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That's as absurd as training drillers to be Astronauts.

LOL, WUT?

hmm. isn't Corporate America is much more like this nowadays:

Bob Slydell: You see, what we're actually trying to do here is, we're trying to get a feel for how people spend their day at work... so, if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
Bob Slydell: Great.
Peter Gibbons: Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour.
Bob Porter: Da-uh? Space out?
Peter Gibbons: Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.

They have a movie about his. If you havent seen it, rent/download Ghost Dog : The way of the samurai. One of my best. Main guy steals Lexus with electro device he built himself.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/

So then they'll sue... God.

Billy Connolly calls prior art

Coke bottles, OK. At least they are worth a few cents for returns.

iPads, no. Not unless they've been rooted and we can load something useful.

The article in the Toronto Review of Books has at least three spelling errors and typos, including the common error "free reign" instead of "free rein". (That's supposed to be a horse term.) The body text is in a sans-serif font, while the headings are in a serif font. The body leading is huge, almost double-spaced. This publication is in no position to talk about layout. Besides, how much good layout can you do on a tiny screen that updates slowly?

As for the eBook Alice, colorizing the Tenniel illustrations is bad enough, and animating them is just tacky. What next, 3D? If you want a good version of Alice, get The Annotated Alice, which is not currently available as an eBook and would look terrible on the tiny screen.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105629/ Forward thinking

When asked to choose: "R or D?" it's sort of akin to a polite rapist asking you: "Which hole?"

Your comment brings a whole new perspective to South Park's Giant Douche vs. Turd Sandwich election.

According to this http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1667889/

A new Total Recall movie is in the works. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386703/

$2000/yr?

Well, that's a bit more than one month's rent of a 1 bedroom apartment in SF, NYC, or DC. Not sure what you'd do for housing for the other 11 months, nor what you'd do for food, clothing, transportation, or just about anything else. I spend $2000/yr in gasoline. There was a time where I spent $2000/yr at Starbucks (a habit I've since kicked to the curb). That $163/month would pay for about 3/4 of a trip to the grocery store for two weeks worth of food.

To give you a middle-of-the-road idea of how things are currently in the US, $30,000 gross annual salary is enough for one (maybe two if you stretch it) people to live in an ok apartment (nothing fancy, not a house unless you're in the middle of nowhere), feed yourself somewhat decent food (probably Safeway specials, certainly not fresh, locally grown, organic stuff), get yourself back and forth to work everyday in an ok (likely used, but running-alright car), and put ok (nothing fancy or name-brand) clothes on your back. At $50,000/yr, you can have a decent apartment or small house in an ok to decent area, feed yourself slightly healthier stuff, have a slightly newer and more reliable vehicle for transportation, and probably have a kid enjoy those things as well.

Now, some people survive (I wouldn't call it "living") on less than that. Assuming you have a wife and kid and you're making $15,000/yr, you're living in a slum or government-subsidized dump in the middle of gangland, living off the McDonald's dollar menu for your 1-2 meals a day (though your kid might actually get 3 meals a day when their drug infested hellhole of an inner city public "school" (gang recruitment complex) is in session), likely walking or taking the bus (when you can afford it and if a bus route exists where you are) to most places, and pretty much are in a miserable pile of shit every single day of your life. You and your family manage to survive at this level of income only by the grace of a steady flow of local, state, and Federal tax dollars providing support for some/most of your extremely basic shelter and food needs and your child likely never receives the tools to break out of this cycle of poverty.

So how bad would things have to be for US citizens to live off $163/month? I invite you to explore that question while watching the classic Mel Gibson film "Mad Max". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079501/

I think you'll find an accurate representation of the kind of society you would witness if average folks in the US were ever forced to exist at that income level.

I don't really know too much about summer camps. They're not such a big thing in my country, and I imagine them to be something like Meatballs.

But at your age, as hard as it is, I wonder if you're better off at a normal camp with sports and activities. Now non-nerds are usually already developed at these things by the time the start highschool, so if you're not sporty it might feel hard. But you're still young enough that no-one will care if you're no good, and it's much easier to learn in your teens than in your 20s or 30s.

