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While there's not media content, there's a lot of useful info and a huge quantity of data for those of us in the US who only get to find out snippets about what our favorite actors/comics have been up to in the UK.

Actually, it'll probably help me understand quite a few of the pop culture jokes in Vicar of Dibley. :-)

or we should accept the fact that there are some things we just don't want to know about in the intelligence world.

Well, the whole point is that we do want to know.

Then there is a differnece between fact and fiction. Watch Galaxy Quest. That is an exelent documentary about the difference of fact and fiction.

If only Wargames were made in Yu-gi-OH! card game format...

I hear they have one of these for people who want to be surgeons already set up in Slovakia.

The other month I watched this series of documentaries where a single samurai repeatedly took on dozens of ninjas at once, winning every time!

Lee Van Cleef http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086756/

That is, were he alive.

Tom Servo: "TV car chase--Theme!"

Joe Armstrong!

Definitely.

Interesting, or actually funny. Or both! As an example, I find nearly all Geico commercials hilariously funny, and I watch them every time. Even if I've seen them, they just have that hook. I also love the Volkswagon commercials with Peter Stormare. What I can't stand? Jingles. I especially hate jingles when they rip off another song. They're vile, evil commercials. Sex doesn't really sell anymore in my opinion, either... sex is just a click away on the internet now, nobody cares to see it unless they WANT to, and in which case, they'll get their own fix.

Well, in the beggining ads were live. Such was even made fun at a Chaplin movie a King in New York http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050598/.

"Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor... except crime!" ~Auric Goldfinger, in the movie "Goldfinger" (1964)

Hmmm. Pacemaker for the brain... Here's a cautionary note from Michael Crichton: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072267/

No, not when you've got parents who really do give kids seemingly
random
names.

No, not when you've got parents who really do give kids seemingly
random
names.

There is something enigmatic about the character Kane that just makes the whole C&C series what it is, and what Generals was not.

Not only did Joseph D. Kucan do great acting for the games but he also directed them.
My Hero!

Props to Mel Brooks

Prince John: Such an unusual name, "Latrine." How did your family come by it?
Latrine: We changed it in the 9th century.
Prince John: You mean you changed it TO "Latrine"?
Latrine: Yeah. Used to be "Shithouse."
Prince John: It's a good change. That's a good change!

The Secret Life Of Ian Flemming
--jeffk++

And spelling. From the IMDB entry:

Factual errors: When Nedry steals the embryos from the freezer, some of the dinosaurs' names are spelled wrongly on the cylinder.

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): On the embryo storage units, the name 'Stegosaurus' is incorrectly spelled 'Stegasaurus.'

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In the embryo freezing chamber, Tyrannosaurus Rex is spelled with only one "n" instead of two

This is an extact. It's the longest goofs page on the IMDB I've ever seen. Except maybe Titanic, but that one has gems along the lines of "the light fitting on the forward deck had five rivets, not six".

More realistic than that confused nonsense? That's easy. Firewall did pretty well. (If you haven't seen it, stop reading now; I'll probably spoil it.) They used Ethereal (right after I'd spent a week at UNH-IOL looking at that screen). Some sort of pattern-based IDS. I think all of the technology mentioned in the film was real, down to the dog-collar GPS tracking system. The scanner/iPod hack was implausible, but not impossible. So if you forgive them a couple plot devices (like that "diagnostic" in which they scroll through all the account balances on console), they did pretty well.

"Give it a chance."

That was the oft -repeated mantra of the folks on the old Sci-Fi board. Give the new show a chance, don't pre-judge it; watch it, see what you think. So we did. We watched it and in the spirit of fairness, we matched words with deeds, here at Colonial Fleets, and created a completely separate but equal sub-forum, strictly for new show conversation. It seemed to be the right choice, at the time.

Since then, we have been educated to the mindset of the author that the offerings on this show, called Battlestar Galactica (2003), were to be a reflection of society and we were challenged to "think about it"; that there would be parallels to real-life events such as the Sept 11 attacks and told, by the author, to "make your own judgments as to what they say to you"; and that this new show would completely "re-invent" the sci-fi genre.

Well, we have thought about it and have spoken those thoughts on these forum pages, for much of the past 2 years. Ever since the new series came about, this fanbase has been in a tenuous place and Colonial Fleets was often a tension spring within the fanbase for allowing and even promoting, at times, discussion of the new series. Through that time, we made a concerted effort to separate the comments from the commentator and to keep the debates focused on the issue. Primarily, though, each of us has strived to employ our own personal standards of morality and decency when presenting these thoughts.

An example of these standards of decency and morality can be witnessed by the following remarks by our good friend, Malkyte, who very eloquently expressed the thoughts of many members, here and elsewhere:

"Throughout the many years of human existence, there has always been a line. A line that represented on one side, the best of human decency and morality, and on the other, the pure animalistic and monstrous evil that humans can be. This line has moved back and forth throughout those same years, and depending on individual experiences, it has always been in different places."

"Society in general has appeared to become more tolerant of rude and disrespectful behavior, to the point where it is celebrated when someone is deviant or rebellious. It's rather disheartening and disturbing at the same time. But our society more and more rewards liars, killers and celebrity deviants, who in some cases are only in the news because of the crap they do, and not for any talent they may possess."

We share those same concerns about society and can see, for ourselves, the truth in the remarks. In addition, we agree that the "line" has been shifting back and forth with a decided tilt toward the less than desirable aspect of human society. We also realize that the entertainment industry has "pushed the envelope as far as they could", only because we have allowed them to do so.

