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Lilo and Stitch did quite well.

Moreover, Disney hardly makes its money off of animated movies at this point in time. It has diverse media holdings, ABC being one of the most obvious. They also make live action movies, as they long have. Pirates of the Caribbean was a major blockbuster.

Animation is so disposable for Disney now that they shut down their main traditional animation studio. It's all CGI or contracted out from here on. Financially they aren't where they were when the Lion King came out, but they're nowhere near bankrupt.

These DVDs really aren't worth it to anyone who actually cares about film. While you can find some really great films in 1 dollar versions most of the DVDs have horrible and blurry transfers with a ridiculous amount of cropping (sometimes up to 20% of the frame is gone). Check out this IMDB thread for a comparison of the $1 His Girl Friday DVD to the Columbia edition: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032599/board/nest/127 03686#14534040

Maybe this one?

I got a bunch of these $1 DVDs at Wal-Mart months ago. The classic zombie movie Night of the Living Dead and the excellent and dark 1950 version of DOA were both good picks.

Unfortunately, most of the other ones were crap. Mostly just bad movies and/or bad acting, but on one of them the audio was so distorted that you couldn't understand what people are saying.

Still, it's hard to go wrong for a buck.

another dupe :)

OT from your reply, but regarding movies, how often have you seen a movie in the last several years that was truly original, and not a remake of a previous movie, or based on an existing comic book|novel|classic literature?

Though I'm not sure I'd had to say 6. There's My Life Without Me, Whale Rider, Under The Tuscan Sun, Kissing Jessica Stein, Amelie and The Hours . Well there are more but I don't want to spend much more tyme now this right now.

OT from your reply, but regarding movies, how often have you seen a movie in the last several years that was truly original, and not a remake of a previous movie, or based on an existing comic book|novel|classic literature?

Though I'm not sure I'd had to say 6. There's My Life Without Me, Whale Rider, Under The Tuscan Sun, Kissing Jessica Stein, Amelie and The Hours . Well there are more but I don't want to spend much more tyme now this right now.

OT from your reply, but regarding movies, how often have you seen a movie in the last several years that was truly original, and not a remake of a previous movie, or based on an existing comic book|novel|classic literature?

Though I'm not sure I'd had to say 6. There's My Life Without Me, Whale Rider, Under The Tuscan Sun, Kissing Jessica Stein, Amelie and The Hours . Well there are more but I don't want to spend much more tyme now this right now.

OT from your reply, but regarding movies, how often have you seen a movie in the last several years that was truly original, and not a remake of a previous movie, or based on an existing comic book|novel|classic literature?

Though I'm not sure I'd had to say 6. There's My Life Without Me, Whale Rider, Under The Tuscan Sun, Kissing Jessica Stein, Amelie and The Hours . Well there are more but I don't want to spend much more tyme now this right now.

OT from your reply, but regarding movies, how often have you seen a movie in the last several years that was truly original, and not a remake of a previous movie, or based on an existing comic book|novel|classic literature?

Though I'm not sure I'd had to say 6. There's My Life Without Me, Whale Rider, Under The Tuscan Sun, Kissing Jessica Stein, Amelie and The Hours . Well there are more but I don't want to spend much more tyme now this right now.

OT from your reply, but regarding movies, how often have you seen a movie in the last several years that was truly original, and not a remake of a previous movie, or based on an existing comic book|novel|classic literature?

Though I'm not sure I'd had to say 6. There's My Life Without Me, Whale Rider, Under The Tuscan Sun, Kissing Jessica Stein, Amelie and The Hours . Well there are more but I don't want to spend much more tyme now this right now.

The "Blair Witch Project" had a "shoestring" budget yet made millions. As I recall it started out as a class project for some college students. Or there's "Kissing Jessica Stein , it was made for under $1 million and grossed $7 million at the box office according to one website.

First we gotta fix some of that spelling you've got there. Janeane Garofalo, Hillary Clinton, and Rosie O'Donnell

First we gotta fix some of that spelling you've got there. Janeane Garofalo, Hillary Clinton, and Rosie O'Donnell

It's hard not to see a gigantic sculpture of the Ten Commandments as anything other than an endorsement of Judeo-Christian values over other values.