We need sports quite often in life. From the impromptu chucking a ball around, to saying "yes" when your company starts a soccer team, to general fitness and attractiveness. You don't need to become a jock, but I'm talking learning rules of sport, getting better at throwing, catching, running. If you're useless, I think you'll be surprised that most other kids (after initially teasing) will usually be quite keen to help you improve.

It's the one thing I wish I did more as a youngster. And, as the above poster implied, you're much less likely to be able to make out with a girl at the maths and physics camp.

Laughing? Well, it could be worse.

Keeerist, with Shatner again, and half TOS cast, and I mean the good ones, dead,? But, Takei might be good for a laugh.

What's more, who is to say what the increase in cost of health care is or even if it can be tied to car pollution or any other sort.

Ok, now you've crossed the line. That line between typical ignorant libertarian babble and outright lying your ass off.

You seriously question whether health costs increase as a result of pollution? That's why it's called 'pollution', because it's recognized to damage the health of living things, including humans.

That line makes you sound like a god damn Tobacco Institute scientist; I seriously got a flash of Aaron Eckhart's face and heard the words "no proven link" when I read it.

Laughing? Well, it could be worse.

So, Idiocracy was a prophetic documentary ;)

I remember a movie about this.

"Maybe we should strap black boxes to all our politicians."

Strap on to them as they strap on to us!

Go watch the movie Gattica.

Already done: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/
Protip: You'd die.

I'm not sure what people you mean? Do the majority of voters band together to contribute money to campaigns?

No the majority uses (or fails to use) his/her vote. Don't you think the vote should constitute that? Why should the people have to explicitly pay to elect officials? Shouldn't that be part of how a democratic entity uses its funds?

The ones contributing money (at least the large bulk of it) are rich individuals or corporations which is why we see such large disparities between what people want and what corporations want.

Sometimes I wonder for how horrible it was how true Mutant Chronicles corporate states will become.

Already done

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073260/

For some reason the movie Demon Seed came to mind. No doubt in 6 months time the cat will give birth to a master race of long-cats for a final apocalyptic battle.

D.A.R.Y.L might? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088979/

Well, there was a Chinese film crew that had seen Primer and been influenced to re-write it into a Chinese version (the biggest difference being that the men in the movie were actually very successful and content and auspicious electronics line workers at a nearby Foxconn plant). But then China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television finally read the screenplay and were pretty sure there was some form of time travel involved. The film crew has been reassigned to film a documentary at the China/Afghanistan border where a team of ill equipped officers fight drug traffickers with nothing more than the irrepressible spirit of the People's Republic of China. The twist? The film crew are the officers!

What scares the industry most is that these days, any jackass in his home could make a movie of comparable quality to most of the non-SFX Hollywood films
And there are millions of people out there who can act, not just a few dozen in Hollyweird, so there's no shortage of available talent.
In effect, this means that commercial movies are too expensive by about a factor of a thousand.

The geek will rent a lamp and reflector and think that he has mastered theatrical lighting.

How to Train Your Dragon stands out from the animated pack because it makes an effort to be simple. The film was lit with motivated light sources --- the sun, a candle, even the glowing red flames of a dragon's fiery exhalation --- which meant that in low-light situations, darkness was a tool in its own right.

In all that he does --- whether it's live-action, animation, or 3-D ---- Richard Deakins has come to believe that less is more. He was reminded of this mantra not too long ago while giving a lighting seminar for animation cinematographers at Pixar:

"I had a bit of a laugh, actually. I was on a stage with all the things you'd think would be traditional to lighting. So, I lit the set in a very traditional way: with a hard light, lots of fill light, a back light, a front light, and a key light. I did this for about 20 minutes, and then I said, I can't keep this up anymore because I don't like lighting like this, at all."

He panned the camera around and saw an electrician standing by a work light. "Now that I really like," he said. "It's just the bare bulb in front of the angle of the face. To me, that's really good lighting. So I took everything down that I had been doing and I tried to do what I normally do."

How To Light Your Dragon

It is the same with any the hundreds of other arts and crafts that go into the production of a film.

The jackass does not understand story or script. He doesn't know how to recruit and motivate talent, amateur or professional. He won't know why he needs to build sets and props when green screen, CGI and motion capture give him a quick-and-dirty solution....

