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Doesn't anyone remember Within the Woods?

Searching For Bobby Fischer Based on a true story about Josh Waitzkin, some incredible child chess player. It's a cool movie.

It didn't work for Ferris Bueller.

Except for the fact that these guys have made one good movie after another. Lucas has not.

Sam Raimi (Look at the director and writer credits, not producer)
Rob Tapert
(ok, maybe not Bruce Campbell, but he's got some gems in there)

Except for the fact that these guys have made one good movie after another. Lucas has not.

Sam Raimi (Look at the director and writer credits, not producer)
Rob Tapert
(ok, maybe not Bruce Campbell, but he's got some gems in there)

Except for the fact that these guys have made one good movie after another. Lucas has not.

Sam Raimi (Look at the director and writer credits, not producer)
Rob Tapert
(ok, maybe not Bruce Campbell, but he's got some gems in there)

actually alien's prequel of sorts is also a comedy

Dark Star: during the scene where Pinback is trying to track the beachball alien down the narrow service ducts, Dan O'Bannon realised that this funny bit they were filming could also make a great horror, he then went on to write Alien, (IFAIK as a studio fund-raiser for Dune)

You forgot the original Evil Dead - "The badness which dies" by Akira Kurosawa all 4 rain filled hours of it...

on the subject of most number of remakes is there anything that beats 3 Yojimbo/Fistfull of Dollars/LastMan Standing ?

You forgot the original Evil Dead - "The badness which dies" by Akira Kurosawa all 4 rain filled hours of it...

on the subject of most number of remakes is there anything that beats 3 Yojimbo/Fistfull of Dollars/LastMan Standing ?

You forgot the original Evil Dead - "The badness which dies" by Akira Kurosawa all 4 rain filled hours of it...

on the subject of most number of remakes is there anything that beats 3 Yojimbo/Fistfull of Dollars/LastMan Standing ?

In Army of Darkness, it goes a little differently. ;)

Maybe have some sort of anti-hero villian, who makes himself out to be some sort of overlord who's going to take over the world

A close match to that would be Leslie Nielsen's evil overlord role in Surf Ninjas... which is sort of a "look at how stupid and schmaltzy this is" cult-film with my friends. Good for a cheap laugh, but sincerely pushes the campy-meter a little too far.

It's also IMDB's #82 (just ahead of FearDotCom and Iron Eagle II) on the bottom 100. Go figure.

"For as we all know: money can't buy knives"

That sounds good, some modern day evilness, nothing wrong with oldschool meets suburbia.

The beautiful thing with that is they could really riff on Dawn of the Dead. Ya know, zombie shouts "I'll swallow your soul" only to be hit by a minivan piloted by a panicked soccer-mom... or just an Ash-built-riding-lawnmower-of-doom. Good stuff.

I could imagine zombies in mecha outfits... man I better stop now or I'll be no better than fan fiction authors

Ack.. thanks. That just gave me a virus flashback. I need to go wash my brain now. :(

Here's a hacksaw and some soap so you can go wash that mental image out of your brain.

That's "Klaatu barada nikto".

Frank Gorshin was the black-and-white faced alien (or was taht the white-and-black... hmmm) in "Let This Be Your Battlefield", and an old-series episode, but was better known as The Riddler from the old Batman series.

I saw him on stage once in a play whose name I don't recall. He obviously was not feeling well, and I was left underwhelmed, but I still think he's great.

didn't that Arnie movie 6th Day feature a scene where Arnold and someone else are being driven around in a computer-controlled SUV? I remember each of them twisting uncomfortably in their seats to look at each other, to really make it clear that the vehicle was doing the work. I thought this presentation of the technology was wrong. The car designers would have made the chairs swivel so the passengers really could just look at one another or even face the rear. For that matter, they could have even sat in back.

You gotta love it. "Microsoft.. warned Asian governments... they could face patent lawsuits..." Marmoset, meet the 900-pound gorilla. :) The idea of corporations having unlimited power and almost no accountability is somewhat foreign to the Chinese rulers. This kind of priviledge was historically reserved for the Communist Party, I doubt its leaders would welcome competition from Microsoft. :)

translation anybody?

Preparing for the future.

Think Metropolis, Modern Times, 1984 (to me rather a remake of Jevgenij Samjatin), RFID+Neurochips.

Add remote control! Imagine!

CC.

Think about it. CSI is getting people into forensic sciences, which just might be a good thing. It follows the lead of shows such as Emergency! which got a lot of people going into fire/medical professions. So why not?

I was on set as an extra where Jill Hennessy was one of the stars (Nuremberg). She's, like a babe, even in real life.

I was on set as an extra where Jill Hennessy was one of the stars (Nuremberg). She's, like a babe, even in real life.

I can't stand David Caruso from the Miami show

Oh good, it's not just me.

Seriously, his acting is so bad, it makes William Shatner and Keanu Reeves look like somone on a par with Lawrence Olivier.