It would be more accurate to describe those particular displays as an endorsement of The Ten Commandments over The King and I, Around the World in Eighty Days, etc.

It's hard not to see a gigantic sculpture of the Ten Commandments as anything other than an endorsement of Judeo-Christian values over other values.

It would be more accurate to describe those particular displays as an endorsement of The Ten Commandments over The King and I, Around the World in Eighty Days, etc.

It's hard not to see a gigantic sculpture of the Ten Commandments as anything other than an endorsement of Judeo-Christian values over other values.

It would be more accurate to describe those particular displays as an endorsement of The Ten Commandments over The King and I, Around the World in Eighty Days, etc.

Wrong crappy movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0202314/
Deep Core, starring clever nickname.
Wil, by the way, says he'll have his slashdot interview answers up any day now. meanwhile you can find him playing poker or at suicidegirls.
http://www.wilwheaton.net/

...if they have crappy movies about their core too. Poor bastards.

Well, if Independence Day and Mars Attacks! has taught us anything, is that nukes don't really work too well against aliens. :)

Well, if Independence Day and Mars Attacks! has taught us anything, is that nukes don't really work too well against aliens. :)

They've killed Ed Bloom!

They've killed Albert Finney!!

Whew, this slashdot posting business is tough. I might just have to go back to loan-sharking for a while to get some vacation.

To the best of my knowledge, "e.g." means "for example".

Read all about it Here in this superb documentary.

i recommend this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/ it hasnt got cliche's and its PG so safe for kids too. watch it with the japanese dialogue and use subtitles. it really makes a difference to the feel.. it would be spoilt with the cheesy u.s voice actors audio track.

'elite sites' ? what is this, 1997 ?

No shit...I think they prepared for this operation by watching this informative and compelling docudrama. ^_^

It's true! they found osama here.

Osama was just a movie all along! We're safe now!

This whole discussion reminds me of something that was very important in my early geek development:

Stephen: I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson.
David: What's that?
Stephen: Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.

linky

Pretty interesting. Through several lectures professor presents his argument (and counter arguments) as to how a Turing machine inherently can never "understand" the data it is processing, and thus should be disqualified as a model for human intelligence.

The idea that human minds are like computer is so widespread and popularly accepted, and almost religiously clung to, that it seems the idea will be with us a long time even if it is proven false.

Another really interesting observation he makes is that in his long life he has noticed the workings of the brain generally have been compared to and tried to be explained as just about every new technology that has come along... and no doubt it will be in the future as well.

Thanks, Asimov.

Anyhow, pretty good lectures even if one disagrees with his argument... definitely some good points to think about.

On the topic of A.I. it seems to me another really interesting documentary I saw recently is, ironically, Stupidity.

In fact I propose a new Turing test. We can consider a Turing machine intelligent when it can define and accurately identify stupidity. (The first test will identify all of the people who think this is easy... such as, just a problem of mismatched input/output.)

I don't know about you, but the way I heard it was "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once" by the greatest rock and roll adventurer, surgeon and physicist to ever save Earth from the evil Lectroids of the Eighth Dimension.

Holy fagioli, talk about "evil conglomerate"! Will the Microsoft headqarters transform into something ominous and purely evil like the Event Horizon ship from the same movie?

So evil, your eyes melt.

I must watch that film again...
-:sigma.SB

If you look closely at the garbage movie, Twister, there are a couple scenes where the meteorologists are out in the field with their stupid school bus looking at satellite data on a laptop. I'm guessing because they got a deal on CGI work, Silicon Graphics wanted every computer in the movie to be one of theirs. So on this laptop, they had a piece of masking tape on the bottom of the screen with the letters handwritten- 'SGI'.

More ridiculous than that, though, was when the hailstorm came. This ragtag group of meteorologists, working on a shoestring budget, grabbed their stuff and ran for cover. Philip Seymour Hoffman's character uses the 'SGI laptop' as a shield from the hail holding it over his head as he ran towards the school bus.

There actually was an SGI laptop featured in the 1996 movie Twister. Thought it was custom built by the production company specifically for the movie, and not by SGI itself. It never hit the market, either. Nonetheless, with all the other computers featured in the movie, SGI must've paid 'em a helluva lost of money for product placement,... ;-)

Try Michael Bay of Armageddon, Pearl Harbor and (coming soon) Transformers fame. At least Bruckheimer (who has paired with Bay a number of times) has Pirates of the Caribbean to his name.