The Coens produced their remake of True Grit on a bare-bones budget of $38 million. But essential to the success of the film was the casting of Mattie Ross:

The standout performance has to be newcomer Hailee Steinfeld, who beat out 15,000 other girls for the part. Open casting calls often provide disappointing results, as nonprofessional actors tend to be just that --- not professional. 14-year-old Steinfeld proves she is a talent to watch, though --- she totally commands the screen with her strong-willed, stubborn character, and manages to hold her own against Bridges, Damon and Josh Brolin, who makes a brief but memorable appearance later in the film. It is a fantastic, powerful performance that is an absolute joy to watch.

True Grit (2010) (In User Reviews)

Well, unless the conspiracy theory that Tesla managed to make himself immortal, and moved to Argentina to pursue high energy experiments for gravity control and space travel are true. I kid you not, I picked up a really good book on Tesla. The last two chapters went into this wild conspiracy stuff.

Wait, what?!? Are you trying to say that The Prestige was not a true story?

I thought Ian Maxtone Jones invented the iPod. ;-)

Does it include link to Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister library?

Does it include link to Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister library?

I'll 1-up you.

His tribute to Scott Chase on the DVD cover is amusing.... :)

Or perhaps Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/

I think this discussion should be worried about the potential for racist comments rather than the homophobic as you suggested. The biggest clue to this is the word "ook" being used in the summary.

The scientific potential in this is that researchers could learn to understand and quantify the simplicity of the behaviors which lead to the more complex. It brings us back into the days of Jane Goodall, Koko the gorilla, and the Save the Gay Whales campaigns of our childhoods.

I think this has more to do with the fact the only movies (or books, or music) that survived from 20 years ago, and you can still find were the really good ones. You don't see copies of the Super Mario Bros movie floating around everywhere, because it was a terrible movie. Nobody remembers the truly bad films, as they fade away into oblivion. Our view of past movies, books, art is skewed, because all the bad stuff disappeared.

On IMDB's most popular movies of 1981, #54 is Caveman, starring Ringo Starr as a caveman.

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?sort=moviemeter,asc&start=301&title_type=feature&year=1981,1981

Or a giant mechanical spider.

Not until the movie comes out on DVD and BD. Sometimes this can take a whole year.

Okay, so there are up to 12 months worth of movies that may not be available to watch at home. On the other hand, there are about 70 years of movies that can be watched at home, and that set keeps growing over time.

Therefore the chances of not being able to find a movie worth watching except in a movie theater are small, and continue to shrink.

For example, Hop came out in April, and even in December there's no word of a DVD release.

Exactly. If "Hop" is what they are pushing for $10 a person (plus another $6/person for popcorn), then people might as well stay home and spend $5 (total, for the whole family) to watch any of the dozens of previous iterations that are readily available.

For example, Song of the South came out in the 1940s but still hasn't come out on home video in North America.

Of course, Song of the South isn't playing in theaters either, so that's hardly a win for them.

If we go to the theater, we usually end up with crappy parking. So a 1/4 mile hike, unless we get lucky.

Ewwww! Exercise!

That makes $40 for a couple, or close to $80 if you're bringing two kids.

Y'know, I think back to when I was a kid...

Now, my Dad wasn't much of a movie-goer. I remember him taking the whole family of six to the Drive-In once to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I was probably pre-school age, I don't remember it very well. When I was in school, I remember a buddy's mom dropping me and him off to see a movie--I think it was Born Free (but I don't think it was first run--I know it was a matinee). I remember going to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Three Musketeers, Logan's Run, Star Wars,, and probably some other movies that I don't remember without Mom & Dad. This was a long time ago, granted, but I don't remember too many Moms and Dads trailing along. In fact, I remember that we'd give kids grief the next day in school if they were seen at the movies "with their Mommies!"

But now-a-days, I see lots of parents dragging their kids--and vice-versa--to movies. I think that's where some of the behavior issues come in. Kid doesn't want to watch Black Swan or the like and act obnoxious. Mom & Dad are bored by Hop or the like and start checking their e-mail.

So what happened? Is there a reason you need to take your kids to a movie?

