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Admiral Painter: "This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it."

Great line, though it turns out those words were the words were dubbed in over some other line.

Thanks, reminds me of Joe vs the Volcano - which I thought had a quirky style, while others thought it sucked. It might have been called "Factory Space"
Of course, between that and Office Space we have The Hudsucker Proxy

Thanks, reminds me of Joe vs the Volcano - which I thought had a quirky style, while others thought it sucked. It might have been called "Factory Space"
Of course, between that and Office Space we have The Hudsucker Proxy

Or, as the Hagakure suggests:- "Among the maxims on Lord Naoshige's wall there was this one: Matters of great concern should be treated lightly. Master Ittei wrote: Matters of small concern should be treated seriously."

Great. Thanks for the deep thought, Ghost Dog...

...and rent Office Space.

But it's also a rotten old joke since it's used in the movie The Itaian Job http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317740/.

Sticking his ass in jail just costs us more money (taxpayer dollars).

Make the sentence that he is not allowed to own or operating a personal computer or touch tone telephone until his 18th birthday.

Wait. Spammer, not http://imdb.com/title/tt0113243/Hacker

I thought the Tom Cruise character in the film Rain Main was loosely based on Dr Oliver Sacks. Turned out I was wrong. However, there are many similar cases of autism described in his great book "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat".

This is a fascinating and slightly frightening book. One of the cases there WAS made into a film, Awakenings with Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams.

Some of the other cases include the title character; a man who keeps adressing his hat as if it was his wife, a woman who has lost all "sense" of her body and feels as if she is trapped in a tomb of someone elses dead flesh, people who can see only details and not wholes, people who are unable to form new memories (exactly like in Memento), people who seem to have lost "nodes" in the "tree" of knowledge that they use to experience and interpret the world.

Great book, defenitely worth a read.

I thought the Tom Cruise character in the film Rain Main was loosely based on Dr Oliver Sacks. Turned out I was wrong. However, there are many similar cases of autism described in his great book "The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat".

This is a fascinating and slightly frightening book. One of the cases there WAS made into a film, Awakenings with Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams.

Some of the other cases include the title character; a man who keeps adressing his hat as if it was his wife, a woman who has lost all "sense" of her body and feels as if she is trapped in a tomb of someone elses dead flesh, people who can see only details and not wholes, people who are unable to form new memories (exactly like in Memento), people who seem to have lost "nodes" in the "tree" of knowledge that they use to experience and interpret the world.

Great book, defenitely worth a read.

...it'll do those poor people stuck in the Cube.

Companies are in business to make money. It would be irresponsible for someone at a pharmaceutical company to spend money developing something they couldn't make any money on.

The medical community isn't working in our best interest alone. Scientists work in areas where the best interest of the individual overlaps with the best interest of their employer. There are times when the best interest of the individual does not match up with the best interest of any company and these areas of medicine are horribly neglected (see blueberries vs Lipitor, oxygen therapy vs blood pressure medication, low carb vs the AHA Diet, First Do No Harm). I'm not saying that the doctors are wrong on all these things, I'm saying nobody is putting in the work to check up on them because there's nobody to pay for it.

If the only medical research that gets done is privately funded then the only medical advancements that get made will increase the income of medical companies. If that's the case, the cost of medical care can only go up (unless someone is taking someone else's business but that rarely happens)

I don't think this study is alone. Someone needs to fund this stuff or we'll all be taking out second mortgages because the medical community has convinced us we have to or we'll die.

Maybe this famous father figure

or this popular strongman

What kind of geek crowd is this!?!?!

The movie opens with an armed home defense robot that went berserk.

But...won't Q come to the rescue only to get himself killed?





Ok, seriously, bad movie. I only watched it because there was nothing else on and it had the guy who played Q in it.

Because to fly super advanced Russian fighters you have to THINK in Russian.

Staffers use quick interviews to pigeonhole shoppers.

Shoppers with large families are steered toward larger appliances and time-saving products.

The company hopes to lure the Barrys and Jills by helping them save time with services like a "personal shopper"...

The goal is to steer them into a back room that showcases $12,000 high-definition home-theater systems.

That sounds worse than any commission sales environment when, ironically, they're not. I could be in the minority here but I can't think of a single person I know that would like any of those ideas at all.

