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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.

I mean that colossal turd Pearl Harbour shouldn't even have made the list, never mind at #22, ahead of the Godfather Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Back to the Future, just to name a few! I DL'd Pearl Harbour and after watching it blew it off my hard drive and contemplated sending a bill to the MPAA for wasting my time with that crap.

They can also get rid of frigging Goonies and replace it with something decent like The Usual Suspects, which I notice didn't make list! An unforgiveable ommission (as was The Unforgiven:-P).

I also notice that the fanboys managed to push LOTR into the #1 spot...Yes, the LOTR trilogy was enjoyable and deserves to be on the list, but #1?!? No chance in hell...

There are also a ton of other classic movies that should be here and aren't. Thanks, but I'll stick to The Filthy Critic for recommendations as to what's worth watching.

I mean that colossal turd Pearl Harbour shouldn't even have made the list, never mind at #22, ahead of the Godfather Trilogy, The Shawshank Redemption, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, or Back to the Future, just to name a few! I DL'd Pearl Harbour and after watching it blew it off my hard drive and contemplated sending a bill to the MPAA for wasting my time with that crap.

They can also get rid of frigging Goonies and replace it with something decent like The Usual Suspects, which I notice didn't make list! An unforgiveable ommission (as was The Unforgiven:-P).

I also notice that the fanboys managed to push LOTR into the #1 spot...Yes, the LOTR trilogy was enjoyable and deserves to be on the list, but #1?!? No chance in hell...

There are also a ton of other classic movies that should be here and aren't. Thanks, but I'll stick to The Filthy Critic for recommendations as to what's worth watching.

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Also, the conspicuous absence of Shichinin no Samurai.

They do have some good ones like dark city and 12 monkeys (but no "la Jetee"?). I think they have only American films (other than Akira).

What is wrong with the IMDB Top 250 movies?

the whole drive to the moon was Kennedy hoping to get some action just like Captain Kirk's.

Sorry, your dates are a little off. Captain Kirk didn't come along until the late 60s. When JFK was "un-elected" in Dallas, William Shatner was still making low-budget art movies in Esperanto.

I'd follow the example of the master.

"Maybe later you could help me straighten out my Longfellow."
- Thornton Melon

Anyway, flaming aside, I took the time to look up rotoscoping on wikipedia, and found that roto was first used by Max Fleischer, circa 1914.

The article makes no mention of either Cinderella or Fantasia, instead pointing to Disney's use of roto in Snow White, (1937). So it's quite possible that I was completely wrong about the use of roto in MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIES, Cinderella and Fantasia. =) (That was my way of pwntoring myself as amends.)

Anyway, my point still stands, even if my examples were off a bit. Roto has been an animation tool from very early on.

If you haven't pieced it together from the various posts, Linkletter uses some custom rotoscoping software created by a programmer in Austin, Tx. It was first used on a full length feature in Waking Life, Linkletter's off-beat (or beat off, according to some) and idiosyncratic meditation on the nature of reality (nobody can accuse Linkletter of being unambitious!).

I'm not sure what capture medium was used to collect the source footage for "Scanner Darkly", but they used consumer grade DV cameras for "Waking Life".

Part of the overall style of "Waking Life" was the various styles that each artist used to interpret the the scene he or she was working on. Each artist was given a good deal of license. This certainly worked well with the non conventional structure of the movie, which loosely followed that of Linkletter's first feature, Slacker.

Apparently, "Scanner Darkly" will have a more consistent style through out, as it's structure will probably adhere more closely to what we normally consider narrative.

I think Linkletter is using this technique mostly because a straight live action technique risks turning the material into just another cheesy sci-fi flic (cf Total Recall, Paycheck, and Minority Report, etc. Also, the special effects will be a lot cheaper. =)

But what do I know? I'm covered in aphids.

