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They missed Airplane II. Easily the best space movie EVER!

How could this movie not at least make the top three?! Shocking lack of taste, I say. Shocking.

They don't really define what constitures a "space movie," though. Does it take place in outer space? What if it's set entirely on another planet? Blade Runner is one of their candidates, but it hardly involved outer space at all. Are they using the term just to avoid the annoying flamewars about what defines "science fiction?"

http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0059095/

http://www.cultsirens.com/andress/andress.htm

"Then came THE TENTH VICTIM (a sci-fi flick) with Marcello Mastroianni (still in a black suit and shades, wow) where Ursula wears the infamous bra that shoots bullets, a scene impossible to forget when you're an impressionable teenage boy."

KFG

No, it's a Sky One remake, so is far more likely to be 'It's [insert some random terrorist's name here]'
 
Sky One sure as hell can't be seen as anti-American (unless they're doing some 'Britian is best'-exposé) and their TV shows aren't known for their complex, intelligent plots. (Not to be confused with films funded by the parent company, BSkyB( see http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0228488/ for a very good movie they funded.)

Snakes on a Plane will kick its ass.

Right on.. I watched and actually enjoyed Beauty and the Geek mentioned in the summary. The creative force behind it was Aston Kutcher, you know, of Punk'd fame. You know when it came time to edit each episode he laughed it ass off AT the geeks, not with them. Hardly a great example of geeks being cool. I know plenty of people that laughed their ass of AT the show, but no one that said "hey, I want to be a geek" after watching it.

Right on.. I watched and actually enjoyed Beauty and the Geek mentioned in the summary. The creative force behind it was Aston Kutcher, you know, of Punk'd fame. You know when it came time to edit each episode he laughed it ass off AT the geeks, not with them. Hardly a great example of geeks being cool. I know plenty of people that laughed their ass of AT the show, but no one that said "hey, I want to be a geek" after watching it.

No, but that's how crappy movies really work in the United States. Yes, someone greenlighted that movie. Oh well, it's soon to break into the IMDB Bottom 100.

But we all know that "security" is not really about security. It's about giving people a "feel-good" product that earns some people vast amounts of money.

Most security is at best pathetic. Why? Because good security is expensive and sometimes invasive hence not acceptable by Joe Sixpack.

Example of such feel-good "security" is what's going on at airports around USA. Best illustrated in Soul Plane

you need not look further than Grim Fandango.

But that is how you can tell the real geeks from the wanna be's. Wanna Be's are out at parties on a friday night, while real geeks are on slashdot talking about imortal, fearless mice.... suddenly Willard is taking on a scarry new perspective.

Other titles??

I'd gladly cough up a couple bucks an episode to download it commercial free, watch it on an OS of my choosing, at a time of my choosing and have it not expire. This way I'm putting my money towards shows that I want to see continue. If I don't think the show is good, I won't buy it and if enough others feel this way then the show will either get better or stop being produced.

The **AA execs will say that this isn't a workable solution because I could then distribute it and folks could download it for free or it would eat into their overpriced DVD sales (well, some are overpriced...can you really put a price on the complete series of The Muppet Show?). if they're worried about me distributing it, then encode a UID to the file and attach it to the credit card that I'd need to pay for it. It's not like Big Brother can't find out what I've bought anyway. If the file with that UID is found in the wild, then they can try and talk to me about it. Maybe it'll lead to a more acceptable DRM scheme (if such a thing exists).

Why do I download shows that I want to see? Because they haven't offered me a pricing scheme that I can even find remotely acceptable that doesn't tie me to their viewing/usage rights. 24 hours to watch a show? Sorry, I'll download an hour show for free and watch it with no ads in 40 minutes, on my linux box, a week from now, and then again before the start of the next season.

On the other hand, if you are willing to offer movies and programs in an unencumbered format (DiVX, MPEG, QuickTime, Ogg Theora, whatever) with no usage restrictions, and no special download clients required, then I'd be very willing to consider as much as $3.00 per show/program downloaded. I'd especially be interested in the old NBC Mystery Movies from the 1970's, including McCloud, Columbo, and McMillan and Wife.

Please correct your offerings accordingly.

Schwab

On the other hand, if you are willing to offer movies and programs in an unencumbered format (DiVX, MPEG, QuickTime, Ogg Theora, whatever) with no usage restrictions, and no special download clients required, then I'd be very willing to consider as much as $3.00 per show/program downloaded. I'd especially be interested in the old NBC Mystery Movies from the 1970's, including McCloud, Columbo, and McMillan and Wife.

Please correct your offerings accordingly.