If we go to the theater, we usually end up with crappy parking. So a 1/4 mile hike, unless we get lucky.

Ewwww! Exercise!

That makes $40 for a couple, or close to $80 if you're bringing two kids.

Y'know, I think back to when I was a kid...

Now, my Dad wasn't much of a movie-goer. I remember him taking the whole family of six to the Drive-In once to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I was probably pre-school age, I don't remember it very well. When I was in school, I remember a buddy's mom dropping me and him off to see a movie--I think it was Born Free (but I don't think it was first run--I know it was a matinee). I remember going to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Three Musketeers, Logan's Run, Star Wars,, and probably some other movies that I don't remember without Mom & Dad. This was a long time ago, granted, but I don't remember too many Moms and Dads trailing along. In fact, I remember that we'd give kids grief the next day in school if they were seen at the movies "with their Mommies!"

But now-a-days, I see lots of parents dragging their kids--and vice-versa--to movies. I think that's where some of the behavior issues come in. Kid doesn't want to watch Black Swan or the like and act obnoxious. Mom & Dad are bored by Hop or the like and start checking their e-mail.

So what happened? Is there a reason you need to take your kids to a movie?

If we go to the theater, we usually end up with crappy parking. So a 1/4 mile hike, unless we get lucky.

Ewwww! Exercise!

That makes $40 for a couple, or close to $80 if you're bringing two kids.

Y'know, I think back to when I was a kid...

Now, my Dad wasn't much of a movie-goer. I remember him taking the whole family of six to the Drive-In once to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I was probably pre-school age, I don't remember it very well. When I was in school, I remember a buddy's mom dropping me and him off to see a movie--I think it was Born Free (but I don't think it was first run--I know it was a matinee). I remember going to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Three Musketeers, Logan's Run, Star Wars,, and probably some other movies that I don't remember without Mom & Dad. This was a long time ago, granted, but I don't remember too many Moms and Dads trailing along. In fact, I remember that we'd give kids grief the next day in school if they were seen at the movies "with their Mommies!"

But now-a-days, I see lots of parents dragging their kids--and vice-versa--to movies. I think that's where some of the behavior issues come in. Kid doesn't want to watch Black Swan or the like and act obnoxious. Mom & Dad are bored by Hop or the like and start checking their e-mail.

So what happened? Is there a reason you need to take your kids to a movie?

If we go to the theater, we usually end up with crappy parking. So a 1/4 mile hike, unless we get lucky.

Ewwww! Exercise!

That makes $40 for a couple, or close to $80 if you're bringing two kids.

Y'know, I think back to when I was a kid...

Now, my Dad wasn't much of a movie-goer. I remember him taking the whole family of six to the Drive-In once to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I was probably pre-school age, I don't remember it very well. When I was in school, I remember a buddy's mom dropping me and him off to see a movie--I think it was Born Free (but I don't think it was first run--I know it was a matinee). I remember going to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Three Musketeers, Logan's Run, Star Wars,, and probably some other movies that I don't remember without Mom & Dad. This was a long time ago, granted, but I don't remember too many Moms and Dads trailing along. In fact, I remember that we'd give kids grief the next day in school if they were seen at the movies "with their Mommies!"

But now-a-days, I see lots of parents dragging their kids--and vice-versa--to movies. I think that's where some of the behavior issues come in. Kid doesn't want to watch Black Swan or the like and act obnoxious. Mom & Dad are bored by Hop or the like and start checking their e-mail.

So what happened? Is there a reason you need to take your kids to a movie?

If we go to the theater, we usually end up with crappy parking. So a 1/4 mile hike, unless we get lucky.

Ewwww! Exercise!

That makes $40 for a couple, or close to $80 if you're bringing two kids.

Y'know, I think back to when I was a kid...

Now, my Dad wasn't much of a movie-goer. I remember him taking the whole family of six to the Drive-In once to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I was probably pre-school age, I don't remember it very well. When I was in school, I remember a buddy's mom dropping me and him off to see a movie--I think it was Born Free (but I don't think it was first run--I know it was a matinee). I remember going to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Three Musketeers, Logan's Run, Star Wars,, and probably some other movies that I don't remember without Mom & Dad. This was a long time ago, granted, but I don't remember too many Moms and Dads trailing along. In fact, I remember that we'd give kids grief the next day in school if they were seen at the movies "with their Mommies!"

