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See subject & this -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/ + REALITY-> http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/ & the "rigged/bribed vote" to defund the NSA being defeated (by 7 votes... ) - NOW: What I've always wondered is WHY taxpayers aren't allowed to direct their money to programs THEY SEE FIT TOO? After all - it's our money! Why? Shit... see above. , & before he, JFK on "Secret Societies".

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!

Enders Game : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/ Well, soon to be art, anyway...

Are you saying the book wasn't art? WTF? The movie is most likely going to be poop compared to the book.

Enders Game : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1731141/ Well, soon to be art, anyway...

there's no way to interpolate in an unblurred fashion.

Actually, there is, but it takes more processing power than a TV is capable of doing in realtime at the moment.

Besides 48+ fps at 4K resolution, it would be nice to have expanded dynamic range (10,000:1 contrast ratio instead of only 256:1) and wide gamut color.

Watching Once Upon a Time in the West, I noticed how the dynamic range in the outdoor scenes was compressed in order to get both shadows and highlights to display on film. Higher contrast ratio displays, and media formats that support them, would allow us to "decompress" these scenes and make them look more lifelike. Sadly, I don't think we could recover lost color gamut in the same way.

I know I will be slammed for it but ... Evolution

The time machine

Looks like Earthstorm. One of those rare movies that's so bad that it's actually pretty fun.

A better subway and subway map may well have helped more of the The Warriors make it home http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt

So true. 14 years after he passed away there is a slashdot thread about one of his great movies. I think he also should be given credit for not cranking out 2 and 3 movies a year. Just 16 movies in 48 years, according to IMDB.

There was a TV show called Century City about future lawyers. One of the cases involved a woman who had a dick implant, though still fully functional female. Rather interesting episode, definitely an interesting show. Too bad it got cancelled out so fast (only 9 episodes were filmed).

Then don't watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1467304/ or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1530509/ :)

Then don't watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1467304/ or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1530509/ :)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/

Lisp may be an interesting language, but Lispers scare me. The glow in their eyes when they evangelize about the Mother of All Languages reminds me of Village of the Damned.

Only if we play Beethoven at the same time.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059263/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vemork

Some trivia:

The Vemork factory was placed exactly there because of the optimal conditions for producing hydroelectric power.

It started out fixing nitrogen for fertilizer, but later on was converted to produce heavy water. This is what Hitler needed for the production of a nazi A-bomb.

Both nitrogen fixing and production of heavy water is extremely power consuming.

The factory (and Rjukan city itself) lies so deep within the valley, the Allies considered it near impossible to bomb. They tried, once. The production was considered so important the Allies tried 4 sabotage operations against it.The most famous one, Operation Gunnerside, was made as a film, starring Kirk Douglas: The Heroes of Telemark.

PS: Sorry about the links on top, using a shitty mobile browser.

I like my heroes to be WAY over the top. That is why mine is Buckaroo Banzi.

The movies in question are well worth a look if you like the whole Bond genre, even funnier if you've watched and enjoyed Hudson Hawk. The two movies were Our Man Flint and In Like Flint.

The movies in question are well worth a look if you like the whole Bond genre, even funnier if you've watched and enjoyed Hudson Hawk. The two movies were Our Man Flint and In Like Flint.

The movies in question are well worth a look if you like the whole Bond genre, even funnier if you've watched and enjoyed Hudson Hawk. The two movies were Our Man Flint and In Like Flint.

IMDB page. Brought to you by the same oddball Finns who gave us that wonderful series of Star Trek parodies called Star Wreck (although this time they had some German and Australian help). A wonderful send up of Nazis as "Invaders From the Moooon." Well worth your time if you love silly sci-fi movies. :-)

But of course! France is well known for their love of dumb blockbuster action films with lots of car chases and explosions and little else

Luc Besson. Europacorp.

Check it out: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000108/

It's a big part of the problem.

I think one of the key differentiators here is the amount of starting capital. Movies outside of the Hollywood machine might have the budgets for at least a certain level of special effects but because they don't have the marketing budget to ever think about attaining blockbuster status, there's no incentive to have to rake back in hojillions of profits because that money was never spent in the first place. As such, there's no desire to pander to every single market and thus less of a chance that your movies comes out as blandly homogenised-by-committee crap. Take Looper, or Prometheus for example. Set themselves up to say something brilliant and profoud about their retrospective environments, and then didn't.