Schwab

On the other hand, if you are willing to offer movies and programs in an unencumbered format (DiVX, MPEG, QuickTime, Ogg Theora, whatever) with no usage restrictions, and no special download clients required, then I'd be very willing to consider as much as $3.00 per show/program downloaded. I'd especially be interested in the old NBC Mystery Movies from the 1970's, including McCloud, Columbo, and McMillan and Wife.

Please correct your offerings accordingly.

Schwab

As, apparently, jokes are to you.

Was anybody else reminded of the translators used by the aliens in Mars Attacks! when reading this? http://imdb.com/title/tt0116996/

Ohhh, maybe they'll bring back the Rachael Leigh Cook series Fearless. As far as I know, only a pilot was produced, and the show was not picked up.

Does anyone remember the holographic tape from the movie Brainstorm? I was wondering when something like this would become a reality... Ah the good old days. /reminiscing

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/

Watch out for that cootys rat semen!

like the Hudsucker Proxy
"you know, for kids!"

I hope they have done safety testing on these new dyes, since children will be getting this stuff in their eyes. If they didn't, these colored bubbles might end up like the Opti-Grab. Then these two guys will look like real jerks.

...that is, that they have a product with a high degree of price inelasticity of demand (although record execs don't hvae the sophisticated vocabulary). The problem is they don't realize the cross elasticity of substitute products.

OK, so assume that RIAA member company Three Initial Recording (TIR) have a lock-in recording contract with the hottest band around, the Hong Kong Cavaliers. TIR makes a fistful of buckaroos from every one of HKC CDs they sell. But music from iTunes is a really close substitute, if not a superior replacement; changes in prices of one will affect the sales of the other pretty easily. Raising prices so as not to undercut sales makes sense to TIR.

The problem is, there are other substitutable choices besides CD and iTunes. TIR considers DRM-Rootkitted music disks: consumers don't like those much, but most are easily confused sheep, so the substitutibility is fairly good until ingenious folk at Sysinternals notice. Maybe they try it, maybe not.

There's live concert performances... but that's not a good substitute for most working stiffs who want to listen to the band at any given time of day, and the HKC can only do so many concerts; TIR can live with that.

There's music from other bands; although some folk feel there is no alternative to the HKC's unique sound, others are just as happy listening to Electric Mayhem, who are signed with another RIAA member. Well, it's within the cartel. But the band Disaster Area tends to have a wide overlap in the fan base, and they've not only working with an independent studio, they took pot shots with a sniper rifle at the last TIR contract rep who tried to persuade them to join up. Hmm...

And really, any form of entertainment might be a substitute; cheap, safe, designer hallucinogens might leave everyone just sitting around giggling at their fingers, but the War on Drugs makes most people stay away. Movies are another alternative, but the MPAA has enough overlap and common interest that they're not likely to be a deliberate threat. Books... well, nobody reads those any more. Video games are a growing problem, but they look to be gelling into a cartel pretty soon.

But that leaves the big one: there's pirate copies of the music, in all of their many forms. Recorded live in concert while in the audience. Sketchy dealers on NY sidewalks selling counterfeit CDs. Music ripped to MP3/Ogg/FOO format and traveling over the internet by FTP, HTTP, NNTP, KaZaa, BitTorrent, and the six surviving Gopher sites. Yes, it's illegal... but cheaper, all the way down to free. The extra costs are only to the pirate's self respect (which there's less to lose of each time they give in) and if they get caught. And almost EVERYBODY is doing it.

Some flexibility in pricing might help both Apple and the RIAA, especially if they put more of the long tail up on iTunes (which would probably be the best way to grow revenue), with opportunities for having sales, and making a litte more on the megahits. (Yeah, bands with gold albums probably ought to be going for $1.25 IMHO). But my back-of-the-hand guess is that if the average price (weighted by number of sales) of iTunes song starts rising, there will be more "sales" really lost to piracy, as opposed to the RIAA claimed losses. And with those short-term real losses come longer term erosion to the foundation social mores (EG: piracy=theft=bad) that the music industry is reliant on. And that is something TIR and the other RIAA members aren't factoring in on their economics.

I have always hated that comic for that very reason. If you've ever seen Go!, then you know how I feel about Marmaduke. I'd rather read the whole library of Family Circus' bad comics than ever read Marmaduke again!

If only Seth Green were reading this... then maybe, just maybe, Family Guy would tear this apart, or even through in a small joke and I'd feel saited...

...when I put on these sunglasses, everything says "Consume" and your Mom starts looking real ugly.

Early Edition.

I suggest that you watch the movie "Kundun", by Scorsese. Maybe you will not see that quote the same way you do now.