I don't think I could ever shop there again. I don't want to be hounded and pestered by every sales person in the store and pressured to buy something I couldn't afford, don't like, or don't even want. I can hear the counter-arguments now - "If you don't want it, don't buy it" That's not my point - I don't want to be bothered in the first place. That's my point. I'm not a fan of retail *sales* people, I've always been more of the opinion that a retail sales person should be more of a consultant type than a used car salesman type.

Nobody wants to be "sold" - people like to "figure it out" for themselves. Secondhand Lions is the only story I can think of where someone just sat around waiting to be "sold". Seriously - the last time you went to Best Buy or a store like it, why did you go? If you went to purchase a television, did you just go on a whim and say to yourself "I'm gonna go to Best Buy, look around at what they've got in the $XXXX range. Maybe talk to an associate and see what the differences are. Maybe pick up Rocky III while I'm there 'cause Clubber Lang predicts 'Pain'." or did you say "I'm gonna go to Best Buy, look around, and wait for the sales person to tell me just what to buy. Hopefully he'll suggest Rocky III." or best yet "I'm gonna go to Best Buy for the Rocky III DVD 'cause Clubber Lang pities me, and see if the sales person will upsell me to a $12000 home theatre."?

I'll be takin' these Rocky's and whatever tv ya got. (gratuitous Rasing Arizona mis-quote for the film-challenged)

I've met Mike Keskey and Brad Anderson and I've spoken with them several times (I used to be in middle management for Best Buy) - Mike is a down-to-earth guy and I have to say, I think he's dead on when he told Brad Anderson "You've lost touch with what's happening in your business."

For some people, this may be the best idea since 6 beers at the same time but I think it's slow suicide. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

Best of luck to them.

Staffers use quick interviews to pigeonhole shoppers.

Shoppers with large families are steered toward larger appliances and time-saving products.

The company hopes to lure the Barrys and Jills by helping them save time with services like a "personal shopper"...

The goal is to steer them into a back room that showcases $12,000 high-definition home-theater systems.

That sounds worse than any commission sales environment when, ironically, they're not. I could be in the minority here but I can't think of a single person I know that would like any of those ideas at all.

I don't think I could ever shop there again. I don't want to be hounded and pestered by every sales person in the store and pressured to buy something I couldn't afford, don't like, or don't even want. I can hear the counter-arguments now - "If you don't want it, don't buy it" That's not my point - I don't want to be bothered in the first place. That's my point. I'm not a fan of retail *sales* people, I've always been more of the opinion that a retail sales person should be more of a consultant type than a used car salesman type.

Nobody wants to be "sold" - people like to "figure it out" for themselves. Secondhand Lions is the only story I can think of where someone just sat around waiting to be "sold". Seriously - the last time you went to Best Buy or a store like it, why did you go? If you went to purchase a television, did you just go on a whim and say to yourself "I'm gonna go to Best Buy, look around at what they've got in the $XXXX range. Maybe talk to an associate and see what the differences are. Maybe pick up Rocky III while I'm there 'cause Clubber Lang predicts 'Pain'." or did you say "I'm gonna go to Best Buy, look around, and wait for the sales person to tell me just what to buy. Hopefully he'll suggest Rocky III." or best yet "I'm gonna go to Best Buy for the Rocky III DVD 'cause Clubber Lang pities me, and see if the sales person will upsell me to a $12000 home theatre."?

I'll be takin' these Rocky's and whatever tv ya got. (gratuitous Rasing Arizona mis-quote for the film-challenged)

I've met Mike Keskey and Brad Anderson and I've spoken with them several times (I used to be in middle management for Best Buy) - Mike is a down-to-earth guy and I have to say, I think he's dead on when he told Brad Anderson "You've lost touch with what's happening in your business."

For some people, this may be the best idea since 6 beers at the same time but I think it's slow suicide. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.

Best of luck to them.

*whoosh*

Sorry...that was supposed to be a humorous quote from a humorous movie.

And even http://imdb.com/title/tt0044207/ Planet #1...

Answer below after spoiler protection.

SPOILERS

Well, in that scene in the movie, the way Mr. Incredible looked from Gazerbeam to the wall indicated a line-of-sight. Thus, Gazerbeam obtained the password by some means that will be forever unknown, and with his last strength carved the word into the wall with his eye-beam for whoever came after him (in a variation on the old cliche about the dying man writing a message in his own blood).

