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Stereotypes are fun. From "As Good as It Gets":

Receptionist: How do you write women so well?

Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.

Saw it and it was good! It's on Netflix instant - at least when I saw it. You never know with Netflix. Sometimes, movies disappear off of the Instant and maybe reappear (Day the Earth Stood Still [classic]) or missing episodes on TV series (Miami Vice, Battlestar Galactica[now there]) - WTF Netflix?!?

gets crazier when you look at genetics kits. kits meant for 12 year olds that allow them to splice dna from jellyfish into ecoli and stuff to let them extract their own dna from cheek swabs. that stuff definitely didn't exist when I was a kid.

Or electronics kits that let them build radios and simple digital multiplexers.

Twelve is too young to learn to build radios? Heck in 7th grade, when I was 12, I was taking an electricity and electronics class in school. It was only a few months after the school year started when I moved and my new school didn't have anything like it. But by that tyme I was building radios using a paper towel roller to wind stripped copper wire for the tuner. And that was back when everything was analogue not digital. In high school a few of us students were avid scuba divers and we were talking with a biology teacher who was also an avid diver. Because of those talks, we had a number of them, the teacher went to the school's admin and asked if a Marine Biology class could be offered. They came back saying that if enough students signed a petition pledging they would take the class if offered.

Well it didn't take us long and the following year the class was offered for the first tyme. Waiting for the current year to end, it was in the spring, we gathered the material and built a saltwater aquarium for a small sand shark we were given. I laughing now recalling some of what we did afterwards. Not too long before then the movies Jaws and "Jaws II" came out. So people were uptight and scared about them. When it came tyme for us to feed Sofia, the sand shark, we'd break off a piece of shrimp brine which is what she fed her. Then one of us would place the bring in our palm and hold it underwater for Sofia to eat it from our hand. Students who had never watched Sofia been fed would start screaming and saying we should get our hands out of the water or she'd bite it off.

Falcon

Maybe, but it's not like we can all download copies of Lucy Liu. ...yet.

Hi Raymond, what I said about being on the road with you I meant. Connecting. I like having you for my brother.

Based on a true story, Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system (which is unlike being born with AIDS). As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment.

Later on in the movie, he attends a normal school by using a mobile device fitted with a monitor, microphone, and speakers.

If you're curious about the movie, this may make it more watchable...

Based on a true story, Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system (which is unlike being born with AIDS). As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment.

Later on in the movie, he attends a normal school by using a mobile device fitted with a monitor, microphone, and speakers.

If you're curious about the movie, this may make it more watchable...

God I hope not. The movie was the worst piece of crap that Bruce Willis has ever been in, and yes, I have seen Color of Night.

Pray I don't alter it any further.

Please. Who watches Star Trek anyway?

I repost this re - formatted

by cosmas_c (1079035) on Wednesday February 02, @08:09PM (#35081428) Journal
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/quotes?qt0358500
Memorable quotes for Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
- lol Space Fights V - The Geek Strikes Back

by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 02, @08:13PM (#35081494)
no http link
I prefer the stoner versions.
Star Wars: A New Dope,
Star Wars: The Empire Kicks Back
and Star Wars: Return Of The Red-Eye.

I hope you like this better

Pray I don't alter it any further.

For some reason the Brain Enhancer scene in Forbidden Planet springs to mind :-)

AKA "Molly be damned"

Didn't I already see much the same premise in a movie?

Religiosity gene. Wow, really? Gee, what's next, the gay gene?

No, it's the gayosity gene.
This study by Robert Rowthorn actually highlights that emeritus professors carry the jerkoffinpublicwhilesittingonacarrotandrotatingosity gene.

Well... glad you re-read your post there.

I do think a free market helps with the self-determination thing.

Then, I hope that you are a teenager using someone else's ID cause that is a highly faulty notion for a grown up to have.
I mean... there are many, MANY monks and other people delving with philosophy of "being human", "being at all" etc. who would disagree with that.
The ability to buy or sell possessions doesn't determine a man more than the ability to eat. And no... they are not equally vital to one's existence either.