I loved Caruso in Hudson Hawk -- it is, in spite of the bad reputation, a really witty, fun movie -- but now that I see CSI:Miami, it occurs to me that the best part of Caruso's "Hudson Hawk" role is that they didn't let him say any of his lines out loud. Every time he had something to say, he'd hand another character a business card that had his line printed on it. In the context of "Hudson Hawk", this was cute & funny; in the context of his CSI work, this looks like a desperate attempt by the producers of HH to get this bumbler to shut up and save their film.

In hindsight, it was a brilliant move on their part -- some actors just shouldn't be allowed to speak their lines out loud...

So I'm not the only one who has that dream. Except the midget part...

Everyone knows he stole the idea from his roommate. Here's proof

I just had a flash of that movie he was in with Peter Falk in the '70s (murder by death with Truman Capote, Peter Sellers, etc)

I say, old chap, what in blazes are you on about?

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000057/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/ already done

I though Shawn stole it from his roommate while the roommate was napping - thus the name Napster

reference

Who cares about Shawn Fanning. We all know he stole the program from Lyle while he was sleeping!!!

the voice actors no one has ever heard of to do their series

Ever heard of Tia Carrere? I know she's not a Tim Allen or Tom Hanks, but she's noteworthy. Besides playing Nani (Lilo's older sister in Lilo and Stitch) she was Wayne's object of affection in the Wayne's World flicks.

It's a condition of mental divergence. I find myself on the planet Ogo, part of an intellectual elite, preparing to subjugate the barbarian hordes on Pluto. But even though this is a totally convincing reality for me in every way, nevertheless Ogo is actually a construct of my psyche. I am mentally divergent, in that I am escaping certain unnamed realities that plague my life here. When I stop going there, I will be well.

Are you also divergent, friend?

there was even a documentary about their findings. Here's a clip from the article and link for more info.

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An expedition of archaeologists on Earth discover an Aztec temple hidden under the Antarctic circle, housing a host of Alien creatures. A group of five coming-of-age Predators have also come to the temple, as it has long been a training ground for their race. From there on, it's Aliens vs. Predators, with the humans caught in the middle.
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Many people are surprised to discover that Christ was a black man, but when one looks at Christ's lineage one discovers that He has numerous Hamatic Ancestors, with Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Naomi, Bathsheba and Jezabel being the most notable.

Here are the facts:

• In ancient times, including Jesus' time, the Arabian peninsula was considered part of what we now call Africa, not "the Near East" or "the Middle East".
• Christianity is frequently portrayed as "the White Man's religion". The truth is that most of the people in the Bible were people of color (i.e., not "Anglo"): Semitics, blacks, and Mediterranean, e.g., Romans.
• In the United States today the general view on whether someone is "black" is the One-Drop Rule -- if a person has any black ancestors s/he is considered "black", even with a clearly Anglo skin color, e.g., Mariah Carry, Vanessa L. Williams, LaToya Jackson.
• Jesus' male ancestors trace a line from Shem. However, ethnically and racially, they were mixed Semitic and Hamitic from the times spent in captivity in Egypt and Babylon. Rahab and probably Tamar were Canaanites. Although Canaanites spoke a Semitic language, they were descendants of Ham through his son Canaan. Bethsheba, who had been the wife of Uriah the Hittite, probably was a Hamitic (black) Hittite herself.

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Not trolling, I'm Chinese. Usually the US is fanatical about data-gathering. Thought hottest/coldest places on earth were visited and studied long ago.

We were fanatical about data gathering, but we are unable to afford to do so anymore. Part of the reason is that your country exports large quantities of consumer goods to us through the giant U.S. retailer known as Wal-Mart and increasing our already huge trade deficit. This is also depressing our local economies and putting local companies out of business as they can not compete with your workers that work for $.50 an hour. Subsequently there is less taxes paid to the federal government. So critical areas such as government research (esp. in the area of "pure research") and grants to college students suffer (as does the ability of of middle income families to fund college educations).

Thus, you have less people who can go to college. If they do they are less likely to study things like "geophysics" and more likely "law," as we know that the only thing left on this planet after we kill the enviroment with our large SUVs will be cockroaches and lawyers. Those that cannot go to college or unemployed geophyicists are currently finding employment at Wal-Mart if they are lucky. However, this is not a living wage here and many of us are having difficulties with it.

While the Bush tax-cut was helpful in that the $125 provided for a muffler repair and a trip to the movies, sadly it is not enough. The crushing force of the twin deficits will continue to devalue the dollar, and we will increasingly be unable to buy stuff, even if it comes from the hands of your fine workers there in China.

As this last election has shown, nothing is going to change for the foreseeable future. The closest that we are going to get to establishing new arctic/antarctic research is to watch reruns of Ice Station Zebra. So my friend in China, encourage science and space exploration there, as we can no longer afford it here.

Also, please stop using so much raw material. It really is driving up prices and inflation badly here.

I'm sorry if my little personal note offends other slashdotters who might mod me down, but I thought this issue needed addressing.

