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Whose grave are you robbing when you make movies about King Kong and Godzilla?

Presumably that of these guys.

The original poster is lamenting the fact that nearly all the movies these days are remakes. It's getting so bad that we have remakes of remakes of remakes. And they don't even wait 10 years between remakes anymore. After remaking all the "greatest hits" in a 30 year period, it's time to remake them again. :P It's pretty bad when you consider the movies being shown today are the same movies that were being shown 30 years ago.

As for Pixar, et al they just make the same movie every year, which is a whole order of magnitude worse than the grave-robbery referred to in the previous post. This is more like what is happening in the video game industry. Which doesn't even hide it anymore in the case of sports games named for the year in which they are released.

Or just watch the Spider-Man (2002)
In one of the scenes, when Parker is trying slinging between buildings for the first time, he does indeed crash into a wall. After that, he always avoids crashing by shooting his web at a building on the other side of the street, or even using two webs to begin with.

It's more interesting to think about what happens to the webs after he's done with them. It seems he just leaves them around the city, clinging on buildings or wherever he used them. And this is a large amount of silk; it's not like it just decays on its own - someone must collect it and get rid of it.. or recycle it for some use. The city's sanitation workers would protest and more than likely webbing would be prohibited inside the city (or Spider-Man would be banned).
On the other hand, if I were Spider-Man, I might've tried to strike a deal with some [textile?] company, letting them use the silk under the condition that they would clean it all up. Talk about authentic Spider-Man-wear!

"The Hobbit" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077687/ was by Rankin-Bass, done as an animated movie geared towards children (as the book was) and compressed to fit in a two hour TV slot with built-in ad breaks.

"The Lord of the Rings" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/ was done by Thorn EMI, was a cell over live action animation and was geared as a full length movie. This movie basically covered the first three "books," that being all of "Fellowship of the Ring," and the first half of "The Two Towers."

"The Return of the King," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079802/ was another Rankin-Bass made for TV movie. It almost picked up where the Thorn-EMI LotR left off starting with Samwise trying to rescue Frodo from Cirith Ungol.

It looks like we're going to have something very similar with a Hobbit movie made by a different production company than the LotR movies.

Personally, as long as they get Glen Yarbrough to sing (well, he's 76) "The Greatest Adventure" and "The Road Goes Ever, Ever on," I'd be happy.

Any bets that they replace a couple of the 13 dwarves with women? :-)

"The Hobbit" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077687/ was by Rankin-Bass, done as an animated movie geared towards children (as the book was) and compressed to fit in a two hour TV slot with built-in ad breaks.

"The Lord of the Rings" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/ was done by Thorn EMI, was a cell over live action animation and was geared as a full length movie. This movie basically covered the first three "books," that being all of "Fellowship of the Ring," and the first half of "The Two Towers."

"The Return of the King," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079802/ was another Rankin-Bass made for TV movie. It almost picked up where the Thorn-EMI LotR left off starting with Samwise trying to rescue Frodo from Cirith Ungol.

It looks like we're going to have something very similar with a Hobbit movie made by a different production company than the LotR movies.

Personally, as long as they get Glen Yarbrough to sing (well, he's 76) "The Greatest Adventure" and "The Road Goes Ever, Ever on," I'd be happy.

Any bets that they replace a couple of the 13 dwarves with women? :-)

"The Hobbit" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077687/ was by Rankin-Bass, done as an animated movie geared towards children (as the book was) and compressed to fit in a two hour TV slot with built-in ad breaks.

"The Lord of the Rings" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/ was done by Thorn EMI, was a cell over live action animation and was geared as a full length movie. This movie basically covered the first three "books," that being all of "Fellowship of the Ring," and the first half of "The Two Towers."

"The Return of the King," http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079802/ was another Rankin-Bass made for TV movie. It almost picked up where the Thorn-EMI LotR left off starting with Samwise trying to rescue Frodo from Cirith Ungol.

It looks like we're going to have something very similar with a Hobbit movie made by a different production company than the LotR movies.

Personally, as long as they get Glen Yarbrough to sing (well, he's 76) "The Greatest Adventure" and "The Road Goes Ever, Ever on," I'd be happy.