... in the movie-that-was-to-become-a-franchise-but-bombed, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089901/. It had some great lines, admit it. Not as funny as The Destroyer series of books themselves, but hey, it worked (except for the dogs on the wire). No? Well, here's The Register's Google Earth: Black Helicopters entry for the real HAARP: (url:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/14/googl e_earth_competition_results/page9.html) Still no love? Try Rense.com's various conspiracy articles on HAARP: (url:http://www.google.com/search?as_q=HAARP&num=1 0&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&l r=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_occt=any&as_ dt=i&as_sitesearch=rense.com&as_rights=&safe=image s) Fun stuff, there!

I believe that the movie list was a reference to the movie Dodgeball. Oh look, I'm right.

This is Seth from Videorama. The following DVDs are now overdue: "Drunken Hussies 3", "Backdoor Patrol 5" and "Mona Lisa Smile". Thank you.

Maybe we can grow steak this way too .. in large vats.

If you're looking for other meat substitutes, I have this product you might be interested in: It's called Soylent Green. Yeah, the marketing department needs to work on a better name, but hey, it contains everything a growing body needs. ;)

Misha Borovsky (GNAP) - Hollywood - GNAA President timecop announced at a press conference this morning that the Gay Nigger Association of America is in the midst of a large effort to reduce operating costs and streamline business processes. "Layoffs of approximately fifty percent of the gay workforce are to be expected, as well as a shifting in administrative functions," timecop was quoted as saying. Analysts predict this corporate downsizing was made necessary due to over-investment into the New Orleans area, when it was announced last year that the GNAA would be opening a state-of-the-art branch office on the coast. The building was nearing completion and just opening for business when it was destroyed by hurricane Katrina, which has been recently found to be the responsibility of Jews. As George W. Bush is noted for not caring about black people, FEMA has refused to pay for the repairs, and the project was scrapped.

"We are also making internal changes to the corporate information technology intranet," said supers, CTO for GNAA Worldwide Operations. "Many of our information moving processes were running on the Lunix platform, and this was generating large costs due to system slowness and instability. After a careful usability study, we have found that we will be saving millions of dollars [USD] per year by switching to the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server System".

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Keanu Reeves has been in a Shakespeare movie, "Much Ado About Nothing." The rest of the cast is first class, however.

IMDB Much Ado About Nothing link

don't download this movie...It's a gay porn http://imdb.com/find?q=In%20the%20Flesh;s=all , long life to imdb before looking more about a movie!

A few years ago, my then-girlfriend dragged me to see Romeo + Juliet (starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes). As much as I hate to admit it, it was a fun movie. They used the dialog from the original - unedited - but it was exceedingly easy to follow.

A little bit of acting can go a long way. That movie would never be confused with a Royal Shakespeare Company production, but it still worked.

Or if an angsty teenage girl tells an angsty teenage boy that they're "just like Romeo and Juliet", then the boy will at least know that the world is so fucked up that they're better off committing suicide.

I think you may have found the silver lining...

However, if anything I think kids should be watching movie adaptations of Shakespeare. Shakespeare wrote plays. There were intended to be acted out, not read. I've never liked reading it so much as watching it. Especiallly those directed by Kenneth Branagh.

Don't you guys know anything? WWW

Soylent Green is People!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

~ kylu

That reminds me of a great movie...

  It's bluescreen magic! We can go anyware! Imagine being able to be magically whisked away to... Delaware?... Um... hi... i'm in Delaware...

Sure, a 600kb lumbering Kodiac is one thing, but a 600kg combat worthy ape is another thing all together. . Haven't you seen the movies man!?!?!? Dont you KNOW what they can DO TO US?!???!?! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299941/

The less misleading headline should be Mighty Joe Young lived? Get your scale right.

Besides the original Mighty Joe Young was a much better movie than the original King Kong.

The less misleading headline should be Mighty Joe Young lived? Get your scale right.

Besides the original Mighty Joe Young was a much better movie than the original King Kong.

Mighty Joe Young...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041650/

or

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120751/

Mighty Joe Young...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041650/

or

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120751/

Misha Borovsky (GNAP) - Hollywood - GNAA President timecop announced at a press conference this morning that the Gay Nigger Association of America is in the midst of a large effort to reduce operating costs and streamline business processes. "Layoffs of approximately fifty percent of the gay workforce are to be expected, as well as a shifting in administrative functions," timecop was quoted as saying. Analysts predict this corporate downsizing was made necessary due to over-investment into the New Orleans area, when it was announced last year that the GNAA would be opening a state-of-the-art branch office on the coast. The building was nearing completion and just opening for business when it was destroyed by hurricane Katrina, which has been recently found to be the responsibility of Jews. As George W. Bush is noted for not caring about black people, FEMA has refused to pay for the repairs, and the project was scrapped.

