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Maybe Deus Ex - a game with lots of action, a hugely involving plot AND a high profile - could prove the Holy Grail we're looking for in this respect.

I mean, it had Christopher Lambert.

Beowulf had Christopher Lambert.

Mean Guns had Christopher Lambert.

Gunmen had Christopher Lambert.

The Sicilian had Christopher Lambert.

You see a trend here? :P

I mean, it had Christopher Lambert.

Beowulf had Christopher Lambert.

Mean Guns had Christopher Lambert.

Gunmen had Christopher Lambert.

The Sicilian had Christopher Lambert.

You see a trend here? :P

I mean, it had Christopher Lambert.

Beowulf had Christopher Lambert.

Mean Guns had Christopher Lambert.

Gunmen had Christopher Lambert.

The Sicilian had Christopher Lambert.

You see a trend here? :P

I mean, it had Christopher Lambert.

Beowulf had Christopher Lambert.

Mean Guns had Christopher Lambert.

Gunmen had Christopher Lambert.

The Sicilian had Christopher Lambert.

You see a trend here? :P

You have clearly never seen Shock Treatment. Witness picture of Ruby Wax making sweet love to an elderly orangutan. "Some people do it for the money..."

Gawd, the internet has everything...

--
Evan

I'm surpised nobody's mentionned this yet, but we have a legend of zelda movie, it's name is Legend and it stars Tom Cruise.

I'm not joking around, or being a troll, I'm being honest here... just watch it. Granted that it doesn't include some of the latest 'themes' of the series. Tom doesn't have an Ocarina or anything like that, but it's still a guy in green tights VS a big bad monster using a magical sword. In fact, Miyamoto admits to being inspired by this movie.

They both live in darkness (Hagfish: deep ocean, BSD users: mother's basement)

They both exhude a thick foul smelling slime as a defense mechanism (Hagfish: against predators, BSD users: against bullies and women)

They both cannot stand warm waters (Hagfish: coastal currents, BSD users: washing water)

They both have odd, sucker shaped mouths (Hagfish: for feeding, BSD users: genetic reasons)

Both possess extraordinary sensitivity (Hagfish: To make up for their poor eyesight, BSD users: To create unending needless flamewars)

They are both abhorred by normal human beings (Hagfish: For being freakish slimy horrors, BSD users: Same reason)

and of course...

They both feed off dead sunken corpses (Hagfish: Whales, BSD users: *BSD)

Would anyone like to comment on this extraordinary coincidence?

Thats Tim Curry for you, the consumate actor the only thing he couldn't make cool is seatless leather pants and gay sex.

I'm looking forward to watch Van Helsing. It's as close to castlevania with a touch of devil may cry as you can get.

It's only a matter of time until someone does a "War on Piracy" version of Traffic. Tobey Maguire as a head of a piracy cartel?

No it's not, there are plenty of worse movies.

Here's an example of one that makes watching Battlefield Earth seem almost a pleasure in comparison.

Among other things, Call of Duty was pretty heavily influenced by the fantastic HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (rent it or buy it! You won't be sorry!). Hell, the first of the three campaigns in the game puts you in the shoes (or rather, the chute) of a member of the 101st Airborne as he and a bunch of other paratroopers drop over Normandy the night before D-Day; Band of Brothers follows the 101st from training to Normandy through the European theater of operations. Several of the missions from the war covered in the show are modeled in Call of Duty. Particularly impressive is the similarity between BoB and CoD's interpretations of the Battle at Brecourt, an assault on German artillery emplacements connected by a system of trenches. Damn cool stuff. :)

Wing Commander.

Although I can say I've had the pleasure of not watching it.

This is without a doubt the worst movie ever made. But Super Mario Brothers is definatly up there.

For '@' the tourist by Sir Richard Attenborough, '@' the rogue by Rowan Atkinson...

Zelda. That game was actually inspired by Ridley Scott's Legend, so a movie based on Zelda would almost be a full circle then...

> Lest we end up watching pong for 90 minutes.

Too late!

Well - at we'll get to see Kirsten Dunst jumping and running in a very short skirt.

I mean, look at the adaptation they made of gorilla.bas after all.

You don't mean Bubba Smith...you mean Michael Winslow.

Oh what an institution!

Clue was pretty good and it's "based" on a game.

An Aztec movie would be great!! Oh, wait, they've already made one...

Fedora and everything!

-If

John Woo and Metroid sounds promising, but God help us if somebody tries to make a movie about Nibbles. Or does Tremors already count?

