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But as to OP's question:

Start with 2k5 Dr Who like people are recommending here, and then go back to the absolute beginning and watch. I'm still making my way through and enjoying it.

But if there is only one episode to NOT MISS it is "Blink", http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1000252/. I couldn't believe how absolutely perfect a Dr Who episode could be. I still get chills and teary eyed thinking about that episode. Not to be missed by any true fan of good writing and SciFi.

IMO: Best Doctor is Tenent. Best Companion by FAR is AMY POND.

As another side note, I curse you bastards who are recommending B5. I spent last summer gagging my way through that steamy turd of s series. Maybe 3 good eps in the entire run, and yes it is only my opinion. HOT CRISPY JESUS I curse those who recommend B5. I want that time back to watch something better, anything better, even LEXX!!! I trusted you bastards!!!

Gah!

And she was the second-hottest chick in it.

yeah, was just going to say the same thing myself, Christopher Eccleston was the relaunch of the series after it was cancelled back in the day (80's?), it was all interesting and exciting again, and at some point catch a few of the Tom Baker/John Pertwee ones too (but remember they were shot a while ago) otherwise you won't be able to join in on the "who was your favourite Dr" discussions down the pub oooooohhhhhhhh, don't forget the old movies, check this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060278/

Yet another fictional account of the same thing: Thank God It's Only A Motion Picture

You meant Ridley Scott and not Scott Ridley, right?

Yep, was thinking the same thing. Unless Scott Ridley is an up-and coming amateur director? :)

You meant Ridley Scott and not Scott Ridley, right?

Yep, was thinking the same thing. Unless Scott Ridley is an up-and coming amateur director? :)

My source is IMDB for the quote from the film, which was then re-purposed into the game. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/quotes

I just wonder what he looks like under the fake skin. Where's Charlie Sheen when you need him? Oh, wait...

It's not just a rippin' game franchise, it's a TOTALLY AWESOME MOVIE even!

Nothing can be as light and folksy as the original Rankin/Bass movie version:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077687/

I must say, the songs definitely make me reminisce.

I have/had a similar problem with my media collection. My solution, at the end of the day, was to build something myself.

As one might guess from my handle, I used PERL, and made a few web applications that serve my purpose fairly well. I have a component that scans my media directories over night and add the data to a mysql database. Another component then uses to filename to check against http://www.themoviedb.org/ and http://www.imdb.com/. If a good match is found, a poster is downloaded, and the database is populated with the title, year, dirtector, plot summary, and a list of relevant genres. The main part of the application is a web based interface that lets me search by title or keyword, or browse by genre.

If the scrapping script find no matches, or multiple matches between which my script cannot decide, it is flagged for attention. There is a CGI script that shows me these items, gives me the possible matches, and allows me to modify the search by and a bit to get to the correct listing.

I'm betting there are some packages out there that would do this all for me, but I enjoyed the experience of building it myself. I suppose if there are not other such programs, maybe with more work, and some help I could make my home grown tool available under the GPL.

2. mining hydrocarbons on titan, and taking them somewhere else: anywhere, even just another moon of saturn, is completely ridiculous. its like flying from LA to Hong Kong to get your lunch time sandwich. you need an oxidizer too

Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Just how do you mean that, sir?
-- The Graduate

So I guess the questions are

• what's a cheap source of oxidizer? Say, perhaps, numerous icy bodies in perhaps a large collection of small particles in a ring like orbit of a nearby planet?
• what kinds of plastics can be made without consuming said oxidizer?
• how expensive would it be to make giant ballons out of various plastic, filled with hydrogen from the cracking of ice water for the oxygen, to collect by an orbital transfer craft towing a skyhook for lifting to an orbital processing factory?

• And finally, what's the deltaV cost needed to move products from there? It only has to be less than shooting stuff up from Earth to make economic sense.

Have you learned nothing from Event Horizon??? DISASTER!

You meant Ridley Scott and not Scott Ridley, right?

You meant Ridley Scott and not Scott Ridley, right?

Considering the absolutely terrible job that television has been doing lately at making science fiction...

You must have missed SyFy's Sharktopus .