Any bets that they replace a couple of the 13 dwarves with women? :-)

Actually there's been a lot of buzz going around about Peter Jackson's involvement in a remake of Paul Brickhill's The Dambusters. He's been alternately lined up to produce or direct, depending on which rag sheet you read.

Granted, it's another one of Jackson's vanity projects ("Before you try to tell me why I can't remake 'King Kong', let me remind you of how many B-B-B-B-B-Billion dollars my flicks just grossed worldwide."), but me and the other 500 warbird nerds left in the world are looking forward to it, so long as they don't do it with "Matrix:reloaded"-esqe crap CGI. That may put a kink in the shooting schedule for "The Hobbit"

>Except for one, incomplete, badly rotoscoped animated attempt, I am not
>aware of LoTR having been brough to the screen by anyone before Jackson.

You are referring, of course, to Ralph Bakshi's movie which basically covered "Fellowship," but it was kinda-sorta completed by a Rankin-Bass animated TV program. While watching the former, I wanted to like it but failed; the latter, I wept from the pain of clenching my teeth too hard.

>Except for one, incomplete, badly rotoscoped animated attempt, I am not
>aware of LoTR having been brough to the screen by anyone before Jackson.

You are referring, of course, to Ralph Bakshi's movie which basically covered "Fellowship," but it was kinda-sorta completed by a Rankin-Bass animated TV program. While watching the former, I wanted to like it but failed; the latter, I wept from the pain of clenching my teeth too hard.

I was thinking that - the same technique that was used in X-Men 3 to de-age Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart. I'm not sure how practical that would be for an entire film, but I think it was planned to be used to do a Magneto film with McKellan, so I would assume it's do-able.

I thought Peter Jackson was quoted as saying he'd love to do it! (right after king kong?) And if they're saying the studio would want him to direct it. Umm, the only thing left I can see is financial terms.

Oh, that's easy. They'll just use his clone. You know, a leftover from The Sixth Day"?

I can see it now:

"T4: The Rise of the Governators"

So you would prefer the only filming of the Lord of the Rings to be Ralph Bakshi's masterpiece of lameness?http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077869/

Like Jackson or not, like his version or not, you have to admire him for being able to talk a studio into putting up the money to film it.

Studios that are trying to sell me a 4:3 version of their movies ("The Forbin Project" comes to mind) is the same as if a music studio would try to sell mono versions of their songs.

Some of the films for older boys would be hard to classify as art, particularly some of Roger Ebert's work. He was co-writer with Russ Meyers of the infamous "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" (1970).

From a user review on IMDB: "A 60s all-girl rock band decides to get in the van and head to Los Angeles to try to make it big. And they find it is super easy, and they make connections fast, but fame and fortune comes at an expense.... Yes, this is the movie that is infamous for being written by Roger Ebert. Yes, this is a bad movie with appalling editing. Yes, this is tasteless schlock. But, it is tasteless schlock at its best. Even though the lead cast is comprised of (very lovely) Playboy pin-ups and models that look stoned half the time, they do a great job at portraying immediately corrupted innocents. I actually really enjoy the 60s soul garage music ..."

The quotes are hilarious:
Ronnie (Z-Man) Barzell: This is my happening and it freaks me out!
*
Ronnie (Z-Man) Barzell: You will drink the black sperm of my vengence.
*
Petronella Danforth: C'mon, Casey. The principal's supposed to hit me with a coupla caps of acid.
*

Susan Lake: I guess liquor's considered pretty square.
Petronella Danforth: Same as grass. Depends on how you use it.
*
[Kelly and Z-Man have walked into a bathroom to find a couple having sex in Z-Man's bathroom]
Ronnie (Z-Man) Barzell: Glad to see my audience in such happy dalliance. Pray, let them joust in peace!
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Porter Hall: She was living in a single room with three other individuals. One of them was a male, and the other two, well the other two were females. God only knows what they were up to in there... and furthermore, Susan, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that all four of them habitually smoked marijuana cigarettes... reefers.

F***ing A, Ripley! (Hudson)

No, it is the first step in project Soylent Green.

