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And while David doesn't know exactly what Chris's script for the reunion X Files film contains, he said it won't be picking up the storyline from the show's final episode.

"I think we're going back to the 'monster of the week' type feel, where if you're not an avid fan and don't understand the mythology you can still come to it and get the movie," the hunky actor revealed.

David Duchovney, isn't he the narrator dude from the softcore porn show "Red Shoe Diaries"?

Guess we're in for some alien softcore, stuff you just won't want to believe.

Regardless, we should all be so fortunate that we don't have movies based on reality shows....yet.

Not to rain on your parade, but apparently some people refer to this as a movie..

I feel dirty that I even recall it's existence.

I'm Mexican
"I love Mexicans! I'll do it!"

This kind of reminds me of that scene from Liar Liar where Jim Carry's secretary tells him about how a friend of hers got sued by a burglar who broke into her house and cut himself on a knife she left in the kitchen. The burglar won $5000 in damages.

"Name like that"?

Have you never heard of the many many other things which use the word Xanadu?

> 1. This happens to any local economy, not just RIM/Waterloo. For example; Hamilton/Stelco, GM+Ford/Detroit, Big Government/Washington DC, Inco(?)/Sudbury.

... or GM/Flint, Michigan--see Roger & Me, a 1989 movie by Michael Moore, for an incredible story about that phenomenon and the risks it brings. Amazing movie.

Xanadu: The (righfully so) Forgotten Movie

I am reminded of the movie Death Becomes Her, in which the vanity aspects of eternal life turn ugly real fast. Fall down the stairs, break your neck? No problem! But that humpback won't look so good in an evening dress.

citing my sources

Fight Club

Maybe because Hugh Jackman destroyed it with a fish so they had to make it a vegan instead ?

"Whereas American films consist of:

85% explosions and car chases
10% sex
5% product placement

That is truly pathetic. I for one refuse to rest until they're at least 25% sex. Who's with me? :)"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115964/

This one is giving at least 110%, like most NHL players. But maybe it's not what we are looking for here, right? The film being Canada/USA might also explain the weird percentages. :)

Wasn't that actor in every episode of DS9, sometimes playing two or three different roles at once? As I recall he played at least Brunt and Weyoun. Maybe they can make a new series where he plays all the characters.

Yes. Jeffrey Combs Apparently a very cool individual.

They have started to add dots in strange places on the film to deter those who are making cam images of them.

Have you seen the movie Fight Club? I ask only because they describe "cigarette burns" in that movie -- I had never noticed them in movies before, but since seeing FC I can't help but notice them now. Perhaps these aren't what you mean, but if FC is to be believed they're signals for the projection operator to switch reels (maybe it's automated now or something).

Quincy, M.E.? I was two years old* when that show went off the air. Raise yor hands, Slashdotters, how many of you think of Quincy when you think of forensics?

*http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0074042/

Cinevents is releasing the old Grateful Dead Movie (IANACinevents flack, but I'm a Deadhead, though I'm not). Solely in a few DLP theaters around the country, in a two-day event to promote the general release of the DVD. When these digital projections are more common/stable, they'll all be distributed over the Net (rather than armored cars delivering film or DVD-Rs). This is the future of all "Hollywood": theatrical releases for a week/end or two "premiere" gala, to promote the sale of the DVD or cable/pay-per-view/VOD release. Which itself is largely marketing for merchandise and promotional tie-ins. Now that Hollywood makes its living from a handful of unpredicted releases, funding all the flops, over a few big $100M weekends, they're already nearly committed to this model.

you'll look like less of a punk if you cite your references.

...as quoted from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998).

>> You're going to pay one way or the other, either you do it in an orderly fashion through a system like Social Security or you pay through externalized costs of destitute elderly. Plan on paying for increases in crime ...

My god, I just had an image of a crime wave by the elderly. Being beaten by a walker and then mugged .. it definitely gives new meaning to, Stop or My Mom Will Shoot.

he couldn't understand why the film didnt do well

I was under the impression that much of the reason it didn't do well was bad timing. Its release was overshadowed by the releases of The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

he couldn't understand why the film didnt do well

I was under the impression that much of the reason it didn't do well was bad timing. Its release was overshadowed by the releases of The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

he couldn't understand why the film didnt do well

I was under the impression that much of the reason it didn't do well was bad timing. Its release was overshadowed by the releases of The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

At least they had the redeeming virtue of Denise Crosby's lovely frame.

