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Quigley Down Under . Tom Selleck plays a sharpshooter with a custom single-shot Sharps rifle who can (sometimes) hit targets a mile away. At one point the bad guy (Alan Rickman) tries to judge Quigley's effective range by asking his men, how long after their buddy was shot out of his saddle did they hear the shot? It's so-so in a lot of ways—awful lighting continuity, especially in the climactic scenes; Quigley using his high-precision rifle as a chinning bar and a club—but an unusually accurate portrayal of gunfighting in a time when cartridges and black powder still rode side by side. And Alan Rickman as a villain is always fun to watch.

Isn't that the plot to Idiocracy?

I dunno. If I got Diane Lane, and she was wearing spandex all the time, too, I think I could get used to it.

I'd nominate Collateral. I was about twenty minutes into it when I thought, "That's the fist time I've ever seen an actor hold a pistol correctly." About twenty minutes later there's a wonderful demonstration of competent versus showy gun handling. Tom Cruise actually trained with a retired SAS officer for his role, and everything about his character, from the weapons themselves to where his finger is on the trigger, reveals someone very familiar with firearms.

Sure, the aliens do a bunch of magic, but hey, they are supposed to be more advanced than us. Look around where you are right now, and I bet you could find five things that would be 'magic' and 'impossible' to people even a century ago in 1906. (Start with the computer you're reading this on.)

Sadly, I have a hard time coming up with much more. Maybe The Manhattan Project isn't too far off. Several things in it are (ahem) highly implausible, and the specific design chosen wouldn't work, but nothing that's actually physically impossible happens.

Perhaps the merger would produce pure, concentrated evil.

I wasn't aware of this place. It looks like they have alot of stuff that I can't find on other torrent sites (I was looking for this for a long time!). The problem is that registration is closed. Do you, by any chance, have an invitation code? :)

...people fly in the air after catching a bullet...

This is nothing!!! Haven't you seen The Scorpion King? The guy sends 200-pound people flying back with arrows!!! Can you calculate the kinetic energy in those arrows? And the dullness of the arrow head? Man, I believe he could divide by zero and go unpunished...

Clearly, they'll be queuing up to get into Silicon Heaven.

Sneakers, while a good movie, was ridiculous when it came to decryption. Besides the ludicrous speed of the device, the way it decrypted on the screen is non-sensical. But, that's was just eye-candy in an otherwise good movie.

Not a movie

In Superman III, Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor) notices his "talent" with computers when he types "LIST" in the computer keyboard and a BASIC program listing is shown on the screen (the program was stupid AFAIR, a few lines of code numbered 10, 20... as usual).

Thats SCIENCE fiction.

1984 was made into a movie, so I guess they're right.

Cool! I have always wanted to be immersed in a virtual environment ala Therteen floor or having my own slave robot (to get money from my ATM machine ;) similar to bicentenial man, although I would prefer the femenine line =o).

In all seriousness, I believe the "present" has become as scifi movies. When I woke up in 9/11/2001 the TV woke me up (tv alarm) when it turned on on certain channel, when I started listenting the program and I was watching the scenes my first thought was "what movie is this?", I guessed it was a "Die Hard" movie, but then I saw the News program marks and the rest is history...

hejdig.

I would say that The Running Man makes quite a good foreseing of the television future. Everything that is in the film has been aired, on different stations though.
- wierd costumes, spandex, bling: any show with a host. think oscar, music competitions
- people making a fool of themselves: many shows there are
- people dying, deadly outcome: wasn't an execution aired in Texas or something

/OF

Der Bastard. German TV mini series. When the main character is show developing a C64 game, actual 6502 assembly code is readable on the computer screen (IRQ code, IIRC).

Samantha Mathis was in Pump Up the Volume. Winona Ryder was in Heathers . Sheesh, get your Christian Slater trivia straight! ;)

Samantha Mathis was in Pump Up the Volume. Winona Ryder was in Heathers . Sheesh, get your Christian Slater trivia straight! ;)

I agree with your assessment of War Games. If you havn't seen it, try to get a copy of Takedown for a, slightly, more modern hacker film.

The movie you remember is Pirates of Silicon Valley

Oh! Oh! You're gonna love this one:

In gawd-awful NBC show "Surface" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452718/, there was a scene when the heroine had to release the hero/nut-job from a prison cell locked with a retinal scanner. The buildings gonna blow, so she's in a hurry. Tries pressing everything, no dice.

There just happens to be CCTV displays in the same room! yay! She manages to find full-face security footage of a guard on one of these displays (lucky!), and zooms it (say 10,000X) so just the eye is showing. No, really.

Resourcefully, she then rips out the LCD display showing an image of a big eye and holds it up to the retinal scanner. The door pops open.

At this point my disbelief got up, left the room and shot itself.

How could they forget Armageddon? It's a movie premised on the idea that it's easier to teach oil drillers to be astronauts than teach astronauts how to drill a hole. It's got a shuttle docking on the outside ring of a rotating space station. It's got a single Russian cosmonaut refueling the shuttle through a single hose he wrestles around. It's got a nuclear bomb that must be planted exactly 800 feet below the surface of an asteroid, giving an excuse for dramatic dialog of the "Oh no! We're only at 790 feet!" sort. It's got inappropriate machine guns. It's the perfect example of a film about science and technology written and directed by Hollywood types who never took a word of advice from any pesky technical advisors.

However, so far as we can discern what the contents were based on the name, which is a jury question, it's still possible to win a suit without actually showing what the contents are. But I wouldn't like to have to do that, since it's not a strong position.