They used a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) to image chlorophyll-a and then injected it with a single electron to manipulate the molecule into four positions.

Yeah right, after all the anti Voyager campains. Could you imagine? The "ugly unattractive
Nicole Janeway." Voyager had enough problems as it was.

Lucas isn't responsible for the "grubby future" concept. That was introduced in 1972, in Doug Trumbell's Silent Running. Although it wasn't a hugely popular movie, it introduced many of the background concepts seen in later SF films. It's worth seeing today; it looks less dated than Star Trek movies made after it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814142/

How William Shatner (And Star Trek) Changed the World

Goes into all the tech that has come from the Star Trek series, and the people that created todays tech.

the test is from Phillip K Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep?

In this future distopia People have created near human artificial people, or replicants, to do dangerous and menial work. The replicants are essentially slave labour, and are even programmed to die early, because after a while most replicants start to question why they have to be slaves, after all they have free will and self awareness same as people.
However the rogue replicants, having escaped slavery and trying to pass themselves off as human, don't have exactly the same emotional responses as people, they have learn to fake the correct responses but, under careful examination tell tell physiological responses give them away. (think polygraph machine)

the questions are often strange and confrontational, designed to highlight the differences between human and replican though processes

the hook to the story (which is main the focus of the film blade runner) is a new batch of replicants who 1. aren't aware they are replicants, and two stand up to a much higher degree of questioning, before they are revealed.

the philosophical question dick posses to us is; is there a difference between BEING human, and merely believing you are a human?

????: the message destructs itself

That would be the Impossible Mission Force.

c'mon dude, it happens.

dunno about movies, but this ground breaking documentary was bad enough!

Yes, movie!

Obviously no 40 Year Old Virgin fans in the house.

Have you ever watched the two Simpsons episodes starring Stephen Hawking (They Saved Lisa's Brain and Don't Fear the Roofer)? If you didn't, then watch and you'll see that even him has no problem in joking about his own condition.

Have you ever watched the two Simpsons episodes starring Stephen Hawking (They Saved Lisa's Brain and Don't Fear the Roofer)? If you didn't, then watch and you'll see that even him has no problem in joking about his own condition.

I wish they could at least open source the ultimate hacking file browser, as made famous in Jurassic Park.

The proper term is 'Rockfording.'

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071042/

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DiKKy Heartiez - Berlin, Norway

GNAA spokesperson lysol told the world press the real story of the ASSASINATION of TV hero Steve Irwin today at a press conference in Teheran, Iran. "The stingray that sodomized and anally penetrated the world known australian crocodile-fucker, releasing its vast amounts of deadly stingray semen, was in fact not only a nigger, as can be seen quite clearly on the photographs, but a GAY NIGGER. The Gay Nigger DiKKy Heartiez of Norway had changed his looks to a stingray, using the patented Gay Nigger technology of Body Transformation."

The operation took place because Steve Irwin was not the TV hero he was portrayed to be. lysol explained that "Steve irwin was an EVIL man, plotting in secret with the jews to take over the world and eliminate all gay niggers. It was therefore Imparative that we carried out this operation, if not the world would be dominated by Evil Jewish Females, also known as "jax".

lysol went on in great detail about the planning and execution of this marvelous victory for Gay Niggers everywhere. "It took us about 17 months of hard planning, about $20 USD and a lot of Holy Gay Nigger Seed (HGNS)." President Timecop commented in the same press conference. DiKKy Heartiez was unavailable for comment, but available for display, swimming in a aquarium filled with HGNS.

About Steve Irwin:

World known "TV hero" and crocodile sodmizer, who achieved cult status on the internet for his illegal, but highly erotic videos portraying human-crocodile intercourse. He also plotted with jews to achieve world domination and elimination of Gay Niggers worldwide. Was killed by DiKKy Heartez of the GNAA.

About Gay Nigger Technology of Body Transformation:

The Gay Nigger Technology of Body Transformation is patented in the U.S, Canada, Europe and Japan. It is the ultimate Black Ops technology, and was invented in 1926 on the planet Anal Fuckfest of the Semen galaxy, by great Gay Nigger scientist Anus Manus. It allows a subject to change his bodily image to anything he pleases.

