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Id prefer to underclock, extend the usage

Remember what the Kurgon said in Highlander - "It's better to burn out than to fade away!"

I was talking about something else ("from the 70's" in my post should have tipped you off). And an unaired pilot just means that the networks didn't like it, not that human beings didn't like it. Still, I won't comment on the quality of it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1740828/combined --such a flop that the pilot was never aired.

Don't try to swallow the moon, though. It'll all dissolve, see, and the moonbeams will shoot out your fingers and toes and the ends of your hair. Then Philips will sue you for patent infringment and you'll end up back where you started.

I think Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, and Albert Hacket & Frances Goodrich will sue first.

They've tried it many times and famously in the documentary Waiting for Superman

Sadly it doesn't change even with large incentives as the Teachers unions blocked it.

This documentary pretty much summed all that up: Waiting for Superman

Shoot Em Up was kind of in this vein, and a lot of fun

One reason I don't see addressed below : Licensing rights.

Marvel Studios sold off the rights to the Spiderman movies to Sony back in the late 90s (before Marvel had their own movie production studio) with a "Use it or lose it" clause. Basically, Sony has to keep the franchise active, or control reverts back to Marvel. And Sony really doesn't want that, especially with what I'm going to outline below. So in the meantime, Sony grabs up some cheaper actors*, particularly in the lead role, a no-name director who won't give any lip, and churns out this quick flick to make sure they get to keep their rights.

Consider what Marvel Studios has been up to recently, and that's been in the public eye since Iron Man 1 back in '08. Also remember the minor spoiler cameo during the credits of Avengers. In the comics, that particular villain sparked a multi-series cross over, bringing together Avengers, a few XMen, Spiderman, 75% of the Fantastic Four. With all that in your mind, is there any doubt that Sony wants to make extra sure they keep complete control over Spiderman's movie rights? Marvel's probably going to want him back pretty soon, and Sony will require a LOT of money to negotiate the return of rights. They're certainly not going to let the rights lapse, and they're probably not going to spend a lot of money or effort on a franchise that they're planning on selling.

*I dig Emma Stone as much as the next guy, but a big-name star she isn't. Likewise Martin Sheen and Sally Field are a bit past their prime, and certainly aren't too expensive for background roles. Denis Leary is somewhat recognizable for the Fireman show, but the other 80% of his work in the past decade has been Ice Age and it's runty offshoots. It's like Sony was aiming for recognizable names, to help sell it, but not TOO recognizable, because we don't want to pay them too much.

The Expendables 2 is coming out later this year.

Got a link?
IMDB does not even have a production page up for a sequel. There was a video game released shortly after the movie though.

Last thing anyone from Disney/Pixar have said seems to be from late '11, saying they will make one when they have a good story.

http://www.imdb.com/find?q=Incredibles&s=all

Brandon's Mom: Where are you going with those fireworks?
Brandon: Well, the Protector got super-accelerated coming out of the black hole, and it, like, nailed the atmosphere at Mach 15, which, you guys know, is pretty unstable, obviously, so we're gonna help Laredo guide it on the vox ultra-frequency carrier and use Roman candles for visual confirmation.
Brandon's Mom: Uh, all right, dinner's at seven.
[Brandon exits. Mom turns to a dubious Dad]
Brandon's Mom: Well, he's outside.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177789/quotes?qt=qt0424440

Violence is one possible (and probably the most common) symptom of repressed sexuality!!

Finally the reason for wars had been discovered. That includes wars against oppressors and occupiers, apparently. Should we send sex toys to Syria?

In reality most of simulated violence is necessary, justified violence that the player performs to protect his people. This rule is true from Wolfenstein 3D to Doom to Resistance and Halo. The player there is shown as a good guy, not as a monster. Deus Ex does the same, though the player has to make a few choices along the way.

