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You sir, are a fucking idiot. You've been paying too much attention to the Jim Cunningham's of this world. To claim that the causes of depression are based on our current culture's consumption of certain "foods" is absurd! Take note everyone, a low /. ID does not correllate to a higher learned intelligence level.

Apparently, nobody over there saw Class of 1999.

Once again, Malcolm McDowell--and a killer robot--has shown us the way.

Stolen shamelessly from IMDB

I have to say, though, that I agree with John Keating - you can't describe poetry like this. The other quote about this sort of thing is this:
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture" -- Laurie Anderson (I think)

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NASCAR, Indy, and F1 are all technologically advance machines driven for extended amounts of time at high speeds along exciting circuits capabale of seating hundreds of thousands of fans during all kinds of weather and track conditions. All teams command a multitude of sponsors from various industries and include a manufacturer of core equipment, like Ford, Chevy, Dodge, Honda, Toyota, McLaren, Ferrari, etc. The core manufacturer uses technology derived from their respective racing teams and eventually use it in products they sell to customers.

Which is where the problem comes in...
Commercially, this is not viable because:

1. Airframe, Powerplant, and other suppliers are not going to sell this technolgoy at some point to consumers, at least within the next 50 years.
2. Where are people going to watch this from? Auto racing packs in the crowds because people can get close to the racing, even though they might not see much of the track.
3. Seriously, 3-4 laps of glide time and 4 min of available thrust between 5-10 minute pit stops?? BOOOOORING!!! Especially versus 30-50 laps between less than 15 second pit stops...and not to mention 300-500+ mile races!
4. Most people cannot relate to a "rocket racer" because they don't own a rocket plane. Its very easy to relate to a race car driver because you own a car.
5. $$$$....To own a basic pro-circuit auto racing team, its millions of dollars in costs. A rocket racing team would have extremely high upfront costs, high maintenance costs, and probably low payout. Poor ROI.

I'm not trying to bash the Rocket Racing League idea, as I think its a neat concept, especially concerning space technology development. I just strongly believe it not to be commercially viable and will not be very popular. Good Luck anyways.
Amigori

Tuvalu is probably the closest thing to a silent film that we have today. It doesn't have any dialog, but does use sounds and vocal elements. I highly recommend it. Here's the IMDB link:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162023/

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary

You might have to be a film geek, or a ballet fan, to love it, but I thought it was great.

There is Guy Maddin's dracula.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293113/

Silent Movie

Send in Sergeant Zim, we've found the Bug homeworld!

The last silent film I saw was Luc Besson's Le Dernier Combat.

There's sound, but all the characters are mute.

Would Quest for Fire count as a silent movie too?

The last silent film I saw was Luc Besson's Le Dernier Combat.

There's sound, but all the characters are mute.

Would Quest for Fire count as a silent movie too?

Although not a "silent film" per se, an interesting French movie that came out in 2003 is The Triplets of Belleville. There is a small bit of spoken French scattered throughout the movie, but very little. For the most part you can watch it and fully understand what's going on even if you don't speak French, because they did a very good job of communicating the characters' feelings and other plot elements without the use of words. I'd recommend it to anyone.

Well, how about Mel Brook's "Silent Movie" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075222/

Modern Times, starring Charlie Chaplin. The mechanical salesman has audio, the rest is a normal silent film (IIRC). Last one, AFAIK.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027977/

If you like this title, we also recommend...

The Battle of Brazil: A Video History (1996) (V)

Dark star?

doing a split as a stripper: Closer

Actually, it was Akira Kurosawa who did all the redefining. George Lucas simply rode in on his coat-tails.

( The Hidden Fortress )

Episode 1.3, "Art", features Tim (Simon Pegg) playing Resident Evil for 24 hours straight, having taken speed the night before. This later leads him to hallucinate that zombies are attacking everyone, which in turn led to the inspiration for the movie Shaun of the Dead

Episode 1.3, "Art", features Tim (Simon Pegg) playing Resident Evil for 24 hours straight, having taken speed the night before. This later leads him to hallucinate that zombies are attacking everyone, which in turn led to the inspiration for the movie Shaun of the Dead

The movies are worse. They're not just worse, they're completely uninspired remakes. It's obvious that Hollywood is "leveraging assets" by dusting off what ever trademarks they own. I fully expect to see a remake of Convoy going head to head one weekend against a crappy tv to movie conversion of BJ and the Bear.

I'll see your good movies and counter them with what I can just come up off the top of my head.

