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..that no-one ever decides to cross one of these things with a cobra...

Or, worse yet, Cobra Kai

"Though I haven't compleated it yet..."

Have you at least seen "The Compleat Beatles?

or how about silent running (which has douglas trumbull as director among a few other notable names like john dykstra. if you are at all familiar with ilm you will know those names.)? also, john carpenter's college movie, ala thx-1138, dark star (which gave birth to dan o'bannon's alien's saga).

there are a zillion other example's out there. here's another link you might like.

or how about silent running (which has douglas trumbull as director among a few other notable names like john dykstra. if you are at all familiar with ilm you will know those names.)? also, john carpenter's college movie, ala thx-1138, dark star (which gave birth to dan o'bannon's alien's saga).

there are a zillion other example's out there. here's another link you might like.

or how about silent running (which has douglas trumbull as director among a few other notable names like john dykstra. if you are at all familiar with ilm you will know those names.)? also, john carpenter's college movie, ala thx-1138, dark star (which gave birth to dan o'bannon's alien's saga).

there are a zillion other example's out there. here's another link you might like.

or how about silent running (which has douglas trumbull as director among a few other notable names like john dykstra. if you are at all familiar with ilm you will know those names.)? also, john carpenter's college movie, ala thx-1138, dark star (which gave birth to dan o'bannon's alien's saga).

there are a zillion other example's out there. here's another link you might like.

or how about silent running (which has douglas trumbull as director among a few other notable names like john dykstra. if you are at all familiar with ilm you will know those names.)? also, john carpenter's college movie, ala thx-1138, dark star (which gave birth to dan o'bannon's alien's saga).

there are a zillion other example's out there. here's another link you might like.

I dunno, did you ever see the episode of TV Nation with the segment called "Direct Mail"? Moore sent out two letter campaigns asking for money. One for "friends of Jeffery Dahmer" and one for an average young couple just trying to make ends meet. If you can't guess who got more money, you'll have to watch the show to find out.

What were they thinking getting rid of a director who successfully translated books to movies?

They didn't exactly "get rid" of Chris Columbus. He chose not to direct the Prisoner of Azkaban in order to spend more time with his family (he was still an executive producer though). According to the IMDB, he wanted to come back and direct the fourth film, but Warner Brothers chose Mike Newell instead.

there's been a new director for every film so far

Not true.

Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were both directed by Chris Columbus (this one, not that one).

there's been a new director for every film so far

Not true.

Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets were both directed by Chris Columbus (this one, not that one).

I'm so glad someone decided to finally put together a service that lets me look up movie times in my area!

Thank GOD Google is here to push the envelope and bring us new, exciting features!!

WHAT NEXT?! WILL THEY LET US BUY MOVIE TICKETS OVER THE WEB TOO? LOL!

I will submit this film.

For instance, Crash gets two fingers (out of five) on Filthy's scale, and Google gives it four stars (out of five). Million Dollar Baby is 3 on Critic and 4.5 on Google.

There is no explanation on how movie review pool was selected. OK, it mentions that the list was "determined automatically by a computer program", but what was the reasoning behind programming the program to look in some places (i.e. rec.arts.movies.reviews) but not others.

Google really needs to increase transparency of the service before I start trusting it.

For instance, Crash gets two fingers (out of five) on Filthy's scale, and Google gives it four stars (out of five). Million Dollar Baby is 3 on Critic and 4.5 on Google.

There is no explanation on how movie review pool was selected. OK, it mentions that the list was "determined automatically by a computer program", but what was the reasoning behind programming the program to look in some places (i.e. rec.arts.movies.reviews) but not others.

Google really needs to increase transparency of the service before I start trusting it.

Yup, I'm about to move to Europe, relabel Pirates of Silicon Valley, and send it in!

Just contact the kids that did that movie.

you will see the true cost of your computer lab staying proprietary.

I think you missed one of the main points of the article, being IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER! The people who have to implement and/or use the computers are not effected by price! They will be underpaid and over worked (more so during a proposed transition) no matter what.

If you had a divorce settlement in which every penny over $250 a week went to your ex, would you really choose a job simply on the basis of economics?

It seems to me that tax payers are the ones who'd have to push this through, as ultimately their the only ones who'd actually benefit from the savings.

Until it comes up with this I'll stick with IMDB, thank you. Reviews for blockbusters are a dime a dozen, and showtimes on another continent do nothing for me.

Lives will be lost ... However, this is not 'acceptable', merely inevitable.

People often use the word intolerable, and then go on to tolerate. They use the word unacceptable, and then they accept. I guess you can make a definition of acceptable that doesn't mean what the word means, but in the end, lives will be lost and if you don't accept that, it means you don't do it.

Remedial viewing: Glory (on the matter of sacrifice), The Princess Bride (on the topic of words that people use but don't really mean, in that case, "inconceivable").

Lives will be lost ... However, this is not 'acceptable', merely inevitable.

People often use the word intolerable, and then go on to tolerate. They use the word unacceptable, and then they accept. I guess you can make a definition of acceptable that doesn't mean what the word means, but in the end, lives will be lost and if you don't accept that, it means you don't do it.

Remedial viewing: Glory (on the matter of sacrifice), The Princess Bride (on the topic of words that people use but don't really mean, in that case, "inconceivable").

I saw a French film a few months ago that sounds remarkably like what this new film of Cleese's is described as. check it out. It's actually about the discovery of murder, if I remember correctly, but it also has a major subplot involving one tribe that is evolved (that is, has shampoo) and another which is unevolved (no shampoo = dirty and ugly). Extremely over the top stuff.

