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It looks like the opening scene from The Sound of Music.

The guys from Heavy Metal were also drawing heavily on the 1927 Fritz Lang film "Metropolis" for visuals...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/

I can see how the theatrical release made it ambiguous since it cut some of the obvious clues, but anyone who doesn't know Deckard is a replicant by the end of the director's cut is a moron.

Of course. He had a dream about a unicorn. That means he's either a robot, or Dave the lighting guy from Orgasmo. Yeah, there's a test and he didn't take it. He also didn't take any pregnancy tests, aids tests, purity tests, driver's license exams. Maybe he's a slutty, pregnant, bad driving AIDs-bot. You're a moron if you didn't know that.

Of course there is also the possibility that this was intentionally left ambiguous, or merely hinted at, as a way of enforcing the idea that we are all biological machines, and that, if we have souls, we cannot feel them, and therefore have no way of knowing if we are "natural" or "fabricated" (and maybe that the difference is irrelevant).

Isn't that just like in Tron?

Jay: Why is Hasselhoff such a big star? People have taste, they should know better.
Kay: A person has taste. People are dumb, anxiety-ridden, cliquey herd animals and you know it.

In fact if you are a good engineer no need to be rich. Even Russian nerds apparently have had that for 25 years now

For the American (and other) audience this is a rather lame attempt by the Russians to make a "Towering Inferno" like disaster movie. It has a hilarious sequence with a similar automation system build by the flight engineer. In fact it is considerably more advanced then the MIT student project.

Namely, it does not have a red button. It has a pressure sensor in the most appropriate place instead. Under the bed. It activates itself at the appropriate time to supply appropriate atmosphere for the "logical continuation of the party".

Actually, it is a must see for the aforementioned students. The movie has an even more hilarious sequence which depicts exactly what happens when a system like this ends up on the receiving end taking the anger of a seriously pissed off young lady.

Bruce

This clip screams "Real Genius."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

So when were Mitch and Chris planning on sneaking Kent's car into his dorm room? Or freezing the floors into ice?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

A Passage to India was shot in 70mm. IMDB says so

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0087892/technical

And I believe it, as the economics of shooting in 70mm are pretty dismal. Additionally, A Passage to India is shot in flat (1.66:1), and a 1.66:1 70mm movie would make no sense at all, 70mm movies are all about 2.35:1 (usually2.20:1).

Note that most "70mm" films where actually shot in 65mm, including those by David Lean, whom you seem to be referring to.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0066319/technical

I really wish 70mm (65mm) would come back. But I expect it never will. It just costs too much. I agree with you (at least what I think you said) that digital will be the next format that delivers what 70mm did.

Note that there are 60fps IMAX movies already, a few of them. The vast amount of film limits the length of the features though, so it doesn't happen much. What did you mean by "converting the IMAX catalog" to 60fps? There's no way to convert 24fps to 60fps (at least that improves anything). Once something is shot in 24fps, it's stuck in 24fps forever.

A Passage to India was shot in 70mm. IMDB says so

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0087892/technical

And I believe it, as the economics of shooting in 70mm are pretty dismal. Additionally, A Passage to India is shot in flat (1.66:1), and a 1.66:1 70mm movie would make no sense at all, 70mm movies are all about 2.35:1 (usually2.20:1).

Note that most "70mm" films where actually shot in 65mm, including those by David Lean, whom you seem to be referring to.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0066319/technical

I really wish 70mm (65mm) would come back. But I expect it never will. It just costs too much. I agree with you (at least what I think you said) that digital will be the next format that delivers what 70mm did.

Note that there are 60fps IMAX movies already, a few of them. The vast amount of film limits the length of the features though, so it doesn't happen much. What did you mean by "converting the IMAX catalog" to 60fps? There's no way to convert 24fps to 60fps (at least that improves anything). Once something is shot in 24fps, it's stuck in 24fps forever.

Specially tuned versus automatic?: MATLAB

You might be able to hand-pick three people out of the entire world who, collectively, could do everything but act in a marketable movie. Maybe.

For a more realistic view look at the credits of Clerks, which has been described as "barely a movie".

Oh, and here are some of the people who worked behind the camera on Blair Witch. (From IMDB)

Neal Fredericks - Cinematography
Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez - Writing, Directing, Editing
Ben Rock - Production Design
Ricardo Moreno - Art Direction
Laura Stuart - Production Management
Patricia DeCou - art technician
Brigan Docking - scenic artist
Andrew White - scenic artist
Harry Cohen - final sound mixer
Gerry Lentz - final sound mixer
Dana Meeks - sound mixer
Jack Sherdel - sound
Rich Weingart - final sound mixer
Eddie Bydalek - sound recordist (uncredited)
Paul Curtis - dialogue editor (uncredited)
Elisabeth Flaum - sound effects editor (uncredited)
Shawn Kennelly - foley mixer (uncredited)

-Peter

Unfortunately, that oil is proving to be more of a vulnerability than a strength with the current US administration. Any country that supplies a lot of oil to the US...

