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I was just watching the movie "Over the Edge" the other day, and wondered whatever happened to Matt Dillon.

Funny, I think of him as Wil Wheaton the kid who was in the movie with River Pheonix, Corey Feldman, and the Sliders kid who used to be fat but isn't anymore. And just so you know, he got his start long before ST:TNG.

I am interested in reading what he has to say about classic video games.

One of the problems I've heard of with digital fansubbing versus the old VHS-way is the same problem shown by software. Electronic copies are perfect (or at least close enough to perfect for me), which means that when a piece is fansubbed, the 50th person in line to get it still has a fairly pristine copy. In comparison, VHS tapes generally came with a "generation" number which told you how many times it had been copied from a copy. By definition, fansubs were second-generation at least, as the tape had to be copied to get the subtitles in. By the 3rd generation, the image quality was muddy. 5th generation was practically unwatchable. Because fansubs were generally lower-quality by this copy-of-a-copy, there was a strong reason to buy official versions when they came out. Now, the only real reason is for one's conscience, and for the little extras that come with the product. (If nothing else, most DVD cases have original artwork by the animators which are rather stunning)

Now the other issue which I've yet to see confronted is what happens when the official release comes out and it's crap. Take, for example, Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind. A badly translated and heavily editted version labeled "Warriors of the Wind" was released in the US which had muddy quality, bad translation, and about half the movie missing. Most people I know salved their conscience by buying the US release, then using their fansub, at least until they could get a Jpanese import, but it is an interesting dilemna.

One simply cannot construct believable English dialog between two tough-guy bounty hunters who call each other "Spike" and "Jet"

Must not be a Buffy fan, eh?

"...or the Red book, otherwise known as the ugly Red Book that won't fit on a shelf..."

He's referencing the movie 'Hackers.'

Need input!

I'm wondering if Blizzard sent in the scoops.

(Where The Phone Company tries to take over the world by implanting a phone in everybody's skull so they can make calls any time and any where... and be tracked...)

Seems like you'd be violating some kind of monster.com EULA by posting a fake job as a cheap advertisement ruse. I'd go and check it out myself, but if I log into that site I will undoubtedly find a number of jobs paying better than this one and end up leaving work early...

Now that I think about this tho - maybe Metroid is really just a testing machine, and they really are looking for Intergalactic Bounty Hunters...anyone remember The Last Starfighter?

In that case, don't show her Angel Sanctuary. Remember, kids, incest bad!

This XP GUI will go the way of the IRIX "it's a unix system; I know this" 3D filesystem interface: unused forgotten obscurity. And along the way, MS will milk it for endless "we're innovators" propaganda.

Nothing like the term "cartoon" to once again give people inaccurate impressions of the entire anime world.

Maybe I don't "get" anime, but the only Japanese cartoon I found remotely interesting was Metropolis (Metoroporisu) other than that it's all been boring as hell to me.

To each his own, though.

• Vietnam - granted, this wasn't war with Russia, but the North Vietnamese were getting funding/supplies from Communist countries, and the whole motivation for US involvement was to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast Asia.
• Korea - again, not a battle with Russia, per se, but we did fight the Chinese briefly, when they poured into North Korea. For cripes sake, McArthur wanted to nuke China and take the war further than the Korean borders. Also, North Korea was receiving funding from Communist nations to help with their war effort.
• The Eastern Europe Bloc - as Churchill said, there was an iron curtain established, separating East and West Europe between the democracies and Communists.

It's "House of the Dead".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317676/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZn xteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD0xfHBuPTB8c291cmNlaWQ9 bW96aWxsYS1zZWFyY2h8cT1ob3VzZSBvZiB0aGUgZGVhZHxodG 1sPTF8bm09MQ__;fc=1;ft=20;fm=1

Or tone, inflection, nuance, attitude? If we look back to the movie Fail Safe, Larry Hagman as the translator was asked by the President (Henry Fonda) to try to interpret how the Russian was communicating. Is he mad, accepting, furious, tired, drunk, whatever. Things we could not ask a program to deliver.

How many times have we misinterpreted an IM or other online communication, even though we 'read the words' correctly?

Deliver the unpopped kernels to the site, cover tightly with aluminum foil, and then use a giant airborne laser to provide the heat.

You are hereby sentenced to watch Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism 666 times, and to read Al Franken's Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right 666,666 times.

Have you ever seen "The gods must be crazy"? imdb entry

Oh yeah, it's the plot from The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest. There's just a $1 difference. What they tried to build was a $99 computer.

Man, these people watch waaay too many movies.

Well either it's them or IMDB being as IMDB has a pretty graphic to match their title I doubt it's them. Good find though, I'm off to blockbuster right now.

You got it right!
Sell it without a monitor, for instance using a 3D holographic display instead, in order to save enough for the 99$ pricing!