If you haven't pieced it together from the various posts, Linkletter uses some custom rotoscoping software created by a programmer in Austin, Tx. It was first used on a full length feature in Waking Life, Linkletter's off-beat (or beat off, according to some) and idiosyncratic meditation on the nature of reality (nobody can accuse Linkletter of being unambitious!).

I'm not sure what capture medium was used to collect the source footage for "Scanner Darkly", but they used consumer grade DV cameras for "Waking Life".

Part of the overall style of "Waking Life" was the various styles that each artist used to interpret the the scene he or she was working on. Each artist was given a good deal of license. This certainly worked well with the non conventional structure of the movie, which loosely followed that of Linkletter's first feature, Slacker.

Apparently, "Scanner Darkly" will have a more consistent style through out, as it's structure will probably adhere more closely to what we normally consider narrative.

I think Linkletter is using this technique mostly because a straight live action technique risks turning the material into just another cheesy sci-fi flic (cf Total Recall, Paycheck, and Minority Report, etc. Also, the special effects will be a lot cheaper. =)

But what do I know? I'm covered in aphids.

If you haven't pieced it together from the various posts, Linkletter uses some custom rotoscoping software created by a programmer in Austin, Tx. It was first used on a full length feature in Waking Life, Linkletter's off-beat (or beat off, according to some) and idiosyncratic meditation on the nature of reality (nobody can accuse Linkletter of being unambitious!).

I'm not sure what capture medium was used to collect the source footage for "Scanner Darkly", but they used consumer grade DV cameras for "Waking Life".

Part of the overall style of "Waking Life" was the various styles that each artist used to interpret the the scene he or she was working on. Each artist was given a good deal of license. This certainly worked well with the non conventional structure of the movie, which loosely followed that of Linkletter's first feature, Slacker.

Apparently, "Scanner Darkly" will have a more consistent style through out, as it's structure will probably adhere more closely to what we normally consider narrative.

I think Linkletter is using this technique mostly because a straight live action technique risks turning the material into just another cheesy sci-fi flic (cf Total Recall, Paycheck, and Minority Report, etc. Also, the special effects will be a lot cheaper. =)

But what do I know? I'm covered in aphids.

If you haven't pieced it together from the various posts, Linkletter uses some custom rotoscoping software created by a programmer in Austin, Tx. It was first used on a full length feature in Waking Life, Linkletter's off-beat (or beat off, according to some) and idiosyncratic meditation on the nature of reality (nobody can accuse Linkletter of being unambitious!).

I'm not sure what capture medium was used to collect the source footage for "Scanner Darkly", but they used consumer grade DV cameras for "Waking Life".

Part of the overall style of "Waking Life" was the various styles that each artist used to interpret the the scene he or she was working on. Each artist was given a good deal of license. This certainly worked well with the non conventional structure of the movie, which loosely followed that of Linkletter's first feature, Slacker.

Apparently, "Scanner Darkly" will have a more consistent style through out, as it's structure will probably adhere more closely to what we normally consider narrative.

I think Linkletter is using this technique mostly because a straight live action technique risks turning the material into just another cheesy sci-fi flic (cf Total Recall, Paycheck, and Minority Report, etc. Also, the special effects will be a lot cheaper. =)

But what do I know? I'm covered in aphids.

If you haven't pieced it together from the various posts, Linkletter uses some custom rotoscoping software created by a programmer in Austin, Tx. It was first used on a full length feature in Waking Life, Linkletter's off-beat (or beat off, according to some) and idiosyncratic meditation on the nature of reality (nobody can accuse Linkletter of being unambitious!).

I'm not sure what capture medium was used to collect the source footage for "Scanner Darkly", but they used consumer grade DV cameras for "Waking Life".

Part of the overall style of "Waking Life" was the various styles that each artist used to interpret the the scene he or she was working on. Each artist was given a good deal of license. This certainly worked well with the non conventional structure of the movie, which loosely followed that of Linkletter's first feature, Slacker.

