Slashdot Mirror

I love the tag line for that movie. I think it would look particularly good on the Governator's campaign posters.

Still better than space herpes.

You may be about right about actual movie going. You only forgot to mention what percentage of new flicks are totally ignored by you due to word of a mouth or something. As for me... I ignore about %95 of the crap the Hollywood is producing each year. Because of that the percentage ruined by the bad movie is somewhat lower for me.

you forgot:

6. unless it is the A-team movie, in which case, get cracking now!

So you're basically saying this object would be used like the balloon on the Russian spacecraft Leonov during its low pass over Jupiter in the movie 2010, as a buffer to take the force of the reentry punishment, insulating the ship.

It was not uncommon for a moviegoer to be hit by a wad of sperm, or even a chunk of human feces, while watching a film.

I feel sorry for them and all but it was just a bad idea to sit behind Paul Ruebens at the theater.

Of course they have - The whole core is ice!! Now, hot looking mutants is the find I'm looking for!

Elijah Wood also played a "bad guy" in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Quite passable, really.

• Sites , which are ranking the movies, like this biggest threat to Hollywood. Every time I plan to see a movie, I check with imdb and yahoo.com to filter out crap like this. On other hand I would miss a lot if I did not go to see Sin City, or The Crash, or Kung Fu Hustle which became my favorites ot 2004-2005.
• Movie hopping. When I am going to the local 20-something-plex, I try to watch two movies for the price of one.

• Sites , which are ranking the movies, like this biggest threat to Hollywood. Every time I plan to see a movie, I check with imdb and yahoo.com to filter out crap like this. On other hand I would miss a lot if I did not go to see Sin City, or The Crash, or Kung Fu Hustle which became my favorites ot 2004-2005.
• Movie hopping. When I am going to the local 20-something-plex, I try to watch two movies for the price of one.

• Sites , which are ranking the movies, like this biggest threat to Hollywood. Every time I plan to see a movie, I check with imdb and yahoo.com to filter out crap like this. On other hand I would miss a lot if I did not go to see Sin City, or The Crash, or Kung Fu Hustle which became my favorites ot 2004-2005.
• Movie hopping. When I am going to the local 20-something-plex, I try to watch two movies for the price of one.

• Sites , which are ranking the movies, like this biggest threat to Hollywood. Every time I plan to see a movie, I check with imdb and yahoo.com to filter out crap like this. On other hand I would miss a lot if I did not go to see Sin City, or The Crash, or Kung Fu Hustle which became my favorites ot 2004-2005.
• Movie hopping. When I am going to the local 20-something-plex, I try to watch two movies for the price of one.

• Sites , which are ranking the movies, like this biggest threat to Hollywood. Every time I plan to see a movie, I check with imdb and yahoo.com to filter out crap like this. On other hand I would miss a lot if I did not go to see Sin City, or The Crash, or Kung Fu Hustle which became my favorites ot 2004-2005.
• Movie hopping. When I am going to the local 20-something-plex, I try to watch two movies for the price of one.

If you strip away enough you can get to the fact that every movie has one of two plots:
Introduce hero, Kill hero (or hero's dreams)
or
Introduce hero, hero succeeds.

You were right, up until Psycho, where the introduced 'Hero' dies midway through the movie.

Don't laugh. It was a real breakthrough in plot lines. Since then, many variants were invented, but movies are no longer RPG narratives.

but generally I will not see a movie on the opening Friday because the level of stupid in the audience is too high.

You may have hit on something: I wonder if it would be possible to capitalize on this. Make it so that the nuances of seeing a movie with a group of boisterous strangers would improve the experience? I recall the funniest moment of Scary Movie being the scene where the girl who keeps talking on the cell phone is killed, precisely because there was someone who had recieved and answered about three calls loudly before this scene. (incidentally, she turned off her phone after the whole theatre stared at her with wicked grins during this sequence.)

Then again, I guess this would just lead up to this.

but generally I will not see a movie on the opening Friday because the level of stupid in the audience is too high.

You may have hit on something: I wonder if it would be possible to capitalize on this. Make it so that the nuances of seeing a movie with a group of boisterous strangers would improve the experience? I recall the funniest moment of Scary Movie being the scene where the girl who keeps talking on the cell phone is killed, precisely because there was someone who had recieved and answered about three calls loudly before this scene. (incidentally, she turned off her phone after the whole theatre stared at her with wicked grins during this sequence.)

Then again, I guess this would just lead up to this.

