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Memorable quotes for
Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

"John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, that's power."

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"The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, it's funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesn't necessarily mean it really serves people's thinking - it can stupify and make not very good things happen."
- Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio

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"It's only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because that's what people do. They conspire. If you can't get the message, get the man." - Mel Gibson (from an interview)

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey, CIA Director

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"The real reason for the official secrecy, in most instances, is not to keep the opposition (the CIA's euphemistic term for the enemy) from knowing what is going on; the enemy usually does know. The basic reason for governmental secrecy is to keep you, the American public, from knowing - for you, too, are considered the opposition, or enemy - so that you cannot interfere. When the public does not know what the government or the CIA is doing, it cannot voice its approval or disapproval of their actions. In fact, they can even lie to your about what they are doing or have done, and you will not know it. As for the second advantage, despite frequent suggestion that the CIA is a rogue elephant, the truth is that the agency functions at the direction of and in response to the office of the president. All of its major clandestine operations are carried out with the direct approval of or on direct orders from the White House. The CIA is a secret tool of the president - every president. And every president since Truman has lied to the American people in order to protect the agency. When lies have failed, it has been the duty of the CIA to take the blame for the president, thus protecting him. This is known in the business as "plausible denial." The CIA, functioning as a secret instrument of the U.S. government and the presidency, has long misused and abused history and continues to do so."
- Victor Marchetti, Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History

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George Carlin:

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehous

Memorable quotes for
Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

"John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, that's power."

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"The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, it's funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesn't necessarily mean it really serves people's thinking - it can stupify and make not very good things happen."
- Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio

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"It's only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because that's what people do. They conspire. If you can't get the message, get the man." - Mel Gibson (from an interview)

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey, CIA Director

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"The real reason for the official secrecy, in most instances, is not to keep the opposition (the CIA's euphemistic term for the enemy) from knowing what is going on; the enemy usually does know. The basic reason for governmental secrecy is to keep you, the American public, from knowing - for you, too, are considered the opposition, or enemy - so that you cannot interfere. When the public does not know what the government or the CIA is doing, it cannot voice its approval or disapproval of their actions. In fact, they can even lie to your about what they are doing or have done, and you will not know it. As for the second advantage, despite frequent suggestion that the CIA is a rogue elephant, the truth is that the agency functions at the direction of and in response to the office of the president. All of its major clandestine operations are carried out with the direct approval of or on direct orders from the White House. The CIA is a secret tool of the president - every president. And every president since Truman has lied to the American people in order to protect the agency. When lies have failed, it has been the duty of the CIA to take the blame for the president, thus protecting him. This is known in the business as "plausible denial." The CIA, functioning as a secret instrument of the U.S. government and the presidency, has long misused and abused history and continues to do so."
- Victor Marchetti, Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History

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George Carlin:

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehous

Naw - step two is making the tracking bullet from Tom Selleck's classic 1984 movie: Runaway.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heMboVN12r0

Step three will be the spiders!

Anyone that has seen Them already knew ants made all kinds of nasty sounds.

Buried was a great example of a "only one visible, active actor." And Ryan Reynolds shows some good acting chops as well given the... cramped style of the film. The worst part was the call from his company, he should have just hung up (there are several parts about that scene I don't like, but the would divulge details).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

First of all, that is the stupidest fucking idea I have ever heard, even by dumbass Hollywood standards.

I guess you haven't heard about: Battleship. It really is based on the table top game.

No, but you might find a guy named Rimmer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094535/

Exactly. Government, when composed of noble, capable people passionate about civic virtue and beholden to the rule of law, can be a wonderful thing and a force for great good. When composed of corrupt or inept people who don't give a damn about the governed, it's horrible. I think people tend to think of the ones ordering drone strikes to fall in the former category (and they very well may), but they should think about what happens when they're in the latter.

Image that the bureaucrats behind your worst-ever DMV experience are making the calls on which Americans driving down a desert road get wiped out. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that anyone considers Brazil closer to reality than fantasy opposes this sort of thing.

I was confused by it having both an 8-track player *AND* CD changer. I guess they were basing their design to compete with this.

It's nice that they included 4 screens for the pilot to watch DVDs on. That's almost better than my flight sim setup at home.

Is it just me, or are all the buttons and switches on the right side of the seat just a big sticker?

Not directly related, but the XKCD "What If" scenario on just changing the rotation of the earth enough to avoid having leap-seconds would require 50,000 4m diameter rocky asteroids hitting the earth every second.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/26/

Back-of-a-fag-packet calculations that every nuclear and non-nuclear explosion in the history of civilisation wouldn't give enough oomph to move us more than a few km away from the sun (although that didn't stop anyone making films about it). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054790/

-1- A true team sport. Not sure any other sport comes close.

