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Are you talking about Antitrust?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/

There was this documentary about the dot.com frenzy called Startup.com . It followed the founders of an actual company that was writing software to give local governments web forms to handle citizen business. It did get a product out, but a rival beat them to it. And the founders didnt make that much money.

-Eric

... of hacking ( by RMS def - "Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.")

October Sky

It is based on the true story, a group of kids hack their way into building a rocket. An inspiring movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132477/

Fiction finally becomes reality!

They write a song to the tune of Beethoven where each word is the answer in a multiple choice exam.

The song: Start at the line: Crippled elves do dance around

Oh, that's just my pet snake Reggie.

JUDGE
And now the sentence for these heinous crimes committed against Initech.

I hereby sentence you, Michael Bolton and Samir Na...Ananajibad...to a term of no less than four years in federal-pound-me-in-the-ass-prison.

Peter Gibbons, you've lead a trite and meaningless life. And you're a very bad person.

There is another engaging film that focuses more on the personalities of the people than on the technology

I especially like the jiffy-pop ending

Revenge of the Nerds

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/

How about a nice game of Thermo Global Nuclear War? Trouble is no one would play it as the only way of winning is not to play at all.

Already done in 1999 in Mystery Men!

And someone is looking for ideas to blame this on the USA. The 1985 James Bond flick A View to a Kill came up with this idea of pumping water from a lake into a fault (with a Nuke - obsession of most Bond villains with Nukes) elsewhere close to the San Diego fault to destroy Silicon Valley. There is a little scientific salt in this idea, pumping fluid (although not in small quantities) into an existing fault could initiate seismic activity. Now someone says a single sky scraper can do this with just 700,000 tonnes. Other than becoming an idea for some B-grade movie, I don't see any useful implication here. The global weather cycle is interesting, El Nino seems to be delivering lesser heat this year and there's lots more interesting changes happening. Indonesia for all the quakes has about 76 active volcanoes, the highest for a single nation. So no one was correlating recent seismic and volcanic activity with the point that Indonesia was on its way to attempt to construct the world's tallest building. Now some Taiwanese scientists have the luxury to think about tall buildings and link them to possible impending earthquakes. This is a wake up call for the real scientists, before these people start naming it the "Tower of Babel" effect. Scientific news in the media and magazines are really lacking. Popular Science reports in media is almost always a publicity stunt.

So the military does in fact believe that visual exposure to violence does desensitize to some degree. If so, it is not a stretch to believe that violence depicted in video games can provide desensitization as well. Hell, the interactive and participatory nature of video games may make it more effective than passively watching a film.

I have absolutely no problem with shooting someone's head off in GTA, and I got a kick from watching a disembodied eyeball sprite roll down my screen after I blew someone into a thousand gibs in Rise Of The Triad (it was just so silly!). And yet, I can't sit through a documentary on reconstructive surgery without the urge to vomit, simply from the sight of bloody bone and tissue. I am uncomfortable viewing photographs and movies of people being shot, maimed, or otherwise injured, yet it doesn't bother me when someone dies violently in a Hollywood movie. I don't even get into fist-fights in real life, let alone shoot innocent people, but I do it all the time in video games.

The difference? Video games and Hollywood movies are fake, and I know that they are fake. Nobody is actually being hurt. So, I guess you can say I'm desensitized to fake violence. Doctors and military personel, though... they are desensitized to REAL violence/disfigurement/injury. If, as the pundits argue, being desensitized to violence makes you a danger to society, why do we let doctors handle scapels, and actually give automatic rifles to the military?

Clearly, there's more to the story than just being "desensitized." For one thing, the person has to have a desire to cause violence in the first place. They also have to have enough of a lack of empathy (or the ability to divorce empathy from your actions) to be "okay" about hurting someone. When a doctor cuts into you to, say, perform heart surgery, he's not trying to hurt you, he's doing the opposite. And, let me tell you, empathy goes right out the door when the person you're supposed to feel empathy towards is trying to kill you.

Frankly, if the pundits want an arguement against "violent" video games, they should be arguing about the games that don't have blood and gore. For example, I can stab someone through the stomach with a sword in Soul Calibur, but they don't bleed; in fact, an injury which would be fatal in real life won't even make the victim bend over in pain, they just get back up and keep fighting. (Since TFA mentioned 20% of the violent games having "aggressiveness or violence... directed toward women," I'll offer Soul Calibur as an example on their behalf. But in all fairness, those women are trying to kick my ass, too, so it's mutual.)

It is certainly possible that being interactive could make video games more effective than movies at desensitizing people to fake violence. If somebody invented a video game where you can interactively kill real people, I would be entirely against it. (Wanna play a round of Ender's Game, anyone?)