At least they had the redeeming virtue of Denise Crosby's lovely frame.

Nemesis had a worldwide gross of $97,500,000 and a budget of $70,000,000*. That doesn't seem like much profit on so expensive a film from a major franchise; I seriously doubt Paramount will give Berman more money to lose on the next one.

*http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0253754/business

"Warfighter" is a term USAF has been using for several years. Since the majority of USAF personnel serve in roles that will likely never be involved in direct combat, the term is used to describe people who do actively fight and kill the enemy. It's meant to remind the support personnel that the USAF's primary job is fighting wars (and if you've ever worked with the Air Force you'll know why they need reminding).

USAF is fond of euphemisms, catchphrases, and slogans, the most infamous of course being the now-defunct Strategic Air Command's "Peace Is Our Profession" motto.

I spent twenty-three years on active duty with USAF. While we often laughed at the sometimes ridiculous language the PHBs and Public Affairs types dreamed up (my favorite - the Air Force Flight Test Center's "Warriors Supporting Warriors" motto, as if the civilian electrical/aerospace/computer engineers working on the F/A-22 Raptor or OV-22 Osprey projects were commuting to work every morning with knives in their teeth), we were never enraged and I don't know why we should have been. The Air Force is as prone (sometimes more so) to management buffoonery as any large corporation. Thinking up new words instead of using perfectly good ones like warrior is a symptom of this buffoonery.

Don't get mad. Rent a copy of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove and laugh, because laughter is the best weapon of them all.

One more thing: power and money were big in the 80's. Very big. Yuppies were the shiz-nit.

One more thing: power and money were big in the 80's. Very big. Yuppies were the shiz-nit.

This sounds more like a job for 'Barf' than anyone.

Mind, it's not nearly as novel as you'd like to think. In fact, many of us are already very familiar with what you describe: getting recommendations from people whose opinion we respect. It's always been the basis of criticism, and many of us also do it on a small scale with family, friends, and colleagues, not to mention "querying the whole world" through IMDb, Netflix, and message boards the world over. (Notably, what we're getting from those sources isn't merely numerical matches to our taste; we're getting human speech, human thought, human responses, as well as interaction.)

But is helping to digitize the process of taste match-making the same thing as "bring(ing) our fragmented society closer together"? Would we casually make such exagerrated claims about selecting media? About taste?

You would. Not I. Society is fragmented not by our taste in what we choose to read, watch, or hear but instead by real issues, real problems. Fragmentation of taste, in fact, is pretty damn normal and desirable. It's what pluralism's all about. There's no good reason to want everyone to like the same thing; there are plenty of nasty ones, though.

Call me cynical if you like; fair enough. For my part, you strike me as a tad starry-eyed, as in:

How incredible, I thought, to have the ability to KNOW, before I ever buy a book, before I even go to the store, that I'm going to like it!

My dear Recommender, allow me to recommend a film to you.

And Bluetooth-enabled sunglasses do what exactly?

They let you see the world around you is really full of subliminal messages and aliens.

Oh, and if your friend won't put them on, just beat the living crap out of each other for a half hour or so...

From IMDB:
Edna 'E' Mode: It will be bold! Dramatic!
Bob Parr: Yeah!
Edna: Heroic!
Bob: Yeah. Something classic - like Dynaguy. Oh, he had a great look - the cape and the boots...
Edna: No capes! [Throws a wadded ball of paper at Bob's head]
Bob: Isn't that my decision?
Edna: Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice man, good with kids.
Bob: Listen 'E'...
Edna: November 15th of '58! All was well, another day saved... when his cape snagged on a missile!
Bob: Thunderhead was not the brightest bulb...
Edna: Stratogirl! April 23rd, '57! Cape caught in a jet turbine!
Bob: E, you can't generalize about these things...
Edna: Metaman - express elevator! Dynaguy - snagged on takeoff! Splashdown - sucked into a vortex! NO CAPES!

I also like E doing "Fight! Win!".

Soylent Green is made of Robots! ... Robots!!

aaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggg.....

You might be interested in the movie eXistenZ by David Cronenberg. It has basically the same plot, except there are no reality shows. :)

There was this movie showing an oil king having both a tennis court and a swimming pool in his plane.
Now, he would also have a football field...

Maybe that's why MelbourneIT is getting away with it. In NYC, the land of baseball, nobody tries to pull this crap anymore - they've already been weeded out with our network debugging tool.

in the case of Frank Abignail, why the hell would you put a bank robber in a bank vault?

