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Disney never believed that...

Alice in Wonderland - British
Mary Poppins - British
Lion King - Africa
Mulan - China
...
Disney - American company

Spielburg and Cruise will be ruining War of the Worlds. Luckily, a recent British adaptation of the movie was just released, and available on DVD in America now.

I'd almost forgotten about Tucker!

Francis Ford Coppola directed a movie about him: http://imdb.com/title/tt0096316

In a major media blunder the US Government and major media corporations are denying the resuscitation of the broadcast flag. Despite wide reports, Doug Herzog, President of SpikeTV (the First Network for Men) has confirmed that he along with other media executives have decided to abandon all attempts to push the broadcast flag through congress. In a press release Herzong noted,

"After looking at our summer lineup of movies, and previewing 48 Hours, starring Eddie Murphey and Nick Nolte, it was pretty clear that we wouldn't need a broadcast flag to keep people from recording our programming. I and a few others, hoping to promote our July 4th weekend of 48 Hours of 48 Hours, only on Spike TV also watched Another 48 Hours. After we finished the film, we were confident that we had done the right thing to abandon the broadcast flag and honestly were considering abandoning television altogether."

In a major media blunder the US Government and major media corporations are denying the resuscitation of the broadcast flag. Despite wide reports, Doug Herzog, President of SpikeTV (the First Network for Men) has confirmed that he along with other media executives have decided to abandon all attempts to push the broadcast flag through congress. In a press release Herzong noted,

"After looking at our summer lineup of movies, and previewing 48 Hours, starring Eddie Murphey and Nick Nolte, it was pretty clear that we wouldn't need a broadcast flag to keep people from recording our programming. I and a few others, hoping to promote our July 4th weekend of 48 Hours of 48 Hours, only on Spike TV also watched Another 48 Hours. After we finished the film, we were confident that we had done the right thing to abandon the broadcast flag and honestly were considering abandoning television altogether."

Just bookmark any page that is from a GET query. E.g. an IMDB search for "Batman Begins" gives you this:

http://www.imdb.com/Find?select=All&for=batman%20b egins

Modify the properties of the bookmark, replacing "batman%20begins" with %s. This is a placeholder.

Give the bookmark a keyword, such as "imdb."

Now you can type "imdb X" in the url bar in firefox, hit enter, and it will do a search for whatever you enter for "X." Much easier than using yubnub.org.

I have bookmark searches setup for all kinds of stuff. Whois, nslookup, tracert, imdb, dictionary, gg (google groups), gi (google image), gm (google maps), yyp (Yahoo Yellow Pages), the list goes on and on. Any URL that accepts query words will work for you.

This was the concept of the sickness "The Shakes" in the movie Johnny Mnemonic http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113481/

Henry Rollins as the doctor describing the cause hitting all of his electronic equipment is a scene I'll never forget.

This is so true, McNamara actually mentions this in relation to the excessive firebombing of japanese cities (which killed and destroyed more than the two H-bombs). Would you rather not firebomb the cities? And then have to send 500,000 american troops to land on the beaches of a country which evidently had a large portion of the population who were prepared to fight to the death? At what point is it permissible to do something in war because it is too henious?

McNamara goes through all this in "The Fog of War" documentary, and actually calls for restrictions to nuclear weapons and to "total war". And as General LeMay said, if they had lost the war, they would have been prosecuted as war criminals.

The documentary, Fog of war has 8.3 on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/ which would put it in the top 50 movies of all time on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/chart/top - if they put documentaries in there.

Truely a great piece, must see. Get it now.

This is so true, McNamara actually mentions this in relation to the excessive firebombing of japanese cities (which killed and destroyed more than the two H-bombs). Would you rather not firebomb the cities? And then have to send 500,000 american troops to land on the beaches of a country which evidently had a large portion of the population who were prepared to fight to the death? At what point is it permissible to do something in war because it is too henious?

McNamara goes through all this in "The Fog of War" documentary, and actually calls for restrictions to nuclear weapons and to "total war". And as General LeMay said, if they had lost the war, they would have been prosecuted as war criminals.

The documentary, Fog of war has 8.3 on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/ which would put it in the top 50 movies of all time on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/chart/top - if they put documentaries in there.

Truely a great piece, must see. Get it now.

Ahh star trek 4, the one about the whales.

BTW, WTF?

This killfest sounds more like "Enter the Dragon"

Ohhh, GLASS in space, I thought you said GAS in space, like in Rocket Man

Glass bones are perfect! They will eventually lead to super heros!

dunno if anyone else noticed who the narator is...

it's none other than peter cullen, voice of the transformers optimus prime amongst many other cartoons and movies. :)

Well, they did get Peter Cullen to do the narration, so that's gotta count for something.

