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Well I surfed and unfortunately it looks like I was denied this classic in school. Says it was the most popular book (and film) ever or close to it. Anyway, there is a huge list of external reviews at imdb
and according to this one, the film at least and maybe the book for all I know glorify marital rape. Who'd a thunk?
I wonder how hard it would be for a concerted email bomb^H^H^H^H writing campaign to get this book and maybe film banned from schools and maybe libraries and rental? Seems for the U.S., revisionism is only the next step, and if books are already being banned in one state or another why not add one that is so richly deserving, seeing as how its owners wish it to be so hard to find. I don't know if it is supposed to be a parody or a snapshot of the time (since I haven't read it yet, doh) but this case is just way over the top. Now they want to stop the Internet, better call Al Gore.

Dick Burns? Maybe Wil's spent too much time, uh, recovering health.

Yeah, he never did recover from leech he got on his peepee during the filming of Stand By Me.

Or, try to find a pattern in the stock market.

Just watch out for those pesky ants and Rabbi's

( Before you mod me troll or whatever, it's a reference from the movie Pi.. which strangely had very little to do with Pi )

wasn't this essentially the plot of a movie?

American Pie did have an R rating. And I didn't think it had a "completely irresponsible attitude towards teenage sex". The whole pretext of the movie (four guys tryig to get laid and dealing with their insecurities about it) is a fairly accurate portrayal of real high school.

Bernie S. and Emmanuel Goldstein

Were both voice actors in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
-PHiZ

Bernie S. and Emmanuel Goldstein

Were both voice actors in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
-PHiZ

GAY NIGGERS PUSHED THE WRONG BUTTON LOL!

SHE DID A HOE-DOWN OMFG ROFLMAO!!!

SHE AND HER SISTER MAKE MY PENIS HARD

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.
• Second, you need to succeed in posting a GNAA First Post on slashdot.org, a popular "news for trolls" website.
• Third, you need to join the official GNAA irc channel #GNAA on irc.gnaa.us, and apply for membership.

Bottom 92/100 on IMDB!

On a slightly related note, I bet this thing is going to hate Will Smith.

Reminds me of a bad film I once saw. Short Circuit had the cuteness that iRobots have... with John Deere traction! Maybe it'll evolve this way?

it reminds me of a quite good film - The Straight Story ;-)

Reminds me of a bad film I once saw. Short Circuit had the cuteness that iRobots have... with John Deere traction! Maybe it'll evolve this way?

Reasonably if you want a 100 dollar computer you have to decide from the start you have no desire to run any system intensive software.

Now the 100 dollar computer with reasonably fast access speed?

You have to limit the OS to a watered down version of a full version. What are you looking at though? One hundred dollars for a computer which usually includes software. No sane layman is gonna buy a software-less computer for 100 bucks.

So the best solution I see is the example set forth on the movie The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest. An amusing movie with an interesting computer concept.

Basically the computer in question, the PC99, has very limited hardware but it uses the internet for all of its software needs. You connect to your own interface really. Of course in this movie they use 3D-Transparent-Hologram's and Laser-Guided-Desktop-Movement. A little futuristic but the idea is there. You have a computer with a processor, ram and a network interface and you basically download everything you see and use for read/write access.

So it would be good for word processing and internet/email but scratch any intentions to play intensive games or use intensive applications.

Well, they did the 'submerged mouse' bit in the movie The Abyss; apparently the mouse actually was submerged, that wasn't SFX, though the actor's weren't.

With eMagic from The First 20 Million is Always the Hardest

Odd movie, tries REALLY hard to appeal to the geeks, but its just entertaining to see Tiny and his social inadaptation.

Well, I'm not sooo surprised ... more 'what are we (rather, THEY) going to do about it?' (THEIR kinda infamous story screening process)

btw, I've pasted my coverage of the story below - and I'd like to get opinions if I did a to sloppy job, or not. (IMHO, I didn't - but that's me :)).

--start--

Doom Movie Enters Production Phase

No more speculating - it's final; Universal Pictures has announced[A goat needed to be scarified to FLASH-lord, to enter] that it has gone into production. So fellow Doom *Geeks*, mark August 5, 2005 in your calendars as "Call in sick"-day :). Read below for a re-production of the FLASH-(text)-content [for all ye' voices who would have cried out loud].

- - -

TITLE: DOOM
IN THEATERS: August 5, 2004
FILM INFORMATION:

• Genre: Futuristic action-adventure
• 
  Cast:
  Directed By: Enda McCallion
  Writer: Dave Callaham
  Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, John Wells

SYNOPSIS:

• Millions of devoted fans worldwide have been spellbound by the dark invention of its adventures .... have awaited its every incarnation with urgent anticipation ... and have devoted countless hours, days and weeks to conquering its hidden mysterios: Doom.

