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I could go as far as quoting a line in The Big Easy (1987, http://us.imdb.com/find?q=the%20big%20easy;s=tt): "You're not one of the good guys anymore", but, oh well.

It's all about trust, and yes, a war matters here: Waged against international law, and against the wishes of an international community. The US lost much credibility here. In the end, everyone only trusts in bodies he has had a hand in setting up. This is nothing new, but the war in Iraq surly sped things up.

Regarding the efficency of an future Internet Governance: Goof-ups will happen, but it will be an international communities own goof-ups or mishandlings, not the one of a single country. The case for erasing some countries TLD: You can bet it will be an as serious matter as declaring war: Not considered lightly.

As for foolish things like making illegal certain domain names: That is already happening, without much fuss from outside, with much help from western (US and European) IT-Firms. Why bother with international restrains against against global censorship, when you can do what you deem necessary in your own country? Even in the US library computers are censored. That's too bad, but not an argument against an international supervision of the transnational matters of the internet.

It will work like any other democracy: slowly and often with much bureaucratic infighting, but making sure the most stupid or radical ideas get thrown out.

Sir, your sig contradicts your post.

My sig is to honor one of my favorite movies of all time and one of the best actors of his generation. That you would read anything more into it then that is kind of surprising.

but I tend to agree that the US government (for a long time, before Bush even) has been consistently arrogant, uncommunicative, and uncooperative with it's citizens and the rest of the world

If you think this has to do with Bush then you haven't traveled to the parts of Europe that I've been to and talked to the people I have. I'm convinced that this has nothing to do with Bush. Look at history. Look at the French pulling their forces out of NATO and asking us to leave. Look at them denying us the use of their airspace to go after terrorists. Europe doesn't care about human rights or peace. They are just pissed that they aren't the global empires and economic powerhouses anymore. Look at the French and UK attempt to seize the Seiz canal. Look at the French actions in Algeria or Vietnam.

The French especially are angry at the spread of Anglo-American culture when they perceive (right or wrong) that French language and culture is just as worldly. A lot of people I've talked to in Italy, Poland and the UK perceive the EU as a French and German attempt to dominate the continent for no other reason then to compete with the United States. This is all at the expense of the local people and culture in the smaller countries.

Bush gives them a nice punching bag and a target to hate but make no mistake -- this was a long time coming. Call it cultural differences, political differences (mainland Europe has always been more leftist then the US), inferiority complex, or what have you.

Unless the rest of Europe wakes up I'd say that our future allies and trading partners lie in Asia and Latin America. Who knows -- maybe the Monroe Doctrine will come back into style.

Sir, your sig contradicts your post.

My sig is to honor one of my favorite movies of all time and one of the best actors of his generation. That you would read anything more into it then that is kind of surprising.

but I tend to agree that the US government (for a long time, before Bush even) has been consistently arrogant, uncommunicative, and uncooperative with it's citizens and the rest of the world

If you think this has to do with Bush then you haven't traveled to the parts of Europe that I've been to and talked to the people I have. I'm convinced that this has nothing to do with Bush. Look at history. Look at the French pulling their forces out of NATO and asking us to leave. Look at them denying us the use of their airspace to go after terrorists. Europe doesn't care about human rights or peace. They are just pissed that they aren't the global empires and economic powerhouses anymore. Look at the French and UK attempt to seize the Seiz canal. Look at the French actions in Algeria or Vietnam.

The French especially are angry at the spread of Anglo-American culture when they perceive (right or wrong) that French language and culture is just as worldly. A lot of people I've talked to in Italy, Poland and the UK perceive the EU as a French and German attempt to dominate the continent for no other reason then to compete with the United States. This is all at the expense of the local people and culture in the smaller countries.

Bush gives them a nice punching bag and a target to hate but make no mistake -- this was a long time coming. Call it cultural differences, political differences (mainland Europe has always been more leftist then the US), inferiority complex, or what have you.

Unless the rest of Europe wakes up I'd say that our future allies and trading partners lie in Asia and Latin America. Who knows -- maybe the Monroe Doctrine will come back into style.

Or, as Wesley Snipes might say:

Politics.slashdot.org: an address that changes all the rules.

Another release of Resident Evil to me.......

Giant Greedy Corporation Sues 14 year-old Kid! In 26pt bold font, front page.

Or, as they said in the movie... I love the smell of napalm early in the morning.

Nice work RIAA. With lawyers like these, who needs enemies? Or p.r. people, for that matter?

(Yes, this is funny. Laugh).

The link on the story is not future-proof once a new Studio Briefing is published by IMDB.

The archive URL is http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2005-10-05

Looks like the Sin City DVD has been getting a lot of play time down in the lab....

Python vs Alligator? Bah! How about some Zombie vs Shark coverage?