-2- The personal commitment required to play it well. I recall some golfer who never practiced in the off season, just tossed his clubs in the garage...yet he was a world class golfer. Hockey comes closest on this one -- nothing like losing teeth or getting gashed up yet coming back for the rest of the game to show your commitment level.

-3- Complexity: 40 odd players on a team, kickers & punters, receivers & tight ends, half backs and fullbacks, etc. etc. Soccer loses badly here -- basically a 3 position game. Baseball is maybe second worst (of the major sports). Basketball? Well just check out what they figure are the highlights each night -- Another dunk!!!1! Will you look at that! Hockey is more complex than it appears, and I love the game (fastest team sport of 'em all), but still there are just 4 unique positions.

-4- Unpredictability: "Any given Sunday". Soccer: hmmm, Messi (brilliant Messi) will score a goal or two. Basketball: it will be a close score at the end with _fouls_ determining who wins -- only sport where fouling benefits a team. Baseball: mildly unpredictable but face it, who really cares? Baseball has too many games, too many per week (and even day), for legions of fans to be fully vested in it. So we all watch the World Series and... Hockey is fairly unpredictable but then hockey lacks scoring, with the last decade or two seeing a swing to a more defensive style of play.

-5- Influence of a good coach. Basketball ranks up there on this one. But how many movies have been made about baseball coaches versus this recent one that comes to mind.

-6- Intensity. Soccer player gets "injured" and gets carted off, drinks some Gatorade and then rejoins the game. No big deal. Baseball: no need to comment. Hockey can be super intense, at its best, but when all that intensity doesn't lead to a score (i.e. 95% of the time)...let down. Football players diving for passes, 350 pound guys running faster than you or I ever will, runners sprinting up to a 100 yards at a time.

-7- "Pass down" -- parent to child, that is. I think baseball has a lot to offer here. Football is just deeper, more intense, more meaningful.

Given more time I could probably list 4 or 5 more points. Game has started. AFK.

Never went to college huh? Beer culture is a fairly serious problem. Too many rich kids getting away from daddy for the first time, not enough responsibility.
It doesn't take much to build up a culture:
Beer pong, Movies, and, you know, the existence of bars.

Charlie Luther's just getting started...

Of this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342272/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001569/bio

"He is a black belt in Tang Soo Do and Tae Kwan Do. In 1969, he earned the Triple Crown for the highest number of tournament wins, and was named Fighter of the Year by "Black Belt" magazine. By the time he was 34, Norris had established 32 karate schools and had been a champion for six years. In 1996, he became the first Westerner to be awarded an eighth-degree black belt in Tae Kwan Do"

I am not a big fan of this guy, and i agree these Chuck Norris jokes are very annoying, however, facts are facts and clearly you are wrong about the martial arts.

A Soviet invasion was also not that far out of the questions in the decades following WWII either.

Plus, you should watch this documentary about the Chinese Commies' almost successful plan to tunnel their way under the US and stage a surprise strike from within. The dirty, foreign bastards.

you don't own the contents of a DVD. You own the right to play it for yourself. The physical media is your license.

This obsession with piracy is stupid. The cost of most content is so low these days that you could not possibly watch what you can afford. So, STFU and pay the $2

on the contrary

Memorable quotes for
Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

"John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, that's power."

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"The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, it's funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesn't necessarily mean it really serves people's thinking - it can stupify and make not very good things happen."
- Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio

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"It's only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because that's what people do. They conspire. If you can't get the message, get the man." - Mel Gibson (from an interview)

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey, CIA Director

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"The real reason for the official secrecy, in most instances, is not to keep the opposition (the CIA's euphemistic term for the enemy) from knowing what is going on; the enemy usually does know. The basic reason for governmental secrecy is to keep you, the American public, from knowing - for you, too, are considered the opposition, or enemy - so that you cannot interfere. When the public does not know what the government or the CIA is doing, it cannot voice its approval or disapproval of their actions. In fact, they can even lie to your about what they are doing or have done, and you will not know it. As for the second advantage, despite frequent suggestion that the CIA is a rogue elephant, the truth is that the agency functions at the direction of and in response to the office of the president. All of its major clandestine operations are carried out with the direct approval of or on direct orders from the White House. The CIA is a secret tool of the president - every president. And every president since Truman has lied to the American people in order to protect the agency. When lies have failed, it has been the duty of the CIA to take the blame for the president, thus protecting him. This is known in the business as "plausible denial." The CIA, functioning as a secret instrument of the U.S. government and the presidency, has long misused and abused history and continues to do so."
- Victor Marchetti, Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History

