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I remember when I was a kid I used to watch some sci-fi series that had a dolphin with a translator device on it, all the people talked to it like another human. Can't remember what it was now.

I'm sure it was not the first to do so but SeaQuest seems likely.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106126/

Now a closer theatrical match to this research may be Day of the Dolphin.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069946/

Since they're a Hong Kong airlines, the female stewardesses are looking to emulate Michelle Yeoh in the excellent movie Wing Chun. It may be difficult in an airliner -- the low ceiling leaves little room for a wire-fu harness. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111800/

Maybe they wanted to see a decent movie and thought this was the one with John Wayne...

You can see this in the movie Transsiberian.

These guys probably thought, with society's short attention span, they'd waited long enough to fool everyone! But I just watched Die Another Day last night, so I know exactly what Project Icarus is! These guys are North Korean plants!

However, if they're willing to give me some quality time with Rosamund Pike... I'll gladly turn a blind eye to their machinations.

These guys probably thought, with society's short attention span, they'd waited long enough to fool everyone! But I just watched Die Another Day last night, so I know exactly what Project Icarus is! These guys are North Korean plants!

However, if they're willing to give me some quality time with Rosamund Pike... I'll gladly turn a blind eye to their machinations.

Here, try this one.

He actually meant CHiPs.

it's not like they'll take this thing literally".

    I'm sure you've seen this, right?

"Rufus: He still digs humanity, but it bothers Him to see the shit that gets carried out in His name - wars, bigotry, televangelism. But especially the factioning of all the religions. He said humanity took a good idea and, like always, built a belief structure on it."

    It would have been nice if someone had some forethought a few centuries ago and said "It's ok to say I don't know, and wait for us to find out the facts before we write down some nonsense that will confuse people later on."

It is not easy to explain, but human evolution is definitely the work of intelligent design. 'science' claims that dinosaurs lived for what 300,000,000 years, and they still lived with no consumption of carbon? and this carbon is somehow radioactive so we 'know' dinosaurs existed?

today's science is a whole lot like some 7 year old trying to explain to a machine how things work. i will reference wargames 2 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0865957/

Any publicity is good publicity, eh? way to reinvent yourself Mr. Alki David. With a filmography like this, I'd want more money and publicity too; why not leech it!

This guy is such a tool, though I don't know whether to blame his ignorance, greed, or IP law itself. Also, as a film editor/director/actor/Hollywood-top-shot or whatever claims one might make, please be sure to keep pictures in their correct aspect ratio. Portraits generally are not in an AR of 16:9, nor do they look good stretched to that dimension.

Never watched Star Trek:Voyager did 'ya?

This has been haunting me for over 30 years !!

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528822/bio

IMDB listing

Laura Lane gave the BJ iirc. Halle just watched excitedly.

Stand by. We've got an incoming call from King George VI.

Go ahead. Mod me -1 Insensitive Clod.

Wasn't Thunderbolt and Lightpeak a really bad film?

Well, yes, but the part where they're hitchhiking and get picked up by the guy with the caged badger in the back seat is good. Especially when he runs off the road, starts throwing bunnies out of the trunk and blazing away at them with a shotgun. That shit was so bizarre, you just know it had to have actually happened to one of the writers. Even with the best drugs available at the time, nobody could make that up. For the uninitiated: Thunderbolt and Lightfoot. Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges. I actually think it's a pretty good film.

I watched this movie and enjoyed the violence. Not a crime, because no real persons were harmed in the making. Problem officer?

Get a grip already, for fuck's sake! The data is scrubbed of personally identifiable data, and you'll be lost in the sea of 'targets' anyway. Nobody wants to know your address, you have nothing anybody wants!

Somebody here hasn't seen "The Jerk"!

How could they be allowed to patent THAT idea, hasn't like everyone seen Runaway? The whole movie was based around the bad guy having self guiding bullets!

If you CONSUME child porn (no matter if it's images that are a hundred years old) you are by extension SUPPORTING the "industry" that manufactures it. Therefore... THOUGHT CRIME! MUST GO TO JAIL NOW!

Here are some sick illegal movies for you:

Pretty Baby
Rambling Rose
The Warzone
Kids

Have fun committing federally approved thought crimes. Just don't pirate them!