The rule is not universal; there are games like Postal 2 or GTA where violence is either pointless or outright criminal. Those games give a player a chance to look at things from the other side of the law. And as the player finds out soon enough, it's not a walk in the park. Still, in Postal 2 you can start out peacefully and pay for the milk with cash that is so conveniently dispensed to you by the nearest ATM. But then your AI enemies show up ... and suddenly you are lawfully defending your hide; you are not a psycho aggressor anymore (if you ever played in that role at all.)

Violent games - and books, and shows, and movies - exist simply because violence is genetically programmed into humans. The creature at the top of the food chain got there not because he was nice to saber-toothed tigers. Violence was the necessary survival trait. Today it still may be necessary, depending on where you live.

Is it possible to abandon violence completely? Yes. But then someone must *guarantee* that your life and your well-being will be protected. There is no entity on this planet, except you, who would even try to do that. It is something that only a brain implant can guarantee; and people with those implants will not be quite humans anymore. They will be ... better? worse? Who knows. But they surely won't lift a finger when another batch of The Fithp show up and stomp us into the ground. A single man who somehow frees himself from the control of the implant will have a 100% chance to become the greatest dictator in the history of the planet (see Demolition Man for a possibility like that.)

Or everyone could read the following quote from Good Will Hunting.

That or mind control worms that make you kill your friends.

The arctic, or the antarctic? In the arctic, you have to ancient spirits called "Wendigo" killing you. In the antarctic, however, that's not a problem, but instead you have to worry about shape-shifting aliensattacking you and using your body to attack your coworkers and friends.

The moral of the story: Don't put milk in your sealed chest!

It's fine to put milk in the sealed chest, just make sure to pack it in Foreverware!

If the Hermes prototype's a-rockin don't come a-knockin?

Oh...and I believe Hollywood has already covered this particular angle, AKA Andy Griffith in SPACE

The war on drugs, as well as all other wars, only profit the profiteers. The wars are a lost cause. The first casualties in any conflict are truth and innocence.

Michael Douglas, in his role as Judge Robert Wakefield in the film Traffic , said it best:

"If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don't know how you wage war on your own family."

The war of aggression against the Southern independence shows you how. The NAZI youth turning in their own parents shows you how. Pol Pot was really good at it.

Not sure whether you're joking. I know I was: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667889/

Bert

Whuh...? WTF does a film about hip-hop have to do with plate tectonics?

Replace 'character' with 'note' and it's clear subjects were tortured with Philip Glass for 80 hours and won't soon forget.

I notice the study didn't report on how many subjects jumped out the window afterward.

I thought they were Lost in Space. And, as I recall, the series never did come to any sort of adequate closure.

Actually, he has a minor acting career. It's nothing to get hugely excited about yet, but he's young.

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Curtis_(actor)
IMDB link: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1120236/

So, yeah, you can dream of crack-addicted homeless people all you want, but apparently, that ain't him.

The war on drugs, as well as all other wars, only profit the profiteers. The wars are a lost cause. The first casualties in any conflict are truth and innocence.

Michael Douglas, in his role as Judge Robert Wakefield in the film Traffic , said it best:

"If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don't know how you wage war on your own family."

Very effectively, as a matter of fact.

The war on drugs, as well as all other wars, only profit the profiteers. The wars are a lost cause. The first casualties in any conflict are truth and innocence.

Michael Douglas, in his role as Judge Robert Wakefield in the film Traffic , said it best:

"If there is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don't know how you wage war on your own family."

Are you sure you've met any married people, or are they all the "married in Vegas after meeting on a drunk weekend" variety?

Among my school friends (who are more or less a random sample) all who married had at least one divorce. Why would anyone want to go through this mess? A divorce can also ruin you financially - either as a one-time hit, or as decade-long shackles of child support. The quote from "True Lies" is actually very wise.

By far the majority are happy in their marriage - or present a good appearance of being so

The latter. As one married person told me, "At first it's difficult but then you get used to it."

