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Now where have I seen this, before? Maybe I should've submitted a paper after seeing the film and now people would be talking about what a visionary *I* am, instead of this joker.

Get a lawyer and sue the morons 'til their ass bleeds, THEN call the medias for good measure. Sit back, enjoy. Then, for the next few years, make sure to stop every morning for donuts at the next employment place of your ex-boss.

It's much more rewarding that setting the place on fire.

For some useful insight into this question, watch the animated short "To Be" (John Weldon, 1990). Unfortunately not currently available on video; at one time it was available as part of a compilation of Canadian Film Board animation.

Tell it to Chief Thundercloud.

You'd be suprised. When I died a few years ago I had this done, and it's been great fun. It was either this or getting frozen. I'm just waiting for someone to screw up and download me, and I'm home free. That's where the money will be. Allowing the rich people to take over a younger person's body.

This is not new. It's called Freejack. Or does no one but me remember that movie?

-a

The Sixth Day.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216216/

You sick bastard. And to think I saw it in the theater.

em, end of days??? , yep: http://imdb.com/title/tt0216216/

It's been done, but they still have a few bugs to work out.

Imagine a world without murder...

Just six years ago the homicide rate in this country had reached epidemic proportions... It seemed that only a miracle could stop the bloodshed.

But instead of one miracle, we were given three: the precognatives.

Within just one month under the Precrime program, the murder rate in the District of Columbia was reduced 90 percent...Within a year Precrime effectively stopped murder in our nation's capitol.

[Director of Precrime, Lamar Burgess] In the six years we have been conducting our little experiment, there hasn't been a single murder.

And now, Precrime can work for you!

[U.S. Attorney General Vincent Nash]: We want to make absolutely certain that every American can bank on the utter infallibility of the system. And to ensure that whit keeps us safe, will also keep us free.

The answer is that Darth Maul and Qui-Gon mastered the form 3 style of light saber combat and accord to The Wikipedia: The master practitioners of the "Way of the Hawk-Bat" make extensive use of acrobatic maneuvres often thought not physically possible.

I suspect that the real answer is that Maul was played by Ray Park, a lifelong martial artist and expert practitioner of both Chin Woo Shaolin Wushu (or Kung-fu as it is oft mislabled in the west) and Changquan Wushu. The later form (with the emphasis on art more than martial) is predominant in his choreography for TPM's duels.

His superior physical performance in that role brings to the screen the sort of effortless subtle kinematics only achievable by those with innate skill and many years of training; something that will never be fully replicated with CG. IMO, it was the only redeeming quality found in any of the last three crapisodes.

Frankly, I am surprised even that made it to the big screen. Lucas apparently has absolutely no idea what nuance is.

Did anyone else ever notice that Qui-Gon is conspicuously close to the english transliteration of "qui-gong"? (a form related to Tai Chi with focus on medicinal results)

The darth maul fight is one of the best fights I've ever seen in any film.

Want to see an amazing sword fight on film? Go rent Sword of Doom. That film is seriously fucked up. --M

Sorry to nitpick even more, but it was actually John Connor the T1000 had as a primary objective. He only went after Sarah Connor so he could impersonate her in order to "Terminate" his primary objective, John Connor.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/

I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see it on IMDB. Thanks for pointing this out.

Please elaborate on MS DRM being cracked.

So the First Post's author is scared for a reason:

Whether it's toxic mercury, or molten tin and/or lead, I'm not sure I like the idea of "liquid metal".
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Do not look directly into laser with remaining good eye.

one clue to this phenomenon is samuel l. jackson's less than stellar performances in episodes 1-3...

'Star Wars' earns $108.5 million in 1st US weekend http://www.imdb.com/chart/

That show was baaaaaad. Space: 1999!

This also dims the magic of the movies. 2.3 stars. Pathetic. Even Gayniggers from Outer Space managed to get 5.9 stars, and The Wizard got 5.4.

Have you seen Life as a House? Life will no doubt imitate art.

Also, apparently, houses.

Total Recall

Give Manny Coto some credit...

...those were made a long time ago.