He was the master of social engineering. He knew the technology of checks, but what made his knowledge useful was that he knew the way the people used them.

See also:

• His biography
• "Catch me if you can" in imdb

Have to feed this one - since when did Ivy-League students not qualify as nerds? Hello? Where do true nerds go? UC Berkeley? Brown?

Apparently they go to Adams College.

Time management is one area where employees can help themselves but most causes of stress are out of their control. The stress caused by the work is typically the least of the problems.

Sources of stress in the workplace:

• Unrealistic deadlines
• Conflicting priorities
• Inadequate resources
• Interpersonal conflicts
• Poorly defined objectives
• Difficult economic conditions
• Sudden or frequent changes in managers
• Personal problems outside work

Any one of these can cause excessive stress and it is not unusual to have several of them part of the typical day. The only practical way of dealing with them is just don't let it get to you. Focus on getting through day and try to find a place where things are better. Try to be a calming influence in the office instead of stoking the rumour mill and predicting the worst.

If you look at the office in a certain way, it can even be funny. Certainly, more comic than tragic.

And the best of all: China made some really really good movies in the last months. Go see "House of flying daggers" if you haven't and maybe another, somehow similar movie "2046". These films go lengths beyond Hollywood stereotypes and are just refreshingly traditional at the same time.

Rent them, if the cinema isn't playing them, you wont regret it, I promise. An astonishing flurry of images, colors and emotions, not artsy emotions like French films have, but very transparent and breathtaking scenes. "House of flying daggers" was, at least for me, absolutely the best film of this year, no matter what comes in the next 11 months ;)

China has finally overcome the unavoidable repetion in most recent Hollywood movies and that's quite a feat. Imagine the first "Matrix"-part was a love movie with exactly the same cool action, a morale, fun, atmosphere, magic and tragedy all into one... Sounds impossible, eh? Watch the preview if you like ;)

...except for, of course, Firefly.

HOUSTON, Texas (GNAA) - Breaking new ground for both the adult entertainment and online service industries, GNAA Houston (NYSE: GNAH) unveiled its gay-friendly adult service, "Gay Porn Avalanche," an unlimited high-speed internet gay porn service that is unique in that the user can subscribe someone else to the service without their consent.

"The telecommunication industry innovated 'slamming,'" said GNAH CTO KiSSy, "and the porn industry invented unlimited streaming gay video, but only the GNAA can bring gay porn to those in-the-closet loved ones over the holidays." Gay rights advocates immediately praised the venture as "soft outing," or a polite and acceptable way of encouraging others to face their inner homosexuality.

Like most online services, the subscriber specifies location and payment method, but with "Gay Porn Avalanche" (GPA), someone other than the subscriber can be initiated as a recipient. The official brochure, printed in Kawasaki font on a bright pink adult incontinence product, says: "Know someone who's in denial about their sexual orientation? Send them more gay porn than they can view in a lifetime - and high speed access, too, for one low monthly price!"

GPA debuts at $19.45 per month with a one-time sign-up fee of $6.66. It will be available in most of the continental USA and all of Canada, which KiSSy states "is our biggest, most widespread and wide open market."

Subscribers will be given a high-speed internet hookup which plugs right into the back of their computer, and can download from any number of local "channels" at speeds faster than distant, often hard-to-reach-(around) Internet sites. "No more waiting for gay pornography," the brochure says. "With GPA, it's home before you are."

Martin Lithp, spokesman for gay rights group Alliance of Sodomy Supporters, proclaimed a "new era" in tolerance for gays. "Once members of our proud brethren could hide behind a smoke screen of heterosexuality," he said, "but now, there is no way to escape your orientation if a friend or relative is willing to 'out' you with a trial subscription to GPA."

President Bush is expected to comment on the new service as he signs the sweeping gay rights bill, No Gay Behind Left Behind, as part of the Republican party's push for diversity and equality in its perceived draconian platform. "All Americans must join in the war against terrorism," said Bush. "They hate us because of our freedom - including our freedom to have radical gay oral, anal and bukkake pornography at rock-bottom prices."

