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And I doubt children will get some kind of trauma when hearing: "Give me the boy, and I'll let you live!", (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094862/quotes) considering there's no valid context.

Hell, if it were up to me, that damned comet debris wouldn't be allowed within a parsec of our atmosphere - unless the intention were to incinerate it.

*Cf the work of Vincent Price and Charlton Heston.

Hell, if it were up to me, that damned comet debris wouldn't be allowed within a parsec of our atmosphere - unless the intention were to incinerate it.

*Cf the work of Vincent Price and Charlton Heston.

Hell, if it were up to me, that damned comet debris wouldn't be allowed within a parsec of our atmosphere - unless the intention were to incinerate it.

*Cf the work of Vincent Price and Charlton Heston.

Have you seen the huge number of junk titles that have littered the shelves in Blockbuster lately? It seems like 1 in 3 movies are some B-rate or sex flick, my favorite box cover is "Femalien 2"... it's just tooo funny.

But seriously, no one's renting Atomic Dog. Are these titles on the shelf to create the illusion that this store carries a lot of titles? How bored do you have to be to rent Bleeders, anyway?

Have you seen the huge number of junk titles that have littered the shelves in Blockbuster lately? It seems like 1 in 3 movies are some B-rate or sex flick, my favorite box cover is "Femalien 2"... it's just tooo funny.

But seriously, no one's renting Atomic Dog. Are these titles on the shelf to create the illusion that this store carries a lot of titles? How bored do you have to be to rent Bleeders, anyway?

Have you seen the huge number of junk titles that have littered the shelves in Blockbuster lately? It seems like 1 in 3 movies are some B-rate or sex flick, my favorite box cover is "Femalien 2"... it's just tooo funny.

But seriously, no one's renting Atomic Dog. Are these titles on the shelf to create the illusion that this store carries a lot of titles? How bored do you have to be to rent Bleeders, anyway?

Remind me why we don't fine people for selling violent books, movies, magazines, newspapers, music, etc. to minors.

Reminds me that when I was you I was not allowed to see Black Sunday so I went to the store and bought the book.

Afterwards I have seen the movie and I can tell you that the book was much more graphic then the movie. So kids, go read a book. That'll teach them. It also is a lot cheaper then a game or movie. Like SF? Start reading Heinlein.

It's like there's a whole new geek subclass that seems to get their jollies over attempting to get "five 9's" uptime for their to-do list like computer geeks used to do back when uptime was an issue of skill rather than just throwing massive amounts of cheap redundant hardware at the problem.

If the fictional Herbig is what 'GTD' looks like, then please dear FSM let me party with the pasta procrastinators.

has no one watched "Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040"

we're all doomed!

The funny thing is, you remembered /. and the more ironic part; the article will duplicate in just a few days due to a time parallax in the alternate universe, making you wonder if your how life if just like this.

Atleast, that is how I feel when I frequent /. .

The thing is, you don't neccessarily have to enjoy or like what you are doing to have fun. In my experience, having fun is more about who you work with, rather than who you work for or what you do. I don't particularly like my current job, but I like the people I work with quite a bit. I don't think I would put up with nearly as much crap from my employer if we didn't have a shrine to Napolean Dynamite and daily shock treatments. I've had some pretty boring jobs in my time, factories, garbage companies, IT... But even some of the most repetitive and boring were really fun thanks to some great people. The problem occurrs when the fun people leave, or the crap outweighs the fun. If the shock treatments aren't working anymore at this point, you have to move on.

I'm pretty sure that IT is NEVER fun.

yeah , its probably a b grade film , but its got famke janssen in it :)

On the contrary, they'll be providing air cover for him. I guess maybe it's so the Martians don't kidnap him?

Oddly enough, I watched Santa Clause on TV just last night.

I stand corrected!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/quotes :)

Come Michael, your book film, now tv-series (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424600/) is old news--saw it, saw the movie, won't watch the new series--been there, done that.--that was then, this is now. Write something new instead of flogging your old work.