Bubba Smith was not the impression guy...you're thinking of Michael Winslow.

-AC

Remember Bubba Smith? He'd have to love this..seriously, the guy could impersonate *anything* in Police Academy.

SHOPOWNER: 'Please verify your card, Mr. Smith."
HIGHTOWER: *Squawk*
SHOPOWNER: 'Thanks'

Cha-ching!

I think I saw this movie. It didn't end well.

In mid-auction, Paul Allen or Bill Gates or some such divinely wealthy techie contacted him with an offer beyond his wildest expectations and certainly beyond the 250GBP highest bid (say $75K). Thus, he made an agreement with his new patron to withdraw the auction and avoid a silly and public price-raising war loaded with fake bids. Now, said techie is giddily planning his trip by private jet to pick up the toy of a lifetime, while simultaneously calling architect/contractors to add a room onto his estate worthy of this thing (maybe next to the DaVinci notebook? =) Meanwhile, some assistant of the rich guy is buying up old Tie Fighters and action figures left and right so that he and his kids can spend hours giddily re-enacting the movies.

Can't believe that a rich guy would do this? Re-watch The Toy. ;-)

I, for one, just want to see those 100 progress pictures--I mean show me the Millenium Falcon on the landing ramp. If you're out there Mr. Rich Guy who bought this, please anonymously post the pictures for us to salivate over in envy!

(Note to owner: I would trade you a decent collection of c. 1970 ships just for the chance to see this thing).

The BBC with Open University did a really good science series called Hollywood Science. Link.

Originally it was aired late at night but got moved to a more prime slot, I can't remember what time. Anyway it was very good and accessible because one of the presentors is Robert Llewellyn, the actor who played Kryton in Red Dwarf.

Its definetelly worth seeing if you ever get the chance.

Fubared the imdb link to George Stevens.

Since they're currently experiencing a "server failure", I can't comment on the course content as such, but there are vital pieces of physics that simply cannot be taught from watching a movie. You can talk about conservation of energy in a car crash, sure. You can laugh at the physical impossibility of that bit in Hollow Man where the chick opens a door with an electromagnet. You could even try to talk about "time folding over" in Event Horizon.

The fact of the matter is however that physics is made interesting when you actually think about it yourself and realise why it is interesting. If someone makes a movie that makes relativity or quantum physics interesting enough to justify the cost of the movie, then I take my hat off to them.

This just sounds like another course to fill credits.

Since they're currently experiencing a "server failure", I can't comment on the course content as such, but there are vital pieces of physics that simply cannot be taught from watching a movie. You can talk about conservation of energy in a car crash, sure. You can laugh at the physical impossibility of that bit in Hollow Man where the chick opens a door with an electromagnet. You could even try to talk about "time folding over" in Event Horizon.

The fact of the matter is however that physics is made interesting when you actually think about it yourself and realise why it is interesting. If someone makes a movie that makes relativity or quantum physics interesting enough to justify the cost of the movie, then I take my hat off to them.

This just sounds like another course to fill credits.

Movie physics site

BBC Link

And would they cover things like the cranking the van up the sand dune in Ice Cold In Alex

You can argue that Left Behind has sold more units, but units sold does not mean that it was "well made", as the article claims when it says "... proved that Bible-based products can do well in the market if they are well made". Look at the all-time worldwide boxoffice sales results. Scroll down to 183. "The Blair Witch Project" grossed $240,500,000 in sales. Below this you'll find the following movies:

190. Dead Poets Society ($235,900,000)
196. The English Patient ($231,700,000)
206. Good Will Hunting ($225,800,000)
236. Braveheart ($204,000,000)

And the list goes on. But the above four movies are all Academy Award winners as well as numerous other awards. The Blair Witch Project wasn't even nominated for any Academy Award. However, I don't think anyone would claim that The Blair Witch Project was "well made" in comparison to those other movies.

Better sales? Yes. Better marketed? Sure. But claiming that it's more "well made" is like saying the cocaine ($40 billion annual sales) is more "well made" compared to the number one selling prescription drug Priolosec ($4.1 billion annual sales).

Now I know what Tarantino dreams about and and why.

Now I know what Tarantino dreams about and and why.

and don't forget "C'era una volta il West" (Once Upon a Time in the West) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/

Italian westerns? Ohh, you mean easterns...