If you CONSUME child porn (no matter if it's images that are a hundred years old) you are by extension SUPPORTING the "industry" that manufactures it. Therefore... THOUGHT CRIME! MUST GO TO JAIL NOW!

Here are some sick illegal movies for you:

Pretty Baby
Rambling Rose
The Warzone
Kids

Have fun committing federally approved thought crimes. Just don't pirate them!

If you CONSUME child porn (no matter if it's images that are a hundred years old) you are by extension SUPPORTING the "industry" that manufactures it. Therefore... THOUGHT CRIME! MUST GO TO JAIL NOW!

Here are some sick illegal movies for you:

Pretty Baby
Rambling Rose
The Warzone
Kids

Have fun committing federally approved thought crimes. Just don't pirate them!

If you CONSUME child porn (no matter if it's images that are a hundred years old) you are by extension SUPPORTING the "industry" that manufactures it. Therefore... THOUGHT CRIME! MUST GO TO JAIL NOW!

Here are some sick illegal movies for you:

Pretty Baby
Rambling Rose
The Warzone
Kids

Have fun committing federally approved thought crimes. Just don't pirate them!

Well... I'm not at work...

Private Black Label 6: The Uranus Experiment 1

Am I the only one flashing back on http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120029/ ?

Well, in Red Planet, it was the "space janitor" (a mechanical engineer) the one that made it to the end of the movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199753/

I think part of that was in Xchange
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242150/

From the greatest non-trek trek movie:

[the crew is on a shuttle descending to an alien planet]
Guy Fleegman: I changed my mind. I wanna go back.
Sir Alexander Dane: After the fuss you made about getting left behind?
Guy Fleegman: Yeah, but that's when I thought I was the crewman that stays on the ship, and something is up there, and it kills me. But now I'm thinking I'm the guy who gets killed by some monster five minutes after we land on the planet.
Jason Nesmith: You're not gonna die on the planet, Guy.
Guy Fleegman: I'm not? Then what's my last name?
Jason Nesmith: It's, uh, uh - -I don't know.
Guy Fleegman: Nobody knows. Do you know why? Because my character isn't important enough for a last name, because I'm gonna die five minutes in.
Gwen DeMarco: Guy, you have a last name.
Guy Fleegman: DO I? DO I? For all you know, I'm "Crewman Number Six"! Mommy... mommy...
Sir Alexander Dane: Are we there yet?

Yes, the Dragon capsule is cool. I like their idea of combining the launch escape system with a landing system, to obviate the need for an ocean "splashdown" recovery. And they're on track to under-sell the Russians on a rocket ride to orbit within the next couple of years.

That's what gives me pause... My gut reaction is to think this is too big of a job for one company, but Musk seems genuinely intent on this goal, and seems to be marking all the early steps toward that goal. (Heavy lift? Check. Man-rated? Check...) Even so, that's just a start. They're going to have to step up their current development trend by an order of magnitude, at least, in order to reach Mars, and that's a tall order for such a short timespan.

I wish them the best of luck. And, to paraphrase Hobson, I'll be watching their progress with great anticipation and eagerness.

Yes, but not just about porn. This has been going on for decades, but porn is probably the earliest iteration of it, at least in the last century or so. Add to that alcohol, "drugs" (ie: those not patented by big-pharma)... and the latest and greatest bogey-man of all, terrorism. Nixon may have started the War On Drugs, but it was little more than an afterthought until Reagan doubled-down on that fool's errand. It was bad enough back then, but the American police-state just went into overdrive after 9/11. Brazil, here we come!

The real planet-consuming aliens in Independence Day were... us!

Oh, please. It wasn't a bad movie. It was neither necessary for Tron to have a sequel nor was it a great or even good movie but it wasn't a bad film. It was mediocre with good visuals and decent cinematography.

If you want to bitch about horrible, unnecessary sequels to likable cult movies from the 80's try WarGames: The Dead Code

Murder: Smells like crazy with a good dash of virginal women. Pays for lunch.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0396171/

Coming out in a year and a half

Perhaps they will be able to create a new element that can more safely power the Iron Man suit?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/

Proof they are massively overpriced and their customers are by far the dumbest, most pathetic pieces of maggot eatin' shit that has ever slid from a human being's hairy ass.

Did you see the part where it's called a "Transformer" because there is a detachable keyboard/battery?

