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"If Whedon isn't interested in retrying the show in an iTunes/download model, it is because he doesn't have faith in his own creation and he doesn't have the balls to take a risky venture."

"This guy is Hollywood now, and there's no turning back."

"Great news, geeks: we can do it ourselves. How? Fanvids."

Yes, fanvids. How brilliant. Have you ever sat through a student film? Do you think it will magically get better because someone makes a student film based on Firefly? Student films don't suck exclusively because production costs are high, it's because -- guess what -- it takes TALENT to tell a story, and not everyone has talent.

And do you really think Nathan Fillion and the other cast members would jump onboard if you asked them, "Will you be in my Firefly episode! Never mind that we'll all be sued out of existence!" (And rightfully so, why should you get to profit from someone else's art?)

"Take it, write better episodes. Find another Firefly ship with another crew and go deeper into the universe of Browncoats and the Alliance."

Of course, writing is effortless, anyone can do it. How silly of me.

No offense, but you obviously don't know a lot about film production, so why are you trying to teach others how to do it?

I think you mean Elizabeth Swann:

IMDB page for Pirates of the Caribbean

Barbossa : ."..the Code is more what you'd call guidelines than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner."

As much as I enjoyed Firefly and Serenity, the movie can be considered a commercial failure sadly. According to here at imdb, the film was budgeted at around $40 million USD and only took in around $30 million USD worldwide. That's not to say they won't make it up in DVD sales and actually make a tiny profit but it certainly doesn't bode well for a future movie or a continuation of the series.

There isn't much to be said:

Production costs: $40 million US. Gross: $25 million USA. Business Data for Serenity

Great, now all we have to do is fight it out of the other zillion little Bible-belt towns that still have dancing outlawed...

What happened in the Pacific that we have to pay them back for?
OMG!
Hello?

Bruce Willis NEVER dies in his movies... unless he is costaring with Brad Pitt, in which case it was a mercy killing.

Although sometimes he is dead before the movie even starts.

Those interested in dodgy drug testing might want to see a movie on current release, The Constant Gardener starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. It's a thriller and doesn't go too deeply into it but does bring it to life.

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I'm not worried about the use of DRM. I'm worried about the abuse.

That was such a disturbing movie...

Kid: Your beard's not real.
Willie: It was real, but I got sick and all the hair fell out.
Kid: How come?
Willie: I loved a woman who wasn't clean.
Kid: Mrs. Claus?
Willie: Actually it was her sister.

After the fearless heroics displayed by the enslaved mechazoid, the team nicknamed the bot Mighty Mouse (well actually, M^2). Obviously some old school nerds work at the White Sands Missile Range, and possibly because Mighty Mouse's arch rival was Oil Can Harry, an evil cat. Oil can, meet cobalt-60!

M^2 is not quite as compact as the nick would suggest (judging from the pic ITFA, it looks a bit like Number 5). Still smaller were the Exocomps, those self-aware bots that, given human liberty to choose, saved the day in TNG S6-E9, "The Quality of Life". I can't wait until robots can fly, and make decisions for us. Then I can sit around and read Slashdot all day while my Exocomp does all the unpleasant tasks I need done, like going to work every day, doing my laundry, cooking and cleaning for me.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089869/

Oh yeah! I've heard of you guys.... http://imdb.com/title/tt0311429

Well, you might count this as a contender for "sequel". ;-)

Just like in The Gold Rush, many Indians are forced to eat their own shoes to survive.

The Constant Gardener anyone?

Think this might have to do with the fact that after the dot com crash

... the better SF reference is not to "Fantastic Voyage", for that movie used mAcrotech made tiny, without any changes allowing for different effects of nano-scale. The atomic-powered minisub was a normal atomic-powered minisub, the two-handed surgical laser was a normal two-handed surgical laser, and the madatory busty female was a normal mandatory busty female. They were simply rendered smaller, that's all.

In contrast, Borg nano-technology takes full advantage of the unique properties of objects in small scale, just as does the self-assembling peptide nanofibers referenced in the announcement.

We wouldn't want our SF references to be unrealistic, would we?

Kate Bosworth, the new Lois Lane needs your help!
We can rebuild her. Better, Stronger, Bulger!

We all know, Christopher Reeve never had to deal with "bulge" when working with Margot Kidder's boyish build.

Kate Bosworth, the new Lois Lane needs your help!
We can rebuild her. Better, Stronger, Bulger!

We all know, Christopher Reeve never had to deal with "bulge" when working with Margot Kidder's boyish build.

Since everyone around here seems to have affirmed their sexuality by "getting stuck on Superman's penis," did anyone actually notice the plot outline of Superman Returns?

After a long visit to the planet Krypton, the Man Of Steel returns to earth to become the people's saviour once again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane.