I thought Lucas already did that.

Oh, wait...

Hasn't George Lucas tried and failed at this already?

Re: Adventures? (Score:2)

by Black Parrot (19622) on Saturday June 18, @07:43PM (#12853436)

> I thought that episode IV kind of established that Luke's life up to that point had been really boring...

Now that is a story line that Lucas is qualified to do right.

Just what i always wanted, animated advertising so cheap that it can be plastered anywhere. Something tells me it might not be a good idea though...

"Star Wars: Clone Wars" cartoons were better that episode 1 and 2 IMHO. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361243/ Sometimes TV series can be better that the movie they are based. Take Stargate: SG1 for example.

The future really sneaks up on you. All of a sudden we're in a Michael Crichton Movie.

Here is a chronicle of some early experiments in dual-core neurology.

"Claymation®" is a registered trademark of Will Vinton Productions, Inc.

You may be thinking of Aardman Animations, the British creators of Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run

"Claymation®" is a registered trademark of Will Vinton Productions, Inc.

You may be thinking of Aardman Animations, the British creators of Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run

Wrong movie. This sounds exactly like something you'd call Tom Selleck for!

Runaway was a forgettable Tom Selleck movie from 1984. He plays a cop in the "Runaway" division of a "near-future" police department and his job is to chase down and capture disobedient robots. Robots in the near-future of 1984 are very popular and ubiquitous in homes and workplaces, which is pretty strange, because they tend to suddenly go crazy at random times and they do things like shoot sparks, charge at you, or even fire weapons at you. (Simple coding errors I'm sure.) You'd think occasional behavior like this would make robots less popular, or put robot manufacturers out of business from accumulated liability and insurance costs, but people in the movie seem to view robots as a necessary evil. Nevertheless mutinous robots are such a problem in this future world that cities have to form entire police divisions just to handle the problem. That's the job Tom Selleck has- chasing "runaways".

The villian in the movie is a "good boy gone bad" nerdy engineer type who becomes a sociopath and releases robots that run around like insects and chase people with hypodermic syringe attachments full of vile fluids. He can also see you wherever you go because the city is full of videocameras and he can get a video feed from any one of them at any time to see what you're doing (keep in mind, this is pre-Internet) because he's just that good.

From TFA: Clearly, the present never is changed by mischievous time-travellers: people don't suddenly fade into the ether because a rerun of events has prevented their births - that much is obvious.

"Fading into the ether" seems to be based Back to the Future. Is that model of reality correct? If something was to occur in the timeline and prevent someone from being born, why would they suddenly fade away? Would they ever have existed in the first place? If they were never born we would have no memory of them...

DOH! guess I'm arguing myself into a paradox. I prefer The Butterfly Effect.

From TFA: Clearly, the present never is changed by mischievous time-travellers: people don't suddenly fade into the ether because a rerun of events has prevented their births - that much is obvious.

"Fading into the ether" seems to be based Back to the Future. Is that model of reality correct? If something was to occur in the timeline and prevent someone from being born, why would they suddenly fade away? Would they ever have existed in the first place? If they were never born we would have no memory of them...

DOH! guess I'm arguing myself into a paradox. I prefer The Butterfly Effect.

Nah, Twelve Monkeys. Still one of the best Bruce Willis flicks, and the first Brad Pitt role that wasn't ghey.

As was covered quite competently in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure , perhaps still the best treatment of time travel ever given by Hollywood.

By necessity, since traveling backwards in time causes effects to occur before their cause. The universe stops making sense when causality is violated because causality is what makes the universe make sense in the first place.

Anyway, I think the authors may have seen this movie. The idea is certainly not new.

rent Grand Tour: Disaster in Time some time... Not ghosts, but world disaster time-travel tourists.

not just indy and underground - some big budget films used pixelvision for effect. The main one that comes to mind is 1994's 'Nadja' http://imdb.com/title/tt0110620/

It's important to keep in mind that Russell T. Davies is someone who's not afraid to tackle controversial subjects, and that includes religion. For prove that he can pull it off, I recommend you to check out another Russell T. Davies production (featuring none other than Christopher Eccleson), which intelligently handled the subject of christianity: The Second Coming.

Wow. I checked out the website and saw the "baby boomers" "generation x" "generation y" "kids" thing and at first was insulted that they'd break their movie listings into generations like that. Then I realized that it made my life easier, as while there may be times that I want to see a kid movie, I usually want to see things that most gen-xers are seeing.