I think you hit the nail on the head. I went to see Ladies in Lavender a while back and there were no teens and no cell phones. The only slight disturbance was caused by some old guy's dentures falling out and clattering on the floor.

Oh come on...

A movie just came out that was made specifically for slashdotters!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405422

So what's wrong with movies. In every one of the past 10 movies I've gone to:

1. It seems punk kids get up in the middle of the movie, disappear for about 20 minutes, and then come back with their friends. They then all go out again and do the same with more friends. Sometimes they don't even come back? Meanwhile this is distracting as anything. Stay for the whole thing or leave.

2. At least 10-20 people pull out their cell phones and either a. fiddle with them with the backlight on, or b. talk to whoever called them, often yelling at their (assumed) parents that they're in a movie and can't be picked up. Go outside!

3. There are at least 5-10 people who do a combination of a. talk throughout the whole movie, b. get up and shake their fist in an ?Arsino? Hall type fashion at something funny being said during the movie.

4. Generally 30 minutes from the start of the commercials to the 'Feature Presentation'.

5. Movies are predictable, uninteresting, and generally awful. Maybe 5% of them are actually worth seeing.

6. Movies are now $10CDN at the 'big' theatres (as low as $4 at the little ones), but they were once 13.95CDN. Not to mention popcorn and a drink will run you another 10-12$ CDN.

7. Lack of promotion- the last movie I saw with good promotion was MONTHS of Dukes of Hazzard hype and links to music television networks. You don't have the same hype you once saw for movies like The Matrix, or even movies like Toy Story. You need to get people excited for your crappy warez.

8. It's antisocial. In a day in which people sit inside at an office all day, why would I want to go sit in a smelly theatre with punk kids for two hours? This is a part of the atmosphere. Making it more of an activity rather than staring forward for 2h would be an interesting feat, but you have to do so without destorying the movie... think about it.

Now I'm as much of a movie fan as anyone else- I watch movie after movie on TMN, but the quality is way downhill. It's all been done for some time now. The effects are to the point of becoming overdone. Face it- Hollywood just doesn't offer the same humour, action and advenure once seen. there will never be a reproduction of 'Office Space' or 'Way Downtown'.

PS: Oh- and that set designer that says he makes movies and how pirates steal his living.

-M

Moderation +5
40% Interesting
20% Insightful
20% Informative

What's really "interesting" is that the none of the mods ever saw the very popular movie (a comedy) where this quote was taken (the whole comment was a copy-and-paste from IMDB). The more amazing part is that they actually found it Interesting, Insightful, and Informative!

It is not difficult, just painful.

I am reminded of this exchange from The Magnificent Seven {http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054047/}

[Calvera has just captured the Seven]
Calvera: What I don't understand is why a man like you took the job in the first place, hum? Why, heh?
Chris: I wonder myself.
Calvera: No, come on, tell me why.
Vin: It's like this fellow I knew in El Paso. One day, he just took all his clothes off and jumped in a mess of cactus. I asked him that same question, "Why?"
Calvera: And?
Vin: He said, "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

In a bold move to bridge cultural divides and to promote racial and sexual tolerance, GNAA president timecop, NAACP president Kweisi Mfumeq and the distributors and broadcasters of popular Naruto anime series embarked on an ambitious project to achieve these noble objectives.

The vehicle selected was the anime series Naruto. In collusion with the distributors on this series, it was agreed to not broadcast episode 146 for the week of August 1st to August 7th, 2005.

timecop proposed and executed the plan to provide an alternative viewing experience, which was aimed at reaching out to the targeted population, and bringing about the achievement of the goals of this project.

Spokesman for Nielsen Media Research Company, Armands Leimanis, estimated that 77439 people downloaded the torrent, which actually was the movie Gay Niggers from Outer Space masterfully disguised as Naruto 146. "Never in the history of mass media marketing has something been so successfully marketed on such a large scale in such a short period of time. timecop has succeeded in accomplishing what marketing gurus around the globe have been trying to do for decades. This is truly genius in motion."

timecop was unavailable for comment as he was on an expedition to photograph spiders.

Dattebayo, in a fit of rage at being excluded from this glorious endeavor, flipped out and made the channel #db on rizon.net +i (invite only) and +k (key). This led to the mass suicide of an estimated 16% of the Naruto viewing population. This is believed to be the single most damaging factor in limiting the distribution of GNFOS to the magical 100,000 leeches. NCAAP president Kweisi Mfumeq condemned Dattebayo's actions and compared them to the KKK and gay bashing organizations.

