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Ah, then you mean 'The Gold Rush' with Charlie Chaplain? It's there. And there're a direct links to watch it now or to buy it on DVD.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015864/?ref_=sr_1

No, IMDb is not a website for a particular movie. It's far better than that. So, I'm correct on two points, and the other one is moot.

I would have lost my shit on the spot. Man, just imagining myself floating out there on a spacewalk 200 miles above the earth, and feeling water on my head that isn't supposed be there...*shudder*. Just being up there is a spectacular balancing act of hundreds of special-purpose technologies that nearly all result in a horrible horrible death should they go wrong, finding even the slightest thing going wrong would freak me out.

Calls to mind the trailer for Alfonso Cuaron's (director for Children of Men) new movie "Gravity":
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2518132249?ref_=tt_pv_vi_1

It reminds me of Serenity. Remove violence and you might end up with a population of people not willing to live anymore.

You are Mansquito!

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

Lord of War

Your question immediately brought this gem back to mind: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1705773/

Watch it, it contains some epic quotes worthy of quite a few trash movie awards.

Is there another war you are thinking of that doesn't/didn't stink?

Maybe this one?

You mean we're not going to blame...Sharknado?

No no no, it gives us our first interstellar manned exploration

We all know how that ends and it isn't pretty!

Interesting question about they can afford such a plane. I could not help but noticed the aircraft, "Queen of Sheba" that reminded me of this movie, Solomon and Sheba, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053290/?ref_=sr_1

They've never seen the movie Crazy People, I guess.

Napolitano is heading out there to ensure that the Sharknado does not come to pass. She's going to take flying lessons so she can hover a helicopter 50 feet away from the up-coming EF4 tornado and "blow it up".

No, women are from Venus.

You mean like these gals (actually I enjoyed watch Zsa Zsa), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052104/?ref_=sr_1

So if we use the same tactics for prostitution...? (rather than an undercover cop acting as a hooker, put a robot)

You bet your ass it'll happen when they get cheap and realistic enough. Hey maybe when there are "fully-featured" fembots they'll actually let the john go through with the act and wait until he hands over the money to call in the raid so the case will be bulletproof.

From Hard Eight:
"You know the first thing they should've taught you at hooker school? You get the money up front!"

Other views of the corporate ethics of running a nuclear facility. (Yes, I know this account if fictional.)

An instructional video.

as long as its theirs to do with as they please, there is no wrong committed, even if they sink it to the bottom of the ocean and never even show it to the public, let alone refuse to make localized copies.

Aye, we could only be so lucky...

Know how a DVD works?

This just in: Russian drill crew eaten by Sharktopus. . . .

I'm not concerned that they are releasing updates, my concern is with how long it takes before they acknowledge a bug and release a fix. With OSS, the fix is released ASAP (at least that's the theory), with proprietary software... Well, here's a car analogy that might help:

"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

Anyone under the misapprehension that the drug war is about catching scum bag drug users or dealers should watch this excellent documentary:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276962/

You'll learn who the really big players are. Hint: it's not who you think it is ;)

Peace,
Andy.

President Camacho: Shit. I know shit's bad right now, with all that starving bullshit, and the dust storms, and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.

South Carolina Representative # 1: That's what you said last time, dipshit!

South Carolina Representative # 2: Yeah, I got a solution, you're a dick! South Carolina, what's up!

--------- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/quotes

We have room in Canada, I will pick him up on my battle moose.

I knew you Canadians had a secret weapon - nobody would be that polite without something up their sleeve.

Canada would be good because a trans-polar flight would avoid all other countries' airspace. NORAD detection of that flight could be foiled by a Canadian mole (NORAD being a joint US-Canadian operation). Nevertheless a battle moose would be too high profile. Hide him amongst some friendly Inuit. According to current trends the government probably has cameras in the arctic, but up there you can hide your face because there's always reason to wear a serious hoodie. Just stay off the water, or you'll be vulnerable to US subs (you know, the ones that never enter Canadian territorial waters without permission).

