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It's better than any Michael Bay movie.

Then I was right. Job has all his children killed, and Michael Bay gets to keep making movies. There isn't a God.
-- Kyle Broflovski

The worst movie ever title belongs to 'Zombie vs Ninja' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094384/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077/

Nah, I think that title goes to Manos: Hands of Fate

No matter what yardstick you use to measure a bad movie by, this movie will still suck. Not even the "so bad that it's good" excuse can save it.

Actually, its called 'Manos' the Hands of Fate.

Rated at 1.5 on IMDB. Not bad.

I've never seen Plan 9, but I don't believe it could be worse than The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?

would have to be Gay Niggers From Outer Space.

The GNAA put out a torrent of a VHS rip for those curious how bad a movie can be.

It might have rock-bottom production values and a below-b-grade script, but thinking about it I don't it's any less enjoyable a movie to watch than Spiderman 2 or *other random hollywood movie*.

It's worth watching just to know what everyone's on about.

Joss Whedon also has track record in writing screenplays. IMDB credts Joss Whedon as the writer for:

• Wonder Woman (2007) (announced)
• Serenity (2005)
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
• Titan A.E. (2000)
• Alien: Resurrection (1997)
• Toy Story (1995)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)

Full details here.

You want to see real crud, I recommend Night Train to Mundo Fine, also known as Red Zone Cuba. I could not make heads or tails of the movie, nor did I care. There's a reason it scores 1.7 out of 10 at IMDB...

A lot of things might be a big deal to one specific person - that doesn't make it news.

Look at it this way:

+She is not the first kid around that age to get an MCSE or a MCP or any other Microsoft certification.
+She is not the first kid that age to do so from that region of the globe.
+She is not the first kid to do so in the last year.
+She is not the first kid to hang with Bill Gates as a result.

It was a big deal the first time. It was pretty interesting to read about the kid who did this stuff so young and even check out his website where he wrote about all the stuff he had been able to do as a result of his accomplishment. But you know what? That was done with. It was old news. It's over.

Beating every "youngster gets a Microsoft Certification" story to death every month or two is silly. Who was the second man to reach the top of Everest? The third? The fourth? The fifth? Right, who knows - because nobody cares. It was news the first time.

But I guess the reason this is such a big deal is because she's from Pakistan and we all have idiotic preconceptions about what live all over that part of the region is like. The first picture in everyone's head is probably of some poor girl living in an aluminum shack next to her family's herd of goats, caked in dried mud, dodging bullets and carrying buckets of water half a mile from the river to do their laundry by hand in.

I'm sorry, but my entire point (besides this just not being a very interesting story) is that people respond to it with offensively stupid preconieved notions. Like if she didn't become a computer expert at the age of ten, her only other option in life would be washing feet and selling trinkets to tourists on the road. Come on. If this kid was from Canada, nobody would give a crap.

People need to check out some photos of Pakistan. Especially places liek Islamabad. Except for some of the more interesting architecture, I dare you to differentiate it from any other fairly large city. It's not like this kid was sleeping on the floor in a yurt. She's just a normal, inquisitive kid with parents that provide her with plenty of resources. Hell, resources that a lot of kids in America don't have. So don't act like this is some kid from the outback being rescued and brought to America by Kevin Bacon.

The Irish terrorists attacking Jack Ryan's house in Patriot Games comes to mind.

- G

B.D. Wong

Why not Peter Weller?

He was the original Robocop

I like the idea of IPTV, but not in the way that it is being used in this article. I'd really like the concepts of networks and channels to pretty much go away, leaving only studios and ISPs.

As it stands now, studios have to beg and plead networks to carry their programming, and a lot of times, they have to compromise their artistic creativity to pander to the networks' need to sell advertising to sponsors and meet stupid FCC anti-obscenity standards. Consumers have to pick through hundreds of hours of worthless drivel to find a very few priceless gems.

With IPTV, we could completely cut out the middlemen. We watch and pay for exactly what we want to watch and pay for, tv studios get to make exactly what they want to make, and everyone's happy. Well, everyone except the former network executives, who are used to telling us what we're supposed to like to watch and screwing creative people for the sake of petty power.