Cry Wolf
The Longest Yard (the crappy remake of the crappy 70s movie)
Herbie: Fully Loaded (the crappy remake of the 60s movie)
Dukes of Hazard (movie from crappy 60s tv show)
Stealth
Bewitched (movie from crappy 70s tv show)
The Amityville Horror (remake of crappy 70s movie)
The Fog (remake of crappy of 70s movie)
Are We There Yet?
The Island (It's a green screen chase movie)
Star Wars: Episode III (face it, it wasn't that good. It just didn't suck as hard as the last two.)
Land of the Dead
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Ring Two (The remake of the foriegn senseless sequel)
Dark Water (the remake of the formumatic Japanese horror flick. (Yes, the wet girl with the long black hair in her face is scary. WE GET IT!))
xXx: State of the Union

And that's not even counting the remakes of the "Bad News Bears," "Guess Who['s Coming for Dinner]," and "Charlie and the Choclate Factory," nor unreleased craptaculars like "Saw 2"

I'd also like to point out that IMDB now lists porn, and there's a whole lot of it.

Finally that meme about videogames being bigger than movies isn't exactly true. It compares games + peripherals + strategy guides compared to box office returns. The numbers are inflated on the game side. Games are big, they're just not as big as some would have you believe.

The movies are worse. They're not just worse, they're completely uninspired remakes. It's obvious that Hollywood is "leveraging assets" by dusting off what ever trademarks they own. I fully expect to see a remake of Convoy going head to head one weekend against a crappy tv to movie conversion of BJ and the Bear.

I'll see your good movies and counter them with what I can just come up off the top of my head.

Cry Wolf
The Longest Yard (the crappy remake of the crappy 70s movie)
Herbie: Fully Loaded (the crappy remake of the 60s movie)
Dukes of Hazard (movie from crappy 60s tv show)
Stealth
Bewitched (movie from crappy 70s tv show)
The Amityville Horror (remake of crappy 70s movie)
The Fog (remake of crappy of 70s movie)
Are We There Yet?
The Island (It's a green screen chase movie)
Star Wars: Episode III (face it, it wasn't that good. It just didn't suck as hard as the last two.)
Land of the Dead
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Ring Two (The remake of the foriegn senseless sequel)
Dark Water (the remake of the formumatic Japanese horror flick. (Yes, the wet girl with the long black hair in her face is scary. WE GET IT!))
xXx: State of the Union

And that's not even counting the remakes of the "Bad News Bears," "Guess Who['s Coming for Dinner]," and "Charlie and the Choclate Factory," nor unreleased craptaculars like "Saw 2"

I'd also like to point out that IMDB now lists porn, and there's a whole lot of it.

Finally that meme about videogames being bigger than movies isn't exactly true. It compares games + peripherals + strategy guides compared to box office returns. The numbers are inflated on the game side. Games are big, they're just not as big as some would have you believe.

The image I got was more along the lines of the Crimson Permanent Assurance segment of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

The image I got was more along the lines of the Crimson Permanent Assurance segment of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

"Jurassic Park. But with spiders!"

And it's still a better title than this.

Some guy on the intarwebs totally assured me that the utter flop of Cutthroat Island in 1995 was entirely due to potential customers waiting for someone to invent Peer 2 Peer so that they could watch it for nothing.

Why don't they try injecting some of that blood sample into a human. It may produce something like this

Bad seating - I've seen some *shockers* in some cinemas

Hopefully that means "Naked and Petrified" starring Natalie Portman will finally hit the big screen in 2006.

Or maybe part 3 ;)

Bah. I'm going to skip that amateur penny-ante stuff and go straight for the two-hundred-and-fifty-some. Sex is much more exciting when you need an HR department just to schedule it.

No, you can thank the "copyright infringers" for the use of "pirating" in that way. It's been common for about as long as I can remember. The 1987 movie Amazon Women on the moon even has a skit called "video pirates" where they have pirates on the sea in search of movies to copy.

Pirate 1: Help yourself, mates. A chest full of video discs.
Pirate 2: No!
Pirate 3: What good are they?
Pirate 4: Can't record on 'em.
Pirate 2: They're not compatible with my system.

Pirate Captain: [looking at the FBI Warning on the video] Ohhh, I'm so scared.

Don't forget about Sexy Losers (DNSFW)

Sorry, I'll always think of it as "The Thin H Line". But I agree, one of the best out there. Oddly, I consider the total NSFW-ness of it almost irrelevant to the humor, but not gratuitous fan-service (Hmm, that sounds like a contradiction, but I stand by it).

But since this seems to have devolved into a "my favorite webcomics" listing, I might as well plug my personal favorite...