Honestly, I don't really care that much about the plot re-use; there are only so many plots and so many ways you can fit them into 2hrs, but so many big-budget movies recently seem to have actually forgotten how to deliver them with style (or indeed at all in many cases). The effects all look the same, the characters are all the same.

Eurotrash pontificating here, but this is why I've ended up like euro-centric cinema the most these days. There's a fair few attempts at effects-laden hokum but most of the stuff tends to revolve around some sort of a character study in $period_setting. Cheap to film but requires good acting/directing and a solid script. My favourite example of these came as a recommendation from a friend to see Il Divo, examining Giulio Andreotti, an Italian politician with incredible staying power. I know, I'd never heard of him either, but he's painted like a real-life version of Francis Urquhart. It's an immensely stylish swoop through Italian politics and corruption and general hideousness with fantastically opulent trappings and a convoluted plot. It got next to no publicity here in the UK but all the Italians I knew were raving about it (and thankfully we have enough indie cinemas here that you can guarantee that most of these films will receive some sort of showing, at least in London). The same director has done at least two other films with the same lead actor, Tony Servillo, all character studies and, by and large, examining completely different themes and all, IMHO, enthralling viewing.

Also IHMO (and yes, I'm trying to be objective about the rose-tinted specs effect), Hollywood's last "golden period" was something like 1998 to 2005 where a lot of movies with interesting ideas or themes, or even just old ones but with a radical new style, came out and a large chunk of it's output since then has been distinctly boring. Thankfully, as Hollywood history has shown, this is usually a cyclical thing and after the current swathe of identikit superheroes and invading CGI monsters collapse under their own weight we'll hopefully see interesting ideas brought to the fore again.

£0.02

Avoid the green ones. They're not ripe yet.

Aristotle was not Belgian, the principle of Buddhism is not "every man for himself", and the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.

So many great quotes from that movie.

Ditto. The last decent film I've seen at the cinema was Haywire - slick as a greased Enron Exec, despite the 5.9 on imdb.

Sadly, we've seen over twenty films since then :S

Batman (1989)

The only true Batman movie is the 1966 version

. "How was I to know they'd have a can of shark-repellent Bat-spray handy?" Instant classic :).

Don't Hollywood blockbusters flop fairly regularly? If one could guarantee that a movie (or anything) was going to make a profit wouldn't people flock into the arena until things started failing? See: housing crash. Also, http://www.imdb.com/list/BzO0KZ24wyA/

TOP GUN made a lot of people sign up for the navy

That doesn't really help the Air Force. Besides they tried that in the 80's.

that was one GREAT

...

Soundtrack.

Other than that, and the quote "that's why that call him Ronnie Ray-Gun".... not much reason to watch the actual film. - But the Soundtrack was awesome.

TOP GUN made a lot of people sign up for the navy

That doesn't really help the Air Force. Besides they tried that in the 80's.

And impetus to support your local filmmaker (i.e. Michael Fredianelli, Ray Medved, and Gwyneth Price) assuming they don't read the same book.

"I Die Alone"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2750746/

"Waiting"
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/waiting--11

"Return to Nowhere"
http://www.returntonowheremovie.com/

This is the point most deniers seem to miss

It's an easy point to miss while all you alarmists are touting The Day After Tomorrow (2004) as prophecy.

You'd do well to correct the exaggeration by your brethren as it seems to do more damage than deniers can do by themselves.

Wow, are you always such an ass?

Let me explain 'derivative', because you can come up with easy examples.

When a movie studio announces a new project, another movie studio will almost immediately come out with a movie based on almost exactly the same premise -- so when "A Bugs Life" was announced, a few months later we got "Antz".

Movies tend to come in groups, where someone says "hey, we're doing a movies based on X", and someone will immediately rush to get some turd out the door based on X.

Dreamworks is terrible for this, but I'm sure they all do. If one studio announced they'd have a story about a wise cracking orphan who chews tobacco and wears a funny hat, at least one other one will immediately rush out and try to not miss the new trend of movies about wise cracking orphans who chew tobacco and wear funny hats.

Disney has always been horrible for this, cranking out an endless stream of sequels which are crap, intended to go straight to video, and just more of the continuing adventures of characters which have already ran their course. And, more recently, turning the girl from Brave into yet another formulaic Disney princess.