Python vs Alligator? Bah! How about some Zombie vs Shark coverage?

That doesn't seem to prevent piracy.

I knew someone would get the Spaceballs reference.

There's an interesting TV show (Canadian, no less) called Regenesis that featured just such a concept.

Hooked me for a few episodes.

There's a scene in a great movie called Network that you should see. The scene (you'll know it when you see it) is a bit over-the-top, but gets the point across that people have been saying this for over thirty years.

Now, I don't subscribe to the whole hovering black helicopters and tin foil hats thing, but I certainly enjoy the odd conspiracy theory.

Throw in some IT interest and let good ol' Bob get to work and you've got yourself a master plan for world domination in 3 easy steps .. or something like that.

And this one even stars Morgan Freeman, so it's definitely worth a read...

MOast defintly cheap. Read the trivia for Lord of War. It was cheaper to use real guns then prop guns for the stockpile.

Admitily they weren't buying the guns, but still, they wouldn't have been buying that many props.

..."Broken Arrow":

I don't know what's scarier, Windows malware or that there's so much of it that they need a naming body to keep track of it all.

X2 lacked character development and the plot was shallow; given how this was simply an adaptation of pre-written works (the comics), there is no excuse for a weak plot - there is tons of material to draw from. What did X2's writers do? They drew from these sources making sure to focus on every mutant from the last movie, bumped up two students, and handed out as many cameo mutant appearances as they could. Too many main characters, too sloppy; the audience can't so easily associate with so broad a lineup, since there are too many to develop.

Wolverine was the focus of the movie, but they didn't make the other X-men supporting characters; they were main characters. The end of the movie was far too blatantly a bridge for an obvious third movie focused around another of the main mutants ... it weakened the movie. Noting the billed cast for X3, Wolverine is there ... he should not be; his interest is resolved, and being the wanderer that he is, he would leave. Sure, there's reason for him to stay (a fault in X2's writing - his relationship with Jean should be more peripheral), but there are already too many main characters.

The X-Men are a vibrant group with vast amounts of complexity and history; their movies should have been of the caliber of Serenity - illustrate a problematic world (mutant racism), key players who are neither good nor bad, simply on different sides (Xavier, Magneto, Stryker), and very interesting group dynamics (Logan/women/Scott, Logan/Beast, even the movie-exclusive Bobby/Rogue). Contrast: Serenity has a problematic world (solar system with Alliance vs outlands), key players neither good nor bad (Serenity crew, Inara, the operative), and very interesting group dynamics (Mal/Inara, crew/Tams, Simon/Kaylee, Shepherd/Mal, Jayne/people).

X-Men have something going for them that Serenity doesn't, but it isn't well delivered in X2 - politics. Xavier is at the front of the debate. Mutantism is huge; it defines the comics, correlating directly to the Red Scare and the Cold War politics of the 60s ... the same politics we see today in the form of fear-driven anti-terrorism. The X-Men movies could easily draw on that as an amazingly colorful backdrop. X2 utterly fails in this regard, instead delving into a history that does no justice to the "early days" of mutantism and butchering a simplification of the whole Deathstrike storyline.

I must correct my parent post; Dougherty was one of three writing the screenplay to a story written by another three. Only David Hayter contributed to both. He was one of the few writers not exclusively tied to movie adaptations of comic series, but he hasn't written much else, either. So who knows what Dougherty will bring to Ender's Game... (Orsen, are you wasting your time reading this? Care to comment?)

X2 lacked character development and the plot was shallow; given how this was simply an adaptation of pre-written works (the comics), there is no excuse for a weak plot - there is tons of material to draw from. What did X2's writers do? They drew from these sources making sure to focus on every mutant from the last movie, bumped up two students, and handed out as many cameo mutant appearances as they could. Too many main characters, too sloppy; the audience can't so easily associate with so broad a lineup, since there are too many to develop.

Wolverine was the focus of the movie, but they didn't make the other X-men supporting characters; they were main characters. The end of the movie was far too blatantly a bridge for an obvious third movie focused around another of the main mutants ... it weakened the movie. Noting the billed cast for X3, Wolverine is there ... he should not be; his interest is resolved, and being the wanderer that he is, he would leave. Sure, there's reason for him to stay (a fault in X2's writing - his relationship with Jean should be more peripheral), but there are already too many main characters.

The X-Men are a vibrant group with vast amounts of complexity and history; their movies should have been of the caliber of Serenity - illustrate a problematic world (mutant racism), key players who are neither good nor bad, simply on different sides (Xavier, Magneto, Stryker), and very interesting group dynamics (Logan/women/Scott, Logan/Beast, even the movie-exclusive Bobby/Rogue). Contrast: Serenity has a problematic world (solar system with Alliance vs outlands), key players neither good nor bad (Serenity crew, Inara, the operative), and very interesting group dynamics (Mal/Inara, crew/Tams, Simon/Kaylee, Shepherd/Mal, Jayne/people).