I thought it was pretty funny, though I don't speak much French so it might have been funnier (or less funny, who knows) if it were in English.

During a 20 Questions interview with Playboy magazine, Cleese spun a wild yarn about his ancestors being named "Cheese". Couple this with the fact that close friends call him Jack (a common alternative for John), Cleese joked that he might go back to his old "family" name and move to Monterey, California... thus becoming Monterey Jack Cheese. In fact, though, his grandfather's name *was* Cheese and he did change it to Cleese!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000092/bio

As with most Python-related stuff, I'd take this unsigned anecdote with a grain of salt.

Would you like to argue about this?

Sounds a bit like Gogs, another set of claymation shorts which had a feature length edition.

one comparatively evolved tribe, and one un-evolved tribe...

Wasn't this done in caveman? Still, I loved that cheesy movie.

Winshit? It's idiots like you that gives the OSS community a bad name.

I thought it was readily apparent, but for those of you who took the short bus in today, but descriptions like "Winshit" is giving Microsoft a bad name.

As for giving the OSS community a bad name, I hearby nominate, the "Our Shit Smells Community"

You mean The Legend of Curly's Gold.

If you're gonna correct someone, at least make sure you don't need correction as well.

If you read that title the way I did, you might be looking for this.

Come on people, how is it possible that we have gone this far into a thread without someone mentioning Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086999/)

"for the first two seasons we had Andy Griffith in space"

Kira Nerys is indeed hot .. she'd probably be my first pick, just over Jennifer Lien. (Not all the women on ST:V were bitches.)

Sheep mate too... and I bet they could keep my lawn trimmed... and in my neighborhood, I could pimp them out as well!

Then you get sheep boys, but wait I digress. Didn't we decide that self replicating robots were bad?

You mean The Legend of Curley's Gold

Sheesh, it's all in the delivery. (I'll take my -1 grammer Nazi now.)

Dude. http://www.imdb.com/ is your friend. Seriously.

That is about all you'll find in arcades nowadays....

Driving games.

Shooting games.

Fighting games.

Where did the diversity go?

That is why I'd rather play the classic videogames from the last century whenever I can.

I think STREET FIGHTER paved the way for the current glut and stagnation in arcade videogaming. It had great graphics, was modeled (somewhat) on real life, was insanely popular, and spawned many sequels (and knock-offs) as well as a poorly recieved motion-picture.

Success breeds more success which led to stagnation in the genre.

Including STREET FIGHTER, I have played or know about:

MORTAL KOMBAT

KILLER INSTINCT

SAMURAI SHOWDOWN / WORLD HEROES

ART OF FIGHTING

DARKSTALKERS

TECH ROMANCER

SOUL CALIBUR

TEKKEN

There are probaly more but I cannot remember them right at the moment.

They are all fighting games that had some success which led to the current lack of creativity in the arcade scene.

I think the best thing that could be done would be to simply re-issue classic videogames from a bygone era like:

PAC-MAN

TEMPEST

DEFENDER

TRON

MONACO GP

etc.

Most of the classic games I liked to play were put out by basically 3 companies:

BALLY/MIDWAY

ATARI

WILLIAMS

Back then, programmers had to use ingenuity to make entertaining games. Nowadays, its just "graphics, graphics, graphics." :p

Don't assume success to soon. Remember Private Parts, the Howard Stern movie? It opened HUGE, and did major box office for a couple of weeks. But once all his fans had seen it (sometimes twice), it's numbers dropped faster than one of his stripper guests dropping her top. What had been hailed as mega-hit actually ended up losing money. The fact is, the average person has probably never even heard of the Firefly series. So while it may be a snap to get fans excited, it's going to have a really tough time crossing over to the mainstream audience. Besides, isn't one space western enough? :)

Which means:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/business

"budget $40,000,000 (estimated)"

Throw in an average ticket price of $5 and the thing has posted $35 million over its production costs....

Just off its established fanbase.

They do this because there are some crazy people who shoot at them and all sorts of stuff.

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One of these days, one of these systems is going to get hacked and something truly embarrassing is going to be displayed on all of those big displays.

We can only pray that they "hack the planet" and put THIS on all the displays on earth....

um...here

I think you meant "Wayning," as in, "All this talk of a sickout is gonna make me hurl!"

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) is classic. You can only find bootleg copies of it, but the IMDb site has a link to this site which is devoted to the show. (There was also a funny April Fool's story about this movie being released on DVD.)

Funny, the first commercial looked to me like the guy was panicking over something gone wrong.

That, or he was just having a Matrix moment :)

...how rich will these guys be now?

Maybe we'll find out when they're interviewed on ESPN "The Ocho". My guess is they'll have to carry all that money home in a pirate's chest.

Anyone see the movie Demon Seed?...where robot that looks like a much larger version of this little Cornell self-replicating creature, rapes the wife of its creator and creates a baby hybrid?

as long as THEY are not running around stealing scrap metal from my apartment... i'm down.

I think the God-Awful TV show was pain enough, thank you.

Many people tell this joke, but unfortuantely most people have no idea where it came from.

Death Race 2000 (1975) was a movie where killing people with your car was a national sport. You got different points for the different ages, races, etc.

Most metropolitan areas have the DVD in one of the multiple video stores, and it's an interesting movie... especially with Sly Stallone getting second billing to David Carradine. Learn your history, the fun way. Next week: Q-Tips!

With the advent of so many video game movies
Mario
Street Fighter
Mortal Combat
Doom!?!

When are we going to see a pac man movie?