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George Carlin:

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehous

Memorable quotes for
Looker (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/quotes

"John Reston: Television can control public opinion more effectively than armies of secret police, because television is entirely voluntary. The American government forces our children to attend school, but nobody forces them to watch T.V. Americans of all ages *submit* to television. Television is the American ideal. Persuasion without coercion. Nobody makes us watch. Who could have predicted that a *free* people would voluntarily spend one fifth of their lives sitting in front of a *box* with pictures? Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment. And the average American now spends more than one and a half years of his life just watching television commercials. Fifty minutes, every day of his life, watching commercials. Now, that's power."

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"The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in the United States, it's funded by corporations and corporations they only want things to happen that will make people want to buy stuff. So whatever that is, then that is considered okay and good, but that doesn't necessarily mean it really serves people's thinking - it can stupify and make not very good things happen."
- Crispin Glover: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/bio

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"It's only logical to assume that conspiracies are everywhere, because that's what people do. They conspire. If you can't get the message, get the man." - Mel Gibson (from an interview)

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey, CIA Director

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"The real reason for the official secrecy, in most instances, is not to keep the opposition (the CIA's euphemistic term for the enemy) from knowing what is going on; the enemy usually does know. The basic reason for governmental secrecy is to keep you, the American public, from knowing - for you, too, are considered the opposition, or enemy - so that you cannot interfere. When the public does not know what the government or the CIA is doing, it cannot voice its approval or disapproval of their actions. In fact, they can even lie to your about what they are doing or have done, and you will not know it. As for the second advantage, despite frequent suggestion that the CIA is a rogue elephant, the truth is that the agency functions at the direction of and in response to the office of the president. All of its major clandestine operations are carried out with the direct approval of or on direct orders from the White House. The CIA is a secret tool of the president - every president. And every president since Truman has lied to the American people in order to protect the agency. When lies have failed, it has been the duty of the CIA to take the blame for the president, thus protecting him. This is known in the business as "plausible denial." The CIA, functioning as a secret instrument of the U.S. government and the presidency, has long misused and abused history and continues to do so."
- Victor Marchetti, Propaganda and Disinformation: How the CIA Manufactures History

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George Carlin:

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehous

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

Unfortunately it's much worse, surgeon with a fetish: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1959332/

I wish, but they discarded Firefly. Some stuff makes it through. I just watched The Man From Earth[IMDB] and that is excellent science fiction, but nothing blows up in that movie.

Danny Noonan: I planned to go to law school after I graduated, but it looks like my folks won't have enough money to put me through college.
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
Lacey Underall: [to Danny] Nice try.

The economic point here is that, when we let government sodomize markets, mis-allocation of resources occurs.
Cranking out graduates with degrees in Recreational Whining is fine for grievance-group-based politics, but suck-tacular in general. See Instapundit

But they did make a fairly historically accurate version. So accurate that Noah Wyle came on stage as Jobs at MacWorld one year.

And Anthony Micheal Hall was eerily good at playing Bill Gates. John DiMaggio (Bender from Futurama) was exactly like Ballmer.

Even Wozniak thought it was fairly accurate."

It was a great movie. I recommend everyone on here see it. But it's a $5 million made-for-tv movie. Not a $too_much attempt to make "The Social Network" with Jobs.

Since when is Hollywood historically accurate? They added explosions in a Robin Hood movie and a hot air ballon in a movie about the three musketeers.

Yeah, Abraham Lincoln was a vampire hunter?!? I had no idea until I drank the Kool-Aid that is Hollywood's historical accuracy.

--Watching "Silent Running" when I was in the hospital as a kid did the same thing to me. :-\

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

Star Trek IV was pretty good as well.

El mariachi was done on an estimated budget of $7000, and is arguably better than either of its sequels (Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico).

Yep. Another filmmaker rode on Lucas's coattails and made a sci-fi remake of "The Seven Samurai."

The filmmaker was Roger Corman, and the film was Battle Beyond the Stars

The AC comment has merit. I see the novellas "By His Bootstraps" (Anson McDonald~Robert Heinlein) and Henry Hasse's "He Who Shrank" (1936) deal with, respectively, time travel and dimensionality in original ways, not as a cheap shot but as a thoroughly thought out, mind bending, scrape the stars with your mind kind of story.
He Who Shrank was immortalized poorly in the Incredible Shrinking Man movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050539/ but never approached Hasse's stunning conclusion. That is a property (in the Hollywood sense) that has never been explored.
There are a lot of concepts out there that only the imagination can create and understand, way beyond those concepts foisted upon us by Sci-Fi writers who distinctly lack imagination.