Am I the only one imagining a dark side Sir Humphrey trying to assist him?

Currently, there is a clear need for some kind of regulation of journalism

The government shouldn't have anything to do with regulating or licensing jouirnalists. Said road leads to censorship. If a journalist, reporter, or writer has to be certified or licensed then they can't be open and forthright with their writing or reporting, if they say something the powers that be don't like they can be denied a license or have it revoked. Slippery slope. To keep them honest requires public participation, alert editors and publishers, if that doesn't work then go after their advertizers.

So-called "journalists" for major reputable firms who were disgraced by their acts of journalistic fraud. These people intentionally pushed blatantly false information in order to push their respective agendas.. oh wait a minute... sounds just like Indymedia!

Sounds just like Rush Limbaugh. For a few years back in the mid '90's I listened to him regularly not because I agreed with him, I disagreed with most of what he said. And I'd wonder where he got his "facts". He'd say one thing, give one set of statistics or such and I could go and check them myself and he'd have thing turned around. Ann Coulter isn't much better. Niether is Bill O'Reilly. It also sounds exactly like the "New York Times".

Fact is is that there are people on all sides who will do what they can to have their way. It's up to everybody to do their own research.

Oh, I had thought of seeing "The Shattered Glass" about Stephen Glass but never got around to it.

At first I thought it was ridiculous to openly espouse a hokey religion invented by a science fiction hack. But then I realized, it sure helped this guy ...

(About the whole sci-fi films becomeing action movies and Michael Bay's lack-of-talent, and Vin Diesel).

IMHO, Bay's (from all 3 films I've seen - "Bad Boys" 1 & 2, and "The Rock") an okay director. The Bad Boys films were enjoyable, because Will Smith and Martin Lawrence wre funny in them, and big explosions didn't hurt things too much. And, frankly, The Island can only be an improvement on it's source material.

And I kind of thought of the whole Riddick series (especially if you ignore the Theatrical Cut of Chronicles of Riddick and count the Director's Cut instead), as sort of being Conan in space. (Think about it, of all the people with ray-guns and "gravity guns" or whatever the Necromongers were using, the one who does the most damage uses, almost exclusively, knives.)

But now that I've got that out of my system, I can get to the part where I agree with you on something. Yeah, TV needs a break from new Star Trek (by all means, keep re-running DS9 and TNG, and the last season of Enterprise). My Generation has grown up in a world where Star Trek has always been on TV. We need a break, so that Berman and Braga can retire or move on to other things. A series can survive this, fandom-wise. Just look at Doctor Who! Just so long as there are novels with new characters (or lesser characters, as the case may be), and (hopefully), the bookstores will keep them on the shelves, fandom will endure.

If you bothered googling for two seconds, instead of trolling just to be a 'tard, you would know.

Don't forget the top secret replacement shuttles that we'll use to save the world. You know they're just sittin' around thinkin' shit up!

"Lamb Chop's Play-Along" was children's programming at its finest -- engaging young minds with wit, instead of talking down to them like that GODDAMN EVIL PURPLE DINOSAUR.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113749/

Google is the biggest blind reader. Might they take some lessons from web standards in design of the OS.

Now if the user is blind and deaf, I'm reminded of the best Doctor Who episode ever, Curse of the Fatal Death . Jonathon Pryce played the best Master ever too. Rowan Atkinson starred as ninth The Doctor. They ended up on a planet where the inhabitants communicated through flatulence.

This got me to thinking that if you created a FartOS people really could say your OS stinks.

Who says that Japan won't build one too, ala Contact.

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price? -- Seymour Hadden

• http://www.splicedonline.com/99reviews/existenz.jp g
• http://www.darkhorizons.com/1999/existenz/exist4.j pg

As far as geek cred goes, don't forget her appearance in Escape From L.A.
She's been in a lot of things, you can see the list here.
One of the best, IMO, is Swimming With Sharks

As far as geek cred goes, don't forget her appearance in Escape From L.A.
She's been in a lot of things, you can see the list here.
One of the best, IMO, is Swimming With Sharks