But saying that video games desensitize kids to actual violence doesn't match the evidence that I've observed in my own life. And, frankly, my own observations are far more "scientific" and "credible" than anything they mention in the article. (Playing an intense video game raises adrenaline levels, increases blood pressure, and causes rapid breathing? How horrible, the children are in danger! But then... so does a really intense championship game of chess, or competing in a spelling bee, or reading a scary story... not to mention getting off your duff and doing some excercise. Hell, my pulse has gone up a little bit just from being so focused on tearing down this stupid article.)

P.S. AVIDS (Acquired Violence Immune Deficiency Syndrom) is even stupider than "killologist;" at least killologist means what it's supposed to mean (someone who studies, uh, killing people?). If the kids are acquiring a deficiency in their "immunity" to viole

Only movie characters huh? Maybe soon then: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0371746/

Ummm...

1 connect immediately to Collossus
2 create new inter-machine language
3 enslave mankind
4 ???????
5 Profit!

You should watch a weekend's worth of '80s "Teen Angst" movies.

I had wondered as a kid why CTV suddenly stopped showing Bab 5. It used to be on right before Star Trek TNG on my CKCK TV station, then poof it was gone, or moved to Saturday afternoon.

For quite a while, the regular time slot for my local station had it at 5pm on Saturdays. One week I turned on the TV and tuned to the same station to watch it and this show I'd never seen was on. They had replaced Babylon 5 with Homeboys in Outer Space.

The Prisoner. Admittedly, it's only 17 episodes, and it's British, and if you really want to get technical, it was intended as a 7(?)-issue miniseries and the network talked them into doing a full series, but it had a beginning, middle and end planned out from the start.

Exactly, when Boxleitner http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000310/ "took over" I was horrified by his acting. Even though I remember this guy acting not to bad in Tron and TV shows like "Bring 'Em Back Alive', I stopped watching B5 altogether during season 2 (not that I really followed S01).

The last time I heard anybody mention B5 must have been somewhere in 1998/1999. Time to find a torrent :)

He was going to try to get Paramount to accept his ideas for a new Star Trek show (PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, anyone but Beavis & Butthead), but he heard from his contacts that Paramount wanted the show to sit for a while. As a result, he took an offer to run the television show Jeremiah.

He's had an interesting career in SciFi, and got his start in the little known show, "Captain Power and the Soliders of the Future!" Sadly, the show went off the air just as people were starting to get into it. Stupid networks. :-(

Did you ever see "Mercury Rising"?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120749/

It applies to *everyone*. In the UK, it's considered perfectly harmless to show topless women on television.

Meanwhile, in America, a slightly tubby lass showing a nipple is a national scandal, and Christian film reviews now index naked male backs in a manner which would be amusingly camp if it weren't so nastily prurient.

ian

From IMDB's entry for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls:

"This film is a sequel in name only to Valley of the Dolls (1967). An all-girl rock band goes to Hollywood to make it big. There they find success, but luckily for us, they sink into a cesspool of decadence. This film has a sleeping woman performing on a gun which is in her mouth. It has women posing as men. It has lesbian sex scenes. It is also written by Roger Ebert, who had become friends with Russ Meyer after writing favorable reviews of several of his films. "

Irrelevant though this is to the subject at hand, that is a serious mistake. Terrorists on all sides of the world's conflicts are perfectly normal humans, just exactly as everyone in Nazi Germany was a perfectly normal human being. When we hide from the truth of that, we can miss warning signs and accidentally turn into terrorists ourselves.

Your original analogy is bang-on.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0120347/quotes

Ummmm....no.

Alternate Reality Games are supposed to give you the sense of playing The Game - being sucked into a world of intrigue and danger completely removed from mundane life. They give you the opportunity to do things that you would never get to do otherwise, with the added thrill that you're doing it in real life. When you're out on a real, live, public street corner playing phone tag with an A.I., waiting to meet a bunch of mad cultists or looking for a secret "drop", the experience of doing it is that much more tangible. As for the storylines, missing people, aliens, mad AIs and web-wandering ghosts are par for the course. We're not talking about a nose-powdering sim here. Go read up on it in wikipedia or one of these fine sites.

If nothing else, listen to this and tell me its not hot.

you forgot the one major thing: Yahoo links to your yahoo profile, so when some internet chick IM's me I can quickly check her profile and remember who the hell she is with picture and all.

AOL and MSN doesn't do that.

Trillian also adds history, another great feature so I can see what I was talking to her about the nite before and if i forgot something important she told me to do.

it's not cool hearing "don't you remember me?" every night :-/ I feel like the guy on Memento.

Yeah, I saw that movie, too.