And as for why it's in the movie to begin with, at first I thought it might just be a reference to the Greek god of time, but then I found a Wikipedia entry about a 1957 movie by that name about a meteorite that falls to earth and turns out to be a giant machine that ravages cities. Does this seem familiar?

But the reference I wonder about is those two old guys talking about "old school." I feel sure they were supposed to be a reference to someone, but whom?

Yes, yes we have:
Asteroid #1
Asteroid #2
and one from just a while back: Asteroid #3

Those were close calls.

Oh, wait. I wasn't watching the news?

Yes, yes we have:
Asteroid #1
Asteroid #2
and one from just a while back: Asteroid #3

Those were close calls.

Oh, wait. I wasn't watching the news?

Yes, yes we have:
Asteroid #1
Asteroid #2
and one from just a while back: Asteroid #3

Those were close calls.

Oh, wait. I wasn't watching the news?

Don't forget Real Genius with the huge, frickin' hotter-than-the-sun laser that could disintegrate a single human from space or, even more frighteningly, overcome a two-story home with a giant container of Jiffy Pop popcorn!

Spies Like Us

No it wasnt lying to you.

From IMDB:
Plot Outline: The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072564/

Note the "massive explosion" part :)

thats where the additional energy to escape the gravity well comes from.

There's so much evidence that what we are doing to the climate is going to cause big changes

or if Golf stream going North gets replaced with a freezing stream coming straight from the Arctic

I mean, just look at a satellite photo of Earth, and then tell me humans can't have any impact on a global scale

As per gossip TV, Tara Reid recently had a wardrobe malfunction that is _clearly_ of great import. However, no reasonable google image searches can prvide the information I demand!

People who get jobs making polution controls are being diverted from the ultimate goal of all employment, making consumer goods.

"God Bless America, and America only!"

There is a similar quote in Head of State where the person running against Chris Rock for president used to say: "God bless America. And no place else"

i) Stop the Earth's core rotating while conducting experiments on it

ii) Try and start it again using a series of large nuclear detonations

iii) Make a ridiculously shyte film about it

I don't see how measuring the effects on a 10-foot diameter sphere (filled with Na) can be equivalent to the effects on the central core of a 6400km-radius ball of rock (filled with many different elements). If they want to figure out more about the Earth's magnetic field, I suggest they take measurements, etc... on the EARTH.

I was hoping there was a movie in the past, but IMDb shows one for 2005!

I'm surprised that no one has yet called out the voice performance by Brad Bird doing the fashionista Edna "E" Mode. Her lines, interactions with Mr/Mrs I, and her demonstration of the dangers of capes were, IMHO, the funniest lines in the movie.

I have to see it again, just for Edna. She's based on the famous Hollywood costume designer Edith Head (471 films credited on IMDB!). Most of her best lines are throwaways, like her annoyance at not being able to design for superheros anymore - just supermodels - "There's nothing super about them, darling!" There's also a little bit of Elsa Klench and Gloria Vanderbilt thrown in as well.

Re-reading what I just wrote, I feel compelled to note that I am, in fact, a hetrosexual male.

Unfortunately for them, their own plans are about to lead them to cultural ruin. Bush's plan to provide High Speed internet to the nation should be read as what to him would seem akin to the Rural Electrification Project. Where the idea was, lets get power to the people out in the farms so they will be more competive and produce more. That sort of backfired. They got used to the power and started wanting more. More TVs, DVD, Fancy cars and the lowly Banana.

The upshot was that the young started to abandon the farms in droves. As they did the cheap labor of the farm children was replaced by cheap labor from immigrants. The old cycle was that the Farm would be inherited by the children of the farmer and next generation would take over. As the found new jobs as computer programmers and got MBAs they let their parents sell of the old family farm to large agro businesses. Large Farms got larger and Cities got bigger.

Wiring the rest of the county will give reason for companies to relocate to cheaper parts of the US and bring good jobs to town who's main income was the local speed trap. If your a Conservative Rural Republican in a Red State, visions of selling farmland to city slickers for housing and commercial parks must seem like heaven. Voting for Bush was voting your pocketbook.