• When the home-computer game "Doom" was first launched in 1993, no one could have foreseen the legion of fans it would create and the mania surrounding its every new permutation. "Doom" and its successive installments have transfixed gamers worldwide for over a decade and have sold millions of copies (while chalking up an unprecedented tens of millions of downloads as shareware). It is, simply, the most explosive home-computer game franchise phenomenon in history.

  Now, the game that made history is jumping from computer screens to the motion picture screen: get ready for Doom. Set countless yearsin the future and told in the hyper-kinetic, kamikaze style that made its gaming predecessor a global phenomenon, the science fiction action adventure Doom takes the viewer to the far corners of the galaxy with a fully-realized vision of a dark and disturbing future.

  Doom will serve as the feature film directorial debut of Enda McCallion. The film is written by Dave Callaham, based on id Software and Activision videogame "Doom 3," and is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine) and John Wells (Far From Heaven, White Oleander, television's The West Wing, ER).

WEBSITE: Official Website Coming Soon

- - -

PS. Reservation of minor TypeError - and no I didn't have anything else to do an a friday night then re-type the Flash announcement ( *geeks* - do have prioritise too, just not 'the usuals' :-))

PPS. Actors haven't be named yet, but according to imdb it look like The Rock ("The Scorpion King") will play 'Sarge' and Karl Urban ("The Bourne Supremacy", "Chronicles of Riddic" and "LoTR:TRoTK/TTT") will play 'John Grimm' (our Hero). Got to admit he actually looks *kinda a lot* like him

--stop--

Well, I'm not sooo surprised ... more 'what are we (rather, THEY) going to do about it?' (THEIR kinda infamous story screening process)

btw, I've pasted my coverage of the story below - and I'd like to get opinions if I did a to sloppy job, or not. (IMHO, I didn't - but that's me :)).

--start--

Doom Movie Enters Production Phase

No more speculating - it's final; Universal Pictures has announced[A goat needed to be scarified to FLASH-lord, to enter] that it has gone into production. So fellow Doom *Geeks*, mark August 5, 2005 in your calendars as "Call in sick"-day :). Read below for a re-production of the FLASH-(text)-content [for all ye' voices who would have cried out loud].

- - -

TITLE: DOOM
IN THEATERS: August 5, 2004
FILM INFORMATION:

• Genre: Futuristic action-adventure
• 
  Cast:
  Directed By: Enda McCallion
  Writer: Dave Callaham
  Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, John Wells

SYNOPSIS:

• Millions of devoted fans worldwide have been spellbound by the dark invention of its adventures .... have awaited its every incarnation with urgent anticipation ... and have devoted countless hours, days and weeks to conquering its hidden mysterios: Doom.

• When the home-computer game "Doom" was first launched in 1993, no one could have foreseen the legion of fans it would create and the mania surrounding its every new permutation. "Doom" and its successive installments have transfixed gamers worldwide for over a decade and have sold millions of copies (while chalking up an unprecedented tens of millions of downloads as shareware). It is, simply, the most explosive home-computer game franchise phenomenon in history.

  Now, the game that made history is jumping from computer screens to the motion picture screen: get ready for Doom. Set countless yearsin the future and told in the hyper-kinetic, kamikaze style that made its gaming predecessor a global phenomenon, the science fiction action adventure Doom takes the viewer to the far corners of the galaxy with a fully-realized vision of a dark and disturbing future.

  Doom will serve as the feature film directorial debut of Enda McCallion. The film is written by Dave Callaham, based on id Software and Activision videogame "Doom 3," and is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine) and John Wells (Far From Heaven, White Oleander, television's The West Wing, ER).

WEBSITE: Official Website Coming Soon

- - -

PS. Reservation of minor TypeError - and no I didn't have anything else to do an a friday night then re-type the Flash announcement ( *geeks* - do have prioritise too, just not 'the usuals' :-))

PPS. Actors haven't be named yet, but according to imdb it look like The Rock ("The Scorpion King") will play 'Sarge' and Karl Urban ("The Bourne Supremacy", "Chronicles of Riddic" and "LoTR:TRoTK/TTT") will play 'John Grimm' (our Hero). Got to admit he actually looks *kinda a lot* like him

--stop--

Well, I'm not sooo surprised ... more 'what are we (rather, THEY) going to do about it?' (THEIR kinda infamous story screening process)

btw, I've pasted my coverage of the story below - and I'd like to get opinions if I did a to sloppy job, or not. (IMHO, I didn't - but that's me :)).