My mom once caught me in the middle of sock manipulation.
I must have looked pretty guilty.

Larsen's involved with the new BSG -- Consulting Producer according to IMDB.

And yes she's old now, but that movie was out, what, 10 years ago.

15 years.

Glen Larsen had great ideas

(And now I want to see it again, sigh.)

Indeed. It's kinda like the remake of Ocean's Eleven: They tooks something that should've been good, and made it actually good.

Indeed. It's kinda like the remake of Ocean's Eleven: They tooks something that should've been good, and made it actually good.

"I know it may look like parent is insulting grandparent, but this is a quote from the movie 'Demolition Man' ..... http://imdb.com/title/tt0106697/"

*Ding* You have been fined one credit for spoiling the joke.

Man, you really are dense. Seriously, you guys shouldn't even mention the film until you understand the subplot of mecha in the movie. It seems the greatest critics of this movie are people who seriously don't get the ending (it was a horrible ending, but certainly had continuity).

Referred to as "superrobots":
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0212720/trivia

Spielberg on the super-mecha

Ian Watson who worked with Stanley Kubrick on AI's story:
And as for sentimental, well, at the end of his perfect day David is alone without his mother for ever and ever in a universe which contains no other life, only the evolved Mecha (robots, not visiting aliens!) who can only study the traces and leftovers of extinct human life.
Watson Interview

Yet another interview on the ending:
Kubrick Collaborator Jan Harlan

I know it may look like parent is insulting grandparent, but this is a quote from the movie 'Demolition Man' ..... http://imdb.com/title/tt0106697/

in an appaling twist of fate, the quality of that homebrew movie's FX was probably on par with that of Mortal Kombat

I agree, but you must be new here.

While Pitch Black actually had three suns in it, factual information has never gotten in the way of a /. story before. Besides when it comes to chosing which articles to post, the obvious bias for all things Star Wars here tends to give the editors tunnel vision.

Pitch Black was the name of the movie actually. Not bad either.

No love for Pitch Black?

Besides, Vin Diesel can kick Chewbacca's ass. He can do anything.

Hopefully, they use Scott McNeil for some of the voices, and I'll get to hear more production-horror movies over Guinness next A-Kon. :) Plus, he's a fabu voice actor.

To make a quick correction to the Slashback, you can't yet watch the whole 2nd Starship Exeter film online; they are releasing it one act a week starting with the teaser two weeks ago, and both last weeks and this weeks this weekend (due to some lost footage).

Anways, judging from the teaser, Exeter has improved by leaps and bounds from episode one. Being frank, the it takes great effort for me sit through episode one of Starship Exeter (or the first episode of New Voyages for that matter). However, this episode is written by Dennis Bailey, who wrote an episode of The Next Generation (Tin Man, with Gumtu the space snail), and has actual CG effects (as opposed to an AMT model and horrendously bad play-dough dinosaur, not to mention the acting greatly improving.

And I guess I'll throw in a plug for my other favourite TOS fan film. The next Star Trek: New Voyages episodes will be written by two Deep Space Nine writers (Jack Trevino and Ethan Calk), and the one after that by D.C. Fontana, who wrote 11 original series episodes, six Next Generations, not to mention a load of other great TV show episodes. The fourth episode will also guest star Walter Koenig, whose name is very familier to anybody who has read this far.

I predict the next few years will see a load of flood of fan films on the net, with some of them possibly even being good.

-Clinton

Do you have any idea who Michael Bay is??? He's going to shit on your childhood 10 times worse than Lucas could ever dream of. It's going to be Bad Boys 2 meets Transformers.

The screenplay is being co-written by the moron who brought us the bombs "The Core" and "Catwoman", so my guess is that John Rogers will be the one shitting all over our childhoods, and Michael Bay will simply be sculpting it into offensive shapes and taking pictures of the result.

Do you have any idea who Michael Bay is??? He's going to shit on your childhood 10 times worse than Lucas could ever dream of. It's going to be Bad Boys 2 meets Transformers.

The screenplay is being co-written by the moron who brought us the bombs "The Core" and "Catwoman", so my guess is that John Rogers will be the one shitting all over our childhoods, and Michael Bay will simply be sculpting it into offensive shapes and taking pictures of the result.