/Recently watched The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest - dumb movie...

Another tip: if you do anything for free, even something as simple as plugging in somebody's mouse or changing their desktop wallpaper, put it on the bill with a 100% discount so they can see all the benefits of keeping you happy.

If necessary, offer an early-pay discount to sweeten the pot.
[And believe you me, I know that 30/60/90 day AP/AR hellhole all too well...]

1) If you're of a mind to divide the human race into two competing camps [compare e.g. the final scene of To Kill A Mockingbird], then, at least lately, I've been coming to the conclusion that there are two kinds of people in this world: The "doers", and the "creators" [or "builders"]. The vast, overwhelming majority of people are "doers": They take orders, and "do" as they're told, or "do" things according to some routine because "that's the way it's done" [this includes even the vast, overwhelming majority of ostensibly brilliant people, like doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc]. However, when you're writing a piece of software [or a "system"], you're creating [or building] a thing that's never been created before, and, as we all know, there will ALWAYS be unforeseen circumstances that arise in the creation of a new piece of software [or a new system]. The problem is that the "doers" don't understand this: They're just chomping at the bit to get going and "do" something, and they get downright hateful when you try to explain to them that they can't "do" anything until you've finished creating the thing that they'll be doing [i.e. the new "routine"]. Along these lines, I've found that it's a piece of cake to write an alpha version of software, but that idiot-proofing the software [so that the idiot "doers" can't utterly fsck it up] takes a long, long time. Anyway, what strategies do you have for dealing with the inevitable schedule-overruns that occur when creating new software [or new systems]? I know the standard strategy is to write the possibility of schedule-misses into the contract [and penalize yourself for missing schedule targets, which pretty much mirrors your strategy of rewarding a customer for meeting an early payment schedule], but sometimes things just utterly FUBAR themselves, and you're stuck with very angry "doers" who can't understand why things are taking so long. [And, of course, the same ones who bitch and moan and drag your name through the mud will never bother to praise you when you finally deliver a gorgeous, flawless piece of software to them.] Any suggestions? Or is this simply a fact of life that we have to stomach?

2) Any thoughts on selling the package but retaining the source code -vs- leasing the package and retaining the source code [as more or less a "service"] -vs- selling the source code itself? And how would you price the various options? E.g. "Without source code, it will cost you $49,999, with source code, it will cost you $199,999, as a service with no support and no source code, it will cost you $9999 per anum, as a service with 24 X 7 support but no source code, it will cost you $49,999 per annum, as a service with 24 X 7 support and source code, it will cost you $149,999 up front and $49,999 per annum" etc. And what's the climate like these days for small shops leasing software as a service? Are clients signing up for that sort of thing, or do they balk, and demand to purchase the source?

Maybe it was someone named Brian

I think you're looking for this little gem of cinematography

I happen to like Chalk and Cheese!

He does? That rotten bastard!

"Those of us who have worked with Phil and known him so long maintain the position that he is innocent unless proven guilty"

That's not much an endorsement. Sure, the guy is a fire chief but does CYA really demand he take the position that the courts are infallable? He could have just said something vague about sympathy.

Am I the only one thinking Backdraft?

It's been a while, but here goes: At one point in the movie they park their jeep. As they go inside the building, the driver pops the hood and removes a very small item.

He pulls the rotor out of the distributor. Until he puts it back, no spark can get to the plugs; the jeep won't start.

I did this once with a car I parked for a while. Never worried about it getting driven off. You could do it with any car that still has an acutal distributor, which are few and far between these days (my example was a 1985 Mustang).

The modern equivalent would be pulling an engine or ignition fuse from one of the fuseboxes. There's a fuse box in the passenger compartment, but the can be two more inside the engine compartment. Read your manual!

I wonder what you'd think of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. It was actually filmed twice, resulting in two versions of the film, with 1.85:1 and 2.55:1 aspect ratios.

In this case, (having seen the movie) I think that neither of these could be called a hack job. I presume that the director preferred the Cinemascope version... but everyone involved worked hard on both versions, and they are both excellent.

I think it's totally conceivable that, whether by luck or design, one could often get almost as good results without having to shoot the film twice.

Of course, it depends on the particular characteristics of the film in question. It also requires some skill and attention to detail in the conversion. But the overall result can still be approximately as good as the original, without even considering how much better the new film may match the display device being used.

Some scenes may suffer, but some scenes may be improved. Re-composition is not universally bad.

I wonder what you'd think of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. It was actually filmed twice, resulting in two versions of the film, with 1.85:1 and 2.55:1 aspect ratios.

In this case, (having seen the movie) I think that neither of these could be called a hack job. I presume that the director preferred the Cinemascope version... but everyone involved worked hard on both versions, and they are both excellent.