In the text summary, I was picturing something like this in robotic form, and with this sort of weather. But sadly, I find that the robot was manufactured by an American, rather than a Japanese team, and the weather was an American definition of a blizzard, rather than a Canadian one. :(

Ya? Well we have been there for ages. We even made a movie about it in 1996!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116282/

Self-Followup with text of said speech (from imdb

John Milton: Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off. He's a tight-ass. He's a sadist. He's an absentee landlord. Worship that? Never.

How could you forget this movie?

is this the first CG DVD for Disney?

You mean other than Dinosaur ?

The trade group said it would also join with the Video Software Dealers Association to place educational materials in more than 10,000 video stores nationwide. The materials will include anti-piracy ads that are also playing in theaters.
would these be the same ads where low-paid lighting technicians and extras complain about piracy because they are losing money(ie. the same ads salaried workers are paid extra to claim their payment from a film has anything to do with the profit of the film itself)? or would these be the same ads where the movie industry parades around its underpaid workers while "forgetting" to mention that, even if a movie is horrible the "stars" will still get millions?

The trade group said it would also join with the Video Software Dealers Association to place educational materials in more than 10,000 video stores nationwide. The materials will include anti-piracy ads that are also playing in theaters.
would these be the same ads where low-paid lighting technicians and extras complain about piracy because they are losing money(ie. the same ads salaried workers are paid extra to claim their payment from a film has anything to do with the profit of the film itself)? or would these be the same ads where the movie industry parades around its underpaid workers while "forgetting" to mention that, even if a movie is horrible the "stars" will still get millions?

The trade group said it would also join with the Video Software Dealers Association to place educational materials in more than 10,000 video stores nationwide. The materials will include anti-piracy ads that are also playing in theaters.
would these be the same ads where low-paid lighting technicians and extras complain about piracy because they are losing money(ie. the same ads salaried workers are paid extra to claim their payment from a film has anything to do with the profit of the film itself)? or would these be the same ads where the movie industry parades around its underpaid workers while "forgetting" to mention that, even if a movie is horrible the "stars" will still get millions?

The trade group said it would also join with the Video Software Dealers Association to place educational materials in more than 10,000 video stores nationwide. The materials will include anti-piracy ads that are also playing in theaters.
would these be the same ads where low-paid lighting technicians and extras complain about piracy because they are losing money(ie. the same ads salaried workers are paid extra to claim their payment from a film has anything to do with the profit of the film itself)? or would these be the same ads where the movie industry parades around its underpaid workers while "forgetting" to mention that, even if a movie is horrible the "stars" will still get millions?

The trade group said it would also join with the Video Software Dealers Association to place educational materials in more than 10,000 video stores nationwide. The materials will include anti-piracy ads that are also playing in theaters.
would these be the same ads where low-paid lighting technicians and extras complain about piracy because they are losing money(ie. the same ads salaried workers are paid extra to claim their payment from a film has anything to do with the profit of the film itself)? or would these be the same ads where the movie industry parades around its underpaid workers while "forgetting" to mention that, even if a movie is horrible the "stars" will still get millions?

Amanda Tapping was the only one of the main cast members who had not worked with Richard Dean Anderson previously.

Yes, shows tend to all share the same sets of background character. For example, Kevin Durand was Joshua (the dog boy) on Dark Angel, Zipacna on Stargate SG-1, and a really minor character on Dead Like Me. A.J. Cook was in Dead Like Me, then Tru Calling, and is now back to movies. Jewel Staite was in both Wonderfalls and Firefly (and Dead Like Me for that matter).

What would you expect actors to do when they aren't in a show? Of course they look for other work, full time or part time.

The name of the "Visine Commercial Dude" is:

is...
is...
had a short-running game show on Comedy Central...
anyone???
anyone???

Ben Stein.

And Ben Stein is best known for:

anyone???
anyone???
thundergeek???
thundergeek? ??

his appearance in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

(sheesh, I know the average person around /. is ignorant, but the man had a critical role in defining the 1980's!)

Demolition Man.

"Sam Carter: It took us fifteen years and three supercomputers to MacGyver a way to power the gate."

Interestingly enough, it was that ad lib that got Tapping the job. Last piece of trivia on the page

That story about Jeffrey Katzenberg isn't really true. The person who redesigned Woody was Bud Luckey, the animator who produced the "Boundin'" short that is showing with "The Incredibles". He's the oldest guy at Pixar and everyone jumps to work on his projects. I think the story is just Katzenberg blowing his own horn, which he seems to do quite often.

As far as a "bricks and mortar" studio, they've been down this road before...

Anybody remember this (pretty cool-looking) Disney flick?

Dinosaur
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130623/

No, it wasn't a Pixar film...

The Secret Lab was credited at the end... But that's not the whole story...

Disney has had a CG team at Feature Animation for some time.... But Disney proper has also farmed a lot of work out (around the world) for their various needs, and as such, has relationships with studios and individual artists, making an endeavor such as a divorce from Pixar a viable proposition.

I hate to cite AICN, but this is a pretty good read, and it jives with what I'd heard at the time:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=12700

Dinosaur credits:
http://www.dinosaur.org/disneydinosaur.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130623/fullcredits

Anyone out there closer to the source care to shed more light?

There's an old saying in animation:
"Everyone works for Disney at least once."