Some days it seems like they don't ever try any more -- and with a lot of movies about a week or so after you hear about it, you also start hearing about something which is based on almost exactly the same premise which will also be out soon.

By the time you see it long enough, it's hard not to class most of it as derivative, because they just steal the high points of the plot and make a very similar movie -- and usually the copy cat doesn't do nearly as well because it's a hastily written script intended to get into theaters before the competition does.

Perhaps attaching these to sharks is how Sharknado actually was formed. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2724064/

I didn't realize I was logged out and wasn't intending to post it anonymously. Sorry for the repost:

Have you looked into the credibility of the creator of Gasland and the facts that are presented? I'd recommend you take a look a documentary that was produced in response to it called FrackNation (a Kickstarter funded project). I wouldn't say that everything in the movie is excellent (there are some interesting conspiracy theories as to what's propelling the media portrayal of fracking), but I found it to be incredibly informative. From what I've seen, most people railing against fracking (and oil/gas drilling in general) are incredibly uneducated about the process.

Have you looked into the credibility of the creator of Gasland and the facts that are presented? I'd recommend you take a look a documentary that was produced in response to it called FrackNation (a Kickstarter funded project). I wouldn't say that everything in the movie is excellent (there are some interesting conspiracy theories as to what's propelling the media portrayal of fracking), but I found it to be incredibly informative. From what I've seen, most people railing against fracking (and oil/gas drilling in general) are incredibly uneducated about the process.

I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Ever see a shark eat a zebra?

I can't believe that Sharknado missed that one! Something for the sequel...

Is that something quite like it might actually be going on!

I myself would have thought it insane not too long ago, but the way world leaders are systematically and purposely messing up the planet with flouride, GMOs, cancer adjuvants, and so many other things that seem meant for the specific purpose of destroying the human population, it doesn't make any sense to any rational human being. But what if this is being carried out for other-than human beings? What if they really DO want us all dead, so they can take the world for themselves?

The other creepy thing is that this same theme has played out in so many other movies.. "They Live," "Body Snatchers," "Oblivion," it's all basically the same thing. And you look at the Bilderbergers and what they are doing, and how it is becoming more and more apparent that there is a globalist "elite" that really pulls the strings out there, and we seem to hear that they are worshiping demons and such, but that they have an odd code of honor that they must tell people what they are going to do before they do it... this makes these films all the creepier. Are they a message? Maybe.

Listen to David Icke. He will sound like an absolute fruit loop at first, but more and more of what he says is beginning to make sense.

discussion -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/board/threads/
movie -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/

The Arrival ((1996))

CAN you FEEL THAT BUDDY? huh huh huh?

Is that something quite like it might actually be going on!

I myself would have thought it insane not too long ago, but the way world leaders are systematically and purposely messing up the planet with flouride, GMOs, cancer adjuvants, and so many other things that seem meant for the specific purpose of destroying the human population, it doesn't make any sense to any rational human being. But what if this is being carried out for other-than human beings? What if they really DO want us all dead, so they can take the world for themselves?

The other creepy thing is that this same theme has played out in so many other movies.. "They Live," "Body Snatchers," "Oblivion," it's all basically the same thing. And you look at the Bilderbergers and what they are doing, and how it is becoming more and more apparent that there is a globalist "elite" that really pulls the strings out there, and we seem to hear that they are worshiping demons and such, but that they have an odd code of honor that they must tell people what they are going to do before they do it... this makes these films all the creepier. Are they a message? Maybe.

Listen to David Icke. He will sound like an absolute fruit loop at first, but more and more of what he says is beginning to make sense.

discussion -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/board/threads/
movie -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/

The Arrival ((1996))

CAN you FEEL THAT BUDDY? huh huh huh?

Is that something quite like it might actually be going on!

I myself would have thought it insane not too long ago, but the way world leaders are systematically and purposely messing up the planet with flouride, GMOs, cancer adjuvants, and so many other things that seem meant for the specific purpose of destroying the human population, it doesn't make any sense to any rational human being. But what if this is being carried out for other-than human beings? What if they really DO want us all dead, so they can take the world for themselves?