Apparently, "Scanner Darkly" will have a more consistent style through out, as it's structure will probably adhere more closely to what we normally consider narrative.

I think Linkletter is using this technique mostly because a straight live action technique risks turning the material into just another cheesy sci-fi flic (cf Total Recall, Paycheck, and Minority Report, etc. Also, the special effects will be a lot cheaper. =)

But what do I know? I'm covered in aphids.

Thanks for clearing that up. And all this time I thought that Cinderella (1950) and Fantasia (1940) were classics of animation.

I'm glad we have scholars of animation like you around to dispel these myths and reveal Disney for the hoax he was.

Thanks for clearing that up. And all this time I thought that Cinderella (1950) and Fantasia (1940) were classics of animation.

I'm glad we have scholars of animation like you around to dispel these myths and reveal Disney for the hoax he was.

fyi: Grave of the Fireflies (imdb)was NOT by Miyazaki, though it was released by Studio Ghibli.

So, if they already KNOW that we do not like what they are doing, and if we vote them out of office, they can then REALLY cash in, why would it matter if we write them and let them know what we think? THat is useless to us.

Try them, and if found guilty, hang them publicly. After that happens a couple of times, no politician would want to bring on such shame and humiliation on his/her family, which could last for generations.

So he was a big fan of Revenge of the Nerds, then?

The terms, "Conan O'Brian" and "classic humour" should never be combined.*

Conan, Leno and Letterman are crap compared to Johhny (see below), John Stewart is my favourite "late night guy" and I'm not even homosexual! Maybe you were thinking of John William Carson. He's an old dead guy that no one has heard about. I think he acted in some of those silent films in the early '20s.

One of his quotes: "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die."

* Except for his having contributed to certain hilarious Simpsons episodes

The limbless veterans are the ones doing the contemplating, not the brass.

Its been done before, with pilots who lost legs, and there was that diver from Men of Honor* who got a replacement limb, then went back to duty. Believe it or not, some people actually think they are doing the right thing being over there, and could feasibly want to continue doing it with a fake leg.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0203019/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD 0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9TWVuIG9mIEhv bm9yfGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=1;ft=20 Too lazy to do the right formatting sorry.

"The US Army loaned several UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters for the rescue scene at the end, prompting the Canadian authorities to reassure the people of Montreal that they weren't being invaded by America."

"Tim Hortons is still a part of Canadian culture, and relatively unknown in the US...."

Yep, in fact, when Mike Myers (a Torontonian) made his leap from SNL to screen with Wayne's World, he had to change the name to American hockey legend Stan Mikita, and put a HUGE hockey stick outside.

We Canadians, needless to say, actually found it funny, because we possess the bittersweet knowledge that the highlight of suburban youth can be the hours spent at Tim Horton's.

Now take another look at the scene where Dana Carvey meets the 'Wild Thing' babe, and realise the soul-destroying despair that leads him to this flight of self-deception. Mike Myers is truly one of the prophets of our time. 8^)

cos you know he ruins it by being in the commercials

Hollywood seems to have forgotten that plot, characters, and writing are what drives the moving-going experience, not how many machines you needed to render 4 seconds of some over-blown CGI shot.

Sideways, Million Dollar Baby, Hotel Rwanda, The Incredibles, Eternal Sunshine, Spiderman 2, and The Terminal are all plot driven with great characters and writing. Incredibles and Spiderman 2 even mix in a ton of CGI. Of course we have dreck like Catwoman and Van Helsing, but don't make a blanket statement about the decline of writing in Hollywood. I'm a big fan of independent films (my sister just completed a feature length documentary and my brother is producing a new film by Roger Majkowski), but Hollywood actually had a lot of excellent films in 2004.

It wound up becoming this movie instead.