Really? Because, you know, multiple other sources say that Zuckerberg started the prototype in September of 2003, and what we know as Facebook was launched in February of 2004.

If I recall rightIy, my vt.edu email address allowed me to register sometime in late 2004 or early 2005. On campus, it was starting to generate a lot of buzz as a great tool to bring lots of people together on short notice.

Your response is typical of what I was talking about though -- memory is a strange and elastic thing. You've been on Facebook for so long it feels like it's been 8 years, but it hasn't, and it really couldn't possibly have been.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2979107840/tt0492486

I'm just waiting to see who the new Hannibal is going to be.

Liam Neeson.

You have been/are/will be talking like the mutants from Light Years.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095525/

1000 years ago, Gandahar will be destroyed, and all its people massacred.
1000 years from now, Gandar was saved, and what could not be avoided, was.

Don't you mean ...

Then it is a retarded list, Moon is the best hard sci fi movie in the last decade, arguably one of the only hard sci fi movies in the last decade

The problem is that "Moon" had a $5 million dollar budget and a $5 million dollar gross. Moon It was neither profitable or popular.

uh, vikings and indians?
good lord
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446013/

Yes, but to be fair, it's Vikings and Skraelings.

At the heart of the best classic science fiction is solid character development and rich human interaction. Its really a psychological drama.

Check out Never Let Me Go (2010) for a great example of doing it right.

You have been/are/will be talking like the mutants from Light Years.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095525/

In Contact?

I remember some religious bullshit about "believing" (into something they had physical evidence for) but not paranormal.

and, the ultimate betrayal that will make you want to murder me right now, just for uttering the words and potentially planting the idea in some hollywood suit's mind:

star wars V star trek

the science fiction fan's ultimate cause for suicide and/ or homicide

Have you not seen Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning?

Didn't Denzel Washington already do this in movie 2006? What was that movie's name?

What about Radio Free Albemuth? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1129396/

Possibly because its release date isnt until 2012.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1034314/

seems like such a drunk frat boy's idea of an "awesome movie"

i mean what next? cowboys and ninjas?

oh...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032751/

uh, vikings and indians?

good lord

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446013/

so all i have to do is take two stereotypical protagonists, smash them together, and hollywood will give me millions to make a crappy movie?

ok, zombies and sharks!

oh good lord, someone shoot me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g8fCxyAVHs

freddy v jason, alien v predator (there's a third one coming), etc... ok so if creativity is completely dead, if hollywood has to rape your love for science fiction by mashing up all genres, allow me to make you want to rip your eyes out:

terminator V back to the future

mad max V jurassic park

the matrix V inception

and, the ultimate betrayal that will make you want to murder me right now, just for uttering the words and potentially planting the idea in some hollywood suit's mind:

star wars V star trek

the science fiction fan's ultimate cause for suicide and/ or homicide

seems like such a drunk frat boy's idea of an "awesome movie"

i mean what next? cowboys and ninjas?

oh...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032751/

uh, vikings and indians?

good lord

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0446013/

so all i have to do is take two stereotypical protagonists, smash them together, and hollywood will give me millions to make a crappy movie?

ok, zombies and sharks!

oh good lord, someone shoot me...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g8fCxyAVHs

freddy v jason, alien v predator (there's a third one coming), etc... ok so if creativity is completely dead, if hollywood has to rape your love for science fiction by mashing up all genres, allow me to make you want to rip your eyes out:

terminator V back to the future

mad max V jurassic park

the matrix V inception

and, the ultimate betrayal that will make you want to murder me right now, just for uttering the words and potentially planting the idea in some hollywood suit's mind:

star wars V star trek

the science fiction fan's ultimate cause for suicide and/ or homicide

This lends credit to the idea that time travel is only possible if parallel dimensions exist. The old show Time Trax used this as their explanation of it all.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116118/ ..and I see from imdb that it's just out on region 1 DVD.

(I know most people hated it, I thought it was decent..)

Wonder if they make movies like this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/

After all, that is the best idea I have ever heard for a movie, evah!

don't subscribe to netflix, won't ever. As long as the big studios keep making movies, I will keep downloading them.

Until they change their business practises, I am NOT supporting them at all.