You can't "buy" self. Or bottle it and sell it. Nor would it be possible to be regulated through taxation.
Or, as I'm about to go on about the pop-culture "You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis."

As for pop-culture... I'm actually a great fan of pop-culture - and not just American.
Thing is... while I am a fan... as I accumulate knowledge and experience over the years I am noticing more and more the gaping holes and triviality in the most of it. Or just plain lies and wrongness.
Particularly of almost everything that is allowed on TV and theater screens in the USA.
Well... at least anything aimed at anyone older that 12.

Meanwhile, adults (starting with teens) are literally indoctrinated into "us vs them", "hunter or prey", "consuming is happiness" and the above mentioned "might makes right".
Rules are there to be broken and as long as you don't get caught it is A-OK, greed is celebrated continuously, fame is the highest possible thing you can achieve in life, ends justify the means and promiscuity and consumerism are main (if not ONLY) components of freedom and happiness.

THOSE are the lessons embodied in modern American pop-culture.
You want actual moral lessons without the taint of consumerism you must dig down to Superhero cartoons.
You want actual critique of consumerism and "might makes right" - you must dig to Sponge Bob levels.

Last two adults on American TV shows with actual moral values were Jean-Luc Picard and to some extent Jed Bartlet.
Today if you go looking for moral guidance on TV your choice of role model lies between a criminal, super-scifi-cop who is never wrong, goofball man-child and someone who's life revolves around fucking.
Go look up favorite TV show lists at imdb if you don't believe me.
And that is WITHOUT taking in account all those "reality" shows that are frankly a cultural equivalent of a toxic spill.

Best America can hope for from all its current cultural export is to turn the rest of the world into Tucker Max clones.
Which didn't even work for the "original", or so I hear.

Oh, and "upward class mobility" - another one that is not a prerequisite for democracy.
In fact, existence of classes opposes democracy as it again introduces the element of economy into what is essentially continuous fight for human freedoms. Whether to maintain them or to win them back.
If anything it is a necessary evil of an imperfect world - but sadly it is mostly a lie waved in front of the eyes of "lower classes".
And most certainly you don't get to move up by sticking to moral rules.
And if you actually (against the odds) do accomplish that quantum leap while holding on to some modicum of moral values - you will most likely find that "those are not the higher classes you were looking for".

Jonas Salk refused to patent the polio vaccine.. When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"

There is no 'greater good' research anymore, as long as people get their $. Capitalism: A Love Story is an interesting movie. Yes, it is Michael Moore, but if you go in expecting some slant it's entertaining to see how stuff has changed from "I'm not going to patent something that saved people from the Iron Lung" to "Screw you guys, I gotta get my patents".

Enemy of the State said it best for the government the only privacy that's left is the inside of your head. Maybe that's enough. I'm pretty damn sure it won't be enough once we have mind reading technology.

No hope, just Idiocracy

Pretty sure I got an ulcer after watching Meet the Feebles. But seriously, all the best wishes for him, I'm sure most geeks here have watched the LotR movies multiple times (I'm at 20+ for the Fellowship alone) and have high hopes for The Hobbit. Especially since it'll be a two-parter, we need him in good health.

Get well soon!

Anyone remember the scene at the end of Firestarter where the guy takes the girl to the New York Times, knowing it's one of the few places she can tell her story that's safe from the government?

Never seen the film, but in the book it's Rolling Stone.....

The NY Times *may* have once had some real balls, back in the Vietnam/Watergate days. People used to really believe in them (and the press in general) back in those days too. Anyone remember the scene at the end of Firestarter where the guy takes the girl to the New York Times, knowing it's one of the few places she can tell her story that's safe from the government? Pretty typical attitude back in the "All the President's Men" era, when reporters regularly stood up to the government (or at least were perceived to).

But today they certainly don't have the guts to do it right. They will insist on editorial control of what gets actually posted, and once submitters see their stuff disappearing into a black hole (because the Times doesn't have the guts to publish anything that might offend their advertisers or subscribers, or *really* bring the government down on them), they'll go back to Wikileaks or other sites. No one wants to man-up and blow the whistle, only to have the NY Times kill their voice just as surely as the government would.