The Guild Theater in Albuquerque NM was recently host to Tromadance NM, the first of what will hopefully be an annual local filmmaking event. This was grassroots, homegrown, micro-budget stuff I'm talking about, like about $100 here -- I think $3000 was the max including equipment. I'm sure a lot of the shorter peices were budgeted literally with change dug out from under the sofa cushions. Lloyd Kaufmann of Toxic Avenger fame (among other things) ushered the event in, and everyone had a blast.

I ran into a few folks that I'd known from high school a decade ago, who I them had the pleasure of seeing on-screen or as directors. It was a bigger thrill than meeting Redford would have afforded. Regular, ordinary folks *love* to make movies, and have some pretty cool stories to tell too. The innovation is amazing considering what some of these guys try to do with so little tech available to them, which ranged from simple Macromedia Flash animations to cheap Sony videocams to (rarely) prosumer-grade DV cams. I would have loved to see some machinima.

The governor's office in New Mexico has waded hip-deep into local filmmaking, by which I mean Hollywood comes to town for a few weeks and hires local crews. This isn't the kind of local filmmaking I'd *like* to see the governor pimping the state for (SUPPORT FILMMAKERS WHO ACTUALLY WORK AND LIVE IN NEW MEXICO, PLEASE), but I guess it's a beginning. Plus, it means there are plenty of "workforce training" and continuing education classes to get the mad film skizzills. There's a lot to work with for the amateur, hobbyist, and professional filmmaker alike.

Here are some links for the interested:
Albuquerque Independent Film Cooperative Forums
Albuquerque Digital Filmmakers Forum hosted by Blankstare pictures.
Exhilarated Despair Productions Forum run by Scott Phillips, producer/director of Stink of Flesh.

I'm leaving a lot of links out, but everyone is pretty much linked to everyone else, so those ones will get you well started.

And that's it. I'm done shilling.

No, that's the joke in The Blues Brothers.

"Any given week I'm sure one fellow sold 20 or 30 CDs at five bucks a pop."

He takes the risk, and will get caught for it eventually, because the greed will overtake common sense. Also there is a different scale of charges to have copywritten material and selling it.

But, for example, I'm mildly interested in how bad 'Battlefield Earth' actually was, so I download it. Watch, cringing, then delete it. There's no outside perceived difference between me and the other guy.

I don't have a problem with that per se, society will level, either by producing a model that can take into account the fact you can feel mugged after leaving a bad movie (especially if you're going to have to sign an NDA not to SMS friends on how bad it was) or by sueing the population into a frenzy of rioting, or something in between. Someone somewhere will always consider me a heathen or evil. Hell, my love for pork chops marks me down for the Taliban. The basic point is I don't care about the game of moral twister that an industry that promotes "Sizzla's" brand of homophobia should squeal about freedom of speech in one breath, then thump the book of the law when they think they're losing out. F*** 'em.

The main problem is that the profits of the companies that are claiming to government that they're hurting are rising pretty steadily. Can you plot a similar line for any other industry on the planet? Again, F*** them.

I have _every_ sympathy for artists that make 70c off their albums. I would personally be honoured to pay the artists direct and get around the advertising budget, A&R, marketing expense accounts and the like. I like the product because I like the product, not because I watch the Saturday rotation, or radio has drilled it into my head. I'm a music fan...my tastes have been honed by nights at home, lucky finds of rarities on market stalls, and swapping...yes...swapping tapes with friends. The music industry cannot _fathom_ or control this level of viral marketing, and you can be sure as damn that there isn't a lot of money in it, but the secondary effect is that the back catalogues of the greats are selling across generations and ARE still selling despite the fact that the industry has _destroyed_ the retail market through greed.

So F*** them in their ear.

"At the call center where last I 9-5'd"

Pay well, did it? A little supplement to the income has greased human evolution since time immemorial, and black markets have been around for quite a while. And nothing scares people like finding out that _everyone_ has dealt with a black market at sometime or another, and the scale of it. The digital content people have found out, and it's scaring them. The majority don't realise that it's been the status-quo since the year dot.