Lucas should have sold BEFORE the prequels. Hard to believe he made those classics. Some mentor must have helped Lucas in the past and died a few decades ago...

Gary Kurtz and Larry Kasdan are still very much alive, he just never worked with them again because they occasionally disagreed with him.

Lucas should have sold BEFORE the prequels. Hard to believe he made those classics. Some mentor must have helped Lucas in the past and died a few decades ago...

Gary Kurtz and Larry Kasdan are still very much alive, he just never worked with them again because they occasionally disagreed with him.

star wars [episode iv: a new hope] is definitely kurosawa's , in space.

Yeah, we should just stop making the world a better place, because there's no way in hell that'll ever happen.

In fact, we should just curl up and die right now.

Naw. Just do a Snake Plissken and hit the reset button.

It's a damn shame you posted AC. I for one would like to know the person that so brilliantly (possibly accidentally) quoted one of the creepiest movies ever made.

Freaks

Of course, you could get around those astronomical per-minute costs using nothing more than a whistle from a box of Cap'n Crunch. But doing so could be fairly risky. :)

But yeah, anyone who thinks AT&T used to be a benevolent monopoly really needs to see the movie The President's Analyst with James Coburn. Yes, that was an over-the-top parody, but man did it ring true* at the time!

* Pun intended.

First prize is a Cadillac Eldorado
Second prize is a set of steak knives
Third prize is "you're fired."

Pam (Shelley Duvall): Sex with you is really a Kafka-esque experience.
Alvy Singer (Woody Allen): Oh. Thank you.
Pam: I mean that as a compliment.

I've seen Encino Man and he was certainly smarter than the guy who found him.

That fiery holocaust which destroys humanity prominently features a red dragon with seven heads and seven crowns on his heads. I must not have been paying enough attention to the news and missed the day when science provided us with that.

Yeah, about 4 years ago.

Obi-Wan Kenobi foretold this in 1951 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044876/

Maybe the hot tub would turn into a time machine

In that series, a legal case was withdrawn after it was revealed that the Hubots in question had illegal after-market firmwares installed.

LOL ;p

I was wasted drunk when I saw the Doommovie in the theater. So I survived. The Rock for some reason also has a calming effect for me in movies. Its the one thing they got right.

Because it is a public company run for the good off all shareholders – and private equity buyouts is the one great defense against a complacent management or minority shareholder.

What if a firm will not be run for the benefit of the shareholder. Maybe the founding family likes the prestige and perks of “owning” a business. Maybe the CEO likes running a big firm – easier to justify the private jet. What are you to do then? Or, take the fillip argument. Dell right now trades at $12.50. Buyout firm offers $20 and you want to take it. But Michael Dell puts his foot down and says no – I want to stay on as CEO – what are you to do?

So the board must seriously consider all proposals but in front of it. Read up on Barbarians at the Gate. Or sit down and watch “Other’s People Money” – it’s fiction – but it’s a good start. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102609/

The books are not canon. Canon has only ever been what was in the movies or maybe on the Clone Wars TV series.

... Which sucks, because it means that the Star Wars Holiday Special is canon, while Grand Admiral Thrawn is not.

When I was twelve, I helped my daddy set up an email server in our basement because some fool in China compromised a few diplomats' Gmail accounts. Well, this thing could compromise a coupla hundred accounts in Washington and New York and no one would know anything about it till it was all over.

The parent is probably referring to this movie.

First, computers are expensive – or at least the rendering farms that ILM and Pixar uses. Second – and more importantly - CGI is expensive not because of the computers, but because of skilled artists.

And when we no longer need real actors – what do we have? Films generated by optimized algorithms – never having been touched by human hands?

I think it is going to be a very long time before computers supplement humans and garages can push out the majors. Look, I am amazed at what small indies can do now. Monsters is a great example – made for 800k http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470827/ Small shops can do an excellent level of quality if they narrowly focus their work.

Let’s say you wanted to do your own version of LotR can you tell computer to drop in 10,000 Orcs? Maybe – if you were going to use the generic Orc. But you probably wouldn’t want to do that – too much like paint by numbers – it would have the look and feel of the dozens of other fan flicks out there. And that is just one detail of thousands.

Blockbusters are going to want to fashion their own unique style which for the foreseeable future will take a lot of talented (and very expensive artists)