Actually, I was thinking of the Robin Williams line from Good Morning, Vietnam.

You beat me to it! I still like the movie version http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/

Damn! You're right! Where's Arthur C. Clarke when you need him...

He's dead in his grave, presumably laughing at what they did to Asimov.

We need more American backdoors!

I guess the best example of this thought process is in the wonderful film "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death": (Ford Maddox) Dr. Hunt, 98 percent of the avocadoes produced in the United States come from the state of California. Most of these come from a jungle area that spreads from Bakersfield to the Mexican border: the Avocado Belt. (Margo Hunt) I'm aware of that. What does it have to do with me? (Col. Mattel) Miss Hunt, maybe you don't get the point. Avocadoes are vital to this nation's security interests. The Communists are already in control of Nicaragua and Guatemala and El Salvador, strife with revolution. California is the last secure supply of avocadoes in the free world! We're on the verge of a major Avocado Gap with the Soviet Union.

FNORDs are rather silly when you start realizing they are there.

I agree that the impact of 3D in live action movies is much less, but it's still more interesting than plain old 2D movies.

Yeah right. Take a look at the IMDB top 20 rated films and check out how many of these interesting films are in 3D. That's right: none at all. Three of them aren't even in colour. What makes a film interesting has nothing to do with the techno-wizardry that went in to making it and everything to do with plot and characterisation.

Similar reasoning has revealed that rich people also hate waiting in line at the bank, filing their taxes, and telemarketers. In fact, rich people are a lot like you and I—it's just that they're the ones who will most likely be the first adopters of the cars being discussed.

But wow, what a summary. Not only did it start with a bizarre rhetorical question, it answered it, with a solution that was obvious to anyone who had ever seen Will Smith chase robots around for two hours! Now all we have left to discuss are minutiae like whether rich people enjoy sleeping in as much as everyone else. Bravo, submitter.

...maybe I should lay off the David Mitchell rants.

The first rule of the free app hack is that YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT THE FREE APP HACK.

I thought the first rule would have been "if you don't want to pay for something it doesn't give you the right to take it".

It was a joke, I think you missed the reference.

Mangled movie quote. Frito Bendeho got his Law Degree at Costco. He couldn't believe it himself. His dad had to pull some strings...

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

andy

Tought that the biggest exports of Iceland were this ones. But it depends a lot of the month of the year.

The first thing that came to mind was a classic Cold War movie called Seven Days in May (1964). There was a shadowy group within the Pentagon called ECOMCON. Watched the movie and see if any parallels jump out at you.

A great movie. Kirk Douglas is fabulous in that one. But I don't see any parallels.

The movie details a *secret* military coup plot in the US, with the military seizing the communications infrastructure through subterfuge during a military preparedness mobilization. How does preparing a report on how to make government communications more secure and survivable compare? Not at all IMHO.

The only parallel I really see is a group of right wing crazies trying to force the president out of office because they don't like his policies.

The first thing that came to mind was a classic Cold War movie called Seven Days in May (1964). There was a shadowy group within the Pentagon called ECOMCON. Watched the movie and see if any parallels jump out at you.

not the only spoof http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074205/

Wow someone made a really Big Bus!!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075909/ Imagination.

For the younger among us The Big Bus

heh, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074205/

They tried this in the movies, and IT DIDN'T WORK!!!

Moon (2009 Movie with Sam Rockwell)

Comparing Win8 to ME or Vista is unfair to Win8.

Hence my referencing Microsoft Bob. Much like Metro, Bob is an unnecessary UI that is purposely designed to be idiot friendly.

Hopefully this will not be the end of civilization.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0560706/

Surrogates covered the side-effects of such a development.

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello is a pretty good take on steampunk.

Only wizards and mad scientists fly by car.

Except for repo men who fly Chevy Malibus.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114/plotsummary

They made an inertia free passenger type vehicle. This stuff always reminds me of that :)

You sure about that?

You sure about that?