(Reads a top-15 US oil importers statistic)...

...um, maybe I should load up on supplies and move to the back woods of Manitoba before Dubya realizes who is really buttering his bread. I'll be sure to stock up on Canadian Bacon.

I have a better idea. Clone yourself. Did you see Multiplicity? Michael Keaton was, as usual, hilarious, but more importantly, he had the right idea. One of you can go to work, one of you can take care of the kids, one of you can have sex with your wife, etc. I'll let you figure it out amongst yourself who gets to do what, but I believe this is the solution you're looking for.

Gattaca

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

Didn't we see one of these backrooms in takedown?
They went to see some fat guy who traced the calls for feds from there.

So you need something that would work against stupid people... didn't they have something like that in the days of the vikings?

We should probably replicate silicon valley as soon as possible. An investigation of a horse-racing scam leads 007 to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090264/

Bah they tried this back in the 70's it resulted in many crew members fused to the desk of the ship and 2 crew members disappeared for some time with one returning and the other becoming his own grandchild be being thrown into the future.

It was fully documented in this report

Oh come on it is mildy funny that they are trying to creaete something from a bad 80's B film.

Some firebrigades do use flamethrowers.

qz

Bill Gates stole Windows from the Lisa.

And Lisa got inseminated by Steve, who stole it from Xerox. Since Lisa was Steve's daughter, does all of this make Steve a sick perv?

-- Please mod me down since I'm not nice to Steve, everyone's hero --

* With HILARIOUS RESULTS

One could say that the movie is neither hilarious nor has results.

* With HILARIOUS RESULTS

One could say that the movie is neither hilarious nor has results.

Perhaps yes, but they can't charge you if you aren't sitting on the chair. Just have the person who owns the license sit on the chair, and crank up the speakers.

Conversely, it does allow for portable licensing, and could function as a new form of Biometric access. Imagine double-tapping a desktop shortcut to with your finger, and it will automatically recognize you and log in under your account. When you get up and leave, someone else could double-tap the same shortcut, and would be logged in under their account.

It shouldn't be something we should be dependant upon for security, as there would no doubt be situations a la Weekend at Bernie's which result in security violations*.

* With HILARIOUS RESULTS

The hockey player striptease is the climactic scene in the classic movie Slap Shot.

Dr. Strangelove's unruly prosthetic arm is what always comes to my mind when someone mentions artificial limbs or humanoid robots. Besides, how can anyone forget a movie that has a character named "General Jack D. Ripper"? I guess I must be getting old... =8(

And the Japanese must think in... German?!?!

You left out one part of the plot though... where he finds his other red shoe... I think he lost it while banging the mermaid.

"I must think in... Japanese?!?!"

The seven-party consortium, which includes the European Union, the US, Japan, China, Russia and others, agreed last year to build Iter in Cadarache, in the southern French region of Provence

I wonder if their logo will look like this.

If you don't get it, go watch Contact

Slander, liable speech, defamation of character...

"Slander is spoken. In print it's libel." -J. Jonah Jameson, Spiderman

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Using (pirated) PC-based video editing software, enterprising movies pirates have issued a new, improved version of the Da Vinci code. A plot summary follows:

Middle-aged Harvard professor Robert Langdon is giving a lecture in Paris when he is confronted by a police detective, who shows him a picture of a man who has been murdered in a gruesome fashion. Langdon, who has been living in an airport terminal, takes off in search of the holy grail, which has been stolen by a young Leo di Caprio. A gratuitous time warp takes him back to WWII to save Matt Damon from being killed by Nazis. Returning to the present, a slingshot around the moon reveals his presence to vengeful mobsters, who are unimpressed by his skill at ping-pong and shrimping. Escaping from them via Fed-Ex cargo plane only leads him to a close encounter with a volcano and a young Meg Ryan, with whom he has a cheesy and banal romance that only a woman could appreciate. With a newfound attitude towards the fairer sex he agrees to coach a group of weepy baseball players, but mysteriously, without even sleeping with any of them, he contracts AIDS and dies. But that doesn't stop our hero. He returns from the dead, bangs a mermaid, and brings joy to millions of kids before returning back to Paris where he started, which makes you wonder why the hell he left in the first place.

Sorry, it's already been done.

Watch OutFoxed. Biased in its own sense, as you could imagine, but it does cite numerous examples. As you could imagine, public mood indicates that even places as generally biased as Fox News says that they need to side with the people in the way that they present their information, and Bush's approval ratings aren't exactly stellar at the moment. That and Murdoch may have been a .xxx supporter.

You'd be pretty damn surprised if you blew up a balloon and it formed the shape of a cube, wouldn't you?

Oh, I dunno....I can think of one example of that. Ok, so it's an animated bubble and not a physical balloon. Same idea though :-)

(For those not familiar with the movie: At one point in the movie, Timothy Q. Mouse challenges Dumbo to blow a square bubble, to which Dumbo responds with a neatly cube-shaped one. Hard to believe that scene didn't make IMDB's quotes listing.)