When did Krypton get around to putting itself back together, or was the whole I'm-an-alien-from-an-exploded-planet thing just get swept under the rug?

In the first episode of Lois and Clark , Clark was trying on his Superman costume for the first time. His mom (who had designed and sewed it in this version) walked in to see how he looked in the costume:

Martha: Well, one thing's for sure. Nobody's going to be looking at your face.
Clark: Mom!
Martha: [laughing] Well they don't call them tights for nothing!

"I don't think a Red Ryder BB rifle would make a good present for you. They are very dangerous and you'll put your eye out. Now, don't you agree that you should think of another gift idea?"

You've never seen A Christmas Story, have you?

The director refused to take out a sex scene, so he just put a big red square over the actors.

Bit more wang going on in this one though. Even so, it's not all that in your face.

Mallrats. I knew Larry Niven discussed the same earlier, but i found Kevin Smiths' dialog funnier and more "to the point" :)

Just look for yourself. I'm sure he's well endowed, but there's nothing distractingly large about that bulge - you know, nothing John Holmes-style. Superman is still supposed to have the normal masculine anatomy, as far as I know, so having no bulge would be much weirder.

> I can read any damn book I want and you can't do anything about it.

actualy, they are getting very close to

R.I.P. Richard Pryor

DeSadeski: You've obviously never heard of cobalt thorium G.

Turgidson: No, what about it?

DeSadeski: Cobalt thorium G has a radioactive halflife of ninety three years. If you take, say, fifty H-bombs in the hundred megaton range and jacket them with cobalt thorium G, when they are exploded they will produce a doomsday shroud. A lethal cloud of radioactivity which will encircle the earth for ninety three years!

Turgidson: Ah, what a load of commie bull. I mean, afterall...

Muffley: I'm afraid I don't understand something, Alexiy. Is the Premier threatening to explode this if our planes carry out their attack?

DeSadeski: No sir. It is not a thing a sane man would do. The doomsday machine is designed to to trigger itself automatically.

Crack In The World

Dude! After this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202314/

you could be a consultant!

DG

They just better be sure to watch out for diamonds during their journey. Everyone knows diamonds are the hardest material on earth (forget scratch tests, diamonds are INDESTRUCTIBLE, right?). And even the magical laser beam on the ship's front won't be able to make them disintegrate like it will be able to with all the other rocks.

I just hope they get to the center in time to detonate the nuclear bombs in order to get it spinning again before the earth's magnetic field completely disappears.

Luckily there will be someone who gives their life during the mission to make sure everything goes as planned. Thank GOD for that guy as well as HORRIBLE HOLLYWOOD MOVIES.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/

Oh they did - The Core: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/ [imdb.com]

Renew! Renew!

This interests me as I'm going to turn 40 next February. Is there some kind of energy barrier that strips away programming skills at 40? I hope to god it's not like Logan's Run!!

It sounds like a review is needed here.

From Sneakers: Gordon walks up to Bishop and shows his ID.

GORDON: National Security Agency.
BISHOP: Ah. You're the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone.
GORDON: No, that's the FBI. We're not chartered for domestic surveillance.
BISHOP: Oh, I see. You just overthrow governments. Set up friendly dictators.
GORDON (smiling): No, that's the CIA. We protect our government's communications, we try to break the other fella's codes. We're the good guys, Marty.
BISHOP: Gee, I can't tell you what a relief that is, Dick.

More like:

Google search: 'scuse me while I kiss this guy

Results: Brokeback Mountain is now showing in the following theaters near you...

Well, YMMV, but the movie Happiness had one, uhm, interesting use...

Hmmm...

Would you like to know more?(pops)

Sorry, I just had too...

Customer: How did they get there?
Support guy: It's the cable company, they send them down the wire.
Customer: I want you to do something about it! NOW!
Support guy: Not my department sir.
Customer: I'm going to report this.
Support guy: They'll say you did it.

If you don't know 'Jam' you're really missing something
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240273/

In the beginning of 2001 - A Space Odyssey, the main character reads the news and personal messages from a small, flat handheld device, by pointing at icons on the screen. The movie is from 1968.

I do believe The Fifth Element (http://imdb.com/title/tt0119116/) was the first movie to have a moving image cereal box.

Hell, i've seen it. And it's scary.

Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea. :)

I believe there is documentary of this called Megaforce.

It's been studied and exposed by this odd documentary.
;)

Lets hope that the Child's Play Auction don't use the raised money for dolls.

"Nixie" is just a genericized trademark.

[N]ame brand word association is one of the more subtle threats to this nation's free trade. It gives the larger, well-known companies an unfair advantage. I'm doing my part to keep the playing field level by weaning people off referring to generic products with brand names.

And yes, even though all the manufacturers are out of business, the principle here is still really important.

Terry Gilliam would have loved to have had these in Brazil !