Episode VII: The Ewok Adventure
Episode VIII: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Episode IX: Star Wars Holiday Special

...those were made a long time ago.

Episode VII: The Ewok Adventure
Episode VIII: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Episode IX: Star Wars Holiday Special

...those were made a long time ago.

Episode VII: The Ewok Adventure
Episode VIII: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Episode IX: Star Wars Holiday Special

Unless you get Natalie Portman to be wearing that outfit Carrie Fisher wore in RotJ, I don't want to hear any more about it. Please.

Oh, just check out Closer. Fast-forward through most of it, though...

I can pimp my cab/site without having to somehow turn the trying to turn the conversation in that direction ;)

The one I built is a Time Bandits themed gaming cabinet (mame, nintendo emulators, ddr via stepmania, and a handful of arcade control-friendly pc games). I built the cabinet, built (as in assembled) the pc to power it, drilled a control panel for controls. As far as hacks go, enough people are making similar systems now to warrant commercial interest, and most of what's needed has become commercially available (not talking about pre-built control panels etc, but instead things like ready-to-use arcade-friendly keyboard encoders and such).

I can't really take credit for most of what's there, hack-wise. I built a playstation to parallel port adapter for the dance pad, but it's based on somebody's plans for exactly that. My spinner is wired up to a pre-made mouse hack, the joysticks and buttons and coin mechs to an ipac. N64 to USB adapters for external gamepads, a smartstrip to control power to the components (tv, lights, sound). The closest I've come to a real hack was smooshing a bit of metal into the TV's power button so that it would turn on automagically when it received power.

Most of the good pictures are on this page if you'd rather not bother going through the site, otherwise almost every step of the process is chronicled on the site in one way or another.

Team America: World police http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0372588/ FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!

Blade Runner (1982) I believe employed the use of either low orbit billboards, or just random hovering billboards. Hard to tell what the effect was intended to be.

...Presidential candidate Jeffrey Knight (Peter Graves).

(CLONUS)

As usual, fact follows fiction.

He's right, you are wrong.

I went home as promised and looked at my walmart purchased lawnmower man DVD. It is double-sided and it has exactly the same deleted scenes as he specified. You are wrong about seeing them in the theater, imdb specifically lists them as part of a director's cut.

As for your DVD being single-sided, Sony-tristar-columbia has a despicable practice of silently converting their double-sided releases into single-sided ones to save a few pennies. They do this without changing the UPC and sometimes the first pressings still use the old artwork that claims double-sided. Usually this means dropping the widescreen side and keeping the foolscreen side. These discs often show up in wal-marts dump bins before they show up anywhere else, but eventually they replace the title at all retailers. Also, when wal-mart first adds a title to a dump-bin it is still double-sided and only turns into single-sided after a few restocks.

Now, that is sony and Lawnmower man is Newline, but maybe they do the same kind of thing too - which would be terrible but like Sony would be Newline's fault and not wal-mart. Again, my lawnmower man that I purchased from wal-mart is double-sided, but I bought it a long time ago.

There's a movie coming out, The Island, about a bunch of clones being kept just for that purpose, but nobody's telling them that's what they are there for. Having a clone of myself for spare parts would be creepy. Handing over some skin or an egg and getting a new heart or whatever grown on its own would be great! No more waiting for months or years for a donor, and no more feeling vaguely guilty because the only reason you're alive is because someone else died in some horrible accident.

WOW, that was a lot of URLs!

And didn't they do something similar in the venerable Office Space as well?
'I'm gonna show her my 'O-face'!'

It's not hard to check stuff like this. If the rating seems unusually low, then it's probably an edited version. You can easily find the original rating by searching IMDB...which won't help you if you're impulse-purchasing from the bargain bin, but then again if that's what you're doing I have very little sympathy for you. (Alternately you could just check them when you get home before you take the shrink-wrap off, and they're still returnable.)

There was a movie from the mid-1970s directed by and starring Clint Eastwood called "The Eiger Sanction.". Had a number of people falling to their death, etc.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072926/

There's a story about it here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098878/

don't you see? This is just the beta test towards the ever popular inmate control system. Explosives and all. They just need to test them externally before making it an ingestible pill ala Fortress or any other randomly choosen future prison movie.

