moments ago we received this email from Peter Jackson and his crew down in New Zealand, take a look...

Dear One Ringers,

As you know, there's been a lot of speculation about The Hobbit. We are often asked about when or if this film will ever be made. We have always responded that we would be very interested in making the film - if it were offered to us to make.

You may also be aware that Wingnut Films has bought a lawsuit against New Line, which resulted from an audit we undertook on part of the income of The Fellowship of the Ring. Our attitude with the lawsuit has always been that since it's largely based on differences of opinion about certain accounting practices, we would like an independent body - whether it be a judge, a jury, or a mediator, to look at the issues and make an unbiased ruling. We are happy to accept whatever that ruling is. In our minds, it's not much more complex than that and that's exactly why film contracts include right-to-audit clauses.

However, we have always said that we do not want to discuss The Hobbit with New Line until the lawsuit over New Line's accounting practices is resolved. This is simple common sense - you cannot be in a relationship with a film studio, making a complex, expensive movie and dealing with all the pressures and responsibilities that come with the job, while an unresolved lawsuit exists.

We have also said that we do not want to tie settlement of the lawsuit to making a film of The Hobbit. In other words, we would have to agree to make The Hobbit as a condition of New Line settling our lawsuit. In our minds this is not the right reason to make a film and if a film of The Hobbit went ahead on this basis, it would be doomed. Deciding to make a movie should come from the heart - it's not a matter of business convenience. When you agree to make a film, you're taking on a massive commitment and you need to be driven by an absolute passion to want to get the story on screen. It's that passion, and passion alone, that gives the movie its imagination and heart. To us it is not a cold-blooded business decision.

A couple of months ago there was a flurry of Hobbit news in the media. MGM, who own a portion of the film rights in The Hobbit, publicly stated they wanted to make the film with us. It was a little weird at the time because nobody from New Line had ever spoken to us about making a film of The Hobbit and the media had some fun with that. Within a week or two of those stories, our Manager Ken Kamins got a call from the co-president of New Line Cinema, Michael Lynne, who in essence told Ken that the way to se

"Stop Global Warming With Song?" I did. and I'm not dyslexic. I guess the von Trapp really can save the world.

> What they don't realise is that they're actually English.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1414369/

Well, I'm not sure being a Brummy counts. He's also the same guy who crashed in that 'fast'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2006/09/21/uhammond.xml

(well, it used to be fast)

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/bbc-puts-brakes-o n-top-gear-after-crash/2006/09/26/1159036516486.ht ml

car a month or two back...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/richard_hammond.shtml

I wonder what happened exactly. Some mechanical failure, or plain driver error?

Yeah. Great idea. Blot out the sun to stop global warming... and crop production. How retarded do global warming fanatics get? What is it about the global warming religion that makes people so freaking crazy? Here's an idea... rather than pollute, why not remove teh evil CO2s from teh atmoresfear! Well fark, it's already patented. That does it! We're DOOOOOOMED! Call me The Day After Tomorrow when ginormous global warming... um, ...freezes(?) New York city.

I think he took this idea from Highlander II: The Quickening, but in that movie it was a pollution-like shield to protect the earth after the depletion of the ozone layer.

as long as you don't jam the radar.

I was thinking of the beginning of another movie, when the boy plugs a device into an ATM to scan for a card number and/or PIN so he can finagle some cash out of it.

Life imitates art :)