About Holy Gay Nigger Seed (HGNS):

The Holy Gay Nigger Seed (HGNS) is the pure semen collected from a 2 year old gay nigger baby using a special technique called "masturbation". It is a Gay Nigger rituale performed on all Gay Nigger born children by their fathers. The HGNS is then saved for generations to come and is the most valuable commodity in the Federation of Gay Planets.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
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Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

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Do we need to read his files to figure out what exactly was going on in his brain and did he get the inspiration from watching old movies. I would like a psychiatric opinion please.

The Collector (1965)

"Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" Átame! (1990)

Boxing Helena (1993)

Do we need to read his files to figure out what exactly was going on in his brain and did he get the inspiration from watching old movies. I would like a psychiatric opinion please.

The Collector (1965)

"Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" Átame! (1990)

Boxing Helena (1993)

Do we need to read his files to figure out what exactly was going on in his brain and did he get the inspiration from watching old movies. I would like a psychiatric opinion please.

The Collector (1965)

"Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!" Átame! (1990)

Boxing Helena (1993)

You will bow to the great film god Ray Harryhausen when you mention B movies about giant insects.
The man pretty much single handedly developed the special effects industry.

FireFly Episode List

Season 1
1. 1- 1 1AGE01 20 Sep 02 The Train Job
2. 1- 2 1AGE02 27 Sep 02 Bushwhacked
3. 1- 3 1AGE05 4 Oct 02 Our Mrs. Reynolds
4. 1- 4 1AGE06 18 Oct 02 Jaynestown
5. 1- 5 1AGE07 25 Oct 02 Out of Gas
6. 1- 6 1AGE03 1 Nov 02 Shindig
7. 1- 7 1AGE04 8 Nov 02 Safe
8. 1- 8 1AGE08 15 Nov 02 Ariel
9. 1- 9 1AGE09 6 Dec 02 War Stories
10. 1-10 1AGE11 13 Dec 02 Objects in Space
11. 1-11 1AGE79 20 Dec 02 Serenity (1)
12. 1-12 1AGE79 20 Dec 02 Serenity (2)
13. 1-13 1AGE10 UNAIRED Heart of Gold
14. 1-14 1AGE12 UNAIRED Trash
15. 1-15 1AGE13 UNAIRED The Message

Feature Movie

F- 1 30 Sep 05 Serenity

IMDB Episode Guide

Season 1, Episode 1: The Train Job - 20 September 2002
Mal and his crew pull a train robbery.

Season 1, Episode 2: Bushwhacked - 27 September 2002
The crew of Serenity stumble upon the ruins of a transport ship and decide to search the vessel for any salvageable goods, only to discover that the ship is not entirely deserted.

Season 1, Episode 3: Our Mrs. Reynolds - 4 October 2002
A woman claiming to be Mal's wife appears aboard Serenity.

Season 1, Episode 4: Jaynestown - 18 October 2002
The crew pulls a heist in a town where Jayne once robbed the local magistrate, making him a local folk hero, and a target for the local police.

Season 1, Episode 5: Out of Gas - 25 October 2002
When Serenity's life support system fails, Mal orders the crew off the ship - but he stays behind.

Season 1, Episode 6: Shindig - 1 November 2002
After scuffling with one of Inara's clients, Mal is challenged to a duel.

Season 1, Episode 7: Safe - 8 November 2002
While visiting an outlying planet, Simon and River are kidnapped by local villagers in need of a doctor. Meanwhile, the rest of the crew are forced to seek medical help from an unlikely source when one of their own is shot.

Season 1, Episode 8: Ariel - 15 November 2002
When the crew of Serenity arrives on the core world 'Ariel', Simon realises it is the perfect opportunity to sneak River in to an Aliiance medical facility and find out what they did to her. In return for the crew's help in getting them in to the facility, Simon helps them organise an operation to steal valuable medical supplies.

Season 1, Episode 9: War Stories - 6 December 2002
Wash feels threatened by the bond between Mal and Zoe. In order to see for himself how the two work together Wash demands that he goes on a mission with Mal to sell the medical supplies instead of Zoe. Unfortunately, Niska has found out where Serenity is and captures Mal and Wash and tortures them as revenge for their failure in the train robbery mission they took from him.