--start--

Doom Movie Enters Production Phase

No more speculating - it's final; Universal Pictures has announced[A goat needed to be scarified to FLASH-lord, to enter] that it has gone into production. So fellow Doom *Geeks*, mark August 5, 2005 in your calendars as "Call in sick"-day :). Read below for a re-production of the FLASH-(text)-content [for all ye' voices who would have cried out loud].

- - -

TITLE: DOOM
IN THEATERS: August 5, 2004
FILM INFORMATION:

• Genre: Futuristic action-adventure
• 
  Cast:
  Directed By: Enda McCallion
  Writer: Dave Callaham
  Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, John Wells

SYNOPSIS:

• Millions of devoted fans worldwide have been spellbound by the dark invention of its adventures .... have awaited its every incarnation with urgent anticipation ... and have devoted countless hours, days and weeks to conquering its hidden mysterios: Doom.

• When the home-computer game "Doom" was first launched in 1993, no one could have foreseen the legion of fans it would create and the mania surrounding its every new permutation. "Doom" and its successive installments have transfixed gamers worldwide for over a decade and have sold millions of copies (while chalking up an unprecedented tens of millions of downloads as shareware). It is, simply, the most explosive home-computer game franchise phenomenon in history.

  Now, the game that made history is jumping from computer screens to the motion picture screen: get ready for Doom. Set countless yearsin the future and told in the hyper-kinetic, kamikaze style that made its gaming predecessor a global phenomenon, the science fiction action adventure Doom takes the viewer to the far corners of the galaxy with a fully-realized vision of a dark and disturbing future.

  Doom will serve as the feature film directorial debut of Enda McCallion. The film is written by Dave Callaham, based on id Software and Activision videogame "Doom 3," and is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine) and John Wells (Far From Heaven, White Oleander, television's The West Wing, ER).

WEBSITE: Official Website Coming Soon

- - -

PS. Reservation of minor TypeError - and no I didn't have anything else to do an a friday night then re-type the Flash announcement ( *geeks* - do have prioritise too, just not 'the usuals' :-))

PPS. Actors haven't be named yet, but according to imdb it look like The Rock ("The Scorpion King") will play 'Sarge' and Karl Urban ("The Bourne Supremacy", "Chronicles of Riddic" and "LoTR:TRoTK/TTT") will play 'John Grimm' (our Hero). Got to admit he actually looks *kinda a lot* like him

--stop--

Well, I'm not sooo surprised ... more 'what are we (rather, THEY) going to do about it?' (THEIR kinda infamous story screening process)

btw, I've pasted my coverage of the story below - and I'd like to get opinions if I did a to sloppy job, or not. (IMHO, I didn't - but that's me :)).

--start--

Doom Movie Enters Production Phase

No more speculating - it's final; Universal Pictures has announced[A goat needed to be scarified to FLASH-lord, to enter] that it has gone into production. So fellow Doom *Geeks*, mark August 5, 2005 in your calendars as "Call in sick"-day :). Read below for a re-production of the FLASH-(text)-content [for all ye' voices who would have cried out loud].

- - -

TITLE: DOOM
IN THEATERS: August 5, 2004
FILM INFORMATION:

• Genre: Futuristic action-adventure
• 
  Cast:
  Directed By: Enda McCallion
  Writer: Dave Callaham
  Producers: Lorenzo di Bonaventura, John Wells

SYNOPSIS:

• Millions of devoted fans worldwide have been spellbound by the dark invention of its adventures .... have awaited its every incarnation with urgent anticipation ... and have devoted countless hours, days and weeks to conquering its hidden mysterios: Doom.

• When the home-computer game "Doom" was first launched in 1993, no one could have foreseen the legion of fans it would create and the mania surrounding its every new permutation. "Doom" and its successive installments have transfixed gamers worldwide for over a decade and have sold millions of copies (while chalking up an unprecedented tens of millions of downloads as shareware). It is, simply, the most explosive home-computer game franchise phenomenon in history.

  Now, the game that made history is jumping from computer screens to the motion picture screen: get ready for Doom. Set countless yearsin the future and told in the hyper-kinetic, kamikaze style that made its gaming predecessor a global phenomenon, the science fiction action adventure Doom takes the viewer to the far corners of the galaxy with a fully-realized vision of a dark and disturbing future.

  Doom will serve as the feature film directorial debut of Enda McCallion. The film is written by Dave Callaham, based on id Software and Activision videogame "Doom 3," and is produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Constantine) and John Wells (Far From Heaven, White Oleander, television's The West Wing, ER).

