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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.

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.

there was actually a sequel and another sequel that wasn't made. Shock Treatment and "Revenge of the Old Queen".

sin city this will be the only film that matters this year.

Yah, they should do Logan's Run

It no longer has an entry on IMDB, but a remake of Logan's Run is still in the works for X-Men director Bryan Singer. See this interview on Ain't It Cool News. He's planning to do Logan's Run after Superman Returns

Yah, they should do Logan's Run

It no longer has an entry on IMDB, but a remake of Logan's Run is still in the works for X-Men director Bryan Singer. See this interview on Ain't It Cool News. He's planning to do Logan's Run after Superman Returns

Yah, they should do Logan's Run

It no longer has an entry on IMDB, but a remake of Logan's Run is still in the works for X-Men director Bryan Singer. See this interview on Ain't It Cool News. He's planning to do Logan's Run after Superman Returns

I saw the names of the two writers credited with getting the screenplay gig, and figured I would look them up in IMDB to see what else they have written. That ought to be a pretty good predictor of what to expect, right?

Well, here's the results:

• Brian Klugman is an actor with mostly TV credits. He has exactly one screenplay credit: "Warrior", a perfectly awful-sounding historical war movie which isn't even due to be released until next year.
• Lee Sternthal has no credits at all -- writing, acting, nothing. Oh wait, except for "Warrior", which he co-wrote with Klugman. So that's a big total of one.

So Disney is hiring two writers with practically no experience to work on a property that has been dead for 20+ years. My guess is that you should not expect the finished product to rival the LoTR trilogy :-)

I saw the names of the two writers credited with getting the screenplay gig, and figured I would look them up in IMDB to see what else they have written. That ought to be a pretty good predictor of what to expect, right?

Well, here's the results:

• Brian Klugman is an actor with mostly TV credits. He has exactly one screenplay credit: "Warrior", a perfectly awful-sounding historical war movie which isn't even due to be released until next year.
• Lee Sternthal has no credits at all -- writing, acting, nothing. Oh wait, except for "Warrior", which he co-wrote with Klugman. So that's a big total of one.

So Disney is hiring two writers with practically no experience to work on a property that has been dead for 20+ years. My guess is that you should not expect the finished product to rival the LoTR trilogy :-)

I saw the names of the two writers credited with getting the screenplay gig, and figured I would look them up in IMDB to see what else they have written. That ought to be a pretty good predictor of what to expect, right?

Well, here's the results:

• Brian Klugman is an actor with mostly TV credits. He has exactly one screenplay credit: "Warrior", a perfectly awful-sounding historical war movie which isn't even due to be released until next year.
• Lee Sternthal has no credits at all -- writing, acting, nothing. Oh wait, except for "Warrior", which he co-wrote with Klugman. So that's a big total of one.

So Disney is hiring two writers with practically no experience to work on a property that has been dead for 20+ years. My guess is that you should not expect the finished product to rival the LoTR trilogy :-)

Well it could be worse: Ocean's 13

"If you've seen one Consumer Electronics Show, you've seen them all."

More quotes

Like...

this?
or this?
possibly even this?

And those are just the good movies. But you're right.. generalizations are fun.

Like...

this?
or this?
possibly even this?

And those are just the good movies. But you're right.. generalizations are fun.

Like...

this?
or this?
possibly even this?

And those are just the good movies. But you're right.. generalizations are fun.

Thank you to the reviewer for posting such a stale old story. I haven't had such a good laugh on /. for quite a while.

A few more news items:

Elephants are comming over the Alps. Head for the hills!

Man discovers fire.

Leave Troy now!

No, the TV movie of Dr. Strange used that title. Never heard of the other one, though -- interesting.

No, the TV movie of Dr. Strange used that title. Never heard of the other one, though -- interesting.

This was already made They just wouldn't release it. (Never saw it but, I've heard it was that bad. I mean, not even "direct to VHS" bad, but "burn the reel" bad.)

You can see the trailer for the previous one at the begining of a flick called Carnisaur. (I'm ashamed to admit that I rented the movie not to watch it, but for the preview before it.)

If anyone knows of a leaked copy of the other version, I'd like to hear first hand what the issues with it were.

This was already made They just wouldn't release it. (Never saw it but, I've heard it was that bad. I mean, not even "direct to VHS" bad, but "burn the reel" bad.)

You can see the trailer for the previous one at the begining of a flick called Carnisaur. (I'm ashamed to admit that I rented the movie not to watch it, but for the preview before it.)