We have allowed the entertainment industry to tell us that it was "ok" to have a baby's neck snapped (the script originally called for Number Six to drive her finger through the baby's skull); it was "ok" to draw a parallel of sympathy toward the terrorists who carried out the Sept 11 attacks - in other words, we got what we deserved; but, the straw that snapped the proverbial camel's back was the use of rape as a military torture tool in the "Pegasus" episode.

We will NOT allow the entertai

The First Wives Club. At one point in the movie, one of the characters is in her husband's office. She opens up a document in Microsoft Word and saves it to a disk.

Your papers please.

That damned president learned how to act over twenty years ago. When an otherwise good actor shows up in a new role and acts like a cardboard cutout of Keanu Reeves, I'm more inclined to blame the director.

That damned president learned how to act over twenty years ago. When an otherwise good actor shows up in a new role and acts like a cardboard cutout of Keanu Reeves, I'm more inclined to blame the director.

To say "that damned president" couldn't act before 2005 is to say that Sneakers is not in every way a perfect movie!
Isn't that forbidden under the Slashdot ToS or something?

Didn't Bryce Lynch invent the two-way sampler just 19 years ago and 20 Minutes Into the Future?

Because the rest of the world isn't South Korea, and as a result the rest of the world can't support an industry dedicated to watching people play video games? I mean, even The Wizard isn't available on DVD in the USA (though it was released on DVD in Germany)

I admit that I was being a bit vague on the reference, but I never thought it would go Whoosh!! as it passed over your head.

Rumack: Mr. Striker, the passengers are getting worse. You must land soon.
Ted Striker: Surely there must be something you can do.
Rumack: I'm doing everything I can... and stop calling me Shirley.

Don't worry about it, I did also. I had mental images of angry^H^H^H^H^H^H feminists, wearing period armor & combat boots, chanting something involving film, men, and penises (Think PCU) Shame you got so much flack about it.

~nate

You could maybe even control a jet fighter like that. But you'd have to think in Russian. Or as the film is set in Soviet times, maybe it would think in YOU!!!!

...they are made by Uwe Boll

There was the well-reviewed Suzhou River. No blood (it was kind of like the movie "Vertigo"), but there was some first person preventing suicides, going on dates with Xun Zhou, coming across dead bodies...all in all a good watch.

Strange Days was unfocused and too silly for its own good, but the 1st person virtual reality scenes were awesome!

There was the well-reviewed Suzhou River. No blood (it was kind of like the movie "Vertigo"), but there was some first person preventing suicides, going on dates with Xun Zhou, coming across dead bodies...all in all a good watch.

Strange Days was unfocused and too silly for its own good, but the 1st person virtual reality scenes were awesome!

I read this article and all I could think about was trying to play Track & Field -- forehead sweating, eyeballs and veins popping, face turning red all from mentally trying to whack those two buttons as fast as you can ... then your head does the whole Scanners thing.

Finally, a use for Arnold J. Rimmer.

If you didn't find that absolutely hilarious you really need to watch some Red Dwarf.

I think you mean Corvette Summer. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077372/

I remember thinking how bad it was and I was 10. "Han Solo goes on to make Indiana Jones and Luke Skywalker does this?!?"

Never heard of Girl, Interrupted, have you?

Yes, I'm in favor of using MiB, GiB etc to end this confusion

So am I, as long as it doesn't confuse the steel industry and their units of kips (kilopounds of force (1000 lbs)), and the computer industry and their MIPS (millions of instructions per second) and KIPS (thousands of...).

Meanwhile, don't confuse the musicians. (1.36 million gigs? How many sets is that? And how many songs per set?)

Finally, to Stephen Colbert: Megamerican? Keep kicking it up and what do you get? Gigamerican, Teramerican, Petamerican, Examerican.

There was one. It was called Lady in the Lake (1947). I'm pretty sure it was a commercial and critical flop, but an interesting experiment.

The background on her character - half-human, half-vampire - is great fodder for some interesting character development.

SEEN IT!

It's like D&D: The Movie. It wasn't that BAD of a movie but people took it too seriously or not seriously enough. I sat down and about half way through it I turned to my friend and related a story about stupid Players. That's when it hit me, it was EXACTLY like D&D. Not really a kids game, but treated as such because of social stigma and some of the silliness that comes with Role Playing

It's not only the Decline in CS, is the decline in everything : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090985/

Agreed. Who knows what could happen?

You say "everyone" like you mean "anyone". You clearly haven't watched "Profit"

I know no one will see this because it's from days ago but... Lily was played by the always excellent Alfre Woodard.

we can't prove it, but it's a scientific fact!

Just a word, please use your time wisely now that you're closer to work and plan to spend more time with your family. And be determined to carry out your plans. To my experience, I've seen countless employees who live close to work wastes time the same way instead of on a bus, on something else.

Spending quality time with family takes dedication, much like everything else, as Morgan Freeman says in Bruce Almighty: Turning water into wine isn't a miracle, it's magic. A mother who works 2 jobs and 1 more at nite and still be able to spend time with her kids and go to their baseball games, is a miracle.

Moore has seemed crude and simplistic and confrontational in the past. His methods have not radically changed, but they've modulated into something subtler and less self-serving, such that he has an ability to talk more easily with potential adversaries -- bank employees giving out rifles with new accounts; Michigan militiamen; even Charlton Heston, the haughty President of the National Rifle Association, who invites Moore into his house to film a conversation.
Bowling For Columbine

"But officer, I just signed up for an account!"
"A likely story. You have the right to remain silent..."

I always thought it was the name of a fish.

Could someone direct me to the Short Circuit thread here?

Stephanie!

Also need a link to the Robot Johnny Five thread also.

Could someone direct me to the Short Circuit thread here?

Stephanie!

Also need a link to the Robot Johnny Five thread also.