In fact, all of this roughly parallels what happened with the printing press when it arrived, but you don't see anyone shouting that down because some people lost cash. In fact, you could argue that without early print piracy, modern literacy wouldn't be at the stage it is now.

"I would be indignant about the pirates SELLING this stuff"

I am, which is why I would never charge anyone for a copy I made for them of anything. I'm not entirely morally bankrupt, but given the examples of moral behaviour by governments, rich individuals and people around me, I'm not going to be preached at over a couple of CDs, especially given that this is a minority worried about pr

Tis a novel idea. Sicne the 'broadband' users probably use a USB Wireless dongle to connect, then there should be no reason why this won't work, but they'd have to parse out the data and shove it through TiVo's GUI.

Semi-related-intersting-thing: IMDb's Link-It is an interesting service (has anyone used it?) that has you email link-it@imdb.com an html page with the artist/movie title names and imdb will link it up with the appropriate pages all href'd for you.

You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills...

The Inquisition (Let's begin)
The Inquisition (Look out sin)
We have a mission to convert the Jews (Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew)
We're gonna teach them wrong from right.
We're gonna help them see the light
and make an offer that they can't refuse. (That those Jews just can't refuse)
Confess, don't be boring.
Say yes, don't be dull.
A fact you're ignoring:
It's better to lose your skull cap than your skull (or your govalt!)
The Inquisition (what a show)
The Inquistion (here we go)
We know you're wishin' that we'd go away.
But the Inquisition's here and it's here to stay!

"I was sitting in a temple. I was minding my own business.
I was listening to a lovely Hebrew mass.
Then these Papus persons plungered and they throw me in a dungeon and they shove a red hot poker up my ass.
Is that considerate? Is that polite?
And not a tube of Preperation H in sight!"
"I'm sittin' flickin' chickens and I'm lookin' throught the pickins' and suddenly thes goyim pull down valls.
I didn't even know them and they grabbed my by the stoghum and started playing ping pong with my balls!
Ooh, the agony! Ooh, the shame!
To make my privates public for a game?"

The Inquisition (what a show)
The Inquisition (here we go)
We know you're wishin' that we'd go away.
But the Inquisition's here and it's here to-
"Hey Toquemada, walk this way."
"I just got back from the Auto-de-fe."
"Auto-de-fe? What's an Auto-de-fe?"
"It's what you oughtn't to do but you do anyway."
Will you convert? "No, no, no, no."
Will you confess? "No, no, no, no."
Will you revert? "No, no, no, no."
Will you say yes? "No, no, no, no!"
Now I asked in a nice way, I said, "Pretty please."
I bent their ears, now I'll work on their knees!
"Hey Toquemada, walk this way. We got a little game that you might wanna play, so pull that handle, try you're luck."
"Who knows, Toq, you might win a buck!"

"How we doin', any converts today?"
"Not a one, nay, nay, nay."
"We flattened their fingers, we branded their buns!
Nothing is working! Send in the nuns!"

The Inquisition, what a show.
The Inquisition, here we go.
We know you're wishin' that we'd go away!
So all you Muslims and you Jews
We got big news for all of yous:
You'd better change your point of views TODAY!
'Cause the Inquisition's here and it's here to stay!

Sounds like these guys should talk to Hansel & Derek.

Hansel: "The files are IN the computer."

Zoolander

Has anyone watched Tucker's PBS Show? Personally I don't see why people are hating on Tucker so bad. I get the impression that Novak actually believes the shit he spews, and that Tucker is spewing the shit for the purpose of debate, playing devil's advocate perhaps. In my opinion, the only time Crossfire was ever tolerable was when it was Begala vs. Carlson. Mostly because Begala is easier on the eyes than Carville.

Crossfire was pretty dumbass, but i found it interesting because it was a daily testing ground for the political operatives' spin of the day. If you've ever seen The War Room you'll see that this is how these guys actually act. The show never had any educational or informational value other than observing how political operatives think. Which to me is very interesting, especially in an election year. Plus, Crossfire and perhaps the McLaughlin Group are the only truly non-partisan politics shows. Both sides get equal time.