Backup plan: even if they find him, you can tie the whole thing up in First Nations politics. Nunavut could threaten to secede and join Russia, thus trashing Canada's arctic territorial claims.

P.S. For background, watch a rerun of Ice Station Zebra.

Steve Buscemi is not a B-list character actor.

Politician: Turns out that Parkes is the biggest radio telescope in the Southern Hemisphere.

Prime Minister: What's it doing in the middle of a sheep paddock?

Rudi: This is Sector 8. Is that you, Mr. Armstrong?

Rudi: Who goes there?
[sheep heard bleating]

Reporter: No offense, but NASA spends fifteen years, hundreds of millions of dollars so that we can watch man walk on the moon and in the end it falls to you blokes! I mean, how do you feel about that?

Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: A lot better before you opened your trap!

See this... and you will understand.
The Dish
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205873/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/alternateversions

It list all the alterations ever made, which makes for a very long list. There was a whole lot of changes made between the 77, 78, and 81 releases but are hidden in with all the new ones. Terrible record keeping and Lucas' habit of destroying old versions and footage makes it tough to watch the old releases, side by side. I remember seeing different versions of the opening crawl.

"When the original theatrical version was first released, it was simply titled Star Wars.The opening crawl was changed to "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" during the 1981 re-release. According to Sterling Hedgpeth, Lucasfilm film archivist: "I found a box with all the positive elements for the 'revised' opening crawl, and the assorted trim boxes are dated from October through December 1980. This, then, is consistent with the view that Episode IV: A New Hope was added for the first time to the opening crawl for the April 10, 1981 re-release." "

I wonder what aliens without a concept of fiction would think if they saw Star Trek, Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica.

You know that movie's already been done, right? Galaxy Quest, 1999,

From http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/faq#.2.1.7


Why has the title been changed? I always remember it as "Star Wars."


When the film was originally released in 1977, it was simply referred to as Star Wars, though supposedly, George Lucas had intended to put Episode IV: A New Hope in the opening crawl, but 20th Century Fox didn't want Lucas to do so because they thought it would confuse audiences, since there were never any other episodes released before it. After the commercial success of the original Star Wars, Lucas was able to continue with the multi-film epic he originally envisioned. The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980 and bore the full title of Star Wars, Episode V, The Empire Strikes Back in the title crawl, although it was referred to only as The Empire Strikes Back as the title of its commercial release. It was the "Episode V" appearing in the opening crawl which originally confused those members of the audience who had not been made aware of what Lucas was explaining, that the original "Star Wars" was now intended to be the 4th part of a nine-part series (since cut to 6). The original "Star Wars" was re-released in 1981 with a new title: "Star Wars, Episode IV, A New Hope" in the title crawl. This title appeared on all subsequent re-releases and versions from then on (though the original version was released on DVD in 2006, which shows the title crawl in its original form). All subsequent Star Wars films have followed this new naming structure, although "Star Wars" often refers specifically to the 1977 film.

Here's another documentary on that concept http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1467304/?ref_=sr_1

Only semi-successful iirc.

Apart from reminding me of the "so bad it's great" 'The Thing With Two Heads'...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069372/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I think what we need is to get people to use the ones they have first, before we start swapping 'em out...

Of course, this is probably not the scenario envisaged; probably the other way round.
Which raises the question; we don't have enough donors as it is - what do you do, save potentially many lives with separate heart, kidney, liver etc. transplants, or give some lucky person a "new" body?

As always, SciFi predicted all this - coming soon to a private clinic near you; old rich dudes coming out from an extended stay with suspiciously-young bodies at same time as "missing persons" list grows...

three words should put an end to this chicanery: Immortal Dick Cheney.

Yeah, but the picture that goes through my head would make it worth it.

(And yes, I'm probably showing my age there...)

Telescopic contact lens + Linux-powered rifle scope = I can finally become Hawkeye. Minus the abs.

I don't remember Hawkeye using contact lens or a rifle scope.