No, Spaghetti Westerns. Typically made from the mid 60s and early 70s, they made Clint Eastwood into the star he is today. Fast cuts, trippy music, lots of gunplay, and they were heavily (and poorly) dubbed, as most supporting roles were cast with italian actors.

They are considered classics now, as are the likes of "Fistful of Dollars" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" Wonderfully loony and fun to watch.

Italian westerns? Ohh, you mean easterns...

No, Spaghetti Westerns. Typically made from the mid 60s and early 70s, they made Clint Eastwood into the star he is today. Fast cuts, trippy music, lots of gunplay, and they were heavily (and poorly) dubbed, as most supporting roles were cast with italian actors.

They are considered classics now, as are the likes of "Fistful of Dollars" and "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" Wonderfully loony and fun to watch.

You forgot:

3. Popping large quantities of popcorn with Val Kilmer.

Actually this is the final product of the same research that was the backdrop of that movie.

The firing was off due to interference from Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret re-aiming it to their professor's house after discovering that their experiment was used for the military.

Popcorn (and broken glass) for everyone!!

(If anyone doesn't get the reference, see the plot summary for Real Genius.)

The firing was off due to interference from Val Kilmer and Gabriel Jarret re-aiming it to their professor's house after discovering that their experiment was used for the military.

Popcorn (and broken glass) for everyone!!

(If anyone doesn't get the reference, see the plot summary for Real Genius.)

Old hat... Real Genius Clicky

first megawatt-class laser weapon system to be carried on a specially configured 747-400F aircraft

Hmmm... I thought they were going to use a five megawatt system on a B-1B.

Thats Galaxy Quest

A better fix would be to mark all astroturf submissions "denied".

Then Slashdot would have to shut down on principle....

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astroturf/free ad: DSPAM v2.10 Released

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The DSPAM creator(s) got free advertising on Slashdot.

Jack Valenti retires!
Sounded like news to me so I pass the URL on to Slashdot.
Rejected.

Hey everybody, I wrote 'the mother of all email spam filters' after months of research, thought, and programming.
I pass the URL on to Slashdot so others can know about it.
Rejected.

It would appear Slashdot's editorial policy is inconsistent....

What does it take to get a story on Slashdot?

I submitted a genuine, non-astroturf story about outgoing MPAA president Jack Valenti and expensive Hollywood movies and got rejected. Can't be a bandwith issue--surely Slashdot cannot slashdot the BBC's website, can they? So then why was this story rejected after I (haphazardly) summarized it (along with some parting thoughts) rather than simply give them a sentence or two along with the URL?

My retail software product is, at face value no different from the other items for sale mentioned above. Why the apparent bias that appears to favor big companies or 'big ticket items' offered for sale by private citizens?

Then there's DSPAM and CF13, two email spam filters.

One is open source.

The other is closed source but open algorithm. There is enough information available at the CF13 homepage for a knowledgeable programmer to write their own version of CF13 if they wanted to. In fact, I took GREAT PAINS to make sure the algorithms used by CF13 wouldn't wind up patented and out of play for the next twenty years!

Doesn't that sound like something newsworthy?

Does Slashdot's editorial policy boil down to:

If there is money involved, size matters. If not, it has to be free and open source.

If it does, it should be changed for the better to something more impartial than what is in place now....

Some expensive Ampex analog tape from the mid 70's was notoriously bad. After a few years the oxide would just start falling off.

The master tapes to the music soundtrack to TRON almost devolved into 'Pure Tree Sap'. Thankfully, Wendy Carlos was able to rescue it for its (legitimate) CD release--of which I own a copy.

Oh dear, it looks like it's out of print (after TWO years!?!?) so I didn't bother with an Amazon link to it--3rd parties are offering it for sale there at the time of writing this post for $28.50 to $59.99 .... :(

7 years!!!

Since I'm off topic, I may as well get modded down for trolling too...an indicator of a good film is often the quality of the material that gets left on the cutting room floor. I hope this director has the willingness to make the hard cuts when necessary. Anyone watching the last few Star Wars films should be able to attest that floor sweepings don't make a good movie :-)

Wrong episode...

The "episode" the grandparent mentioned is in fact the Eugenics Wars series (one and two), which pits Kahn against Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln (played by Terri Garr in TOS, Assignment: Earth).

The one with Mentats, of course!

Now say this faster than a hard disk can store it:

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion, it is by the Juice of Safu that thoughts aquire speed, the lips aquire stains, the stains become a warning, it is by will alone I set my mind in motion."