People don't believe in the press anymore. They've seen too many instances (like the second Iraq War) where the press served as little more than a cheerleader for the government, for big business, for nationalism, etc. No one still believes that The New York Times will be (or even could be) as free as Wikileaks.

That film is nominated in the foreign film category and I would like to advise anyone who is even remotely interested in cinema to see it. Powerful stuff, to say the least. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1255953/

Actually that movie exists already, pretty much. It's called The Thirteenth Floor.

>Nah, the Architect said something about "This will be the Nth time we've destroyed [Zion.]" It was a single digit number, something like 4, 6, or 7.

The Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234215/quotes

>Nah, the Architect said something about "This will be the Nth time we've destroyed [Zion.]" It was a single digit number, something like 4, 6, or 7.

"The Architect: Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it."

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234215/quotes

And yet, Christiansen's performance in Life as a House was amazing. Very hard to believe that this was the same person who made the Star Wars prequels, or Jumper.

Similarly, Reeves' performance in The Devil's Advocate was stunning. Compare it to Bill & Ted, and it's impossible to believe you're looking at the same actor. This is made doubly impressive when you consider that Reeves turned down being paid on the movie so that the producers would have enough money to cast Al Pacino as well.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that maybe your problems with these actors has more to do with shitty direction, and not with them actually being shitty actors? It's well known that George Lucas doesn't know when to stop directing and let the filmographer and actors do their jobs, for example....

And yet, Christiansen's performance in Life as a House was amazing. Very hard to believe that this was the same person who made the Star Wars prequels, or Jumper.

Similarly, Reeves' performance in The Devil's Advocate was stunning. Compare it to Bill & Ted, and it's impossible to believe you're looking at the same actor. This is made doubly impressive when you consider that Reeves turned down being paid on the movie so that the producers would have enough money to cast Al Pacino as well.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that maybe your problems with these actors has more to do with shitty direction, and not with them actually being shitty actors? It's well known that George Lucas doesn't know when to stop directing and let the filmographer and actors do their jobs, for example....

I don't need to watch thirty minutes of actors in front of a green screen being superimposed onto a moving truck on the highway, thirty seconds would be plenty.

Good, because that sequence wasn't shot in front of a green screen.

Seriously, no ones mentioned Blue Thunder in this thread yet?

Ok, so it wasn't unmanned, but definitely relevant...

The imdb summary http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085255/ even states:

    "The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle."

1983 wants its privacy concerns back.

In this same pseudo-anonymous letter we learn that Mr. Reeves is 'enthusiastic' about developing a Bill & Ted 3. And we're supposed to believe this? Neither the Matrix IV nor Bill & Ted III show up at hsx.com (which is usually really good about this stuff if it's actually in development). The only piece of news from this that is credible is the 47 Ronin film mentioned.

Mr. Reeves is a sequel whore committed to leaching money off of success or even moderate success. Fortunately, producers and directors (or maybe his agent) around him seem to be pushing him to new things like A Scanner Darkly or the aforementioned 47 Ronin -- even though these are already books or old films. The Matrix and Bill & Ted death throes will probably deflate just like Constantine 2 ... or we can at least hope.

Have you seen The Crying Game?

The issue I have with that is that usually people in front of the camera are overpaid. OK, I agree that Mr. Pitt or Mr. DiCaprio are good actors, but getting 20 million per movie is outrageous.
 

Do you know what happens when a jet has to do a belly landing?

No, but I know what happens to a WWII bomber... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0511124/

Ratings have become as much an ad in themselves and proof positive that the ratings board need to be changed if not abolished.

When I saw a movie rated "PG-13" for "sexual content, some language and teen partying" I just had to laugh for a while. If that doesn't tell you that the stereotype - a bunch of sexless old white women spinsters who think the end of civilization involves naughty words and a bit of sex - is accurate, I don't know what does.

Then again, that's what you get with the USA, where a bunch of religious puritans from the usual brainwashing cults still run the place. Remember, "Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!"

Recently, we took our kids to see Yogi Bear. It was exactly what you'd expect a movie based upon the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon to be -- inoffensive and insipid. Yet, "Rated PG for some mild rude humor."