Unicorn Jelly, by Jennifer Diane Reitz (You might recognize the name from the credits (design) of a number of EA, Epyx, Interplay, and other old-school games). The story has sadly finished, and you should only read this one from the beginning, but well worth a few hours of your life.

Initially about a rebellious young witch (think " LeGuin's Disposessed applied to Wicca" rather than Wendy or Sabrina), it evolves into a tale of rationality applied to a superstitious world facing an unavoidable cataclysm... With a hint of Abbott's "Flatland" thrown in for spice. One of its most fascinating points (to me, anyway) - Although you need suspension of disbelief to allow the strip's universe to exist in the first place, once you accept that, you won't find many points to nitpick about. The strip's world has distinctly different physical rules than our world, yet remains internally consistent to the point that the author has worked out actual laws of physics and entire ecosystems suited to those laws.

Why aren't you seeing body bags of Americans killed in Iraq on the evening news? (lesson learned from Vietnam, don't show dead Americans on TV or you'll loose the war)

Why is there such a gigantic fine if you show a nipple on TV?

There was a survey of what people watching mostly FOX knew about the world around them. On most of the questions people watching FOX thought exactly the opposite of the truth. One of the questions was they thought foreigners though of the US, and 80% something say 'They like us', when most people outside of the US in fact dislike you. As a journalist, would you be proud of your network if a majority of of viewers believe the wrong thing most of the time? I would not.

Can you show a link to that vote?

I saw the footage when congress gave the president power to start any preemtive war. You should watch it too, in fact every American should, but they are not going to see it on TV (cause it's censored):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436971/#comment

In fact, the issue of voting on the war with Iraq was a major political issue during the last Presidential election, as John Kerry, the opponent to George Bush, had voted for going to war with Iraq....and yet strongly opposed the War in his campaign.

You should stop listening to your own propaganda and start contemplating how people outside the US think of you, and also why.

The whole "the Internet belongs to the US!" thing is exactly why people dislike you.

"What censored media? We have a Press which is routinely critical of our government. We have a press which often goes to extremes to exaggerate, or to blame our Federal government for things that aren't it's fault, withhold stories to release until it's at the point where they can most hurt the people currently in power, even go to the extreme of making stuff up on occasion. If the government is censoring the media...they are doing the most incompetent job in history."

Why aren't you seeing body bags of Americans killed in Iraq on the evening news? (lesson learned from Vietnam, don't show dead Americans on TV or you'll loose the war)

How can so many "embedded" journalists see so little actual killing of people as in Iraq?

Why is there such a gigantic fine if you show a nipple on TV?

"And isn't there something basically wrong with a TV network (FOX), where the majority thinks the world around you actually like the US, even though reality is completely opposite?

What the hell are you talking about here?"

There was a survey of what people watching mostly FOX knew about the world around them. On most of the questions people watching FOX thought exactly the opposite of the truth. One of the questions was they thought foreigners though of the US, and 80% something say 'They like us', when most people outside of the US in fact dislike you. As a journalist, would you be proud of your network if a majority of of viewers believe the wrong thing most of the time? I would not.

" And most important. You went against the Constitution when you gave the President power to start war and took that power away from congress.

Really? As far as I know the Congress fully approved the War ahead of time...just as the Constitution says it's supposed to. Again, stop listening to the hype and propaganda."

Can you show a link to that vote?

I saw the footage when congress gave the president power to start any preemtive war.
You should watch it too, in fact every American should, but they are not going to see it on TV (cause it's censored):

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436971/#comment

You should stop listening to your own propaganda and start contemplating how people outside the US think of you, and also why. The whole "the Internet belongs to the US!" thing is exactly why people dislike you.

I'd like to see a pluggable biodiesel electric hybrid. There are diesel cars that get better mileage than the Prius, like the VW Jetta. Diesel fuels are getting cleaner and when you use biodiesel it's way cleaner. Forget soy biodiesel; acre for acre it's the worst producer only 50 gallons. Go for rapeseed or mustard seed. Use the fuel produced to power the tractor, thus eliminating the petroleum energy subsidy. They produce almost 3x as much, 140 gals/acre. Or better yet, algae can produce 10,000 to 20,000 US gal/acre. Yes, algae! Then make them pluggable. You cannot plug the Prius or the Civic Hybrid into the grid to take advantage of that offpeak electricity. There are aftermarket kits. True, it's shifting the source of the pollution, but with nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric, and coal. You aren't burning petroleum.

Global peak oil is perhaps less than a decade away.

