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Although, it'd be interesting to see a show take nominations in both its retro and current incarnation. Or a novel and sequel, perhaps.

Something that erhaps they didn't consider when making the retroes.

Although, it'd be interesting to see a show take nominations in both its retro and current incarnation. Or a novel and sequel, perhaps.

Something that erhaps they didn't consider when making the retroes.

The key draw of the second world war is:

. timelessly, irrefutably 'bad' guys. (Perhaps the Japanese could have a partial beef with that, but after the Rape of Nan-King, I doubt many would agree.)

. Widely accepted to be a war entered for a just cause by the West.

. Near enough to present time to have involved fairly familiar technology. (no-one was marching in rows as in WWI and before, or picking targets with a GPS device as in Kuwait and after)

. far enough away from present time so that the entire experience wasn't dominated by air power (air combat is less personal, less dramatic).

. high number of drafted soldiers and fairly tense and desperate combat situations gives plenty of opportunities for solid dramatic stories.

. plenty of action in a variety of settings (land/sea/air - forest/pasture/desert - etc.)

. Very few political cockups at the outcome that could inflame sensibilities.
(Much of the tension in the middle east is due to League of Nations' Mandates granted to, and screwed-up by France and Britain following World-War I. Iraq and Israel/Palestine were notable 'creations' from that era that were later abandoned to much chaos.)

and the biggest one:

. Tons of old-media sources to plunder for ideas.

Given the working title 'Baker's Dozen' - One's forced to assume this will be a stab at 1967's Dirty Dozen.

That story revolved around a US officer given 12 convicted murders to train (during WWII of course), for a mission to assassinate a host of German Officers.
Sounds like a solid video game premise to me.

These people are clearly making hooch out of cleaning solvents...if you can't afford vodka, comrade, how the hell are you going to come up with the ludicrous $3.5 billion pricetag you've put on your mission?

You couldn't launch a mission to the moon for $3.5 billion. Hell, you couldn't spend $3.5 billion and make the public forget Brian DePalma's shitheap Mission to Mars much less launch a real mission.

Stop drinking the glass cleaner, comrade, and call us when you sober up.

Sneak out and clamp 12 to 120 volt convertors on passing motorboats, with wires going back to your house. The wires had better be long

Stand on the shore with a big shotgun, and demand that passersby pay you a toll in killowatt hours in order to pass.

Provide all the catfish with treadmills connected to generators.

Per Max Screck of Batman 2, set up your own power plant and connect to the nearby hydro plants. Provide a lot of paperwork that no one reads, that includes the part that says that your power plant actually drains power from the grid instead of adding to it.

Power hot air turbines from meetings of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission.

If all else fails, I'm sure that the orgone writings of Reich, the magic energy fields of Tesla, or the spoonbending force of Uri Gellar will give you an answer.

Off the main topic, but DV breaks the timing limits from film. With an external battery pack, you can shoot all the way to the end of a tape in one shot. Timecode was a conceptually cool pic from a few years ago. The basic story was simple, Selma Hayek was a wannabe star, sleeping around to get a role. Jeane Tripplehorn her jealous lover who chases her, and ends up shooting the director she was sleeping with.

The story wasn't much special, but the shooting consisted of a bunch of Sony DVs (I think around 13) with one tape, and they shot one take, one shot, all the way through the end of the tape, following people around. At any time they had up to 4 video streams on screen, and 2 audio streams. They'd switch the video streams when they found somehting interesting, which unfortunately wasn't as many as you'd think, especially considering it had Hayek and Tripplehorn in a lesbian relationship. Having the 13 or so streams at least broke up the monotony of what a single take for 100 minutes would entail. The multiple audio actually was much harder than the multiple video to process. At the end, all 4 cams were in the same room, getting multiple angles of the scene.

Since it was just Sony VX1000s, there wasn't a lot of gear. I heard that Selma Hayek was walking on the street, doing a take, and people didn't notice that they were filming, and came up for autographs while they shot.