That, and anyplace that shows a movie called sisterhood of the traveling pants has my vote. Sure, it's playing at most corporate cinemas where I'm living, but I haven't heard of it. Sure, it probably sucks... but come on. That title just rules. And I had never hoped to hear the phrase " As four best friends spend their first summer apart from one another, they share a magical pair of jeans." Man, this movie sounds almost as awesome as The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit.

Regeneration sequence on Christmas? Remember that this is from the actor-writer team which brought us The Second Coming. Expect controversial, semi-subversive religious allegory.

From TFR:

A scene where the main character enters the wild and strange world of a LAN party would have been almost bearable if it weren't for the secret handshake. At another point, a hacker tells Edward that he needs to get in touch with a super-hacker, but "He won't accept [your e-mail]. Your crypto isn't good enough." As if cryptography were an 31337 skill that some possess and some do not.

"Oh yeah, you want a seriously righteous hack, you score one of those Gibsons man. You know, supercomputers they use to like, do physics, and look for oil and stuff?"

-Cereal Killer

Look how long it took the goverment to concern themselves with the automobile industry.

The Big Three should be indighted for manslaughter ~Tucker

The film industry used to go against this and release quality "timeless" movies that would hold up for decades and continue to sell, but they've fallen into this trap as well.

When was that? Perhaps it seems like Hollywood used to release quality "timeless" movies because all the bad ones have been forgotten. You can name any time period and I could list movies that really sucked. There has always been "B" movies and there always will be. Even the first full length movie The Birth of a Nation was exploitative and used racism to sell the product.

The Mythology of Star Wars. (Crapply link I know. There are torrents out there...)

It's an interview with Lucas and was filmed before II and III... really helps you see what he is trying to do. I thought both movies (I & II) were "ok" but this makes you look a little deeper and realize that the vision did come to light.

If you are a Joseph Campbell fan, you'd get why the movies progress the way they do.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0914612/
Emma Watson (II), a tad older than 15 :)

Anakin Skywalker may have doomed his career, unfairly so. The guy has shown that not only can he act, but that he's actually a fine actor. Feel free to check out his performances in "Life As A House" and "Shattered Glass". After seeing these two films, my opinion of Lucas' skills as a director fell even further. I had heard that he was not an actor's director, but to take a fine young actor and elicit such wooden performances from him, Good Lord man!

Anakin Skywalker may have doomed his career, unfairly so. The guy has shown that not only can he act, but that he's actually a fine actor. Feel free to check out his performances in "Life As A House" and "Shattered Glass". After seeing these two films, my opinion of Lucas' skills as a director fell even further. I had heard that he was not an actor's director, but to take a fine young actor and elicit such wooden performances from him, Good Lord man!

Seriously, we scientists, engineers and mathematicians should hold the media to task for its blatant disregard for truth and justice.

Captain, Road Prison 36: What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0264796/

He was good in 'Life as a House.' He still plays a whiny teenage punk, but his acting and dialogue actually have depth. Natalie Portman (don't say it! ;)) is also great in everything that I've seen outside of Episodes I-III. I think it's 100% Lucas here.

Clone Wars is worth a watch. Volume 1 is on DVD, with volume 2 hopefully coming soon.

Badwolf will be The Master I reckon. But I'm probably wrong.

Yup, you're wrong. The IMDB entry for this last episode originally had a casting for Davros (it has since been changed). The Master has never appeared on the casting list. Most likely, we're going to see Davros, or the Emperor Dalek, as the big baddy for the final episode.

However, there are other theories out there, some of which are bolstered by the casting Laura Frazer as the Tardis's Voice. Is the Tardis itself the Bad Wolf? Or maybe there's something/someone else inside the Tardis, manipulating it and/or the Doctor? When you consider the US made-for-TV Dr. Who movie from 1996 and how it ended, your original suggestion may not be too far from the mark.

Another theory has it that the Controller (the girl that Transmatted the Doctor onto Space Station 5 in the first place) may have been using time travelling technology to send subliminal S.O.S.es to the Doctor, in the hopes that she would draw his attention without revealing herself to her silent masters.

Who knows? Indeed! We'll see tomorrow (or Sunday even, thanks to my friend B.T.).

It's a crime because anyone who knowingly partakes in this sick shit, whether paying or not, is a menace to society.

Look, I don't want to spend any time lauding these people as great folks, but at the same time, I'd like my country to have an orderly set of laws. Hence, please don't take my remarks here in defense of a law as any kind of endorsement of the behavior. (It's such a charged topic that it's sadly hard to even discuss without a prologue of this kind.)