And I like Jon Stewart, but he's a comedian, not a journalist. Because of this he is able to protect what he says behind the guise of satire. Nothing he says on his show matters beyond humor, though obviously he is able influence his audience, and beyond.

I'm disappointed that Stewart chose to come out from behind the protective shield of satire only to attack some dumb TV show. Why does he not criticize the government without his tongue-in-cheek? I speculate that seriously criticizing officials without the protection of satire would open him up to counter criticsm and jeapordize his career. A 2-bit, non-partisan cable show, he can get away with that.

But Microsoft owns Apple, at least PoSV says so. So that makes Apple the Ant-iChrist?

Great Memento reference!

I also seem to remember Wired mentioning that the Internet Movie Database uses perl.

Blast it off into space and make art into reality (sort of). Sadly this film is not replayed on Space, Scream or DriveInClassics yet. As an aside, I've heard that Scream was moving into the states - any news on this? Jane Meikle is great and Scream has a funny "expose" on her real life.

MIB reference for those who can't place it.

You're confusing Pauly Shore with John Leguizamo.

You're confusing Pauly Shore with John Leguizamo.

So will this make it easier to bring Dennis Quaid back from the dead?

Cheers,
IT

I don't remember if it was BioSphere I or II, but one of them had the concrete leech most of the oxygen out of the air. They eventually had to shut it down way ahead of schedule because they couldn't compensate for the lack of oxygen. Wusses. They probaboly just needed Pauly Shore.

The Corporation

IMDB :
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379225/

Torrent : http://thepiratebay.org/torrents-details.php?id=32 67335

Watch it, its GOOD !

Bahhh.... asteroids are for wimps.

I'd be more worried about this 2029 event

...everyone knows that the robots are going to fix all the problems in 2035.

This is absurd, how will secret agents be able to survive underwater for a few minutes whilst their arch-enemies check for survivors to a mysterious car crash?

Is it just me, or does anyone else find the Stallman photo in the interview strikingly similar to one Ron Jeremy?

There's something we've forgot.

You don't sit in front of your computer monitor along with your wife and kids to watch a divx movie on your media player. Generally divx users are 20-30 yo's, or even kids who downloaded the latest anime episode.

So who gets the benefit of a downloaded movie? ONE person per family. If the movie wasn't good, the guy wouldn't watch it along with his g/f, wife, kids/friends/etc.

So what does this mean: "Try before you buy". Simple. Here I'd be questioned: "Oh come on, what person watches a movie TWICE"? Ask the starwars fans who watched "Star wars: A new hope" the day it came out in theaters. They watched it once. Twice. Even 20 times.

So, if a movie is REALLY WORTH it, I'm sure people would actually purchase the DVD or go to the theaters, even if they already watched the downloaded thing. Why? Because the movie DESERVES IT.

The real enemy here is not piracy... but freaking poor quality overhyped movies with pre-paid (as opposed to impartial) reviews.

The movie producers are committing FRAUD by telling us the movies ARE WORTH seeing, when they're not. Same with videogames. I remember playing FFX-2... and I could compare my feelings with a girl who didn't achieve climax on her most expected date. "What? This is it? WTF?" Same with Robotech: Invasion (79 bucks thrown to the trash, man!) and Spider Man for the PS2.

So, MPAA and associates: Want more profit? Make better products, and stop complaining.

Addendum: Maybe the MPAA is actually whining because they CAN'T FOOL the public with hype (Pearl Harbor, anyone?), and people won't purchase bad movies DVD's or go to the theaters if the "evil pirates" already review the movie and say it SUCKS. And _HERE_ is the profit loss. In any case, this reinforces my opinion:

Make better products. Period.

Don't forget this instant classic!

:)