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They're cartoons, and therefore for kids. That's a pretty definite correlation. > If he wants the Japanese movie industry to be taken seriously like the > American one, try making films with *real* actors and scenes. Oh, no, that > would require a budget. Take a look at the movie listings at your local > picture house ... see any Japanese films? Nope ... or maybe just one. Compare > and contrast to the vast number of American films that make it out there. ever caught a little thing called akira ? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094625/ incidentally did anyone else think the cg in spiderman 2 was close to the worst yet?

But in the darker and famous Grave of the Fireflies, the DVD special features contains an interview of the other Studio Ghibli director, Isao Takahata mentions that the moral he wanted to convey was that you could survive in postwar Japan if you worked hard, but the boy-girl couple in the movie did not bother, and died. The movie-watching public took it just as an immensely touching story of sibling love.

Thank God for that. I do not appreciate the darker message.

But in the darker and famous Grave of the Fireflies, the DVD special features contains an interview of the other Studio Ghibli director, Isao Takahata mentions that the moral he wanted to convey was that you could survive in postwar Japan if you worked hard, but the boy-girl couple in the movie did not bother, and died. The movie-watching public took it just as an immensely touching story of sibling love.

Thank God for that. I do not appreciate the darker message.

Needle in the haystack issue. Too much communication happens online- certainly they can have boxes report back a copy of all of the traffic from some ISP, or even all of the traffic out of / into an ISP, but to give analysis of that data is not something I'd like to be tasked with.

Our government has gimps locked away that will sift through all that. Just like this chump.

Send in the FEMBOTS!

A friend of mine was playing a game online (Tribes) and a bunch of folks were chatting in the game about govt monitoring of the Internet, Eschelon, or stuff like that. He joked about how he would say a bunch of key words to get noticed so he typed "sarin gas", "Allah", etc.* Ha ha, isn't that funny?

Next day, on the way to work, he gets pulled over by the police for "not having his seatbelt on." This is on a country road that rarely has police cars on it, let alone police looking for people not wearing seatbelts. While talking with the cop, my friend yawned, and the policeman said something like, "So were you up late last night on the computer?" He asked him why he asked. The cop said, "Oh, you have a bunch of computer stuff in your seat..." My friend looked at his seat and there was a bag with some audio CDs in it. He got off with just a warning.

I told him later that the FBI was searching and/or bugging his house and the cops were just trying to delay him in case he turned around and went home for some reason. I also told him that after work, he needed to go to a bookstore and buy Catcher in the Rye (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118883/) to let them know that he knew they were there.

*Of course, now that I said the keywords, I'll probably get pulled over as well. So note to FBI: When you search my house, please don't let the cat out. Thanks.

Also check out The Corporation... it has a nice chapter on the incident you are referring to.

The only way for it to be feasible is for one half the population to monitor the other

good thing computers can't search text or audio (or video with facial recognition), otherwise the minority would be able to watch the majority

who is going to watch the watchers?
The Watcher in the Woods

Actually, he did mention something to that effect in his Never Scared Comedy Special

Actualy I was thinking of the Forbin Project.

Reminds me of LA Confidential. Forget why now, but it definitely does. Probably something in regards to Danny DeVito and the B&W underbelly of Hollywood.

Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 has a section that deals with Congress not reading the PATRIOT Act before passing it.

On his site, Moore has a page dealing with backing this claim up, "Congress did not read the Patriot Act before voting on it"

(I'm posting anonymously since I've already moderated (which means I'm also not the OP))

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The character is entirely deleted in certain TV versions (check the alternate versions information in IMDB.)

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Ruper Pupkin probably has one of these in his basement.

I'd say Michael Ironside was a sure thing for the lead role, but he might be a bit old now (at 54)

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He did a bit more than that

Can they not afford $0.99 at Blockbuster?

That would have been Martin Short.

I want to win the date with a sexy Russian agent.

I wouldn't. More than likely Bond has already had a date with her, and I don't want to be diagnosed with diseases Bond1 -Bond18 . Better to have a cool gadget in my book -- if You Only Live Twice I'm not going to waste one of my lives suffering with venerial diseases.

