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This is an OUTSTANDING piece of educational 'infotainment'!

BETTER than the classic Powers of Ten

I just burned my copy of Pretty Baby (1978) and the entire first season of Glee.

Actually I believe Pretty Baby (1978) with Brooke Shields and Bad Lieutenant (1992 with Harvey Keitel) at least one scene must be cut to be shown in English speaking Canada AFAIK. In Bad Lieutenant it's the scene involving Keitel's character and two teenage girls, whom he demands to simulate fellatio and while he masturbates in front of them (the girls are presuming 16 or younger as the driver doesn't have a license).

Canadian provinces each have their own video / movie rating boards (several copy Ontario's decisions de facto IIRC), but Canadian law is theoretically more aggressive about what is or can be classified as child pornography. Theoretically, an adult actress dressed in a school girl uniform or as a high school / college cheerleader could be "construed" as child pornography as the actress' character is either an adult playing dress-up or an adult actress pretending to be an underage child in a sexual act.

Though Canadian Atom Egoyan's 1994 film Exotica which the leading female character is often seen as dancer who dresses up as a schoolgirl, has not been censored in Canada to date AFAIK. I believe the club it was filmed at is actually called Exotica.

One of the worst Canadian censor board decisions I remember was the initial ban of Bastard Out of Carolina 1996, featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh even after it had made a splash at Cannes I think it was, by the Ontario Film Review Board.

Canada also had a long running battle between the government (Customs Canada at the beginning) and a lesbian bookstore that had its materials repeatedly seized, even after winning a Supreme Court of Canada decision, that Customs was being discriminatory in censoring material (mostly written, some video from what I remember) at the US-Canada boarder. In fact mostly from a single border crossing in Alberta if I remember correctly. Alberta being Canada's answer to Texas.

I just burned my copy of Pretty Baby (1978) and the entire first season of Glee.

Actually I believe Pretty Baby (1978) with Brooke Shields and Bad Lieutenant (1992 with Harvey Keitel) at least one scene must be cut to be shown in English speaking Canada AFAIK. In Bad Lieutenant it's the scene involving Keitel's character and two teenage girls, whom he demands to simulate fellatio and while he masturbates in front of them (the girls are presuming 16 or younger as the driver doesn't have a license).

Canadian provinces each have their own video / movie rating boards (several copy Ontario's decisions de facto IIRC), but Canadian law is theoretically more aggressive about what is or can be classified as child pornography. Theoretically, an adult actress dressed in a school girl uniform or as a high school / college cheerleader could be "construed" as child pornography as the actress' character is either an adult playing dress-up or an adult actress pretending to be an underage child in a sexual act.

Though Canadian Atom Egoyan's 1994 film Exotica which the leading female character is often seen as dancer who dresses up as a schoolgirl, has not been censored in Canada to date AFAIK. I believe the club it was filmed at is actually called Exotica.

One of the worst Canadian censor board decisions I remember was the initial ban of Bastard Out of Carolina 1996, featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh even after it had made a splash at Cannes I think it was, by the Ontario Film Review Board.

Canada also had a long running battle between the government (Customs Canada at the beginning) and a lesbian bookstore that had its materials repeatedly seized, even after winning a Supreme Court of Canada decision, that Customs was being discriminatory in censoring material (mostly written, some video from what I remember) at the US-Canada boarder. In fact mostly from a single border crossing in Alberta if I remember correctly. Alberta being Canada's answer to Texas.

I just burned my copy of Pretty Baby (1978) and the entire first season of Glee.

Actually I believe Pretty Baby (1978) with Brooke Shields and Bad Lieutenant (1992 with Harvey Keitel) at least one scene must be cut to be shown in English speaking Canada AFAIK. In Bad Lieutenant it's the scene involving Keitel's character and two teenage girls, whom he demands to simulate fellatio and while he masturbates in front of them (the girls are presuming 16 or younger as the driver doesn't have a license).