Sounds like the man working the camera. :)

Reminds me of an old movie I saw last night. 1979's "Hardcore". God that had to be one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I watched the whole thing out of morbid curiousity. :)

Maybe I have a slightly skewed perspective, working so long in it, but through most of it I was like "what the fuck?"

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By GNAA-UK Legal Consultant, rolloffle
London, United Kingdom

The GNAA is devoted to claiming, maintaining and vehemently guarding any and all freedoms for open source gay niggers. As such, we find the constant infringement of our rights by invasive software patents and risible copyright policies to be a great affront.

Consequently, the GNAA is going to collect some of the approximately $150 million floating around in stock options and shareholders' certificates in buckets and offer it to solicitors in order for them to march proudly to Brussels and argue our case on behalf of Slashdot and the Free community. Numerous gay niggers will also be sent to beat the shit out of any coppers who fuck with the patent protesters.

"We hope that this will be a great step forward," announced lysol, a second-level GNAA member running for US president in 2004 on a pro-nigger platform. "A prerequisite for new events in computer tech in the next decade is going to be a massive relaxation of the currently piss-poor 'copywrong' system. Until pirating music and downloading software for nothing is legal, we cannot rest, and nor will Slashdot, I'm sure."

Slashdot users were themselves found to be incredibly stoked about the plan. "The GNAA used to be funny, but now I just ignore them," stated one anonymous hero.

Obviously, this is going to be a hot issue.

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By GNAA Open Source Marketing Director, rolloffle
London, United Kingdom

Recognising the importance of the open source community in advancing technological progress of the Western World, the GNAA has announced a plan to pledge 60% of all profits into development of the Mozilla Firefox browser. "We hope that the introduction of this new and superior form of funding will increase the speed of new releases greatly," opined GNAA founder timecop. "Their dependence on us for monetary resources will also help our standing in the community."

We at the GNAA feel that Firefox is the primary tool for enhancing the public's conception of OSS and that it must be promoted at all costs. As such, we are willing to sacrifice an estimated $400 per year (projected) to go towards the following ambitious programs:

• Providing safe houses for developers to shield them from angry users when they introduce massive new bugs
• Purchasing cheap but effective 486 laptops for programmers to use "in the field"
• Purchasing old copies of Red Hat Linux 5 in bulk to be used on the aforementioned laptops
• Free GNU software installation and copies of vim
• Bus fare provision

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LotR Peter Jackson's first film, Bad Taste, apart from being completely superb, was done on an extremely low budget. The documentary about it, Good Taste Made Bad Taste, shows a lot of things they had to make themselves, including a steadicam. I'm not sure how little money they actually made it for, but it was bugger all and it was back in 1987.... Don't write people who make their own Steadicams off...

A home-built rig will never get to that level, but the point about portable-rigs as opposed to dollys is that the former remains much more portable, while the latter requires installation (you need to lay tracks).

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... price of $79, and what with the recent Janet Jackson 'wardrobe malfunction' this product will likely ...

Okay. It's the year 2004. Nobody has used the phrase 'what with' since 1926. Suddenly it appears here? Better call Jean-Claude Van Damme...

The smooth rooftop pan from Expiration was filmed with a motorised base made from Lego.

Good film btw.

I'm sure I don't have to tell people here that China blocks webpages (like the Voice of America, blogger, etc.). So even though in the big cities the Chinese have killer broadband, it's not as useful as it could be.

Anyway, when VOA, whose TV/radio signals are blocked/jammed on the mainland try to get the feeds out, they'll run broadcasts through other sites, and also make everything available via P2P networks.

Whether you agree with VOA/the U.S. Government is another matter, but they're doing stories on things like the AIDS/blood donations crisis, that China won't even talk about (just back from a party with those filmmakers and some VOA reporters).

Of course, most of what people in China download over p2p is Britney or whatever, but, still, the stuff is out there and there ain't nothing the gubmint can do about it.

