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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."

Nope - It was Disney http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120917/plotsummary and it was a really good film - both animation and story

Will the original voice talent stand for this?

Err, how about Dinosaur? The effects were done by Disney, totally CG (friend of a friend worked on it). Story was so-so but I thought the CG was good (ok lemurs and dinosaurs co-existing was stupid but eh). That said, Pixar is being sucked dry by Disney, and I am sadsadsad that Disney will probably be involved in any additional Incredibles sequel.

We've seen "more-adult" CG before. And it sucked.

Clint Eastwood would be proud!

I just realized how many movies and books could be greatly improved by adding that line to the end narration.

That would certainly have spiced up "About Schmidt".

I just realized how many movies and books could be greatly improved by adding that line to the end narration.

That would certainly have spiced up "".

It was definitely a pretty bad episode in its own right, regardless of video game tie-ins.

On the other hand, it did contain a cute in-joke. While explaining how the game works to Teal'c, Carter says, "You've played Doom before, right?" He replies, "I have played Def Jam Vendetta." Chris Judge, the actor who plays Teal'c, also provided voice work for DJV.

I just have one problem. Could they possibly not run a full evening of Stargate SG-1 on the same evening as a a full run of West Wing? On Monday nights both series run a full evening of their respective shows and I end up flipping back and forth between them and tend to get really confused. Not that I mind seeing Amanda Tapping and Janel Moloney on the same nights. I just want to see both shows. Dammit. I need a Tivo.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0569295/

In the episode "Secrets", Col. O'Neill tells a reporter "That's O'Neill, with two L's. There's another Colonel O'Neil with one L. He has no sense of humor." In the feature film Stargate (1994), the lead character, whose name was spelled with one L, was played by 'Kurt Russel' and was a much more humorless character. [link]

I think BillG recently saw the movie Revolution OS http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0308808/ *ing Richard Stallman.

Long Ago Hackers in MIT saw this dream of havinf no passwords with the philosophy that they didnt want to be in control of any admin assigned.

It worked for sometime, RMS used to have no password of his unix account. All other too!, they had to just press the enter to login! but later they had to change themselves...

BillG will *not* succeed in his dream plan! Amen!

but i thought the bible was infallible, because god is infallible, therefore if the bible is fallible wouldn't that make god fallible. so therefore couldn't it be stated that moses never existed, along with the rest of the cast of the most widly distributed story in the history of the world (i may be wrong).

Intersting theory, perhaps you should make a movie based on this premis.

[Doing my best Mako impression:]

"Once upon a time, when the WWW was whipping across the business landscape like a cold wind from the North, nobody in business had a clue how to wrangle it. Was it an IT thing? A Marketing thing? A New Business thing? It was a Time of Chaos, and still-moist script-jockies were christened "Web Masters" and given the imprimatur, "Um, do your thing. And here's a six figure salary, cuz we haven't a clue what 'your thing' is. Oh, and make it look 'cool,' cuz we heard it's supposed to look 'cool.'"

And they did their thing.

And it looked dreadful.

Happily, business recovered, bean counters and Marketing Directors finally found something upon which they could agree, and color-blind code-jockeys were partnered with art-types so the WWW could outgrow its purple-orange acne-encrusted adolescence and mature into pseudo-suave 'white-is-the-new-black' twenty-something hipsterism."

Bottom line: I'd rather teach an artist how to code (and have done so), then let a coder try to "do art." But if you want it to look remotely professional, you prolly need at least two heads involved.

So I guess you missed the James Bond movie A View to a Kill. In that movie, the evil Zorin wants to cause an earthquake that will destroy Silicon Valley. His method? Pumping massive amount of salt water into the faults, then blowing up part of the fault. So the plant in TFA wasn't blowing up faults, but their salt water did grease the faultlines- just like the movie in 1985 suggested.

See Mom, I learned a lot from re-watching all those James Bond movies...!

* Originally turned down the role of Ann August in the film Anywhere But Here (1999) because of the love scene between herself and Corbin Allred which required nudity.
* Turned down the title role in Adrian Lyne's Lolita (1997), due to her feelings about young adult actors/actresses being exposed to sex in films.
* Takes pride in the fact that she is a role model for girls and choses roles that are positive so that they will have a positive role model to look up to.

How has the news that Natalie is going to appear nude in the upcoming film, "Closer" affected you? Be specific.

How has the news that Natalie is going to appear nude in the upcoming film, "Closer" affected you? Be specific.