Wedlock, Rutger Hauer? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103239/

Will some nation eventually deploy weapons in space? I'd say there's a high liklihood.
To me then, the question boils down to, do you want to be first or attempt to be second?

You sound like a character from Dr. Strangelove:

President Merkin Muffley: But this is absolute madness, Ambassador! Why should you *build* such a thing?
Ambassador de Sadesky: There were those of us who fought against it, but in the end we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. At the same time our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a doomsday gap.

The "someone else is going to do it first" argument has been used by the military many times to justify the development of new weapons. The problem is that it is less of a reason, and more of a self fullfilling prophecy.

So far the Outer Space Treaty has worked well to prevent the militarization of space, and it will keep working until someone breaks it. Your argument is probably the worst possible reason you can have for breaking it.

Most of the /. crowd probably touches their own chicken enough without needing to reach out and cybernetically touch another!

BTW, the subject is one of Keanu Reeves' lines from Parenthood.

The movie with the magnetic boots was Fortress

Face Off was the movie in which Travolta and Cage switch ID's

The movie with the magnetic boots was Fortress

Face Off was the movie in which Travolta and Cage switch ID's

Anyone confused by the parent should realize it's an allusion to Primer.

Sorry to rain on anyone's parade.

Both the US and Russia (by way of the Soviet Union) have ASAT technology already, though I believe that treaties were signed to avoid use of these after the US had one successful test of its missile. That makes me wonder just how useful these satellites would be. They wouldn't be hard to find, or at least to extrapolate from launch monitoring (until they slowly move into alternate orbits by means of on-board thrusters).

Yup...nuke 'em from orbit...that sure sounds like us.

They mean keeping their options open, and being at the forefront of technology.

'Rods of God'? Just when I think that the neoconservatives can't get any more arrogant, they serve up this gem. Way to go, guys.

I dunno. I'd call them Pennies from Heaven, but I'm not religious. Just because some guys in the Pentagon's R&D back office come up with a name like that doesn't mean that the Religious Police are forming up ranks.

Sounds like those Air Force boys have been watching too much Real Genius.

I was thinking Spies Like Us. :)

Nothing will defeat terrorism like billion dollar space weapons!!!

You never know when Al Qaeda is going to build a rocket.

Those kids in Explorers did.

Gen. Lance Lord, who leads the Air Force Space Command, told Congress recently. "Simply put, it's the American way of fighting."

And many of the nation's allies object to the idea that space is an American frontier.

Another Air Force space program, nicknamed Rods From God, aims to hurl cylinders of tungsten, titanium or uranium from the edge of space to destroy targets on the ground, striking at speeds of about 7,200 miles an hour with the force of a small nuclear weapon.

A third program would bounce laser beams off mirrors hung from space satellites or huge high-altitude blimps, redirecting the lethal rays down to targets around the world. A fourth seeks to turn radio waves into weapons whose powers could range "from tap on the shoulder to toast," in the words of an Air Force plan.

No nation will "accept the U.S. developing something they see as the death star," Ms. Hitchens told a Council on Foreign Relations meeting last month. "I don't think the United States would find it very comforting if China were to develop a death star, a 24/7 on-orbit weapon that could strike at targets on the ground anywhere in 90 minutes."

mmmmmm... honeymonkey
Sounds delicious.

Oh, and you haven't tasted... Snake Surprise!

We're just another step closer to implementing the prison control system of the future just like they had in that sci-fi movie Fortress where the main chracter played by Christopher Lambert figures out how to escape.

You mean this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103239/ "Camp Holliday, a prison that utilizes explosive-filled 'wedlock collars' (a la THE RUNNING MAN) to maintain order. Each wearer has an unknown 'partner', and if they are separated by more than 100 yards, Ka-BOOM!, two headless prisoners. The genial Warden Holliday (Stephen Tobolowsky) brags of his 'perfect' record, but takes an immediate interest in the welfare of Warren (prison name, Magenta), and more importantly, his (as yet undiscovered) stash of diamonds."