Trudi: "Do bullets go bad?"

Harris: "No, it's not like milk. They don't have expiration date or anything."

One of my favorite movies of all time :)

Canada here...
Also had in school:
Clockwork Orange
La Haine
Menace To Society
Reservoir Dogs
Apocalypse Now
etc..

Ok, Canadian here too, but never saw any of those in school. I can understand Apocalypse Now, especially if you were reading Heart of Darkness. I'm not sure why Reservoir Dogs would be a good candidate for an English class, though I could certainly see it in a film class.

I did take a quarter credit course in films, but all he played was Alfred Hitchcock stuff. It was interesting to see Psycho (don't know if I ever would have rented it), but it would have been much more thought provoking to see both Psycho and something more modern like 8 mm (I haven't seen that either), and discuss the differences.

Clockwork Orange, also interesting to watch if you'd been reading the book.

I don't think most of these titles would fly in the U.S. though; I mean, they're burning Harry Potter books down there, because it's too risque for them.

You know a movie that would be a good topic-starter for a media class... Natural Born Killers.

Timmy (the little boy) was the murderous personality that is overlooked throughout the whole film. Remember the lame ass ending where he springs up - "Whore's don't get a second chance" and all that? Remember how we see him being responsible for most of the deaths in the 'dream' such as causing the car to crash into his 'dad'? Timmy was the personality that caused the mental patient, Rivers, to commit the original REAL murders plus strangling the REAL ambulance driver at the end of the film. So while Timmy did not actually kill anyone real because he isn't real himself, he is the killer in essence. As most of the film is based around the motel dream sequence, the audience are guessing who out of all those fictional personalities is killing everyone off. It's the kid. Any old fucker can tell that Rivers the mental patient is the one who actually kills for real because the shrinks explain it.

Click here for a brief summary

Also... This 'amusing' post

Timmy (the little boy) was the murderous personality that is overlooked throughout the whole film. Remember the lame ass ending where he springs up - "Whore's don't get a second chance" and all that? Remember how we see him being responsible for most of the deaths in the 'dream' such as causing the car to crash into his 'dad'? Timmy was the personality that caused the mental patient, Rivers, to commit the original REAL murders plus strangling the REAL ambulance driver at the end of the film. So while Timmy did not actually kill anyone real because he isn't real himself, he is the killer in essence. As most of the film is based around the motel dream sequence, the audience are guessing who out of all those fictional personalities is killing everyone off. It's the kid. Any old fucker can tell that Rivers the mental patient is the one who actually kills for real because the shrinks explain it.

Click here for a brief summary

Also... This 'amusing' post

[...]Windows XP Premium will start shipping with new PCs, which will include a new version of the infamous Windows Media Player.

It's more than famous, it's infamous. (With apologies to The Three Amigos!).

Yes, the release schedule is planned through 2007, when Order of the Phoenix will be released.

I hear that they're working on a new Star Wars film, too. ;)

Yes, the release schedule is planned through 2007, when Order of the Phoenix will be released.

I hear that they're working on a new Star Wars film, too. ;)

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Absolutely. I've even heard of a trailer for the film Identity that showed footage incriminating the little boy as the murderer. If I'd have seen that before watching the film I'd be pissed! (still thought it was a pile of horseshit Fight Club wannabe though)

Y Tu Mamá También was unrated in the US due to its sexual content, drug use and language (there is an R-rated cut version though). As a special feature, the DVD version has a mock PG-13 cut which consists of the titles, the last scene of a man sitting in a restaurant, and the end credits.

As well as Porkies (basically an earlier version of American Pie).

As well as Porkies (basically an earlier version of American Pie).

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Lucky you! Here is the movie you are asking for. Dunno which settings they used, though...

You all laughed at The Core , but now the effects of the government expierements are rising to the surface. Stock up now on unobtanium now, the market will go through the roof soon. Forget your foil hats (they attract electrical discharges anyway) crack out the asbestos underpants and the SPF 1000. And don't forget to send those Apocolypse Day Cards.