X-Men have something going for them that Serenity doesn't, but it isn't well delivered in X2 - politics. Xavier is at the front of the debate. Mutantism is huge; it defines the comics, correlating directly to the Red Scare and the Cold War politics of the 60s ... the same politics we see today in the form of fear-driven anti-terrorism. The X-Men movies could easily draw on that as an amazingly colorful backdrop. X2 utterly fails in this regard, instead delving into a history that does no justice to the "early days" of mutantism and butchering a simplification of the whole Deathstrike storyline.

I must correct my parent post; Dougherty was one of three writing the screenplay to a story written by another three. Only David Hayter contributed to both. He was one of the few writers not exclusively tied to movie adaptations of comic series, but he hasn't written much else, either. So who knows what Dougherty will bring to Ender's Game... (Orsen, are you wasting your time reading this? Care to comment?)

This movie is going to hell damned fast. We are going to see Halo done like Meet the Feebles. tsk tsk

Yeah, it would be a shame to wreck an ordinary, perfectly safe situation such as a war zone with a dangerous contraption like this.

Even on a battlefield, there's something about arming robots and telling them to hunt down and kill humans that sticks in my craw.

Yeah, it would be a shame to wreck an ordinary, perfectly safe situation such as a war zone with a dangerous contraption like this.

Even on a battlefield, there's something about arming robots and telling them to hunt down and kill humans that sticks in my craw.

Yeah, it would be a shame to wreck an ordinary, perfectly safe situation such as a war zone with a dangerous contraption like this.

Even on a battlefield, there's something about arming robots and telling them to hunt down and kill humans that sticks in my craw.

Yeah, it would be a shame to wreck an ordinary, perfectly safe situation such as a war zone with a dangerous contraption like this.

Even on a battlefield, there's something about arming robots and telling them to hunt down and kill humans that sticks in my craw.

I think they're talking more of the crazy insurgent camped out ina building with a 40 AK-47 type of Sniper.

Hey! Wait a minute! You say that as if Super Mario Brothers sucked, Tomb Raider blew chunks, and Wing Commander was an embarassment to humanity.

Based on Hollywood's Proven Record of Innovation (tm), I believe Halo and Doom will be excellent films, as will Splinter Cell. The top eschelons of the Hollywood movie machine are stocked by people of talent, creativity, and originality. Why shouldn't we have every faith in Hollywood to adopt content from the video game environment into the utterly different world of motion pictures?

Hey! Wait a minute! You say that as if Super Mario Brothers sucked, Tomb Raider blew chunks, and Wing Commander was an embarassment to humanity.

Based on Hollywood's Proven Record of Innovation (tm), I believe Halo and Doom will be excellent films, as will Splinter Cell. The top eschelons of the Hollywood movie machine are stocked by people of talent, creativity, and originality. Why shouldn't we have every faith in Hollywood to adopt content from the video game environment into the utterly different world of motion pictures?

Hey! Wait a minute! You say that as if Super Mario Brothers sucked, Tomb Raider blew chunks, and Wing Commander was an embarassment to humanity.

Based on Hollywood's Proven Record of Innovation (tm), I believe Halo and Doom will be excellent films, as will Splinter Cell. The top eschelons of the Hollywood movie machine are stocked by people of talent, creativity, and originality. Why shouldn't we have every faith in Hollywood to adopt content from the video game environment into the utterly different world of motion pictures?

Hey! Wait a minute! You say that as if Super Mario Brothers sucked, Tomb Raider blew chunks, and Wing Commander was an embarassment to humanity.

Based on Hollywood's Proven Record of Innovation (tm), I believe Halo and Doom will be excellent films, as will Splinter Cell. The top eschelons of the Hollywood movie machine are stocked by people of talent, creativity, and originality. Why shouldn't we have every faith in Hollywood to adopt content from the video game environment into the utterly different world of motion pictures?

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Havent they already done a book and a movie?

Though, I suppose maybe this time they may actually stick closer to the plot from the novel.

You may have thought you were joking, but this won an Oscar.

Worse, that's assuming you ignore ST2:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367093/

And the award for Rhetorical Question of the Year is: "Has Hollywood run out of ideas?" "Has Hollywood run out of ideas?" couldn't be here to accept as he is on location for The Transformer's Movie

No no no! He's only putting his name to this, hence "executive producer". He'll have very little involvement in the movie itself. To see this in an extreme, go over to imdb and see Spielberg's list. Sod it, here's the direct link.