Why the hell would anyone want to track that crappy movie?

I'd hope it's staying very still at the bottom of landfills.

It's Santa Claus ffs! There is no "e" on the end of it!

Perhaps they're referring to DVD shipments of that Tim Allen movie?

Well, for the record Scooby did $153 Million. Not exactly a bomb.

Is it time to dust off the reruns of the "Andromeda Strain"? :-)

(see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/)

In her ears of course! :-)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0326672/

They already made a movie about this back in 1971. The Andromedia Strain http://imdb.com/title/tt0066769/

Alright, so it's fiction, but it's really good fiction, in my opinion. All about a sat. that returns to the Earth with unknown organisms aboard that create a series of crisises.

Michael Crichton wrote 'Andromeda Strain' back in the 70's, which is a pretty good book. (Barnes & Noble link, no referral ID).

It was later turned into a movie, although the movie was so-so, in my opinion.

Crichton is probably best known for Jurassic Park, but he raises some interesting issues in Andromeda Strain, if you're at all interested in science, check it out. It's also an interesting look at technology and security - Chrichton goes into detail about the safety, security and containment systems at his imagined government research facility, and then...well, read the book, but you can guess how it turns out.

Oh, spoiler alert. Sorry.

Great movie, though. At least, for geeks and James Olson fans.

It's the Andromeda Strain all over again! Who needs invaders from Mars when we go out and bring back little invaders of our own.

I know they are claiming to be prepared, but color me a little skeptical and concerned if there's a chance that the same engineers who forgot to convert meters to feet and lost a spacecraft had something to do with the safeguards on this probe.

The Holy Grail http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/fullcredits#wr iters was my favourite Python script. I know John Cleese, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin wrote a lot of the Python scripts but I've never heard of this Guido guy who supposedly created Python. He must have left the group early on.

Something very similar to what you describe was in the movie Slackers, which is rather funny and also features a couple hot chicks.

This is very true, and there's bugger all chance he'll be offered the floor at a shareholder meeting. This is just a weak attempt at trying to stay in the headlines, and squeeze any remaining publicity out of his connection to Take Two. Ignore him, in six months the only Jack Thompson anyone will remember will be the blokey Australian actor: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0860233/

I've seen this guy before:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001548/

There is a great movie that delves into the higher power of the universe. It is called "What the Bleep do We Know?!?" It is a very interesting program in that it basically looks at what science has figured out about how things work, from the atomic universe and quantum physics, to the neurochemicals and the operation of the brain. It poses questions about multiple universes stemming from a Schrödinger's cat like situation, but extended to the world around you and desisions you make.

It really makes you think about what else is out there and what gives us our self-awareness. Atomic material at it's smallest quantum level is gone from existence as well as there, they pop into and out of existence. The Schrödinger's cat "experiment" says that the cat is both alive and dead until you look in the box. What is so special about you looking that changes what the quantum world is doing. So far nobody has figured out what the "observer" is, or the soul or whatever you want to call it. Without someone observing the universe around us, it doesn't really exist. It is all quite deep, and I am probably explaining it totally wrong, but it is all based on the science that we have figured out so far. And it is very cool and makes you think. Plus, it isn't written in a "we know everything" tone. It is more like "here is a possible way the universe works based on what we know so far."

Did you know that thoughts can affect water? When pure water is placed in a bottle with a lable on it and then photographed using a dark field microscope, it takes on different crysaline structures depending on the thoughts that are projected onto the water. If thoughts can do that to water, what can they do you you since you are what, 80% water. Give a possible reason for why placebos work as well as they do, as well as why a hypochondriac can have real symptoms.

Definately a movie I would recommend to the /. crowd. Even if you don't beleve in a higher power or a God, as it has the possibility to open your mind some and make you think about the possibilities out there. I don't think that science has to be at war with religion. I think religion has tried to explain the universe and God, but was a poor explaination due to their limited understanding at the time. As we know more about how the universe works, we can also know more about what God is.

one free movie for every PC tuner card, ADVC converter & mini DV surrendered. Unfortunately the movie will be: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299930/

Or whatever movie tiltle they have a warehouse full of that they were about ready to illegally dump in the ocean.