The other creepy thing is that this same theme has played out in so many other movies.. "They Live," "Body Snatchers," "Oblivion," it's all basically the same thing. And you look at the Bilderbergers and what they are doing, and how it is becoming more and more apparent that there is a globalist "elite" that really pulls the strings out there, and we seem to hear that they are worshiping demons and such, but that they have an odd code of honor that they must tell people what they are going to do before they do it... this makes these films all the creepier. Are they a message? Maybe.

Listen to David Icke. He will sound like an absolute fruit loop at first, but more and more of what he says is beginning to make sense.

discussion -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/board/threads/
movie -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/

The Arrival ((1996))

Is that something quite like it might actually be going on!

I myself would have thought it insane not too long ago, but the way world leaders are systematically and purposely messing up the planet with flouride, GMOs, cancer adjuvants, and so many other things that seem meant for the specific purpose of destroying the human population, it doesn't make any sense to any rational human being. But what if this is being carried out for other-than human beings? What if they really DO want us all dead, so they can take the world for themselves?

The other creepy thing is that this same theme has played out in so many other movies.. "They Live," "Body Snatchers," "Oblivion," it's all basically the same thing. And you look at the Bilderbergers and what they are doing, and how it is becoming more and more apparent that there is a globalist "elite" that really pulls the strings out there, and we seem to hear that they are worshiping demons and such, but that they have an odd code of honor that they must tell people what they are going to do before they do it... this makes these films all the creepier. Are they a message? Maybe.

Listen to David Icke. He will sound like an absolute fruit loop at first, but more and more of what he says is beginning to make sense.

discussion -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/board/threads/
movie -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/

The Arrival ((1996))

"Is that something quite like it might actually be going on.

I myself would have thought it insane not too long ago, but the way world leaders are systematically and purposely messing up the planet with flouride, GMOs, cancer adjuvants, and so many other things that seem meant for the specific purpose of destroying the human population, it doesn't make any sense to any rational human being. But what if this is being carried out for other-than human beings? What if they really DO want us all dead, so they can take the world for themselves?

The other creepy thing is that this same theme has played out in so many other movies.. "They Live," "Body Snatchers," "Oblivion," it's all basically the same thing. And you look at the Bilderbergers and what they are doing, and how it is becoming more and more apparent that there is a globalist "elite" that really pulls the strings out there, and we seem to hear that they are worshiping demons and such, but that they have an odd code of honor that they must tell people what they are going to do before they do it... this makes these films all the creepier. Are they a message? Maybe.

Listen to David Icke. He will sound like an absolute fruit loop at first, but more and more of what he says is beginning to make sense.

discussion -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/board/threads/
movie -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/board/threads/

The Arrival (1996)"

"Is that something quite like it might actually be going on.

I myself would have thought it insane not too long ago, but the way world leaders are systematically and purposely messing up the planet with flouride, GMOs, cancer adjuvants, and so many other things that seem meant for the specific purpose of destroying the human population, it doesn't make any sense to any rational human being. But what if this is being carried out for other-than human beings? What if they really DO want us all dead, so they can take the world for themselves?

The other creepy thing is that this same theme has played out in so many other movies.. "They Live," "Body Snatchers," "Oblivion," it's all basically the same thing. And you look at the Bilderbergers and what they are doing, and how it is becoming more and more apparent that there is a globalist "elite" that really pulls the strings out there, and we seem to hear that they are worshiping demons and such, but that they have an odd code of honor that they must tell people what they are going to do before they do it... this makes these films all the creepier. Are they a message? Maybe.

Listen to David Icke. He will sound like an absolute fruit loop at first, but more and more of what he says is beginning to make sense.

discussion -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/board/threads/
movie -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/board/threads/

The Arrival (1996)"

Prove to me CIA or any other large agency with a related purpose isn't made up of creatures similar to those featured in this movie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115571/

Serenity?

Everyone knows you use potatoes. Nobody wants to root around in a container full of mouldy potatoes.

Lord of War

And I'm yet to see an inspector open a crate marked "nuclear waste".

IMDB doesn't tell me jack where I can buy / rent the interesting indy film:

Wheat (2009)

  a 2009 Chinese historical drama film, that opened at the Shanghai International Film Festival.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1388901/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat_(film)

And that movie is only 4 years old !

Plus Spock is in the 1998 TV movie The older BBC version is on.

Terry Gilliam's interpretation of Orwell's 1984: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/