Serenity grossed $10.1 million opening weekend. It cost around $40 million to make. I read somewhere that Whedon was promised two more features if Serenity tops $80 million. It's going to be a stretch

Serenity grossed $10.1 million opening weekend. It cost around $40 million to make. I read somewhere that Whedon was promised two more features if Serenity tops $80 million. It's going to be a stretch

the wizard

"i love ender's game. it's so bad "

Yeah, and Spielberg "produced" over 100 movies in under thiry years by caring deeply about the artistic integrity of each one.

I wouldn't quite call it selling out yet, but it's how the Hollywood game is played.

you KNOW Grand Theft Auto is coming soon! The question is... who directs it? and who is the lead actor? Interestingly there was already a movie made in 1977 by the same name. Ron Howard's directorial debut.

I wish Jackson luck but there has never been a good movie based on a game (and vice versa.)Maybe he can break the curse.

For everyone else who's stumped by this, the director apparently wanted Everett McGill, but got Bruce McGill instead.

For everyone else who's stumped by this, the director apparently wanted Everett McGill, but got Bruce McGill instead.

solosaint wrote:
with the exception of the reevers... how did these beings operate space ships, propagate, follow a chain of command...???

and then wikdwarlock wrote:
Amen! My wife and I both thought that this was the only serious flaw in the whole movie. They mentioned that the Reevers raped women, but do the Reever traits get passed down genetically? Do they let women who they've raped live long enough to give birth? Who raises the baby Reevers? Can infants who are "beyond insanity" survive infancy? Great movie, great story, but also a serious problem w/ the Reever social structure.

First and foremost, it's a movie. It's a good one, with compelling story-telling, but it's a movie. They call it the "suspension of disbelief". How else do you explain "Battlefield Earth"?

As far as how the Reavers did anything? Based on descriptions from the series - and keeping in mind that I haven't (yet) seen the movie - it appears that Reavers are almost like wild animals - they do what they do to survive and not much more. Based on info from the series and the Firefly Wiki:

Reavers are believed by most of the 'verse to be men that went insane at the edge of space and became savage. They stared into the void beyond and became what they saw... nothing. They gave into their primal nature and all that was civilized was discarded.

And as others have pointed out:
ZOE: If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh and sew our skins into their clothing and if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order.

As far as how they're able to work together... How do lions and other predators co-ordinate themselves and pick out the weakest animals to kill? The human "fight or flight" instinct is a leftover from our ancestors who were less evolved and lived in caves and whatnot (let's leave the whole evolution debate for another day, ok?). It stands to reason that there might be similar herd hunting instincts left over.

As for the thought of Reavers reproducing... shudder. Their form of reproduction has already been mentioned - they force some poor soul to watch as they have their way with everyone else, and wait until their mind basically snaps from the horror of it all. Good clean family fun.

The Wiki entry I've linked to above has a spoiler that starts to explain their origins.

Ender's Game is slated for 2007, directed by Wolfgang Peterson and with a screenplay by Michael Dougherty. The IMDB report on the movie provides very little information, except that it was certainly in the works before the Serenity movie was publicized.

Dougherty doesn't have any high-quality screenplays under his belt (just X2, which was a fun movie, but not the greatest screenplay, and I would think Card agrees) ... does Card retain enough control to carry through with the above claim?

Ender's Game is slated for 2007, directed by Wolfgang Peterson and with a screenplay by Michael Dougherty. The IMDB report on the movie provides very little information, except that it was certainly in the works before the Serenity movie was publicized.

Dougherty doesn't have any high-quality screenplays under his belt (just X2, which was a fun movie, but not the greatest screenplay, and I would think Card agrees) ... does Card retain enough control to carry through with the above claim?

Ender's Game is slated for 2007, directed by Wolfgang Peterson and with a screenplay by Michael Dougherty. The IMDB report on the movie provides very little information, except that it was certainly in the works before the Serenity movie was publicized.

Dougherty doesn't have any high-quality screenplays under his belt (just X2, which was a fun movie, but not the greatest screenplay, and I would think Card agrees) ... does Card retain enough control to carry through with the above claim?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096446/

hmmm.

i'm pretty sure he wasn't a geek or a nerd.

but you never know.

I remember him. He was a real idiot. "My uncle was one of the lucky ones. He managed to escape during the Carter administration in a baloon." --Hillary in the movie Top Secret

All degenerative disease begins as a relatively acid condition in the tissues of the body. These tissues become oxidized, diseased and old.

Pleomorphic organisms come out of this acid environment, from elements in the blood in order to clean up these old, diseased, tissues. Bacteria are being found in the diseased tissues of all chronic, degenerative diseases. The Atlantic Monthly, A New Germ Theory by Judith Hooper, February 1999.) These bacteria are there as a result, not the cause. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) was wrong, these organisms are not caught from the outside, they come from within.

-The Cause of Degenerative Disease (emphasis added)