About Dattebayo and #db on Rizon:

#db is a neo-fascist translating group who foists its misguided translations of Naruto on the unsuspecting and naïve fans of this anime series, in an attempt to promote their own nefarious agendas.

About Gayniggers from Outer Space:

Overview
Sponsored by Carlsberg Pilsner
Produced by GayJack Movies
Distributed by WorldWide GayMovies
Dino De Laurentus & Raymond Hansen Present
A Lindberg & Kristensen Production

"The Universe. Its mighty power. Its evolutionary force, not to be stopped by anyone. In its beauty, this, this is a happy place to stay, filled with harmony and cosmic joy. A free place, where men can express themselves, and be as when they were born. All of this is, because someone cares. Because someone looks after us. When we sleep, when we play. When we act natural. This is a movie about those who risk life, and partners, to guarantee living in a wonderful and free universe. This is a movie about the Gayniggers From Outer Space. The Gayniggers come from the planet Anus, in the 8th Sun System, far far away from here. They are much, much more intelligent than any other creature in the Universe. The most fascinating thing about them is that they, with the help of their super intelligence, and their highly developed telepathic system, Braintapping, will be able to create a world, a society, a perfect world to live in without the presence of women. A MALE ONLY WORLD."

Starring
Coco P. Dalbert as ArmInAss
Sammy Saloman as Capt. B. Dick
Gerald F. Hail as D. Ildo
Gbartokai Dakinah as Sgt. Shaved Balls
Konrad Fields as Mr. Schwul
Johnny Conny & Tony Thomas as The Gay Ambassador

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

Due to my extensive research of The Negro archives, I have discovered that the ACTUAL name of the airplane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was in fact THE ENOLA GAY NIGGER and not, as is widely misrepresented, The Enola Gay. This clear plot, by Zionist oppressors, to besmirch and belittle our glorious Gay Nigger history has left an indelible sense of frustration and desperation on the current generation of our persecuted brothers.

With this in mind: Areems, Fresh from the Counter Strike World Championships (for Mac users), who is stuck in Iraq because no aircraft can accommodate his girth, got a lucky headshot on failed blogger Vincent Stephen.

True to Zionist form, an Ultra Top Secret Wing of MOSSAD, The Jewish Justice League, sprung into action. They concocted a media plot to create the illusion that a disgruntled, never heard of before insurgent group, claimed responsibly for this deed.

Conspiracy theorists among the Negro population have evidence that this type of persecution of The Gay Niggers is due to the fact that most Israeli men are secretly attracted to Gay Niggers. Evidence in point is the term coined by Ariel Sharon, a closet Nigger Lover, "Pulling out of the Gaza Strip". It is a widely known and accepted fact that The Gaza Strip is a term of endearment for BLACK ASS.

About The Jewish Justice League

The Jewish Justice League was founded by the mothers and wives of Israel who were concerned that their men were being drawn to the Nigger Seed and away from their wives.

About Areems

Fat.

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 this link if you are using an irc clien

Real Genuis - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

Um, Buddhists are atheists.

False.

Just because you do not believe in a supreme being does not make you an atheist.

Buddhism is full of all kinds of minor deities. Here's my favorite just because the movie was a lot of fun.

Talk about modern warfare...

Or a re-make of a very famous movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419706/

But then, recycling is par for the course in Hollywood these days. Mars is always a nice place to find evil mutants hell-bent on destroying your way of life.

IMDB is your friend:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1132359/

So, she's about 24 now.

Wouldn't have helped in this situation. People from the future jumped into this plane, replacing the crew and passengers with corpsicles. Those are the people the F15 pilots saw moving around before the crash.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0097883/plotsummary

ED-209 'bout to thoroughly shred some office schmuck

Yeah, Adam hasn't really done much between My Bodyguard and Firefly..... only Full Metal Jacket, ID4, The Patriot, X-Files for 2 seasons, etc...

L

Creepy. The next thing that pen might do with my hand is to poke into my eye or try to strangle me, like Dr. Strangelove's hand: http://imdb.com/title/tt0057012/.

I've always wanted a dozen of the acid-injecting spider robots featured in Runaway.

Quoting from the movie Major League

Rick Vaughn: You put snot on the ball?

Eddie Harris: I haven't got an arm like you, kid. I have to put anything on it I can find. Someday you will too.

This reminds me of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085017/

>> Get a good PSU for your PC today!

pretty good advice, I'd say.

I've had a P.S. die, fry the traces right off the mainboard & cook half the components in the computer. Made me an instant believer in buying decent P.S....