I have not seen the screen-shots mentioned, but if they include the file's hash, and the RIAA can produce their own copy of the file that has the same hash and is an actual copy of the work in question, that ought to be sufficient. Unless they wish to argue that the defendent's software was handing out bogus hash, which might result in a bad trip.

FWIW, I know a guy who regularly shares non-American, and presumably non-MPAA, movies via his preferred p2p apparatus. He recently told me that he decided to stop sharing Blood Rain for fear that the MAFIAA wasn't smart enough to distinguish it from BloodRayne.

However, so far as we can discern what the contents were based on the name, which is a jury question, it's still possible to win a suit without actually showing what the contents are. But I wouldn't like to have to do that, since it's not a strong position.

I have not seen the screen-shots mentioned, but if they include the file's hash, and the RIAA can produce their own copy of the file that has the same hash and is an actual copy of the work in question, that ought to be sufficient. Unless they wish to argue that the defendent's software was handing out bogus hash, which might result in a bad trip.

FWIW, I know a guy who regularly shares non-American, and presumably non-MPAA, movies via his preferred p2p apparatus. He recently told me that he decided to stop sharing Blood Rain for fear that the MAFIAA wasn't smart enough to distinguish it from BloodRayne.

The policy wasn't widely known, and certainly wasn't publicized, but it was there. You might want to reread your school's policy.

Is this like double secret probation ?

Care to trot out a citation to this "unpublicized" policy? I am genuinely curious to see this.

There are plenty of people in their 20s that go...and thank god that they do.

Not like it used to be, though. About half as many people go to exercise classes in the US as did in the 1980s.

You see, back in the 1980s, not only could fat chicks not get laid, they couldn't even get in the door at better nightclubs. And guys had to keep up with the aerobics girls when they went out dancing. Rent "Perfect".

On Feb. 23, Hunsaker sent an e-mail to Dunn. "FYI, I spoke to Mark a few minutes ago and he is fine with both the concept and the content."

Reality is getting a bit too creepy for me... Hudsucker Proxy

all evidence in the literature points towards anthropogenic causation
Actually no, not all the evidence. Some of the evidence, like increased solar activity, suggests non-anthropogenic causation. Unless you think Superman really did throw a bunch of nuclear warheads at the sun, in which case, yeah, all evidence.

I recall reading in an air and space smithsonian magazine article over 10 years ago about how the Russians had developed an air-to-air missile that could fire backwards at a pursuing aircraft. Is there any chance that the newer Russian fighters have this capability? Then again, where the heck do they get the money to buy these things, I can't imagine that they have very many...

The face looks like Cornelius from Planet of the Apes (1968). It's more like a chimp face than a human face. Maybe when the martians made us this homage, there were only Australopithecus afarensis on Earth...

But if we were jellyfish-like creatures, we probably wouldn't notice it, instead we would notice the round formations that would look like our heads. Like meteorite craters.

I assume that the sword combat isn't so intense taht you would have to be a Wii-mote master of Beatrix Kiddo proportions just to win the game. Therefore, I don't see why it would be difficult to wield the sword left-handed. That, and I think having a mirrored charecter model would be a lot more difficult than most people think. Animations would be easy, but what about hit-detection and the like?

All these firings! This craziness must stop!

He didn't seem to have any problems voice-acting in Robots.

simultaneiously betting that the bulk of users don't get it or care until its too late.

This is referred to in consumer protection law as "fraud".

You promise them one thing.. then they realize what they really have..

I'd compare it to charging someone for a bucket of fried chicken, but giving them a critter in that bucket instead.

Of course.. the government will never ever protect the consumer on this.. after all theyre all just thieves.. everyone's a thief but microsoft and the big 4 record cartel owners.

That's much better than the prototype I saw, where the robot arm disembowels the customer and spills their entrails all over the linoleum.

Dude, I saw that movie. It sucked.
The sound track rocked, though.

I'll grant you that he hasn't done much recently--mostly voice work. He was Bigweld in Robots. His last movie was in 1995--Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

I'll grant you that he hasn't done much recently--mostly voice work. He was Bigweld in Robots. His last movie was in 1995--Dracula: Dead and Loving It.

Mel already provides a voice for a cartoon: Jakers! I did a double take and ran to imdb to see if it's really true. It is. Since then I tolerate Jakers better than all other stuff that my 3 year old watches.

Mel also provides the voice of Wiley the Sheep on "Jakers! The adventures of Piggley Winks." If you had a child between 2 and 7 years of age, you'd know what I'm talking about.

Actually, the Blue Rajah used to say "May the forks be with us".

Also his most recent (as a producer).

A highly successful Broadway production "The Producers" and a recent movie based that musical.

The master code that would open the keyboxes and get you keys to anywhere in the casino was 654321. And people told each other all their passwords and such all the time.

And that is how it all happened.

And all the other UFOs were, of course, flocks of geese and meteorological balloons and whatnot.

"It was like Stargate hits Andy Griffith, if you can imagine that."

Oh man, this is terrible. Upon reading this I immediately remembered a TV show called Salvage 1 , where Andy Griffith played a garbageman (along the lines of Fred Sanford) who built his own spaceship to collect space trash for profit.

Gee, those are wasted hours I'll never get back...

Not only that, where will Clint land Firefox when it's over run by Russian-thinking snakes in the sequel?

Did you ever see the film Demolition Man? In that there is reference to the Schwarzenegger Presidential Library - did make me chuckle when he eventually went into politics :)

OK, so who volunteers to break the news to Buddy the elf that he won't be able to walk back home?

(I like to whisper too.)

Limpet beats Pond any day! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058230/