From comparing notes with other parents, I gather we're on the restrictive end of the scale -- we actually examine 'M' rated games before deciding whether to allow our 14-year-old to play them, whereas other parents in our circle seem to allow younger kids to play 'M' rated games with no supervision at all. I generally give the go-ahead for our 14-year-old, but I do want to check first. In practice, we're more worried about avoiding high octane nightmare fuel, then about sex or violence, per se.

It's striking to me, though, that I rarely see games that rated below 'T' or 'M', even games that are clearly aimed at young children, just as I rarely see a movie that is rated below 'PG-13'. The overall pattern seems to be a sort of rating inflation, in which the more restrictively rated material is seen as more attractive by most consumers, and there are only disadvantages to having less restrictive ratings.

Overall, rating systems seem to have become almost completely useless, and this is a problem, because I do think parents could use tools to help them screen the content their children will be exposed to, especially younger children.

The ratings really are absolutely ridiculous. Besides being pretty inconsistent from one movie to the next, you can kill a million people rather graphically and still get a PG-13 rating, but show tits for more than about 3 seconds (or more than once) and it's a guaranteed R rating.

I was gobsmacked to discover that The King's Speech actually drew an R rating from the MPAA. (Apparently, they objected to the use of profanity - including the dreaded 'fuck' - even in the context of speech therapy. For the record, it was part of one of the most brilliantly funny scenes in the film.) The Lord of the Rings films, meanwhile, get a PG-13, despite impalements, beheadings, and the deaths of thousands. Casino Royale gets a PG-13, even with all its James Bond violence, and the sadistic clubbing of the protagonist's testicles while he's tied to a chair.

This Film Is Not Yet Rated is an excellent, biting documentary about the MPAA's secretive, deceptive, politicized ratings system. You should be warned, however, that while the film currently has no MPAA rating, an early version of the film received a provisional NC-17 rating.

This is bizarre. Playboy is R-rated, not NC-17, and Apple already distributes music that carries the [EXPLICIT] tag. Hell, they sell and rent Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and there's nothing you can see in Playboy that's not in that movie, and nothing they say in Playboy that's not in American Pie.

Dunno about that. Apparently this month's edition has 43 year old Pamela Anderson showing off her poetry.

Do Not Want.

This is bizarre. Playboy is R-rated, not NC-17, and Apple already distributes music that carries the [EXPLICIT] tag. Hell, they sell and rent Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and there's nothing you can see in Playboy that's not in that movie, and nothing they say in Playboy that's not in American Pie.

Dunno about that. Apparently this month's edition has 43 year old Pamela Anderson showing off her poetry.

Do Not Want.

This is bizarre. Playboy is R-rated, not NC-17, and Apple already distributes music that carries the [EXPLICIT] tag. Hell, they sell and rent Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and there's nothing you can see in Playboy that's not in that movie, and nothing they say in Playboy that's not in American Pie.

This is bizarre. Playboy is R-rated, not NC-17, and Apple already distributes music that carries the [EXPLICIT] tag. Hell, they sell and rent Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and there's nothing you can see in Playboy that's not in that movie, and nothing they say in Playboy that's not in American Pie.

Ghostbusters 3 has been announced, and apparently they are making headway.
Scary stuff, huh?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1408101/fullcredits#cast Just FYI.

What's wrong with being able to look up plot summary information for every movie ever made (even ones that got poor ratings or which sold poorly, such as The 13th Floor)?

There's a place for that already. (one that is often used as a citation source in Wikipedia).

We put a man on the moon, damnit! Fifty years ago

No wonder NASA can't build anything worth shit anymore: our "best and brightest" can't subtract 4 digit numbers!!

Idiocracy here we come...

Note to self: Never, ever, try out a feminine hygine product... even in the privacy of my own bathroom.

Not even once.

I guess you'll have to watch this movie to find out. Personally, I don't want to find out that bad.

If it can supply a video feed, then perhaps a video feed can be supplied to it, overriding what the camera itself is sending. Loop in yesterday's stream a-la Speed and viola... trackless break-in opportunity.

JFTR, the movie in question is Moon.

Do you think a law could stop him? IMDb shows he has several movies in production.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093051/