Which is too bad for netflix, since I don't have anything against them, but I'm not paying them, so they can pay the shit head movie studios.

Narrator: Was it ticking? Airport Security Officer: Actually throwers don't worry about ticking 'cause modern bombs don't tick. Narrator: Sorry, throwers? Airport Security Officer: Baggage handlers. But, when a suitcase vibrates, then the throwers gotta call the police. Narrator: My suitcase was vibrating? Airport Security Officer: Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but every once in a while... Airport Security Officer: [whispering] it's a dildo. Of course it's company policy never to, imply ownership in the event of a dildo... always use the indefinite article: a dildo, never your dildo. Narrator: I don't own...

— Fight Club (also)

/. seems to be off by a ways here. Netflix already offers original content. There is a Zach Galifinakis special that is streaming and put out by Netflix.

How old? http://www.imdb.com/company/co0144901/

Producing content since 2005

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094012/trivia

Read this and try again... Space Balls is not an example of what you assert.

Mel Brooks has Lucas's permission/blessing on just about every aspect of the movie. There was little, if any merchandising.

The problem that I have is that many of us don't WANT to be a pirates, but the studios heavy-handedness and greed make it almost impossible NOT to. I am perfectly happy buying a blu-ray or DVD. But the studios often throw up so many road-blocks to me as a legitimate consumer as to make it impossible.

I DVR "The Color of Money" (one of Scorsese's best, IMHO) in HD and I want to buy a copy that won't disappear the second my DVR dies. But, guess what? The studio says I can't (the only legally available version is a crappy non-anamorphic DVD that looks awful on a modern TV). So I'm left with the option of Pirate Bay or illegally ripping it off my DVR (both of which would make me a pirate in their eyes). I want to buy it legitimately, but the studio says no.

I DVR "Space Race: The Untold Story" (great docudrama, BTW) in HD from the National Geographic Channel. Same deal, want to buy it. But this time the studio won't even let me buy a DVD in the U.S. (much less an HD blu-ray). It's only available in Region 2. So, even if I import it, I would now be forced to illegally modify my DVD player to watch it. Want to buy it. Want to be honest. Nope, I would have to rip it from my DVR if I wanted to own it.

Even with the blu-rays and DVD's I *can* buy, I'm stuck watching 5 or 6 forced trailers at the beginning of each (many studios not even letting me skip them). Don't want to spend several minutes fighting with your player just to watch the goddamn movie you paid for? Better go off to Pirate Bay, because that's the only way you're getting it, buddy.

To Sony, Warner, Paramount, et. al.: Stop forcing people to be pirates with your fucking DRM, your greed, your region coding, your goddamn bizarre distribution rights agreements, etc. and you'll find there are a LOT more people willing to actually pay for your stuff than you think.

While I understand what your saying, the problem i find is, why feel bad?

The companies that make the shows you like, don't care about you. They do NOT care what you want, all they want is money.

If they are NOT smart enough to make it available in formats you want, then screw them. Don't feel bad. It's their loss.

You can, of course, write them and let them know that because they don't offer the quality of the show that you want, your forced to get it other ways. Which is money they just lost in sales, because they don't provide the product in modern formats.

That is the only way they learn. They have to be told why they aren't getting money.

Splitting the beer atom: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096486/

You probably want to avoid any appearance she's made since about the time of the movie Soapdish, then. Trust me on this.

I've been watching "Louise" (see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1492966/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_(TV_series) ) on Netflix recently. Last night I went to Netflix, and tried to cue up the next episode. Instead of getting to watch episode 10 like I had episode 1 through episode 9, it was only available on DVD, and the DVD wasn't released yet. Some time in the last week or two, they changed. So, I could either put the DVD for a season I had almost finished watching on my "Save" list, or I could go look for the same content from other distribution channels. Hum, tough choice.

The problem that I have is that many of us don't WANT to be a pirates, but the studios heavy-handedness and greed make it almost impossible NOT to. I am perfectly happy buying a blu-ray or DVD. But the studios often throw up so many road-blocks to me as a legitimate consumer as to make it impossible.

