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It's as if God gave you one CD-R for the rest of your life and you choose to burn Windows 3.1 on it.

If people would modify themselves either for a utilitarian purposes ("look at me! I can hang from a branch by my toes!!"), or even to look better, then I would think it's pretty neat. But so far (especially among women) the mods make them look worse, not better. Of course, maybe that's because when it comes to chicks, I have that whole 1940s hairstyle/fashion fetish. Ladies, if you wanna turn my brain into easily-manipulated mush, talk me out of all my money, get me to murder your husband and make it look like and accident so you can get his double-indemnity insurance money, etc., then modify your body to look like Gene Tierney or maybe Veronica Lake. I'll be putty in your hands. Now that's constructive body modification.

And if your body modifications also make it so that you can shoot as accurately as Robocop, so much the better.

It's as if God gave you one CD-R for the rest of your life and you choose to burn Windows 3.1 on it.

If people would modify themselves either for a utilitarian purposes ("look at me! I can hang from a branch by my toes!!"), or even to look better, then I would think it's pretty neat. But so far (especially among women) the mods make them look worse, not better. Of course, maybe that's because when it comes to chicks, I have that whole 1940s hairstyle/fashion fetish. Ladies, if you wanna turn my brain into easily-manipulated mush, talk me out of all my money, get me to murder your husband and make it look like and accident so you can get his double-indemnity insurance money, etc., then modify your body to look like Gene Tierney or maybe Veronica Lake. I'll be putty in your hands. Now that's constructive body modification.

And if your body modifications also make it so that you can shoot as accurately as Robocop, so much the better.

Don't forget Double Dragon, the video game license movie that was so incredibly shitty that society collectively purged it from memory.

Bots can be surprisingly good at poker.

To hell with that quisling attitude. I come from generations of rebels, including a WOBBLY uncle, who was lynched by the Anaconda Copper Company. Is my generation the one that should kowtow to prior social orders? I think not, and consequently, I wear my tats around the office with pride, and people ask me about my work as a system administrator, as if that's all that matters. Which, in the workplace, is INDEED all that matters -- my performance works in my favor.

I did not become a punk rabble-rouser to give up my civil liberties, and if anyone doubts this is a civil liberty, imagine how many Post-Holocaust jews were turned down because of the bumbers tattooed INVOLUNTARILY on their arms.

The lesson I derive from history on this topic is quite simple -- back town and they will trample you, assert your right to dissent and they may fight you, but you will move mountains in the long run. Read King's Letters from Jail.

It's not really that hard to make money on a movie without a plot; for example.

And those earnings don't include the cash cow known as DVD, or rentals in the second example.

It's not really that hard to make money on a movie without a plot; for example.

And those earnings don't include the cash cow known as DVD, or rentals in the second example.

We don't want them to combine those two movies into the much feared 2006 Blockbuster hit "A Lone Streetfighter in the Dark."

Quick, add some confusion by checking the Gay Niggers from Outer Space!

Whew...now they'll peice this one together a little differently, and the appocalypse will be staved off in this dimension. Or...

Moviegoers ask,
Have you read the Halo movie script?

I've read an early draft of the script, and it rules. I heart Alex Garland's stuff anyway, from The Tesseract to 28 Days Later. Garland also wrote the script for an upcoming Sci-Fi flick, Sunshine, which you can read more about here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448134/

Best thing about Alex, apart from his ability to type awesomeness, is that he's actually a Halo fan, and he really, really gets it.

So they've got a script written by a Halo fan who also happens to be an accomplished Hollywood screenwriter, and Bungie likes it. Sounds like they could be on the right track. I'm not familiar with Alex Garland's work myself.

You have to question the career of Uwe Boll. Between this year and next year, he is apparently directing at least 4 movies based on video games (Alone in the Dark, Bloodrayne, Dungeon Siege, Far Cry). Others look like they are potentially video-game transitions (at least their names fit that category - Hunter: The Reckoning, Night Claws, Fear Effect).

It's astounding even to think that one person could direct 7 movies in 24 months. I can just imagine that these are quite top-notch direct-to-video flicks ;)

In case you aren't aware, some of the

great
masterpieces
of the
modern
era

are based on video games.

In case you aren't aware, some of the

great
masterpieces
of the
modern
era

are based on video games.

In case you aren't aware, some of the

great
masterpieces
of the
modern
era

are based on video games.

In case you aren't aware, some of the

great
masterpieces
of the
modern
era

are based on video games.

Old stuff

Cherry 2000 http://imdb.com/title/tt0092746/

Also starring a pre-Matrix Laurence Fishburne.