Remember Fight Club? How Brad Pitt's character stole liposuctioned fat and made soap out of it. Animal fat can be used to make biodiesel. America could solve its energy and obesity problems at the same time. Picture Bubba's Liposuction and Biodiesel Filling Station. We could all drive around on our fat asses.

So basically live-action Cowboy Bebop minus the bounty hunting?

BTW, no one here should be allowed to comment on this topic unless they've seen this movie. After all, would you be prepared if gravity were to suddenly reverse itself? Would you!? :-P

Really, RIAA, you need to make your statements more aggressive, compelling, and emotional so that the common people will believe you.

Here's an example of what you should say when talking about a file sharer:

"This THIEF... steals money that others have WORKED HARD TO EARN :(, makes the public believe that what he does is right (gasp!), and not only that, he invites others to follow his TWISTED ways! (shock) He turns ordinary people into criminals! Furthermore, he KNOWS what he's doing is WRONG, because he HIDES HIS IDENTITY! :-o
We're giving a reward to whomever turns in this CRIMINAL, this, ENEMY OF THE PUBLIC, known as... "

Then, you only need to give him a name, so HIDEOUS and TERRIFYING, that the people and families fear him whenever they hear it. Something... unmentionable, scary... EVIL! Find that name, and you'll have YOUR VICTORY! I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

I think that it became most clear to me that filmmakers "understood" video games during the scene introducing Mike Teevee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. If I caught it right, Mike was playing a modern 3D first-person shooter that looked like Doom 3; and he was playing this on something that looked like an Atari 2600.

For a minute, I thought you were talking about the 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, and I was a bit confused. IIRC, in that one, Mike Teevee was playing a "modern" shooter, too: he'd watch TV Westerns all day and shoot at the villains with his toy guns when they came on-screen (to little effect, of course).

The game has changed since the '70s, but the Hollywood portrayal has stayed the same: an obsessed, semi-neurotic kid with a short attention span and no social skills. He would even eat meals in front of the TV! What a degenerate! . . .

An anti-aircraft missile?! Don't be ridiculous, AJAX is a war rocket!

Somewhere in the future
Far away from here
Trouble is waiting
On the last frontier
 
Into these worlds of unknown danger they ride
They're the Galaxy Rangers
Heroes in the sky
 
No Guts No Glory!

Somewhere in the future
Far away from here
Trouble is waiting
On the last frontier
 
Into these worlds of unknown danger they ride
They're the Galaxy Rangers
Heroes in the sky
 
No Guts No Glory!

Interesting... actually according to IMDB the film pulled in $454,700,000 at the international box office... See http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region= non-us/. After all, the US isn't the only country to show movies... and funnier yet is that most piracy occurs overseas where the US has no jurisdiction. Hell, the airport in Iraq was selling Star Wars III on DVD the day after it was released in theaters for $4.00! I wanna see the MPAA show up and tell a Hajii shop owner who also owns an AK-47 that he's under arrest. Yeah, they're gonna slow the piracy... not.

Yummy, green chips day, Soylent Green.

Eventually, it's all fertilizer, it goes back into the food chain, so why not put the bodies to immediate use?

Not with all the embalming fluids used, they're supposed to preserve the body.

Maybe it would have been even better to claim that it made _only_ 808,700,000$ worldwide in gross instead of the mere 380M$ in US .. http://www.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region= world-wide

I think that it became most clear to me that filmmakers "understood" video games during the scene introducing Mike Teevee in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. If I caught it right, Mike was playing a modern 3D first-person shooter that looked like Doom 3; and he was playing this on something that looked like an Atari 2600.

And that, my friends, is called cannibalism. Wait -- I mean that that, my friends, seemed an intentional irony, suggesting that there were gamers in the crew. Who would slip such a reference in, but someone with a deep and possibly unhealthy appreciation of video games?
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www.dejobaan.com - Deep and possibly unhealthy appreciation of video games.

looks like the poster only showed US box office. Overall take of Episode III is 808 Million

I don't know that having somebody sitting quite still staring at a screen makes for compelling viewing. Normally the only people who twitch are the ones that don't often play games. Seems to me the more you play the more zombielike you get. Maybe it is interesting in an art house kind of way but since when were hollywood interested in making art house?

I kind of enjoy the hilarity of the hollywood depiction though. I never go to see movies with this type of subject matter thinking I'm going to get a serious journey in the mystical world of gaming anyway.

For me, gaming movies hit a pinnicale when The Wizard (1989) was released.

None better gamers than Shaun and his buddy Ed!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365748/