Now here comes the other side of the coin. Unlike mining towns of the 19th and early 20th Century you really can't lock people in. Your neigbors will undercut your housing deals because they all got buckets of land and nobody to grow whatever.

City Slicker Programmers and the upper skilled workforce are not Conservative Rural Republicans, There those damn Blue State Liberals. They eat fish RAW!!!!, A lot of them aren't even from the USA, most dress like they were extras in that confusing movie The Matrix. As Techs and Tech businesses move to the boondocks they will turn the red states blue.

Right now the current FUD is that Liberals don't respect people with Faith. The fact is that the rural people can't afford to break the back of the liberal technology complex. Ever wondered why Strict harsh and very communist China hasn't stompped all over Hong Kong? China needs Hong Kong more then Hong Kong needs China.

There seems to be no mention of Don Bluth's involvement in the game. It seems to be a DVD Video disk with no platform specific code written for it. So, the big question is how good will the story and animation be without Don Bluth???

Now they're all cool and shiny - but just wait until one of them gets truck by a lightning and starts calling itself "Johnny".

(And since it was usually really Toronto in disguise, someone would put them in the blue box for recycling pickup.)

Nope, The original Robocop was filmed in Dallas. Robocop 2 was filmed in Houston, and the ill-advised Robocop 3 was filmed in Atlanta. I don't think there's enough urban decay in Toronto (or in all of canada combined) to simulate the really nasty parts of Detroit.

Filming locations for Robocop

Just imagine the applications:

HUNTER'S HELPER: The lazy backwoods redneck no longer need soil his clothing or even leave the house! Simply be remotely controlling his JethroBot, he can blast away offensive and dangerous deer, squirrels, and "possums" with the flick of a switch! Sure to be a top seller at Wal-Mart stores nationwide.

FOOD FETCHER: Too damned fat to get out the door and make that McDonald's run? Add the handy tray attachment (sold separately) and your shotgun-toting buddy becomes a handy way to get grub once your limbs can no longer support your weight.

PAINTBALL III - RISE OF THE MACHINES:Sick of losing to uber-good paintball players? Buy a fleet of cyborgs, swap those 12 gauges for rapid-fire paint launchers, and tell those wusses "I'll be back". Life-size inflatable Linda Hamilton doll not included.

Don't forget Casshern too!

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IMDb:
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A: My son Jon was executive producer of the recent film Mr. 3000. A few days after the film was released, a member of my staff found it being sold as a DVD just a few blocks from our offices. I called my son to give him the bad news, and he told me this is happening to all the current films. And then he said, "And what are you going to do about it, Dad?"

Is this quote supposed to make me feel bad?...

I don't know if it's supposed to make you feel bad, but I'm shocked more than anything that Mr. 3000 was even pirated at all. The movie looks awful and I definitely wouldn't spend 5 or 10 bucks on a pirated DVD of it.

Just look at the major video game releases: one of GTA Vice City's major features was its licensed soundtrack. Halo 2 has not just one, but two official soundtracks. The Halo franchise rivals most Hollywood blockbusters with regard to its script, its score and its marketing.

Remember the Wing Commander franchise? Wing Commander 3 (which was a three CD release, IIRC) had professional grade blue-screen cutscenes that were groundbreaking at that time. Remeber the movie?

Remember Resident Evil? There have also been rumours about an movie studios being more than willing to bring "The Sims" and the Halo franchises to the big screen.

That's why I'm inclined to believe that it's not really fair to compare different forms of presentation any more - at least when it comes to major blockbuster titles. They become less and less separable. Video games incorporate technology that just a decade ago was unavailable to anyone but major movie studios. TV is becoming increasingly interactive (the American Idol type of shows being one example). Video game background music is produced by professionals.

There's really no point in doing "we're doing better than you are" comparisons. We're talking genre cross-over here (at least at the high end of the spectrum).

Just look at the major video game releases: one of GTA Vice City's major features was its licensed soundtrack. Halo 2 has not just one, but two official soundtracks. The Halo franchise rivals most Hollywood blockbusters with regard to its script, its score and its marketing.

Remember the Wing Commander franchise? Wing Commander 3 (which was a three CD release, IIRC) had professional grade blue-screen cutscenes that were groundbreaking at that time. Remeber the movie?