Do you have any idea who Michael Bay is??? He's going to shit on your childhood 10 times worse than Lucas could ever dream of. It's going to be Bad Boys 2 meets Transformers.

The screenplay is being co-written by the moron who brought us the bombs "The Core" and "Catwoman", so my guess is that John Rogers will be the one shitting all over our childhoods, and Michael Bay will simply be sculpting it into offensive shapes and taking pictures of the result.

I always thought Lynda Carter was good. Too bad she's not as good now as she was back then.

I currently have the theme song to the massively underappreciated Mighty Orbots myself.

I'm guessing that Slashdot might be one of the only places where people actually might know what the hell I'm talking about.

Read the second bullet:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0212720/trivia

Please note - http://imdb.com/title/tt0212720/fullcredits Stanley Kubrik had not a single thing to do with this terrible film. Unless you thing someone like Kubrik would remove himself from the credits. Please note also, Spielburg wrote the screenplay.

No, but Chris Rock would be an awesome 'Jazz'. I also don't see the problem with getting star talent, the original movie had Leonard Nimoy, Orson Welles, Eric Idle and Judd Nelson, not all A list celebrities, but definitely above the leagues of the cartoon they were voicing and they did awesome. I personally, would love if they could get the original voice of Optimus. It'd be a pity if they couldn't.

Rather than paying attention to the beauty of the movie and the hard work those actors put in they were bored by long stretches of quiet time and scenes that required thought.

So, if people put a lot of work into a movie, it is automatically good?

I have to disagree. I saw AI, and it was not "beautiful". It was not only boring, but the story was horrible, and the scenes were dull. I even like the majority of what Kubrick puts out.

If you are wanting a strange, beautiful, weird, and strange movie, I would recommend Brazil or The Life Aquatic.

Rather than paying attention to the beauty of the movie and the hard work those actors put in they were bored by long stretches of quiet time and scenes that required thought.

So, if people put a lot of work into a movie, it is automatically good?

I have to disagree. I saw AI, and it was not "beautiful". It was not only boring, but the story was horrible, and the scenes were dull. I even like the majority of what Kubrick puts out.

If you are wanting a strange, beautiful, weird, and strange movie, I would recommend Brazil or The Life Aquatic.

Let's see, according to imdb, here are the billed screenplay writers:
John Rogers (screenplay) and
Roberto Orci (screenplay)
Tom DeSanto story
Alex Kurtzman screenplay

Googling around, it seems like John Rogers will be the head writer. His creidts? Catwoman and The Core.
(Budget/US Box Office)
Catwoman: $100 million/$40 million
The Core: $60 million/$30 million

Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman? Episodes of Alias, the Island, MI3, Zorro sequel. I highly doubt the Island will be good, and sequels just for money usually don't have stellar stories, so not looking too great.

The only possible saving grace in the bunch is Tom DeSanto who is credited for the story in X-Men. Hollywood must seriously be about the connections. I just don't know how anyone would be willing to invest money in the guy who wrote Catwoman or The Core.

Well, there is some precedent for such things. ^_^

(Although since he's producing and not directing, not really a big deal anyway.)

Ummm...

You mean, of course, another live-action He-Man movie.

Maaaaan was it terrible.

Wasn't The rock supposed to be in the Doom movie? Whatever happened to that?

Doom, to Transformers? Very strange. Rediscovering his adolecent childhood I guess.

Well, he was involved with batteries not included, which, for whatever I reason, I have fond memories of (although it's probably because I was 7 at the time.)

It's good to see Hollywood honor the independence with what will inevitably be absolute crap.

significantly worse than the Independance Days of old.

You bet! I remember the good old days when you had to rip someone's face from their skull and replace yours with it.

Armageddon about 1/3 of the way down the quotes list.

To expect nothing to go wrong ever is just naive. That being said, The teams of folks that write the software for the shuttle, are as close to perfection as you could ask for in the world of software. /. had this posted a while back. Being a Software QA Monkey for 10 years, I really appreciate what they've done. Altough I'm sure it helps to not have marketing folks asking when the next release is.