If this legislation is passed the MPAA Amnesty program will be offering one free movie for every PC tuner card, ADVC converter & mini DV surrendered. Unfortunately the movie will be: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299930/

If Kong works hard enough and lives long enough, he becomes another remade classic character and HE TAKES THEIR BULLETS!!1 in a cocaine-filled rage. Or maybe not, but it's still fun to think of a cokehead gorilla who likes blondes.

Adam Savage appears to be the pseudonym for ... Adam Savage. :)

But that elusive Jamie Hyneman is ....
oh... Jamie Hyneman.

Now, JW Smythe may be a bit more elusive. You may someday learn more, if they take my email asking to play at M5 seriously. :)

Adam Savage appears to be the pseudonym for ... Adam Savage. :)

But that elusive Jamie Hyneman is ....
oh... Jamie Hyneman.

Now, JW Smythe may be a bit more elusive. You may someday learn more, if they take my email asking to play at M5 seriously. :)

Adam Savage appears to be the pseudonym for ... Adam Savage. :)

But that elusive Jamie Hyneman is ....
oh... Jamie Hyneman.

Now, JW Smythe may be a bit more elusive. You may someday learn more, if they take my email asking to play at M5 seriously. :)

Whenever someone puts forth a technology to take away more of your access, having them say, "please send (constructive) comments to", is a big "screw you, dissenters; we're doing this whether you like it or not" right to your face.

Next will be parallax restrictions to ensure only one person gets to see the content, and then comes plugging the memory hole:

"You are trying to remember copyrighted material. Visit Rekall to purchase a one-time-use decryption key to access this memory."

John Varley wrote the screenplay for Millennium and turned a classic short story into the worst film made by anybody, anywhere.

John Varley wrote the screenplay for Millennium and turned a classic short story into the worst film made by anybody, anywhere.

Out of that list 4 out of 10 aren't directly based on previous movies or books AFAIK. To be honest that's more than I would have expected.

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The film version of Starship troopers was dirrected by a European.
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Back to topic:
If Orson Scott Card didn't actually write Ender's Game and its sequals (The LDS church ghostwrote it) why does Orson get a final say on the script?

Lost is pretty popular and I used to like it a lot, but I stopped watching because the writers NEVER resolve anything of real importance.

Lost is not about resolving anything important to its story line. To do so would kill it. Its not about survival on an island with strangers. The way to think of Lost is a video canvas, where it tells stories of individuals past, and how it affects their perspective and how it affects their actions. Its surreal, without cheesy "spooky" effects. Its a totally metaphorical show, framed in "stark realism" (as opposed to space ships, or hopping through wormholes). People like Lost because they think Matthew Fox and/or Evangeline Lilly is total eyecandy, and they find mystery as attention-grabbing. The enemy and threats are not visible, its all in the imagination. And then you have to ask, "What are the real threats...? What is paranoia...?" "How far does outside intervention extend?" "yadda, yadda, yadda" Its a niche show for paranoia/conspiracy freaks.

Firefly was entertaining and well done, but its so freaking formulaic. Don't get me wrong, I like Firefly, I just don't think its great TV. Losing Cupid was a much greater loss (and cheat) for me.

Kelsey tip: you're not fucking talking about him! Fix your sig already.

Oh, as if that's never happened before...

Oh, as if that's never happened before...

Oh, as if that's never happened before...

Mildly interesting trivia note: in the current half-season cliffhanger, the captain of the other Battlestar played the female leader of the resistance movement on Mars in Babylon 5.
What your source? Number One; Admiral Cain.

Mildly interesting trivia note: in the current half-season cliffhanger, the captain of the other Battlestar played the female leader of the resistance movement on Mars in Babylon 5.
What your source? Number One; Admiral Cain.