If anyone knows of a leaked copy of the other version, I'd like to hear first hand what the issues with it were.

They're doing more than trying to translate the feel and style to screen - Frank Miller has a co-director credit for Sin City. Check out the IMDB info & credits.

I wish Hollywood would make a big budget action film about geeks bitching about everything under the sun.

It's starring skinny annoying actor Chris Evans who's famous for Not Another Teen Movie, not the UK's fat, alcoholic ex-DJ Chris Evans, who's famous for being ginger. And a twat. Hope this clears up any confusion, but since I've seen at least three "celebrity" databases that confuse the two while looking for links for this posting, somehow I doubt it... <:-/

I remembered seeing a preview for a Fantastic Four movie on a VHS many years ago, it looked terrible, and I never heard anything more of it. It apparently turns out that a movie was made in 1994 and, I guess, never actually released. IMDB (the link) provides some insight into why it wasn't, and what the goal was originally. So, Hollywood will not only steal your childhood and market it to you again later on, it will also steal your childhood for the sake of marketting it to itself! Hooray for Earth!

See IMDB info for the movie here: The Day After Tomorrow

Despite its (relatively) low rating there, and the amount of cgi, I actually rather enjoyed the movie.

is the clitoris that thing that hangs down in the back of my throat??

Only if you're Linda Lovelace.

Otherwise, that would be the uvula.

~Philly

Like on my favorite Gene Simmons/Tom Selleck flick ever!

If a consumer sees a bad editorial, and a positive ad, they are going to assume the ad is biased (what is frustrating is that often it is the other way around).

Gee, Trip, ya think? Since when have advertisements been anything but biased (with the exception of Crazy People)?

Good thing 3DO makes such good games, otherwise I might start to agree with GamePro. Oh wait...

But I can understand that some of them would reject it the same way some adults reject Shrek or Beethoven.

Check it out. With some luck, this could be a movie that might give us faith again into those action movies where everything is all over the place.

Ohhh Suuureee, they just want to "see what's inside" and not "divert a catastrophic E.L.E.".

Are the "Robots" self-conscious?

Not yet. And very unlikely in the near future.

But the thing that I get concerned about from time to time are the issues with robot concerns that Michael Criton addressed in the (book?)/movie Runaway.

The more I work with "high tech" stuff, the more I am reminded of this movie, where all of the electronic stuff was half broken junk that we all "needed" but in reality was basically the cause of many of our problems.

For those that haven't seen this movie yet (I highly recommend it). It has some elements of "robot terrorism", where these nasty insect looking robots go after Tom Selleck's character launched by the evil Gene Simmons' character.

Think about the security issues if you could have a small army of robots that could diligently and quietly do things like build bombs in large buildings or other populated areas (over a period of many years) or simply quietly eat away at structural elements of things like buildings, bridges, airports, etc.

Viruses and/or spyware are annoying for people that still use PCs, but they really don't do anything too eventful (don't know why, but..) But think about someone that gets bored one day and programs a team of self healing, possibly self replicating robots that have parasitic activities programed in them like a horrible locust or some other parasitic insect infestation.

I guess after our government finishes defeating terrorism by a bunch of humans who are motivated by eternal and suicidal ideologies to do their deeds, they will have the skills and resources to defeat nasty robots like this (that was sarcasm btw). But this kinda scary shit makes me think from time to time.

cannot think of a good reason why the world wouldn't end the day after tomorrow

...the Feds will use this guy to break into private computer networks and steal information of interest to them. They will keep him at arms length in case he gets caught. This is the way law enforcement (unfortunately) works...

I remember watching in The Corporation that you could do the same job for a big corporation too. It seems that ethics apparently don't apply to governments or corporations. To be honest, that scares me.

Case in point: Calista Flockhart.

All links go to photos...

Conchata Ferrell
Mo'Nique
Lori Beth Denberg

- Greg

All links go to photos...

Conchata Ferrell
Mo'Nique
Lori Beth Denberg

- Greg

All links go to photos...

Conchata Ferrell
Mo'Nique
Lori Beth Denberg

- Greg

The Clone Song
By: Isaac Asimov
Tune: Home On The Range

Oh, give me a clone
Of my own flesh and bone
With its Y chromosome changed to X.
And after it's grown,
Then my own little clone
Will be of the opposite sex.

Hey, Rimmer actually did that in an episode of Red Dwarf!