Canadian provinces each have their own video / movie rating boards (several copy Ontario's decisions de facto IIRC), but Canadian law is theoretically more aggressive about what is or can be classified as child pornography. Theoretically, an adult actress dressed in a school girl uniform or as a high school / college cheerleader could be "construed" as child pornography as the actress' character is either an adult playing dress-up or an adult actress pretending to be an underage child in a sexual act.

Though Canadian Atom Egoyan's 1994 film Exotica which the leading female character is often seen as dancer who dresses up as a schoolgirl, has not been censored in Canada to date AFAIK. I believe the club it was filmed at is actually called Exotica.

One of the worst Canadian censor board decisions I remember was the initial ban of Bastard Out of Carolina 1996, featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh even after it had made a splash at Cannes I think it was, by the Ontario Film Review Board.

Canada also had a long running battle between the government (Customs Canada at the beginning) and a lesbian bookstore that had its materials repeatedly seized, even after winning a Supreme Court of Canada decision, that Customs was being discriminatory in censoring material (mostly written, some video from what I remember) at the US-Canada boarder. In fact mostly from a single border crossing in Alberta if I remember correctly. Alberta being Canada's answer to Texas.

I just burned my copy of Pretty Baby (1978) and the entire first season of Glee.

Actually I believe Pretty Baby (1978) with Brooke Shields and Bad Lieutenant (1992 with Harvey Keitel) at least one scene must be cut to be shown in English speaking Canada AFAIK. In Bad Lieutenant it's the scene involving Keitel's character and two teenage girls, whom he demands to simulate fellatio and while he masturbates in front of them (the girls are presuming 16 or younger as the driver doesn't have a license).

Canadian provinces each have their own video / movie rating boards (several copy Ontario's decisions de facto IIRC), but Canadian law is theoretically more aggressive about what is or can be classified as child pornography. Theoretically, an adult actress dressed in a school girl uniform or as a high school / college cheerleader could be "construed" as child pornography as the actress' character is either an adult playing dress-up or an adult actress pretending to be an underage child in a sexual act.

Though Canadian Atom Egoyan's 1994 film Exotica which the leading female character is often seen as dancer who dresses up as a schoolgirl, has not been censored in Canada to date AFAIK. I believe the club it was filmed at is actually called Exotica.

One of the worst Canadian censor board decisions I remember was the initial ban of Bastard Out of Carolina 1996, featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh even after it had made a splash at Cannes I think it was, by the Ontario Film Review Board.

Canada also had a long running battle between the government (Customs Canada at the beginning) and a lesbian bookstore that had its materials repeatedly seized, even after winning a Supreme Court of Canada decision, that Customs was being discriminatory in censoring material (mostly written, some video from what I remember) at the US-Canada boarder. In fact mostly from a single border crossing in Alberta if I remember correctly. Alberta being Canada's answer to Texas.

Maybe you could hire J.S.G. Boggs to create your notes. What you don't want to do, however, is copy U.S. currency, because that can get you thrown in the slammer.

Coincidentally, we recently watched The Man Who Copied, which was a pretty good film with a slow start. You might enjoy it.

You're thinking of Mr. 880

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042742/

It's a movie.

Oh my God! It's happening. The CHUDs are here! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087015/

Getting caught in a swarm of thrashing sharp dental structures would make a good horror film.

Yup, coming to a theater near you April 19.

Or a Bible

Now get off my lawn!

America cannot really call itself "The Land of the Free" anymore.

Damn right. "Land of the free" was released in 2012 and is copyrighted. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1988690/
  You will go to jail, pirate.

OK, so he had plausible deniability because all he really told the kid was that young blond-hared blue-eyed boys like he are prime rape-meat for ethnic prison gangs. The kid got "scared straight to hell.

Someone did!

Might this be just a publicity stunt to promote, for example, a new "Rise of The Blob" movie?

If so, it's just another lame attempt to cash in on prior art, rather than coming up with something original.