That used to be true with all movies, but I believe that it was Deep Impact which changed that by having their news cannel being MSNBC. In fact, the fictional reporter from MSNBC was one of the main charaters in the movie. Can anyone think of an earlier example?

why does this sound exactly like the plot of the the day after tomorrow ... oh yeah, that's because this IS the plot of that movie without even little changes. talk about plagiarism. /sarcasm

A missile shield makes you less safe because it is a strong incentive for potential competitors to develop more sophisticated weapons that can beat it.

If the shield were to work perfectly (a pretty big if) the US could attack anyone without threat of speedy retaliation. This effectively means it functions as an offensive weapon. Most potential competitors don't like offensive weapons being pointed in their general direction, and will become less friendly in a diplomatic sense, and work as hard as economically feasible on weapons that can beat the shield.

The ensuing arms race and volatile international climate would make everyone less safe, whether behind the shield or not. Not to mention that you are then forced to throw more good money after the bad already spent on the shield to develop shield-beater-beaters, which in turn prompts the competitors to work on shield-beater-beater-beaters, etc, etc, etc.

Kind of like the trace-buster-buster-buster scenario from The Big Hit.

Nah, you want to breed a human with a dog, so you get a mog - he's his own best friend!

You are referring to Zardoz. It has to be the worst film ever made that involves sex and flying stone heads.

hehehe
He's got a BIG head.

Olbigatory Head Quotes
Stuart Mackenzie: Would ya look at the size of that kid's head! It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system! Looks like an orange on a toothpick!

Stuart Mackenzie: I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik; spherical but quite pointy at parts! Aye, now that was offsides, now wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow.

Does anyone think that the Sci Fi channel will ever get actual decent Sci Fi authors to do their scripts and come up with series for them?

As for this complaint - it should be expected that movies based on a book will be different. Not only because of the medium change but the intepretation that must take place when a new person "directs" the story. Unless the author is intimately involved in the production there will be interpretation, assumptions, marketing requirements, and wild-ass guessing that changes the final cut of the movie from the book.

Don't like it? Don't sell the rights to your book.

Ender's Game might happen as a movie ... but then, you added the qualifier "good", and who knows ...

I'm sorry... JP4 was already released. It took place in New York with Matthew Broderick and was panned in the theaters (mainly because it was released with a mis-translated title)

Nephilium

Uh... JP 3 made $181M in the US alone. Hardly "direct to video."

Hilarious, yes. But Informative?!?! WTF? I guess the moderator's never seen MALLRATS.

Almost your idea....

Find some small group to blame that matches their paranoia. (If they don't have any paranoia, start some. Check their email for likely targets.) Explain that the selfish actions of this group threatens them all, and that a few temporary security restrictions will needed to combat this threat to [the fatherland/the university/their tenure]. (The temporary is important, but don't get tied down to any specific dates.) Try to recruit them to watch each other for slackers, saboteurs, and agents for [other department]. Study the works of others for more ideas.

Or Alan Thicke

Looks like they are slowly getting better..

Should be interesting once the robots start looking like Robin Williams or (gasp!) Haley Joel Osment.

Hmm..

Looks like they are slowly getting better..

Should be interesting once the robots start looking like Robin Williams or (gasp!) Haley Joel Osment.

Hmm..

Yeah, where's the tool for visualizing a server meltdown?

Here's something to help you.

Brian Cohen was, however, the eponymous hero of Monty Python's Life of Brian. Bloody Romans.

You mean American Beauty, and it's Mena Suvari, not Mira Sorveno. I always get their names confused too.

You mean American Beauty, and it's Mena Suvari, not Mira Sorveno. I always get their names confused too.

You mean American Beauty, and it's Mena Suvari, not Mira Sorveno. I always get their names confused too.

It's brilliant! As long as our subject races don't have any Mac-compatible computers, it can't fail!

Allow me to respond with Vampire Raiders: Ninja Queen!!! OK, your point is taken, some video games are just as bad as some movies. I highly recommend watching the referenced movie, however. It is sort of like a painting done by a mentally retarded elephant. You should see it just to see what a mentally retarded elephant can paint.