Started a whole civilisation of smeag-heads... didn't turn out right ;-)

If vault has a rating that indicates that it should be resistant to manipulation for at least 15 minutes, it should not have a vulnerabilty that allows it to be opened with a Bic pen, a 9V battery, and two paperclips in 15 seconds.

Unless, of course, the person trying to open the vault is MacGyver. Oh wait. The "MacGyverisims" shown in the series are all based on scientific fact, but not all of the steps needed to create the experiment were shown.. You'd need a Bic pen, a 9V, two paperclips, and a rubber band.

Weird, but reading "McMurdo Research Station" in the article and your mention of Sweden made me think of The Thing when Kurt Russell's character called the Norwegians "Swedes" a few times.

Better get more coffee...

For the best experience, I recommend viewing it with the Jaws theme song.

Why people think such crap rates is beyond me, those flicks have scripts designed for kids... ...or adults with a mental age of 12. The list doesn't include popular chick flicks so why it includes popular kiddies flicks is beyond me.

Then there's SPR, critics & monday morning halfbacks love it for it's 'realism', but anyone in the know knows it's anything but - it has the surrendering German with a skinhead haircut to make him unsympathetic (a old Hollywood trick) when German soldiers in WWII rarely had their skulls sheared - if anything they had short back 'n sides with long stylised front hair (I had a old family friend who was in the British army, although he was a Vienese Jew, & he took heaps of photos during the war, & of all the surrendering German soldiers, circa 44 & 45, the most common hair style was a long wave of hair at the front & top brushed to the side so it hung over the shorn stuble arround the ears & behind). Also Mustangs were not used by the Americans for tank busting duties on the Western front (although they were used like that on the Med), in reality it would've been a Thunderbolt or even more likely a RAF Typhoon (the primary tank buster at Normandy), but we all know Speilburg couldn't have a British plane saving the day, or a American one that's grossly fat & ugly.

& how such a list could have nothing by Akira Kurosawa, Krzysztof Kieslowski or fail to include one or both of Sergio Leones' Once Apon a Time masterpieces is beyond me. The relatively recent Paramount DVD Special Collectors Edition release of Once Apon a Time in the West has to be one of the truely great collectors DVDs of all time. It also failed to list the Citizen Kane Special Edition DVD, one of the great all time collectors DVDs for cinema lovers. Another great true cinema DVD collectable they failed to list was Martin Scorsese's tribute to Italian cinema DVD, a 4 hour tribute to the greatest of Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Visconti & Antonioni, etc. The DVD was recently reviewed by the SBS Movie Show. Other truely great DVDs include Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue Box Set & Kieslowski's 3 Colours Trilogy.

Another truely great 'must have' is the History of Cinema 12 DVD box set, which includes such gems as Buster Keaton's The General, Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin & Fritz Lang's Metropolis amongst Lon Chaney's & DW Griffith's greats. Of course one mustn't fail to include the Complete Ealing Studio Comedies Box Set which includes such classic Ealing comedies as The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts & Coronets (in which Alec Guinness plays 8 parts) & The Lady Killers.

Really Ugo's top 50 DVD List reminds me of all those people who have never travelled abroad yet go arround proclaiming that their country is the best country in the world to live, because it seems to be put together by someone who experiance of cinema seems to be limited to the summer blockbusters & alsorans of the last decade or so, & that's about it.

Why people think such crap rates is beyond me, those flicks have scripts designed for kids... ...or adults with a mental age of 12. The list doesn't include popular chick flicks so why it includes popular kiddies flicks is beyond me.

Then there's SPR, critics & monday morning halfbacks love it for it's 'realism', but anyone in the know knows it's anything but - it has the surrendering German with a skinhead haircut to make him unsympathetic (a old Hollywood trick) when German soldiers in WWII rarely had their skulls sheared - if anything they had short back 'n sides with long stylised front hair (I had a old family friend who was in the British army, although he was a Vienese Jew, & he took heaps of photos during the war, & of all the surrendering German soldiers, circa 44 & 45, the most common hair style was a long wave of hair at the front & top brushed to the side so it hung over the shorn stuble arround the ears & behind). Also Mustangs were not used by the Americans for tank busting duties on the Western front (although they were used like that on the Med), in reality it would've been a Thunderbolt or even more likely a RAF Typhoon (the primary tank buster at Normandy), but we all know Speilburg couldn't have a British plane saving the day, or a American one that's grossly fat & ugly.