It is a film plot, with a slight difference.

Catch Me If You Can is the dramatisation of the story of Frank Abignale Jr, who forged cheques and socially engineered his way into airline cockpits, hospital wards as a doctor, and even law courts as a barrister. Aside from starting point (assisting organised crime for this guy, grand larceny for Mr Abignale) the story is the same; Get caught, do some time, become a high paid consultant for TLAs and the private sector.

If you want to get an idea of what it would be like to be buried alive, watch Buried... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462758/

/me pops in Time Masters and weeps... :(

Needed moderation:

-1: ...What?

FYI... It's a "That '70s Show" reference.

Separate, boring they are.

Together, one good movie it would be.

Nah, just cut all three movies together as one. I think the best cut would be about 136 minutes long.

Oh, really?

His post-Titanic dives were for two underwater documentaries, Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep, during which he also developed his 3D camera technology. He also did some TV in there too (Dark Angel and a couple other things). People make it sound like he was on vacation between Titanic and Avatar, but he has 5 directing credits during that period and advanced the state of the art for 3D, not to mention underwater exploration and filming. In between writing & directing the 2 highest grossing films of all time... not too shabby. Anyway, your characterization of him as a rich layabout "kicking back" is pretty off base. If anything he's obsessively driven.

If his dives had any research relevance to Avatar, it may have been for flora & fauna inspiration. Also, it's been reported that Avatar 2 will be largely underwater.

His post-Titanic dives were for two underwater documentaries, Ghosts of the Abyss and Aliens of the Deep, during which he also developed his 3D camera technology. He also did some TV in there too (Dark Angel and a couple other things). People make it sound like he was on vacation between Titanic and Avatar, but he has 5 directing credits during that period and advanced the state of the art for 3D, not to mention underwater exploration and filming. In between writing & directing the 2 highest grossing films of all time... not too shabby. Anyway, your characterization of him as a rich layabout "kicking back" is pretty off base. If anything he's obsessively driven.

If his dives had any research relevance to Avatar, it may have been for flora & fauna inspiration. Also, it's been reported that Avatar 2 will be largely underwater.

Did any one think of the fuzzy bunnies from One Crazy Summer ? They were really soft and cuddly till they KILL YOU!!

Nice movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825163/

So much like Total Recall P. K. Dick really did have a direct line on the future.

This does not apply to Islamic states... wiping out the Jews.

Wow - just... wow. This is an arrogant, ignorant and xenophobic rant, full of half-baked stereotypes and generalizations, all based on a broad and ignorant stereotype that has led to sporadic wars between Christian and Muslim cultures for over a millenium.

I suggest that you rent the movie Persepolis and watch it. It may remind you that 99.9% of the people living in Iran are not an "Islamic state". Instead, they're people just like us, with a nutjob regime that they need to get rid of by themselves. (I think we've proven without a doubt (again - until the next generation has forgotten our learned lessons) that nation building and preemptive strikes to change regimes is nothing more than a trillion dollar waste of resources and human lives.)

Malkovich. Malkovich? Malkovich Malkovich!

The conclusion of that XKCD chart always makes me think of that movie, Being John Malkovich . Fun, crazy-ass film.

Fantasy:
The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
Temeraire series by Naomi Novik.
Anita Blake books up to Obsidian Butterfly, depending on your personal "Squick" factor.
Dark Jewels series by Anne Bishop.
Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman.
Taltos series by Steven Brust.
Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce.
Pit Dragon trilogy by Jane Yolen.
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick.
Light and Shadows series by Janny Wurts.
The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny.
Vampire$ by John Steakley.
Young Wizards series by Diane Duane.
A Song of Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin.
I am Legend by Richard Matheson.