Man, I thought that was because it could turn into a car.

This is essentially just a docking station. How lame is that? ;-)

See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/quotes, and search for "Eastern time". But that's 2.14 am, August 29th, 1997, as per the original movies.

Strangely, though. X-Men, was not an origin story of the X-Men. It gave an origin of Rogue and an origin of Wolverine as "kinda mysterious", but the rest of the X-Men were an established team, with an established villain.

Fair comment ... I guess they couldn't possibly hope to do the backstory of all of the X-Men, but they did need to be able to introduce them to us and they had to find a way to do that. However, short of Blade, X-Men was one of the first comic-based movies to really do well in the theaters, and has ushered in a whole decade of pretty good films and even caused Marvel to do their own studio -- as I recall, when the DVD came out for X-Men, its sales actually beat whatever was in the box office that weekend, which was a first.

I'm mostly opposed to a new Spider-man not because I don't want to see the origin again, but because J. K. Simmons did such an awesome J Jonah Jameson and I want to see more of him. Kirsten Dunst is nice to look at too.

I'm kind of inclined to agree ... I think I'd rather a 4th Spider man with the cast who had done the first three. I checked on IMDB, and as far as I can tell, there simply isn't a Mary Jane character.

I must say, I'm definitely a little leery about the upcoming Spider Man reboot. I'm just not sure what to expect, and I'm not sure that a do-over and a new telling of the back story is going to entice me enough to go see it in the theater.

If nothing else, it's good to see both Marvel and DC being much more involved in the creation of movies based on their properties ... it prevents some Hollywood hack from bastardizing good material.

Are you implying Hollywood can't think of original content?
What would ever make you think of that?

Arthur
Bill And Ted 3
Annie (3rd remake!)
Footloose (Did we really need this movie again?)
True Grit
The Three Musketeers THIS TIME IN 3D!
and much more!

Are you implying Hollywood can't think of original content?
What would ever make you think of that?

Arthur
Bill And Ted 3
Annie (3rd remake!)
Footloose (Did we really need this movie again?)
True Grit
The Three Musketeers THIS TIME IN 3D!
and much more!

"bullets cost money" -- The Magnificent Seven

I agree with this. If you've ever watched This film is not yet rated, you can see just how bad ratings boards with no oversight can be. Basically, if you are a big enough studio, They will help you get an NC-17 rating down to an R, but if you're just a small guy, they will just give you NC-17, without saying what you need to cut to get the rating changed, or why the rating was even given. I could really see this being an important step. Make the questionaire open for everyone to see. And let consumers see the entire questionaire with all answers if they really want to. In order to inform themselves if the game is appropriate. I think a lot less people would be complaining about ratings in games and movies if the process was completely transparent, and everyone got the same treatment.

About that, can you please clarify? I say this because google returns the following on 'Daniel Phillips':

    - a physics professor: http://www.phy.ohiou.edu/~phillips/
    - a make-up artist: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0680066/
    - a rapist (i'm not kidding): http://mssparky.com/2011/01/rapist-hides-out-in-iraq-while-working-for-us-contractor/

I wonder which one is states your IT qualifications.

May I suggest some ketchup to go with that foot?

Back on-topic: it is simple, really: Users that have IT needs, go through IT requesting services. IT staff are hired to take care of IT, they dictate how/what is used concerning IT. Users have no business running IT since neither their job nor their responsibility. That last one is the biggest factor.

This disaster wouldn't have been nearly as bad if they had simply let the fuel rods melt instead of blasting the region with steam, xenon, and iodine.

Awwww... leave your geek card at the door.

Seriously, haven't you heard of the China Syndrome before? Nice old-school disaster flick that scared the crap out of everyone since the events in the movie took place almost exactly the same just 10 days after it's release.

But seriously, the term is based on the idea that it'll just burn through the floor and "keep going til it makes it all the way to China." That's a joke ... get it? Hah.

But eventually it'll hit some water underground and blast out a ton of radioactive steam that can't be contained.

I thought it was NISA? http://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=insecurity

Our Germans are better than their Germans.

Do you think the creators of this film ever considered how bad a choice of name they did? A film for teens whose name itself causes it to be blocked by almost all net filters...

> (who wants their kids to hear sex noises?)

Reminds me of the hilarious episode of Modern Families :-)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1627447/