Season 1, Episode 10: Objects in Space - 13 December 2002
The crew of Serenity consider ways to deal with River as her illness makes her a danger to them. That night, a bounty hunter named Jubal Early, who has been tracking Serenity since it left Ariel, invades the ship in order to try and take River and Simon. Early gets the crew in lock-down and it seems that River is the only one who can stop him.

Season 1, Episode 11: Serenity - 20 December 2002
In the first half of the original pilot episode, the crew of Serenity takes on several passengers and make their way to another planet to try and sell goods they salvaged from a wrecked ship. Their efforts are impeded, though, when Wash and Mal realize that there is an undercover alliance fed on board. In the second half of the original pilot, Simon struggles to save Kaylee, and in turn River and himself while Mal, Zoe, and Jayne attempt to unload the cargo from the salvage to a trigger-happy mayor of a border moon.

Season 1, Episode 12: Heart of Gold - 4 August 2003
Serenity responds to a distress call from Nandi, an old friend of Inara's, who is running

This is the best idea since the Jump To Conclusions Mat.

Because you're on their private property, and by being there, you agree to the terms and acknowledge the signs they post (you know, "Surveilence Technology In Use," etc).

Ok perhaps I didn't explain my position well enough. I'm not arguing the right for a store to operate cameras. Their property - their rules. I don't have a problem with stores that have cameras - I'm not camera shy at all. But why can't I have my own camera in their store? Sometimes you'll see a "no phtographs allowed" sign, sometimes not. But regardless of any signage, in almost all cases, security doesn't like you to have your own camera. Why?

And what about public government buildings and airports? Why is it ok for my eyes to see things but not a camera?

Hearing impaired folks get to use in-ear hearing aids without questions. Why can't I use some image processing software and a camera to help me see better and for my own personal protection? What if I want a visual record of all the people I deal with because I have a brain tumour that affects my memory. Ever see the movie Memento? If we don't allow cameras in public spaces then we are potentially discriminating against folks that could really use technology to ease their suffering.

Think these scenarios are too far-fetched? Think again...

Every time there's an article about Bigelow Aerospace here, there's a dozen or so commenters who are convinced that because the modules are self-expanding, they must therefore be delicate and vulnerable to space debris.

They're probably confusing them with these guys.

I can't help but think of the scene in Real Genius where as the semester goes on the students in the main character's classes are slowly replaced by tape recorders, until the whole class is a bunch of recorders recording a lecture from a giant tape player in the place of the professor.

Yes, but this isn't an example of a life threatening bug. unless of course, you think the aliens are going to pwn the only copy of the virus-that-will-wipe-them-all-out(tm), and for some stupid reason, it simply must be delivered on a mac.

if its quack echoes then it *is* a duck, otherwise it's time to make like a tree and go.

...it's just that you need special glasses to see what's going on.

Sir David Attenborough was my childhood hero for about a decade. I grew up on a steady diet of the Living Planet, Life in the Freezer, The Life of Birds, The Life of Mammals, his various Nat. Geo. works etc. I must have watched every one of his works twice.

If you want a good balance between information and entertainment, one of my all-time favorites is Animals are Beautiful People.

Other notables who I really enjoyed watching docs from were Ron and Valerie Taylor. They did a great series on life on the Great Barrier Reef.

Actually, it's a line from The Princess Bride. Sorry, I thought EVERYBODY had seen that movie, it's a classic.

Actually, it's a line from The Princess Bride. Sorry, I thought EVERYBODY had seen that movie, it's a classic.

WHOOSH as the joke goes right over your head.
GPP was referring to The Princess Bride.

The best place to go for this sort of thing is Bollywood....I saw one film where Amitabh Bachan (one of Bollywood's biggest stars) was somehow playing a guitar with a big thick white glove on his left hand. Not that it mattered much because he didn't move his hand anyway, he was just strumming.

On the other hand, kudos to Val Kilmer in Top Secret...he sang all of "his" songs, and I noticed that he was actually playing the guitar in at least one scene (and a barre chord no less).

They're going to do pre-emptive crime fighting a la Minority Report...