People will put serious money into their CPU, RAM, Video etc but insist on buying a $20 dollar piece of crap to run it all. Or worse yet a $80 dollar piece of crap that has LED fans. (Hint: If it doesn't weigh any more than the no name P.S. your replacing, it probably isn't any better. Like the russian dude in Snatch says: "The weight, it is sign of reliability")

Are the billboards going to be solving the problems in our life too? [imdb.com]

Not exactly.

The theory is, software or hardware that will be licensed to play DRM media will force the use of HDCP.


if ($HDCP && exists $legal->{$media_key}) {
        play($hardware->'max_res');
} elsif (!$HDCP) {
        play($hardware->'480i') && warn ("$0: tough noogies, buy new crap!\n");
} else {
        inform(['M$', 'FBI', 'RIAA', 'MPAA']);
}


That's not to say that your whole OS would fail to load, but if you bought that 1080i copy of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and expected to play it on your PC or Mac, that PC or Mac would need end-to-end HDCP for a licensed player to load.

Of course, all bets are off related to cracking the keys that are burnt onto each disc, but one would presume that teh industray would have learnt from DVDJon...

(1) See Fletch: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089155/

You independent movie fans always come off as so conceited. Just because you didn't like the movie doesn't make it a bad movie.
In fact lots of people think your wrong about 'War of the Worlds'.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407304/ratings
If you really want to pick on a movie that is all flash and no substance try picking on a real bomb like 'Stealth'.

clearly the relavant title is this one: imdb.com

I know it kept me from putting my electric shaver under the control of my PC.

"The first Finnish full-length scifi comedy"

Finally Finland has a film that can compete with this gem from Denmark.

Sir Humphrey: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the rise in crime among teenagers?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey: Do you think there is lack of discipline and vigorous training in our Comprehensive Schools?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey: Do you think young people welcome some structure and leadership in their lives?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey: Do they respond to a challenge?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey: Might you be in favour of reintroducing National Service?
Bernard Woolley: Er, I might be.
Sir Humphrey: Yes or no?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey: Of course, after all you've said you can't say no to that. On the other hand, the surveys can reach opposite conclusions.
[survey two]
Sir Humphrey: Mr. Woolley, are you worried about the danger of war?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey: Are you unhappy about the growth of armaments?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey: Do you think there's a danger in giving young people guns and teaching them how to kill?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey: Do you think it's wrong to force people to take arms against their will?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
Sir Humphrey: Would you oppose the reintroduction of conscription?
Bernard Woolley: Yes.
[does a double-take]
Sir Humphrey Appleby: There you are, Bernard. The perfectly balanced sample.

Just as an interesting aside that your comment reminded me of, I was watching Real TV, or at least a similar show, basically video clips of crazy stuff happening. Anyways, there's one of a teenage ice hockey game going on where a fight breaks out. Big brawl, involving a number of players from both sides. One kid out there thinks that the fighting is stupid and a waste of time, so to protest and stop the fight, he takes his shirt off, and drops his pants, while skating around the rink.

I think I saw that one too...

Doesn't the guy at the end of the video look like Bong Soo Han? He played Dr. Klahn in Kentucky Fried Movie.

Brett

Doesn't the guy at the end of the video look like Bong Soo Han? He played Dr. Klahn in Kentucky Fried Movie.

Brett

Exactly. Thats just the way it is.

You see, there's three kinds of people: dicks, pussies, and assholes. Pussies think everyone can get along, and dicks just want to fuck all the time without thinking it through. But then you got your assholes, Chuck. And all the assholes want us to shit all over everything! So, pussies may get mad at dicks once in a while, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes, Chuck. And if they didn't fuck the assholes, you know what you'd get? You'd get your dick and your pussy all covered in shit!

:)

This reminds of the film {proof}.
I saw a trailer for it the other day. Has one body seem the movie? No doubt Holywood will get the math wrong.

Similar research was already conducted in 1999 by Larry Hodges.
Here's an overview. And for a relaxed Sunday afternoon read: check out the related research paper (PDF).

I saw Larry and fellow Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy researchers at a talk in 2000. Larry showed a video of a Vietnam Vet suffering from PTSD who was exposed to a virtual Vietnam war scenario. Within a short time the Vet totally forgot that he was in a simulation and started to yell out to his virtual comrades, trying to warn them of an imminent attack. Watching this video was both fascinating and appalling at the same time. On the one hand I was proud to see how far VR research has come. On the other hand I realized how horrible the Nam war experience must really have been for the Vet.

Pfft, looks like none of the mods have seen Total Recall recently ...