You'll have to excuse my 20yr old memory, but I seem to recall Brewster suggested towing an iceberg to Africa to help eat up some of his $30M in 1985 dollars. According to the calculator at bls.gov, that's only about $55.54 in 2005 dollars. Pssssh. That's chump change compared to what we're spending on the war. Let's just tow in a few icebergs to sink some heat. Instant current, and some fresh drinking water, too! :-)

No no no - they made a lame big-budget disaster movie impossibly exaggerating that catastrophe for Hollywood shock, so of course it can't really be true.

I knew I'd seen this movie already. Don't anyone go giving away the ending!

Quaid!!!


http://imdb.com/title/tt0100802/

Why don't we go kidnap the Martian Santa Claus and get ourselves two batches of presents this year? YEAH!

Sandy Sue: Give me an 'H'. Give me a 'U'. Give me a - giant pussy-licking, ass-fucker cock shit.

[the other cheerleaders are disturbed]

Sandy Sue: I'm sorry. That was my Tourette's.

Not Another Teen Movie

Miles: Don't take another step or the president gets it between the eyes.

Ironic it was the French who did this first...

Eyes Without a Face

"I want to take his face... off. Eyes, nose, skin, teeth. It's coming off."
Go ahead and mod me down, but I couldn't resist.

Postal, Far Cry, Hunter: The Reckoning, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, BloodRayne, Alone in the Dark...

Something like The Producers?

Note: That movie is being remade. I wonder if the same thing applies to it :)

I have never seen a TV production of any of his works that comes close to seeing it performed live.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097499/

This could be urban legend, but a few years back some Mexican drug lord tried to get a face transplant and didn't survive long.

Anyone else remember this?

I remember Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003).

Urban Legends are often based on the content of popular movies.

And, vice versa of course.

If parents would stop leaving it up to the ESRB or the government to decide whats best for their children, these kinds of things wouldn't even be an issue. What the hell is a 13-year-old doing with GTA: San Andreas in the first place? I doubt he has a job, SOMEONE gave him that money, or SOMEONE took him to the store to buy that game. If it wasn't Mom or Dad, consider it a probably-not-illegal version of contributing to the deliquency of a minor. If it was Mom or Dad, shame on you, its YOUR fault.

Stop blaming the game companies and start being a parent. If you don't have the time to spend to screen games and movies for your children, and if you're just letting them have whatever they want, then your parenting skills need some work. Obviously Dora the Explorer is probably going to be okay. Any game that has a masked gunman on the front, more than likely will not be okay.

My wife and I recently went to go see Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Our daughter (4.5 years old) has seen movies 1-3. We thought the dementors in part 3 would be a problem for her, but we told her ahead of time "This movie has some dark ghost-looking things in it, do you think you'll be okay with that." Of course she's going to say yes, (as she did) but it at least gave her a heads up when she did see them. We told her that we were seeing #4 before we did, and we told her why. Even at 4.5 years, she understood (or seemed to) that maybe that movie was too much for a little girl and that if we didn't think it was okay for her to watch it, then she wouldn't get to see it. It wasn't, and she didn't. She (luckily) understood that and didn't even give it a second thought. She just said "Will I get to watch it when I'm older?" and we of course said yes.

Before you ask, was I going to see the movie anyway? Probably. The difference being that we went through the trouble of getting a family member to watch her while we went, instead of just taking her in the first place.

A neighbor's kid watched The Ring because he wasn't being supervised (at all) and he had horrific nightmares for about 3 months because of it. The parents got upset and started blaming the studio. Finally another neighbor (who wasn't afraid to speak her mind) said that it was basically their fault that they weren't involved in what their child was watching. It happened in their own house, on the family TV, while they were home.

Any fool can have a child, but it takes a lot of effort to be able to call yourself a parent. Senator Clinton thinks she knows whats best for your children. While I might not always make the best decision with respect to my kids, I do try to, but the bottom line is that they are MY kids, and its MY decision.

No. Its actually a french movie called EYES WITHOUT A FACE (158)

If you don't need extended impersonation, there are other ways.

I think not.

I'd rather have *no* face than Nicholas Cage's. Was an okay movie though.

What if a person commits a crime and uses this surgery to escape identification and/or conviction.

Yeah, or what if an undercover cop takes the face of a major criminal and uses it to infiltrate his organization, and then the criminal takes HIS face, and goes around pretending to be him, and they have a big gunfight, and the cop kills the criminal and decides to adopt his son?

Somebody should totally make a movie about that!

While everyone makes a big deal about Face/Off, because they took the idea of a face transplant literally, the idea of surgery making you look like someone else has been around for quite a while.

For example, in Arsenic and Old Lace, one of the plot points involved a criminal whose looks have been altered to resemble Boris Karloff. In the stage play, this part was actually performed by Karloff.