Screw that! I'm waiting for Cory and Cory to do a remake of The Lost Boys!

"Dude, you're like totally a vampire!" Ahhh, the '80's...

Halo 2 didn't have an entire movie made just to hype it up; unlike Super Mario Brothers 3.

Nah, I believe Jean Chalopin & Bernard Deyriès have prior Art. ;)

The dial should be clearly marked where probable fatality starts of course.

Why? Isn't it more fun to try to guess that by the expression on their face?

OK that's rough. I'm actually against capital punishment. Executing people is bad, m'kay? which leads me on to a couple of documentary recommendations:

1. The World At War
I've recommended this one before. It's a detailed and appropriately somber BBC doco on WWII. Do you know about the anti-Hitler conspirators that were caught and executed by hanging on meat-hooks? I find that painful to even think about.

2. Executions
This one's pretty damn nasty so be warned: It's not for the fainthearted. I don't like watching people get killed but I felt compelled to watch this. One scene of a guy getting executed by AK-47 is awful. Not a _great_ doco but may help some people reconsider their position on capital punishment.

That said, a "Running Man"-type scenario with geeks as "Stalkers" could be well-received. ;)

Cheers
Stor

The dial should be clearly marked where probable fatality starts of course.

Why? Isn't it more fun to try to guess that by the expression on their face?

OK that's rough. I'm actually against capital punishment. Executing people is bad, m'kay? which leads me on to a couple of documentary recommendations:

1. The World At War
I've recommended this one before. It's a detailed and appropriately somber BBC doco on WWII. Do you know about the anti-Hitler conspirators that were caught and executed by hanging on meat-hooks? I find that painful to even think about.

2. Executions
This one's pretty damn nasty so be warned: It's not for the fainthearted. I don't like watching people get killed but I felt compelled to watch this. One scene of a guy getting executed by AK-47 is awful. Not a _great_ doco but may help some people reconsider their position on capital punishment.

That said, a "Running Man"-type scenario with geeks as "Stalkers" could be well-received. ;)

Cheers
Stor

maybe i should re-think my long-term investments, I could do 9 min-sec years for a few mil.

From Office Space:
You know, minimum security prison is no picnic. I had a client in there once. He said the trick is: kick someone's ass the first day, or become somebody's bitch. Then everything will be alright.

Or worse, you could get sentanced to one of those "Federal Pound-me-in-the-ass Prisons."

maybe i should re-think my long-term investments, I could do 9 min-sec years for a few mil.

From Office Space:
You know, minimum security prison is no picnic. I had a client in there once. He said the trick is: kick someone's ass the first day, or become somebody's bitch. Then everything will be alright.

Or worse, you could get sentanced to one of those "Federal Pound-me-in-the-ass Prisons."

Yeah, but it wasn't like she was launching an album or a movie, or a packaged player with all the work she's done throughout her career. With the budget Microsoft has, they could have gotten some real big shots in the entertainment industry. They could have coincided it with a current chart-topping musician's music video release and demonstrated the video on the device. Not to put Latifah's career down or anything, but they could have gotten someone like J-Lo or Beyoncé. They too are singers/actresses and are more popular at the moment (despite Gigli). Even then, they could have done something different, like get MTV rather than an individual. It seems like they just tried to copy Apple by getting a celebrity to help their promotion, and just didn't seem to get it right.

Disney just doesn't get it.

Exactly. My guess is that we will get a very american movie based on very british novels.

In a perfect world the movie would be made by the same team that created Red Dwarf, which in many ways felt like a HHGTTG ripoff anyway. A nice one, though.

I liked www.imdb.com/title/tt0090056/

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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His reference to "frigging laser beams" was intended to be a humourous reference to a rant the villian utters in the film Austin Powers: International man of mystery.

• They're going to make Heart of Gold into a spaceball.

Not forgetting Excel Saga...

Hail Ilpalazzo!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/

... against the Chinese, or maybe the rest of the planet. I seriously doubt that laser-equipped 747's would be required to stop Osama bin Laden from hijacking any more commercial aircraft and flying them into buildings.

An aware passenger population is all that is required to foil that strategy, and I'm pretty sure that everyone who flies is aware of the threat by now.

Or maybe W has seen Independence Day one time too many.

here are your Real Genius quotes

No, as far as I can tell, Miramax made it.