"We are also making internal changes to the corporate information technology intranet," said supers, CTO for GNAA Worldwide Operations. "Many of our information moving processes were running on the Lunix platform, and this was generating large costs due to system slowness and instability. After a careful usability study, we have found that we will be saving millions of dollars [USD] per year by switching to the Microsoft Windows 2003 Server System".

timecop ended the conference by announcing, "We'll always be there for the gay niggers of the world. With this restructuring of the organization, we are enabled to offer twice the service for a fraction of the cost. It's a new gay universe ahead."

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Talk to one of the ops or any of the other members in the channel to sign up today! Upon submitting your application, you will be required to submit links to your successful First Post, and you will be tested on your knowledge of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE.

If you are having trouble locating #GNAA, the official GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA irc channel, you might be on a wrong irc network. The correct network is NiggerNET, and you can connect to irc.gnaa.us as our official server. Follow

You can find out more (including how Kong got his artifical heart and found love while on the run from the army) in the excellent documentary, King Kong Lives. Its a mystery to me how this fine movie missed out on the Best Factual Presentation Oscar in 1986.

I think it'd be better in Dubly.

Yay! Time for a sequel to The Dish: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/

It's funny you should mention that; I recall Pleasantville being a pretty good take on just that very notion -- two people introduce change into a culture that's entirely content to exist exactly as it is. People are afraid of color (not as in "black people," but actual colors, like "blue," "green," "orange," or any color that isn't black, white, or a shade of gray). People are afraid of roads that actually go somewhere instead of just running in a big circle around town. A guy gets really freaked out when coming home and calling "honey, I'm home!" doesn't trigger the events he's used to (wife comes in from kitchen, dinner's almost ready, etc.).

Your point is spot-on, though. People seem to thumb their noses these days at anything that isn't from the cookie-cutter game vendors. I'm an avid Microsoft-avoiding citizen (not consumer, bleh); I don't like their business practices and many of their products are junk. I will give the Xbox 360 its proper nod -- it looks like a competent piece of hardware. The games being demoed for it at the local Walmart are very impressive visually (Kameo impressed me a lot in more than just the visuals), but for the most part the games look to be yet more sports franchise updates and sequels. I still won't buy a 360 for assorted reasons:

• It's too expensive. $400 for a console with a hard disk? C'mon, guys, for $320 I built a damned fast general-purpose PC (complete with wireless keyboard/mouse) for my parents a few weeks ago. Sure, a nice video card will drive up the price, but not much.
• There ain't enough games I like. Kameo looks fun. The rest don't. Where are the RPGs? Where are the adventure titles? Where's a fighter title in the bunch (after all, a boobies fix is always good; I must admit I was always more, um, "tittilated" by Soul Calibur's Taki and Sophitia than by the DOA girls though ;)? Give me a Castlevania game I can be sucked into for 40+ hours by its huge world and myriad secrets to unlock. Give me a compelling sci-fi story that lets me command a massive battle fleet from the command deck of a capital ship, that doesn't involve aliens (unless you've got a better reason than "we need an enemy to fight" to include them). Give me a world to make my own as I follow your story (Animal Crossing was a spiffy idea, for instance).
• It's a Microsoft product. Yup, I'm one of those. Money-where-my-mouth-is and that sort of thing. I despise the company's strongarm tactics, anti-competitive practices, and monopolistic behavior. I think most of their products are worthless and buggy, and a few of them (Windows, anyone?) are actively destructive to the world of information technology (they've produced at least two generations of "average people" with very poor computing "habits" and expectations). One good piece of technology doesn't make up for a lifetime of bad products. If the Xbox 360's ultimate goal was to make Microsoft lots of money by being the best game system out there, it might get more consideration from me. But instead, their goal with it is to make lots of money with it while they crush their competition with marketing and FUD. And yeah, I'm annoyed with Sony right now, too, which makes me sad given how interested I am in Cell and what they can coax out of it for the PS3. I'd have bought a PS3 if they weren't MPAA/RIAA members, putting out DRMed crap, or putting out rootkits.

Now they'll be able to fix 1) and 2) there in the next few years. I'm sure at least some very compelling games (compelling to me, that is) will be produced for the Xbox 360 in the coming years. I know it won't cling to its $400 price tag for more than a year, and by year four of its life I'm sure I'll find them on the shelves at Target and Walmart for $200 or less. Item 3) won't ever be fixed, but that just means that I'll have to wait for the Xbox 360 to reach the end of its lifecycle, where I can go snarf a used cons