Remember Resident Evil? There have also been rumours about an movie studios being more than willing to bring "The Sims" and the Halo franchises to the big screen.

That's why I'm inclined to believe that it's not really fair to compare different forms of presentation any more - at least when it comes to major blockbuster titles. They become less and less separable. Video games incorporate technology that just a decade ago was unavailable to anyone but major movie studios. TV is becoming increasingly interactive (the American Idol type of shows being one example). Video game background music is produced by professionals.

There's really no point in doing "we're doing better than you are" comparisons. We're talking genre cross-over here (at least at the high end of the spectrum).

"STOP MAKING SHITTY FUCKING MOVIES"

If the movies are so bad why are people stealing them (sorry, infringing on their copywrite)?

People will steal a turd if it's wrapped up in a bow.

But I think there's a real argument hidden in there somewhere. Hollywood produces some real flops. Like that movie Cutthroat Island which cost USD$98million to produce yet only grossed USD$11million at the box office.

Hollywood relies too heavily on "big name" actors and "big budget" special effects. But even though they'll spend $10million+ on actors and $20million+ on special effects, they seem to have a problem spending more than $20 on a script.

All these terrible flops - like Garfield - must eat into their profits far faster than the 14 year olds copying movies with eDonkey. Now that doesn't justify what these 14 year olds are doing, but it does make it difficult to feel sorry for these idiot producers. They complain about their dwindling profits yet their solution is to produce more of the same mediocre crap.

Simple rule of thumb. I go to the cinema once a month. Having more choices won't make me see more movies. Make the movie good and that's what I'll pay $15 to see. My recent choice was Shaun Of The Dead. No well-known actors. No special effects worth mentioning. The budget was nothing to speak of. Yet my circle of friends spent nearly $100 that night to see it. We walked right past the latest excesses from Hollywood like "Resident Evil 2", and we've no intention of seeing that at the cinema. We probably won't even waste our time hiring it from the local DVD store.

I think there's an argument up there somewhere though I haven't done a good job of teasing it out. Good luck finding it!

"STOP MAKING SHITTY FUCKING MOVIES"

If the movies are so bad why are people stealing them (sorry, infringing on their copywrite)?

People will steal a turd if it's wrapped up in a bow.

But I think there's a real argument hidden in there somewhere. Hollywood produces some real flops. Like that movie Cutthroat Island which cost USD$98million to produce yet only grossed USD$11million at the box office.

Hollywood relies too heavily on "big name" actors and "big budget" special effects. But even though they'll spend $10million+ on actors and $20million+ on special effects, they seem to have a problem spending more than $20 on a script.

All these terrible flops - like Garfield - must eat into their profits far faster than the 14 year olds copying movies with eDonkey. Now that doesn't justify what these 14 year olds are doing, but it does make it difficult to feel sorry for these idiot producers. They complain about their dwindling profits yet their solution is to produce more of the same mediocre crap.

Simple rule of thumb. I go to the cinema once a month. Having more choices won't make me see more movies. Make the movie good and that's what I'll pay $15 to see. My recent choice was Shaun Of The Dead. No well-known actors. No special effects worth mentioning. The budget was nothing to speak of. Yet my circle of friends spent nearly $100 that night to see it. We walked right past the latest excesses from Hollywood like "Resident Evil 2", and we've no intention of seeing that at the cinema. We probably won't even waste our time hiring it from the local DVD store.

I think there's an argument up there somewhere though I haven't done a good job of teasing it out. Good luck finding it!

...and to help you out a bit, it's "Zim" not "Zeb". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120201/

Yes and you'll note it was directed by the same man, Robert Zemeckis

Actually, I thought that the first movie that tried to make CGI look like real-life was 2001's Final Fantasy, The Spirits Within. It was a good effort, actually, if not a bit weak on the story.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173840/

Well, bear in mind that Pixar frequently uses footage in teaser trailers that's not in the actual movie. For example, the original Monsters, Inc. teaser was created entirely for the teaser. I sort of suspect that the original teaser for The Incredibles is the same, although I'm not seeing the film until tonight.

Cars is being directed by John Lasseter, who I have a lot of faith in. He was the director on both Toy Stories and on Bug's Life, so he definitely knows what he's doing.

And as for "dad gum," that's pretty much Larry the Cable Guy's dialog in everything :)