We are a country that is a great experiment in Freedom and a set of laws based on what people do, not what they think. There are many vicious kinds of people who walk the streets--people who would like to kill others, people who would like to take the money of others. People who want to just make each other feel bad. But we don't lock them up for "being bad people".

Should we turn a blind eye to horrible shit because it disrupts soneone's concocted logical view of things?

First, the someone(s) you're taking issue with is not me but Tom Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams, and others. I didn't found the nation and make up the Great Experiment, they did. I'm just explaining how it works.

Second, I'm not advocating turning a blind eye to anything. I'm advocating that every citizen be offered "due process". To understand why, refer to Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons (the relevant scene prominently quoted here, though the whole play or movie is worth a watch).

You're advocating a policy of "prior restraint" and using a certain degree of circular reasoning to get their. The reason you think merely seeing this content is bad is that you think it identifies people who will do other things (and, implicitly, you believe that making a mere guess of this kind won't come back to bite you personally). You seem to want to catch them in time by just proceeding on this guess before they do something concrete. But what if the mere viewing doesn't mean that? As others have noted--should we lock up the judge and jury? They also viewed it.

And what if it were some other issue? Could the government just guess about all things it thinks citizens might do? Should we lock up people who buy certain chemicals because they might be used in the drug trade or the making of bombs? Should we just assume that anyone who ever tells a lie in some venue is willing in some other venue to cheat on their taxes by lying there, too? We could stop a lot of tax cheats that way. Where does this kind of thing end?

By their nature, Free Societies are not Safe Societies. We buy some of our freedom at the cost of loss of safety. We could be a lot safer if we were not so free. You seem to me to be clearly advocating yielding freedom for safety, and I'm merely noting that while this is a possible thing to do, it's got dangers of its own that go far beyond what you're advocating. For a good analysis of this tradeoff, see William Gibson's Disneyland With the Death Penalty in Wired Magazine (Issue 1.04, Sep-Oct 1993). Or see the movie Minority Report. Or read George Orwell's 1984 .

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
--obligatory Ben Franklin quote

It's a crime because anyone who knowingly partakes in this sick shit, whether paying or not, is a menace to society.

Look, I don't want to spend any time lauding these people as great folks, but at the same time, I'd like my country to have an orderly set of laws. Hence, please don't take my remarks here in defense of a law as any kind of endorsement of the behavior. (It's such a charged topic that it's sadly hard to even discuss without a prologue of this kind.)

We are a country that is a great experiment in Freedom and a set of laws based on what people do, not what they think. There are many vicious kinds of people who walk the streets--people who would like to kill others, people who would like to take the money of others. People who want to just make each other feel bad. But we don't lock them up for "being bad people".

Should we turn a blind eye to horrible shit because it disrupts soneone's concocted logical view of things?

First, the someone(s) you're taking issue with is not me but Tom Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams, and others. I didn't found the nation and make up the Great Experiment, they did. I'm just explaining how it works.

Second, I'm not advocating turning a blind eye to anything. I'm advocating that every citizen be offered "due process". To understand why, refer to Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons (the relevant scene prominently quoted here, though the whole play or movie is worth a watch).

You're advocating a policy of "prior restraint" and using a certain degree of circular reasoning to get their. The reason you think merely seeing this content is bad is that you think it identifies people who will do other things (and, implicitly, you believe that making a mere guess of this kind won't come back to bite you personally). You seem to want to catch them in time by just proceeding on this guess before they do something concrete. But what if the mere viewing doesn't mean that? As others have noted--should we lock up the judge and jury? They also viewed it.

And what if it were some other issue? Could the government just guess about all things it thinks citizens might do? Should we lock up people who buy certain chemicals because they might be used in the drug trade or the making of bombs? Should we just assume that anyone who ever tells a lie in some venue is willing in some other venue to cheat on their taxes by lying there, too? We could stop a lot of tax cheats that way. Where does this kind of thing end?

By their nature, Free Societies are not Safe Societies. We buy some of our freedom at the cost of loss of safety. We could be a lot safer if we were not so free. You seem to me to be clearly advocating yielding freedom for safety, and I'm merely noting that while this is a possible thing to do, it's got dangers of its own that go far beyond what you're advocating. For a good analysis of this tradeoff, see William Gibson's Disneyland With the Death Penalty in Wired Magazine (Issue 1.04, Sep-Oct 1993). Or see the movie Minority Report. Or read George Orwell's 1984 .

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security"
--obligatory Ben Franklin quote

There really are a lot of options...

Revenge of the Creature
Play Misty for me
The Enforcer
The Gauntlet
Sudden Impact
Absolute Power
True Crime
Or my preference, Two Mules for Sister Sara. Which could double as a really cool name for a band.