WEBSITE: Official Website Coming Soon

- - -

PS. Reservation of minor TypeError - and no I didn't have anything else to do an a friday night then re-type the Flash announcement ( *geeks* - do have prioritise too, just not 'the usuals' :-))

PPS. Actors haven't be named yet, but according to imdb it look like The Rock ("The Scorpion King") will play 'Sarge' and Karl Urban ("The Bourne Supremacy", "Chronicles of Riddic" and "LoTR:TRoTK/TTT") will play 'John Grimm' (our Hero). Got to admit he actually looks *kinda a lot* like him

--stop--

Did anyone else notice that Rosamund Pike appears to be filming Pride and Prejudice and Doom simultaneously? Now that's a true test for an actress. I hope she doesn't get confused between her two roles...

Did anyone else notice that Rosamund Pike appears to be filming Pride and Prejudice and Doom simultaneously? Now that's a true test for an actress. I hope she doesn't get confused between her two roles...

I commend to you the Monty Python movie "Brazil" from around...1984 (!) or so.

There is nothing humorous about this movie, rather it is a chilling look at a world that I hope never comes. Something along the lines of "Trust no one, suspect everyone".

The good part is that if everyone has a camera, the sheer volume of video footage will render all but the most talented videographers and well-connected unwatched. Just like the myriad blogs are today.

Besides, aren't some cities and municipalities bragging that they are installing fixed video cameras in key public areas? I feel soooo much safer now that my every move can be watched. I guess I can't pick my nose any more. :-(

Is probably the Mario Brothers movie with John Leguizamo.

Did anyone else look at the pictures of the home made system and instantly think of the air conditioning system in the movie Brazil?

This is what's wrong with that.

(First movie I remember that had every special effect except one in the trailer. Not the last, of course...)

... because it ISN'T directed by either one of the VG->Movie directors who ALWAYS screw it up

... because it ISN'T directed by either one of the VG->Movie directors who ALWAYS screw it up

Pah. I'd hazard that Ghosts Of Mars of much worse than Mission To Mars on both those counts

You forgot this classic!

Chicks got hung on a meathook back in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and that guy was actually after a PG-13 rating.

That guy (Tobe Hooper) must have been a very forward thinking individual, because the PG-13 rating wouldn't exist for another 10 years.

Cool. That had better dialogue than Wimbledon

What's worse is there hasn't been a discussion about Halflife the motion picture which is also now in production...

Someone forgot about this gem of a movie based on a video game...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108255/

from imdb, it seems it's going to be Ben Daniels as the Goatse.
Karl Urban .... John Grimm
Ben Daniels .... Goat

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317676/ this comes to mind

You forget This series, which comes with 6 movies, 300+ TV episode, and if you live in Japan, 2 bonus TV shows.

No plot and Mars.

...or this, or this...

...or this, or this...

...when is Duke Nukem forever "THE MOVIE", going into production? Yeah yeah, i know about:

""...[Duke Nukem Producer] Kasanoff is currently developing GT Interactive's hot shoot'em-up game Duke Nukem as a 2002 feature film, pitting the shades-wearing, beer-drinking, woman-ogling hero against alien invaders.'Duke is a blast', says Kasanoff...'He's just a great character. It's the opportunity to do a huge action move that's really funny. You get the most politically incorrect action hero in the world, yet he's a true patriot and truly loves and respects women. That's a fascinating dichotomy'."And this.

The plot and setting is right from the game.

Oh come on, do you think they can really condense the intricate storyline, complex characterizations, and nuanced dialogue of Doom into a 2 hour movie? I think not.

Good god, people, Doom had a bad storyline EVEN BY VIDEOGAME STANDARDS. Who actually thinks it will make a good movie? If you answer "me", then please explain it to me.

The funny thing is most slashdot stories about something the MPAA has done are followed by comments about "who cares, Hollywood movies are so bad why would you want to watch them anyway?". You do realize that you can't honestly be in both camps, you know? You can't criticize the mindless drivel that Hollywood puts out and then say in the next breath that you're eagerly awaiting Doom.

Alright, I MAY see it, but that's only because Rosamund Pike is sexy as hell. When you're the sexiest woman in a movie that also stars Halle Berry, that's something special. But the movie itself isn't something that a sentient being should look forward to.

What about http://imdb.com/title/tt0108255/

Careful, lest we forget some of our other past mistakes.

Careful, lest we forget some of our other past mistakes.

Are you kidding? Those three movies were great.

A better choice of examples would have included this.

You forgot best example.

Hooray! Because we all know that films based on video games are always great

Hooray! Because we all know that films based on video games are always great

Hooray! Because we all know that films based on video games are always great