& how such a list could have nothing by Akira Kurosawa, Krzysztof Kieslowski or fail to include one or both of Sergio Leones' Once Apon a Time masterpieces is beyond me. The relatively recent Paramount DVD Special Collectors Edition release of Once Apon a Time in the West has to be one of the truely great collectors DVDs of all time. It also failed to list the Citizen Kane Special Edition DVD, one of the great all time collectors DVDs for cinema lovers. Another great true cinema DVD collectable they failed to list was Martin Scorsese's tribute to Italian cinema DVD, a 4 hour tribute to the greatest of Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Visconti & Antonioni, etc. The DVD was recently reviewed by the SBS Movie Show. Other truely great DVDs include Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue Box Set & Kieslowski's 3 Colours Trilogy.

Another truely great 'must have' is the History of Cinema 12 DVD box set, which includes such gems as Buster Keaton's The General, Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin & Fritz Lang's Metropolis amongst Lon Chaney's & DW Griffith's greats. Of course one mustn't fail to include the Complete Ealing Studio Comedies Box Set which includes such classic Ealing comedies as The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts & Coronets (in which Alec Guinness plays 8 parts) & The Lady Killers.

Really Ugo's top 50 DVD List reminds me of all those people who have never travelled abroad yet go arround proclaiming that their country is the best country in the world to live, because it seems to be put together by someone who experiance of cinema seems to be limited to the summer blockbusters & alsorans of the last decade or so, & that's about it.

Why people think such crap rates is beyond me, those flicks have scripts designed for kids... ...or adults with a mental age of 12. The list doesn't include popular chick flicks so why it includes popular kiddies flicks is beyond me.

Then there's SPR, critics & monday morning halfbacks love it for it's 'realism', but anyone in the know knows it's anything but - it has the surrendering German with a skinhead haircut to make him unsympathetic (a old Hollywood trick) when German soldiers in WWII rarely had their skulls sheared - if anything they had short back 'n sides with long stylised front hair (I had a old family friend who was in the British army, although he was a Vienese Jew, & he took heaps of photos during the war, & of all the surrendering German soldiers, circa 44 & 45, the most common hair style was a long wave of hair at the front & top brushed to the side so it hung over the shorn stuble arround the ears & behind). Also Mustangs were not used by the Americans for tank busting duties on the Western front (although they were used like that on the Med), in reality it would've been a Thunderbolt or even more likely a RAF Typhoon (the primary tank buster at Normandy), but we all know Speilburg couldn't have a British plane saving the day, or a American one that's grossly fat & ugly.

& how such a list could have nothing by Akira Kurosawa, Krzysztof Kieslowski or fail to include one or both of Sergio Leones' Once Apon a Time masterpieces is beyond me. The relatively recent Paramount DVD Special Collectors Edition release of Once Apon a Time in the West has to be one of the truely great collectors DVDs of all time. It also failed to list the Citizen Kane Special Edition DVD, one of the great all time collectors DVDs for cinema lovers. Another great true cinema DVD collectable they failed to list was Martin Scorsese's tribute to Italian cinema DVD, a 4 hour tribute to the greatest of Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini, Visconti & Antonioni, etc. The DVD was recently reviewed by the SBS Movie Show. Other truely great DVDs include Krzysztof Kieslowski's Decalogue Box Set & Kieslowski's 3 Colours Trilogy.

Another truely great 'must have' is the History of Cinema 12 DVD box set, which includes such gems as Buster Keaton's The General, Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin & Fritz Lang's Metropolis amongst Lon Chaney's & DW Griffith's greats. Of course one mustn't fail to include the Complete Ealing Studio Comedies Box Set which includes such classic Ealing comedies as The Lavender Hill Mob, Kind Hearts & Coronets (in which Alec Guinness plays 8 parts) & The Lady Killers.

Really Ugo's top 50 DVD List reminds me of all those people who have never travelled abroad yet go arround proclaiming that their country is the best country in the world to live, because it seems to be put together by someone who experiance of cinema seems to be limited to the summer blockbusters & alsorans of the last decade or so, & that's about it.

This list is insane. It doesn't even have Finding Nemo, not that Tarantino had anything to do with that. Maybe he should have---the sharks scene would have been way more interesting.

This list is insane. It doesn't even have Finding Nemo, not that Tarantino had anything to do with that. Maybe he should have---the sharks scene would have been way more interesting.

This list is insane. It doesn't even have Finding Nemo, not that Tarantino had anything to do with that. Maybe he should have---the sharks scene would have been way more interesting.