I think it's totally conceivable that, whether by luck or design, one could often get almost as good results without having to shoot the film twice.

Of course, it depends on the particular characteristics of the film in question. It also requires some skill and attention to detail in the conversion. But the overall result can still be approximately as good as the original, without even considering how much better the new film may match the display device being used.

Some scenes may suffer, but some scenes may be improved. Re-composition is not universally bad.

Everything else except Spartacus, which was shot in Super Technirama (also 2.35:1). However, like 2001, this probably wasn't his choice. From the "trivia" section of Spartacus's IMDb entry:

• Stanley Kubrick was brought in as director after Kirk Douglas had a major falling out with the original director, Anthony Mann.
• Stanley Kubrick was not given control of the script, which he felt was full of stupid moralizing. Since then, Kubrick has kept full control over all aspects of his films.
• Cinematographer Russell Metty walked off the set of Spartacus complaining that Stanley Kubrick was not letting him do his job. When he returned to the set, Kubrick told him to shut up and butt out and subsequently, Kubrick did the majority of the cinematography work on Spartacus. Metty complained about this up until the release of the film and even, at one point, asked to have his name removed from the credits of the film. Metty was awarded the Academy Award for cinematography for Spartacus.

Everything else except Spartacus, which was shot in Super Technirama (also 2.35:1). However, like 2001, this probably wasn't his choice. From the "trivia" section of Spartacus's IMDb entry:

• Stanley Kubrick was brought in as director after Kirk Douglas had a major falling out with the original director, Anthony Mann.
• Stanley Kubrick was not given control of the script, which he felt was full of stupid moralizing. Since then, Kubrick has kept full control over all aspects of his films.
• Cinematographer Russell Metty walked off the set of Spartacus complaining that Stanley Kubrick was not letting him do his job. When he returned to the set, Kubrick told him to shut up and butt out and subsequently, Kubrick did the majority of the cinematography work on Spartacus. Metty complained about this up until the release of the film and even, at one point, asked to have his name removed from the credits of the film. Metty was awarded the Academy Award for cinematography for Spartacus.

man
after i saw the movie i kept on reading the authors' books till i found fight club.. i being poor leach who borrows books to read and it was a let down....
the only book ever that was lousy compared to the movie ...
Fight club
i have a tendency to read the book after the movie .. like with gone with the wind etc.. but i never read the bible after this one :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066769/

...to mount the machine guns and anti-tank bombs.

Venus Wars

Infect the mothership?


The article lost all credibility with me with the infect the mothership line. Everybody knows you need to use a Mac to infect the mothership.

In case anyone cares:
Amazon link for the book
IMDB link for the movie
The movie's own web site

I'd say Angela's Ashes would be one in my head where the movie did a great job of capturing the book...

Say what you will, but this came to mind before anything else...

Bonfire of the Vanities

The Green Mile was a terrific adptation from the 600 pages novel. Frank Darabont did a great job with The Swawshank Redemption as well, also a novel by Stephen King.

The Green Mile was a terrific adptation from the 600 pages novel. Frank Darabont did a great job with The Swawshank Redemption as well, also a novel by Stephen King.

DNA wrote the first screenplay. It was then re-written by Karey Kirkpatrick.

Full Cast and Crew for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

E3 is like CES or MWSF - but just for gaming. They are really fun. And, back the two years E3 was in Atlanta, I got to meet Rhona Mitra when she was "playing" the part of Lara Croft... ;) And I got to meet Brett Favre, Wayne Gretsky, Keith Katchuk, Gillian Anderson, and the whole cast of "Mortal Kombat".

Oh yeah, and there are a bunch of games...

Your looking for this documentary Dot Com. And yes, that movie bombed too.

My bad it was a Don Bluth film.

That's a lot of kidnappings. This is starting to sound more like "Man on Fire". What next, Yoda sticking a thermal detonator up Gen. Grievous' exhaust port? "Last wish, hmm? More time I wish you had."

Actually 1.33:1 (the "Academy Ratio") is literally full-frame on a regular TV. A 1.85:1 movie is only "full-frame" on widescreen TVs (16:9 as opposed to 4:3).

When a movie shot to be framed in 1.85:1 is full-frame on a TV it usually makes sense to have it be "open matte" or "unmatted" which means the entire 1.33:1 image of the film is shown. There's many DVDs of this type.

The "widest" movie I can think of off the top of my head is It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World which is 2.75:1.

There's also an interesting article from 1953 on the up-and-coming "CinemaScope" process.

This seems to indicate that the DiCaprio movie is the third of the title. (The other two weren't about Howard Hughes, though.)

This lawsuit is just a money grab by some lawyers. There isn't anything wrong with the DVDs. MGM had a description of what widescreen meant that was correct for anamorphic movies, not movies shot open matte.