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That would have been Gambit starring Michael Caine. A more detailed description here

Where fat lazy spammers are concerned, believe me killing them is the appropriate solution - wouldn't want them breeding further now would we? DIE SPAMMERS DIE. Especially the arseholes running Claria Corporation - oh wait my mistake Claria aren't spammers as they website says they are good unstanding citizens ! All we need now is for a tech to enact out the plot of "falling down" but at Claria's headquarters:

"An unemployed IT worker frustrated with the various spammers he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them".

Infact I can just see the quotes now:

You think I'm a thief? You see, I'm not the thief. I'm not the one charging 85 cents for a STINKING Vigra. You're the thief. I'm just standing up for my rights as a consumer.

Spam Gang member 1: Well then I guess I'm gonna have to read it for you. It says this is fucking private property. No fucking trespassing. That means fucking you.
Frustrated net user: It says all that?
Gang member 1: Yeah.
Frustrated net user: Well, maybe if you wrote it in fucking English, I would fucking understand it.

Spammer: We're the same, you and me. We're the same, don't you see?
Frustrated net user: We are not the same. I'm an American and you're a sick asshole.

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Recently, I liked the remake of Solaris. It's ambiguous, and true to the Tarkovsky "original" in leaving the deep implications unstated, though acted out for "evidence". It's a good balance of engaging (to an American) American characters and existentialism, with consequences, but without "morality" per se.

But I'd never forget my toaster.

A few more:
- Garbage (the band)
- The Zucker Brothers (and Jim Abrahams)
- Cray Compter
- The Dells
- The Marquette Golden Eagles... Uh... Gold... Uh... Warriors? Hilltopers? Uh... Dwyane Wade went to school here!
- Fighting Bob La Follette
- Sewer Socialists
- Harley-Davidson
- They brought Arnold Schwarzenegger to America
- Douglas MacArthur
- Bratwurst
- Numbered Highways
- Birthplace of The Republican Party
- Svetlana Alliluyeva (Stalin's Daughter)
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Heather Graham

Am I the only one who thinks of Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors ?

I doubt that David Brin will be writing any Hollywood blockbusters soon. (His Uplift series, while it looks fascinating, doesn't look like it would lend itself to a ninety-minute BAM BAM KABOOM fest.

Serenity may be more your cup of tea, perhaps not. If the Firefly series floated your boat, the movie should as well.

His Dark Materials is being made into a series of movies. It's been described as a secular response to Narnia, but I haven't read it, so perhaps it's not what you're looking for.

Surprisingly, I really enjoyed Pitch Black . Vin Diesel apparently forgot how to act after that, but it's a pretty interesting story. You can read the screenplay; someone was kind enough to put it online. But that's not really that space opera-y.

--grendel drago

I doubt that David Brin will be writing any Hollywood blockbusters soon. (His Uplift series, while it looks fascinating, doesn't look like it would lend itself to a ninety-minute BAM BAM KABOOM fest.

Serenity may be more your cup of tea, perhaps not. If the Firefly series floated your boat, the movie should as well.

His Dark Materials is being made into a series of movies. It's been described as a secular response to Narnia, but I haven't read it, so perhaps it's not what you're looking for.

Surprisingly, I really enjoyed Pitch Black . Vin Diesel apparently forgot how to act after that, but it's a pretty interesting story. You can read the screenplay; someone was kind enough to put it online. But that's not really that space opera-y.

--grendel drago

Think about it, there are tons of gamers salivating over this film I'm sure. But what is going to happen when reviews, leaked scripts, etc start coming out and they find that perhaps major parts of the story they know and love have been changed, and - given the studios' track records - probably for the worse? They're going to snub the film, that's what. Maybe not enough to make it tank, but probably a sizable number will choose to wait for the DVD, or not see it all. We geeks are extremely pedantic, we love details, it's what we do. Mucking about with 'our' culture is only insulting to us, and we recognize and resent it.

I know it takes more than just the /. crowd to make money for a film, and we do overinflate our importance, after all you need the public at large to like the film as well to be truly successful. But I think that with Halo, being as well defined and straightforward a story/universe as it is, there shouldn't be any need to alter it to dumb it down (or up) for the masses. Hollywood just wants to maintain its monopoly of culture and cater to the lowest common denominator. To paraphrase Chris Rock in another bad movie: 'We [the studios] tried that, and we got damn rich doing it. But maybe now it's time to try a different way.' After all what's the worse that could happen? It's not like the Bungie version of the film could be any worse than the Mario Bros Movie. Right? God I hope not.