Science Fiction:
A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky, The Children of the Sky by Vernor Vinge.
Downbelow Station and Cyteen, especially, of the Company Wars series by C.J. Cherryh.
Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh.
Xenogenesis Series by Octavia E. Butler.
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein.
Old Man's War series by John Scalzi.
The Gap Into Conflict series by Stephen Donaldson.
War Against the Chtorr series by David Gerrold.
Draka! series by S.M. Stirling.
Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, The Big U, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
The Mote in God's Eye and The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold.
World War Z by Max Brooks.
Culture Series by Iain M. Banks.
Uplift series by David Brin.
Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. This became a movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120004/
Lensman series by E.E. "Doc" Smith.
Crystal Singer series by Anne McCaffrey.
Accelerando, The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross.
Vang series by Christopher Rowley.

I thought you may have been pointing to this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1205489/quotes?qt0501237

Orlando Furioso, by Ludovico Ariosto written in the Renaissance in 1516 in Italian, there are modern English translations and modern retellings
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086074/ for the movie, very visual
Also, an opera by Vivaldi
this is a fantasy retelling of the fictional account of Charlemagne's invasion of Spain, which was fictionalised as in Chason de Roland. So even by the 16th century it was many layers of retelling.

Not a forgotten novel as it has been done as a movie TWICE
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/ - Gregory Peck, Ava Gardiner, Fred Astaire
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/ - Rachel Ward, Bryan Browne

Not a forgotten novel as it has been done as a movie TWICE
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/ - Gregory Peck, Ava Gardiner, Fred Astaire
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219224/ - Rachel Ward, Bryan Browne

Whatever we do, don't let Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser find out about this, or they'll be making another over-financed, poorly-written, badly-acted, scientifically-laughable movie about it. Oh, phew, Michael Bay already beat them to it.

Whatever we do, don't let Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser find out about this, or they'll be making another over-financed, poorly-written, badly-acted, scientifically-laughable movie about it. Oh, phew, Michael Bay already beat them to it.

Whatever we do, don't let Roland Emmerich and Harald Kloser find out about this, or they'll be making another over-financed, poorly-written, badly-acted, scientifically-laughable movie about it. Oh, phew, Michael Bay already beat them to it.

Didn't SyFy channel do one of their made-for-tv miniseries movies based on that. River World?

The more I wish Gates would have pissed on Jobs back in 1997........

That was in the other Pirates of Silicon Valley movie.

It's never too late. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0186566/

Matt Dillon, desperate after chasing unsuccessfully mary in Something about Mary radically changed jobs and started to study computer science...

Matt Dillon and Cameron Diaz had been dating for three years prior to "There's Something About Mary", but split up shortly thereafter. So, maybe, not totally unsuccessful [from a certain point of view--Obiwan] ...

Matt Dillon, desperate after chasing unsuccessfully mary in Something about Mary radically changed jobs and started to study computer science...

Matt Dillon and Cameron Diaz had been dating for three years prior to "There's Something About Mary", but split up shortly thereafter. So, maybe, not totally unsuccessful [from a certain point of view--Obiwan] ...

Matt Dillon, desperate after chasing unsuccessfully mary in Something about Mary radically changed jobs and started to study computer science...

Matt Dillon, desperate after chasing unsuccessfully mary in Something about Mary radically changed jobs and started to study computer science...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/ -- this is a documentary future that was found a few years ago that will show you where we as a race are headed...

You should study it

Well, true that might be, democratic elections are the only way to get the representative you deserve. It might not be the
best one but that doesn't seem to be the matter anymore anyway.

Thinking too much about this bring images from the movie idiocracy to mind...

I've seen this before.

We are all DOOMED!

Not John Wayne. It's Dean Wormer (played by John Vernon) in Animal House. He's admonishing Flounder (Stephen Furst).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/quotes

I think that the person with the record of longest time without sleep was a DJ. They used to do these sleep deprivation contests all the time back in the day. There was even an episode of the Dick van Dyke show based on it.

...and David Lightman for declining the suggestion to play chess.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

Am I the only one who read this article and immediately started humming "Blame Canada"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158983/