I DVR "The Color of Money" (one of Scorsese's best, IMHO) in HD and I want to buy a copy that won't disappear the second my DVR dies. But, guess what? The studio says I can't (the only legally available version is a crappy non-anamorphic DVD that looks awful on a modern TV). So I'm left with the option of Pirate Bay or illegally ripping it off my DVR (both of which would make me a pirate in their eyes). I want to buy it legitimately, but the studio says no.

I DVR "Space Race: The Untold Story" (great docudrama, BTW) in HD from the National Geographic Channel. Same deal, want to buy it. But this time the studio won't even let me buy a DVD in the U.S. (much less an HD blu-ray). It's only available in Region 2. So, even if I import it, I would now be forced to illegally modify my DVD player to watch it. Want to buy it. Want to be honest. Nope, I would have to rip it from my DVR if I wanted to own it.

Even with the blu-rays and DVD's I *can* buy, I'm stuck watching 5 or 6 forced trailers at the beginning of each (many studios not even letting me skip them). Don't want to spend several minutes fighting with your player just to watch the goddamn movie you paid for? Better go off to Pirate Bay, because that's the only way you're getting it, buddy.

To Sony, Warner, Paramount, et. al.: Stop forcing people to be pirates with your fucking DRM, your greed, your region coding, your goddamn bizarre distribution rights agreements, etc. and you'll find there are a LOT more people willing to actually pay for your stuff than you think.

For those that are in the UK, they may recall a few years ago now a terrible series called "Killer Net", about a game that was played online, where the user in this show was deciding how to bump off people in "the game", except it wasn't a game, they were really getting bumped off.

Not bad enough for a plot? Well, they had FULL frame FULL frame-rate video and high quality audio, all being delivered over a crappy 28k analogue modem.

Killer Net.

Untraceable was pretty accurate. Or, at least, not totally wrong...

Hackers 1 and 2

And how do we know someone pirates movies on the internet? That's right, they believe there is a movie called Hackers 2. There isn't, it is the name given to bootleg copies of the movie Takedown. Which has nothing to do with the movie Hackers. It is based off what is seen by some as a inaccurate telling of the events surrounding the capture of Kevin Mitnick. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/releaseinfo#akas Even IMDB says that title is used for bootleg versions of the movie.

Ah-huh... and next you're going to argue that Franco Nero was not a real Val Verdian dictator. Or Scotsman.

They've built the entire air traffic control system, then physically cut into the lines (as in with an axe and a shovel), used social engineering (which fooled even Miles O'Brien into ignoring all other instruments) to guide in the airplane during low visibility conditions AND they press some buttons, turn some dials and click on some screen with a light pen - and you call that "clicking on an icon"?

Sorry, but that is nowhere near a kid plugging in her laptop to land the airplane, OR just "clicking on an icon".
At least they've provided SOME footing for the suspension of disbelief. Unlike say... Electric Dreams.
Loved that movie, particularly the music but it is complete and utter fantasy.

It was entertaining, and not THAT bad compared to other movies folks are talking about in here. And Sid made a pretty fun badass bad guy......"ah, ah, ah! faster!"

I wrote a term paper on that movie. Seriously. For a class on sci fi (and how it reflects on the society that creates it) that started with Aelita: Queen of Mars from 1924 Russia. The term paper focused on how serial killers (real life all the way back to Jack the Ripper, and Sid) are products of--and couldn't exist without--modern media. And yes, I laughed myself all the way to an 'A'.

Someone else in that class did a paper on RoboCop being a commentary on rampant corporate abuses and gaining power to rival the sovereign. Though I think that Max Headroom handled the subject better.

I thought that movie was fairly accurate.

Um, no. Even my crush on Sandra could not salvage that movie. Glaring error after error. Not that I recognized these all live, but I may have blacked those parts out. One of the most regrettable two hour periods of my life.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113957/goofs
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/net/

My favorite review:

Low on both tension and credibility.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119318/

The best scene was where Cleary (Lowe's character) holes up in a companion's cave in the middle of nowhere and this guy spouts off he has BONDED ISDN to his cave...which is in the middle of nowhere.

13 years later we still can't get broadband to rural nowhere, but the phone company really pulled copper to your cave?