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I am Jeff Bezos. Welcome to my West Texas lair. We will use my Evil One-Click patent to take over the world. Meet my sidekick, Kevin Spacey. I call him "mini-me"...
</Doctor Evil Voice>

You know, I'd like to think that I may someday become involved in politics, more than I already am (ie, actually running for an office instead of being a loud voice in the crowd). Sometimes I wonder if it's really worth it and if it's really possible for a person to get up behind a podium and honestly state their personal stances on all the major issues and still get elected. If you happen to say the wrong thing about one of the hot-button issues then the one-issue-voting zealots that oppose your view will vote against you no matter what else you happen to say. It's a sad state of affairs when you have to lie just to get elected, no matter how good of a person you really are.

That's why we need to replace buracrats with computers- so that one day we can have a culture where no man ever has power over another man's life.

According to the IMDB trivia page for TRON:

Many people have claimed over the years that the title/character's name is a reference to a computer command. Steven Lisberger, however, has made it clear in interview after interview that he got the name from "Electronic", and didn't even know about the commands until some time later. Interestingly enough, the BASIC command Tron serves a similar function to the Tron Program in the movie.

And according to this chat transcript with the writer:

Jason7 asks "how did you come up with the name TRON???"

StevenLisberger says "The whole project came out of an electric warrior that was really the genesis. At the time my company was called Lisberger Studios and we did animation. I was thinking it's best if you come up with your own Mickey Mouse, some character. The idea was to come up with a character made out of light and one of our designer/animators, John Norton designed this warrior who was made up of neon .. looked like neon."

StevenLisberger says "And, he looked electronic and from that came Tron. Some people think it has to do with trace on .. and that's not it ... it was from electronic. And, we nicknamed him that and it's strange, once that footage existed it was alive and couldn't be stopped. Here's this interesting character where do we put him? And, it made sense to put him in an electronic dimension. One thing lead to another."

So there. :)

That's without a DVD-ROM or any Software except XP Home (the Mac comes with the full version of OSX not a cut down version).

So you've got to add XP-Pro (at least), DVD-ROM, Quicken 2005, Office and a Video editing suite

*then* start comparing prices.

To quote Colonel Potter, "HORSE HOCKEY". Stop wasting everybody's time justifying a price with features some of us don't care about.

I'm a Mac fan. Let me go on the record as saying that. If I want to compare prices between an entry Mac and a Shuttle, but I don't need an expensive OS, a DVD-ROM, Quicken, a paid for Office suite or any video editing suite, I can just walk down to Fry's Electronics, find a Shuttle I like and look up the price of a system that meets my needs. I don't need to add software just to compare, I'm a consumer! I can compare entry Mac against entry PC any way I want! If the Mac comes with stuff I don't need, it's wasted resource and there's no value. In economic circles, I'm paying the opportunity cost, but not getting the benefit -- a loss in economic efficiency.

Compare what you want with a Minimac. I'll compare the OS that I prefer (MacOS X) against my favorite PC OS (Debian unstable) on some low end hardware and you can bet I won't add in the software for the Shuttle that I don't care about. MacOSX plus my percieved quality of a Mac are alone worth doubling the cost to get up to $499 + the cost of enough memory to actually do something.

You're talking like the idiots who say the only way to compare the cost of a new Mac with a customizable video card (read as PowerMac G5) is to compare with a dual Xeon with XP Pro and all the wizbang whistles added on, when all I want is a nice single processor Athlon with a top of the line nVidia processor and a gig of RAM. If you're not using those features (I don't need wireless, I have CAT5e just fine and don't get me started on charging everybody for optical sound when so few of us care), leave them out! Don't be an idiot and start adding useless features to justify a purchase!

Add up the price of the features YOU WANT for each platform. Acknowledge any value increase the software or hardware of either platform in your features and prices, then make an educated decision. For me, a new Mac with OSX is worth far more than the $129 upgrade price Apple charges, and that goes into it. Style is worth something, too, but recent PCs have come part way. There aren't many PCs that are as beautiful and functionally aesthetic as the PowerMac G5, and that may be worth something too.

I'll probably be picking up a Minimac in a year with the VGA to S-Video adapter ($19) to be my home entertainment system. I don't care about Quicken, Office or video editing (for chrissake, who the hell has time for that crap?), I just want VLC and a Mac on my TV. Around that time, my 1GHz PowerBook G4 may also be due for an upgrade, and I'll take advantage of eBay and the value retention of the Mac -- another value add of the platform for me.

That meteor contains The Blob!

20 years? How about Snow White, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella and Pinocchio. All predating the last 20 years and all not a Disney orginals. The stories predate the movies.

20 years? How about Snow White, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella and Pinocchio. All predating the last 20 years and all not a Disney orginals. The stories predate the movies.