I guess I have missed an episode of M*A*S*H...

It just stopped moving one day.

Then my theory that we are just a form of entertainment like The Truman Show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/ to another form of life.

So, been watching too many Robert Rodriguez movies, have we?

P.S. His Puerco Pibil recipe is to die for!

Can someone explain how abrasion got a +5 ? One for each word?

Mr White is a character on Breaking Bad. His alias is Heisenberg.

Why people rate stupid stuff as funny? No explanation.

I don't know about that, last time we sent a signal that way it ended up with a transformers ripoff and we certainly don't want that to happen again.

The largest list of credits I could find:

http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/richard-matheson/credits/265673

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0558577/

If you haven't read I Am Legend, you're doing yourself a disservice. The three adaptations mentioned in the summary are The Last Man On Earth in 1964 starring Vincent Price, The Omega Man in 1971 starring Charleton Heston, and I Am Legend in 2007 starring Will Smith. Of all of these, the oldest is the closest to the actual novella and takes the fewest liberties.

When the 2007 version was in preproduction, I was geeking out as I could not wait to see this done with modern technology and techniques. Of course, as I should have known (and we should all have known with, say, Ender's Game or World War Z) that what made the book excellent is not what would be shown on the screen.

Even though the story is 59 years old, I'm still loathe to spoil it. Go read it. Do Richard Matheson one last tribute.

If you haven't read I Am Legend, you're doing yourself a disservice. The three adaptations mentioned in the summary are The Last Man On Earth in 1964 starring Vincent Price, The Omega Man in 1971 starring Charleton Heston, and I Am Legend in 2007 starring Will Smith. Of all of these, the oldest is the closest to the actual novella and takes the fewest liberties.

When the 2007 version was in preproduction, I was geeking out as I could not wait to see this done with modern technology and techniques. Of course, as I should have known (and we should all have known with, say, Ender's Game or World War Z) that what made the book excellent is not what would be shown on the screen.

Even though the story is 59 years old, I'm still loathe to spoil it. Go read it. Do Richard Matheson one last tribute.

If you haven't read I Am Legend, you're doing yourself a disservice. The three adaptations mentioned in the summary are The Last Man On Earth in 1964 starring Vincent Price, The Omega Man in 1971 starring Charleton Heston, and I Am Legend in 2007 starring Will Smith. Of all of these, the oldest is the closest to the actual novella and takes the fewest liberties.

When the 2007 version was in preproduction, I was geeking out as I could not wait to see this done with modern technology and techniques. Of course, as I should have known (and we should all have known with, say, Ender's Game or World War Z) that what made the book excellent is not what would be shown on the screen.

Even though the story is 59 years old, I'm still loathe to spoil it. Go read it. Do Richard Matheson one last tribute.

Hemp didn't have the same kind of lobbying powers the others did.

If only they had waited till 1946 or at least till 1938, then they couldn't have asked Dave.

Hemp didn't have the same kind of lobbying powers the others did.

If only they had waited till 1946 or at least till 1938, then they couldn't have asked Dave.

Australian here (four times as many sheep as people) .
The only hoggett I know is this guy.

Enemy of the State was a documentary? And all this time I thought Will Smith and Gene Hackman were actors...

Nice! When I get home I'll search for this movie in Pirate Bay: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332134

It's from Repo Man.

I haven't seen it in years, but the movie Screamers, based off Second Variety, wasn't bad as I remember. I'll have to pull out my VCR this weekend and see if it still works or see if it's on Netflix.

Lock it in a safe. Nuke the safe from orbit. That's the only way to be sure.

I would assume that a safe can withstand more damage than a refrigerator, and we know a refrigerator can protect its contents from a nuke, so I don't think your idea will work.

When people watch a purported spy movie where a lone hacker can hack the computers of a spy-agency and blow-up the heating - and not laugh out loud - then I suppose they would have no problem swallowing this heap of cyber-bullshit and no mentions of Visual Basic in the entire review ..