But now-a-days, I see lots of parents dragging their kids--and vice-versa--to movies. I think that's where some of the behavior issues come in. Kid doesn't want to watch Black Swan or the like and act obnoxious. Mom & Dad are bored by Hop or the like and start checking their e-mail.

So what happened? Is there a reason you need to take your kids to a movie?

If we go to the theater, we usually end up with crappy parking. So a 1/4 mile hike, unless we get lucky.

Ewwww! Exercise!

That makes $40 for a couple, or close to $80 if you're bringing two kids.

Y'know, I think back to when I was a kid...

Now, my Dad wasn't much of a movie-goer. I remember him taking the whole family of six to the Drive-In once to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I was probably pre-school age, I don't remember it very well. When I was in school, I remember a buddy's mom dropping me and him off to see a movie--I think it was Born Free (but I don't think it was first run--I know it was a matinee). I remember going to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Three Musketeers, Logan's Run, Star Wars,, and probably some other movies that I don't remember without Mom & Dad. This was a long time ago, granted, but I don't remember too many Moms and Dads trailing along. In fact, I remember that we'd give kids grief the next day in school if they were seen at the movies "with their Mommies!"

But now-a-days, I see lots of parents dragging their kids--and vice-versa--to movies. I think that's where some of the behavior issues come in. Kid doesn't want to watch Black Swan or the like and act obnoxious. Mom & Dad are bored by Hop or the like and start checking their e-mail.

So what happened? Is there a reason you need to take your kids to a movie?

If we go to the theater, we usually end up with crappy parking. So a 1/4 mile hike, unless we get lucky.

Ewwww! Exercise!

That makes $40 for a couple, or close to $80 if you're bringing two kids.

Y'know, I think back to when I was a kid...

Now, my Dad wasn't much of a movie-goer. I remember him taking the whole family of six to the Drive-In once to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I was probably pre-school age, I don't remember it very well. When I was in school, I remember a buddy's mom dropping me and him off to see a movie--I think it was Born Free (but I don't think it was first run--I know it was a matinee). I remember going to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Three Musketeers, Logan's Run, Star Wars,, and probably some other movies that I don't remember without Mom & Dad. This was a long time ago, granted, but I don't remember too many Moms and Dads trailing along. In fact, I remember that we'd give kids grief the next day in school if they were seen at the movies "with their Mommies!"

But now-a-days, I see lots of parents dragging their kids--and vice-versa--to movies. I think that's where some of the behavior issues come in. Kid doesn't want to watch Black Swan or the like and act obnoxious. Mom & Dad are bored by Hop or the like and start checking their e-mail.

So what happened? Is there a reason you need to take your kids to a movie?

If we go to the theater, we usually end up with crappy parking. So a 1/4 mile hike, unless we get lucky.

Ewwww! Exercise!

That makes $40 for a couple, or close to $80 if you're bringing two kids.

Y'know, I think back to when I was a kid...

Now, my Dad wasn't much of a movie-goer. I remember him taking the whole family of six to the Drive-In once to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. I was probably pre-school age, I don't remember it very well. When I was in school, I remember a buddy's mom dropping me and him off to see a movie--I think it was Born Free (but I don't think it was first run--I know it was a matinee). I remember going to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Three Musketeers, Logan's Run, Star Wars,, and probably some other movies that I don't remember without Mom & Dad. This was a long time ago, granted, but I don't remember too many Moms and Dads trailing along. In fact, I remember that we'd give kids grief the next day in school if they were seen at the movies "with their Mommies!"

But now-a-days, I see lots of parents dragging their kids--and vice-versa--to movies. I think that's where some of the behavior issues come in. Kid doesn't want to watch Black Swan or the like and act obnoxious. Mom & Dad are bored by Hop or the like and start checking their e-mail.

So what happened? Is there a reason you need to take your kids to a movie?

Funny how this word has been used for Alan B'Stard. :-)
The New Statesman

Until I clicked the link, I thought you were making a joke about another The Core "documentary":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298814/