* re: hundreds of thousands of fans - I have no idea what the number is but it's got to be big. maybe millions? I dunno, I just pulled a number out of my butt, let it go already.

Because just as people in the 60s, 70s, and 80s believed, "You can never go wrong by buying IBM." there are plenty of people today who believe, "You can never go wrong by buying Microsoft."

There's obvious dissent to this but if it's not true (the part where people believe it, not that you can't be wrong to do it), then how do they make so much money?

They (customers) see no long-term viable, durable alternative and play the sure thing.


Not the sure thing of: No questions asked, no strings attached, no guilt involved...a sure thing. ;)

Its all fun and games, until nanotech technologies like claytronics are used to make a shape-shifting cyborg, and someone gets an eye poked out.

"Luis Cypher"

Hmm Weren't you in this one?

At the time of the show's start, Courney Cox was far and away the most recognizable celebrity on the show, due to her recent stint on the failed CBS drama "China Beach"

China Beach? I don't remember C.Cox in China Beach (presuming we are talking about the same China Beach, the one with Dana Delany, Marg Helgenberger and Robert Picardo).

IMDB doesn't seem to know about C.Cox in China Beach either... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001073/

Courtney Cox was famous because of Ace Ventura

You are kidding, right? Or have you forgotten that timeless classic: "Masters of the Universe"

I guess if you think of someone like Jennifer Beals, then perhaps.

LK

One dollar?

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

I recommend it as well. Kinda gives you an idea of what the client is going through.

It's gonna be an animated film, you dolt.

You won't be saying that when they malkovitch your head. Just keep your tongue away from the theremin, and they'll suck forever.

Quote from 'revenge of the nerds"

Lewis: Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex.
ROTN

I remember reading something somewhere which quoted Matt Groening or Al Jean saying that they didn't think a half hour cartoon sit-com could translate well to the big screen until they saw the South Park movie. When they saw it they started thinking seriously about a Simpsons movie again. I wish I could rememeber where I read it, or it might even have been on one of DVDs.

My main beef is that the sitcoms themselves are the problem. Whether they are formulaic and derivative or not, the genre itself is getting stale.

Some of the tv shows that make me laugh include cynical mockumentaries, a breezy comedy of manners, and an utterly weird sketch comedy series. Not to mention a couple of the home grown entries.

Not a sitcom in sight.

...laura

My main beef is that the sitcoms themselves are the problem. Whether they are formulaic and derivative or not, the genre itself is getting stale.

Some of the tv shows that make me laugh include cynical mockumentaries, a breezy comedy of manners, and an utterly weird sketch comedy series. Not to mention a couple of the home grown entries.

Not a sitcom in sight.

...laura

My main beef is that the sitcoms themselves are the problem. Whether they are formulaic and derivative or not, the genre itself is getting stale.

Some of the tv shows that make me laugh include cynical mockumentaries, a breezy comedy of manners, and an utterly weird sketch comedy series. Not to mention a couple of the home grown entries.

Not a sitcom in sight.

...laura

My main beef is that the sitcoms themselves are the problem. Whether they are formulaic and derivative or not, the genre itself is getting stale.

Some of the tv shows that make me laugh include cynical mockumentaries, a breezy comedy of manners, and an utterly weird sketch comedy series. Not to mention a couple of the home grown entries.

Not a sitcom in sight.

...laura

My main beef is that the sitcoms themselves are the problem. Whether they are formulaic and derivative or not, the genre itself is getting stale.

Some of the tv shows that make me laugh include cynical mockumentaries, a breezy comedy of manners, and an utterly weird sketch comedy series. Not to mention a couple of the home grown entries.

Not a sitcom in sight.

...laura

Lewis: "Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex."

(Revenge of the Nerds)

Charlie Korsmo is definitely a nerd, and he's got the MIT degree (in Physics, no less!) to prove it.

All jocks think about is sports, all we think about is sex.

Ever since I saw Revenge of the Nerds (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088000/) in 4th grade, I knew this to be true.

However, now that I'm at the age where this could come in handy, I feel strangely misled...

Revenge of the Nerds:

Louis: Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex.

Yeah, I saw a documentary about this once. Pretty frightening stuff.

You'll get more accomplished if you write a well-worded letter to your MP than from a rally. All rallies do are make people watching the news think that you're a bunch of whiners that are never happy with anything (which is largely true about protests). See PCU for my personal take on the whole affair.

Write your MP. We have a system, and the system doesn't work because no one uses it. Write your MP and tell them that you don't like this, and etc. etc. Write your MP, because they're the ones that are going to listen.