Even if, at the time, they were a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney, it would never be called a "Disney" film. Disney had the different production company names for a reason.

Am I the only one who's watched the first HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy "movie"?

Here's a link to it, I remember renting it a long while ago.
Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, The

IMDB's H2G2 page seems to indicate that he's still MtPA, and I'll take that as reasonably more credible than the B Ark'ers at Yahoo.

Where've you been? According to the official Douglas Adams website, Zaphod is Sam Rockwell.

I say "is" as the film's been in post-production since September

It would appear that someone has been watching too much Antitrust

Step away from the DVD, put the Rachel Leigh Cook poster down ..

participating in the stupid law assistance program

That's really only going to work on a counterfeiter dumb enough to have an Internet connection on his currency scan'n'print LAN.

The people they're most likely to catch are the kids that watch National Treasure, and then start scanning $bills and loading the images into a pirated copy of PhotoShop to see if they can find the clues...

For one thing, food. I'm a foodie and I love variety. In addition to burgers and sandwiches, I am walking distance from Philippine, Indian, Mexican, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and even Armenian food. If I want to cook something, I'm less than 10 minutes from Chinese, Mexican, Korean, and Indian supermarkets, as well as a couple of American ones and a fresh-produce store that acts as kind of a permanent farmer's market. Can I get a reliable supply of sumac or fenugreek, a durian, or fresh kaffir lime leaves in rural America?

When a friend of mine who was going to grad school in Indiana came back here, the first thing she did was force me to take her out to eat because she hadn't been able to find Thai food for six months.

A lot of midsize towns and cities have cineplexes and shopping malls. Catching "Revenge of the Sith" will be no problem anywhere in the country. But I also like to go see more obscure stuff like "Primer" -- hard enough to find even in a big city with lots of art houses. Short of waiting for the DVDs or pirating them over the Internet, I doubt I'd be able to find most of the cult films I've seen in nearby theaters if I lived in a rural area. (One theater in San Jose used to show Hong Kong action films and anime every Tuesday night, though it has since changed owners and now shows Bollywood musicals.)

For exercise and socializing, I enjoy ballroom dance (the competition-style variety, more like figure skating than like Grandma and Grandpa at your sister's wedding). I am walking distance from a giant ballroom studio that gets a crowd of several hundred people four nights a week, and on any given Saturday night I'm twenty minutes' drive from at least four other ballroom venues, not to mention more salsa clubs than I can count.

I like meeting people with all sorts of different backgrounds, and this area gives me that in spades. There is no ethnic majority in San Jose. Three of my last four girlfriends grew up in foreign countries (China, Australia, and Vietnam) which suits me fine -- I like hearing a completely different perspective on things I find familiar and commonplace. There are certainly immigrant communities elsewhere in the US, but only on the coasts, and pretty much only in the major urban areas on the coasts, do you find such a varied mix of people from all over the place, all getting along just fine most of the time.

Yes, the traffic here can be annoying. But that's why we have telecommuting -- I work from home three out of five days most weeks, so my typical commute time is the 10 seconds it takes me to get from my bedroom to my home office.

The economy here would have to get really bad before I'd consider moving back to a rural area. Urban areas with their melting-pot cultures and abundance of activities that are only economically viable with a certain population density suit me much, much better.

It's odd that our original posts didn't bump into each other as they left their department :)

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Remember Police Academy? Now you can dub martial arts movies yourself, in the privacy of your own home...

Gasoline stays on the ground when itleaks, and soaks into stuff. Hydrogen floats up rather quickly; faster than it mixes with air. We all pretty much know what happens when a gasoline tank ruptures. We also know what happens when a propane tank ruptures. When a hydrogen tank ruptures, the gas is likely to float way up before it mixes with air enough to be able to ignite. Of course, if a tank raptures indoors, and the gas is confined, and allowed to pre-mix with air, an explosion would likiely be more powerfull than, say, propane. In fact, hydrogen-air mixture might even detonate, as opposed to just burning, which would be next to impossible to achieve with propane even if you wanted to, unless you had just right amount of leakage in a very large confined volume.

As far as hindenburg goes, the skin of the airship was coated with nitrocellulose, which burns very quickly. Scientific opinion (google for it) is that it's likely to have been the skin coating that caused the disaster, and not the hydrogen. The skip of the ship was ignited by static electricity, and burned off violently. If it were filled with helium, the result would have been the same.

Just keep Keanu Reeves away from the station and it'll be fine [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115857/].