SD


IMDB link for the clueless.

Always applying religion when there is a simple more rational solution.

Jobe obviously wasn't killed by the mangetic core reactor as we thought he was... *looks around*

The child actor, DEN executive, and performer-of-unspeakable-acts?

Remake of Hardware Wars.

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I wonder if at any point the makers thought that naming something ever-so-close to everyone's favourite WB cartoon dog (now a pair of major motion pictures by the same studio) would be just asking for trouble?

I wonder if at any point the makers thought that naming something ever-so-close to everyone's favourite WB cartoon dog (now a pair of major motion pictures by the same studio) would be just asking for trouble?

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Well, I did say that those perverse incentives had nothing to do with the problems. I'm sure that it's the usual amalgam of unrealistic specifications, creeping featuritis, management by committee, and so on, which afflicts pretty much every large project.

Remember ``The Bridge on the River Kwai'' ? Professional pride can get folks to do some crazy things, including shoot themselves in the foot for the public good (think whistle-blowers), or sabatoge their own side's war effort (in that movie), or make it easier for a particularly nasty bureaucracy to do harm.

I would guess that most of the people working on the project are pretty frustrated by the progress it's making, and would be very proud of themselves if they got things back on track. I would also guess that most of them have thought, at one time or another: ``It's a good thing we're not getting all the government we're paying for.''

My point was that any one of the taxpayers who's working on that is going to realize that if it fails, despite his best efforts, there's a bright side: he won't have to worry about his past tax returns coming back to haunt him. The tax code is complex enough, and confusing enough, that everyone is in some danger from the IRS, no matter how hard they try to pay all their taxes.

The score composed for the first film was awesome. Basil Poledouris rocks, and tends to be a bit under appreciated for his work.

Wing Commander, eh?

You know... I think I've actually seen this movie now that I'm looking at the cover

I guess it had little enough in common with the game(s) that I disassociated it. Just goes to show you how badly done some video-game-to-movie conversions are...

up to and including neuromuscular paralytics

Give him the sed-a-give!

Its a sea change from the 80s when IBM was kicked out of India during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's administration.

To really look beyond the short-term glitter and understand what this might lead up to, you must watch Life & Debt, which chronicles the Jamaican tragedy. Once Jamaica agreed to freetrade & opened up its trade zones, in a short span of few months, its entire native diary industry & banana trade was totally destroyed ( Milkpowder was dumped at dirt-cheap prices, and MNCs like Dole undercut the banana trade by bringing in bananas from Mexico ). There are a lot of pluses to free trade, but unless developing nations like India wield their bargaining power carefully, they will sell out to corporations & lose their autonomy.

But a lot of Indians in the panel felt the American ownership of Indian firms was a good thing, and it could erase some of the anti-outsourcing sentiment prevailing here in the US. Towards the end, the panel discussion got particularly heated up with sharply polarized arguments from both sides. A host of people agreed to talk to us about the "sale of India", as one of them put it.No easy answers to be found on this one.

The problem with the gameboy port of Global Thermonuclear War is walking around with the Gameboy in your pocket and having to put up with the constant, plaintive voice: "Professor Falken, want to play a game?" that just does not know the meaning of the word "no"

So, you support the burning of all copies of The Birth of a Nation , then.

(I almost ended that with a question mark, but a period is the correct punctuation. You haven't left yourself any wiggle room for any answer other than "yes, absolutely".)

Oh my god, absolutely! I already pre-ordered the DVD for Girl Next Door. Well, OK - maybe not - but I should... Just in case they run-out...

Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers.

Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.

Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

Badgers? Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers.

Badges? We don't need no stinking badges.

Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

I think one of the cooler, younger actresses out there right now is Elisha Cuthbert from the fox show 24. She all that you /.ers want in a Samus. She is young, can kick but and can, um, fill up the varia suit easily.
Just my 2 pesos.