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Suppose they were fucking like bunnies and their growth follows the fibonacci sequence. Then what? Radioactive bunnies bunnies taking over the world?

Well, there has been something similar.

All things considered, Caligula did have a story too (along with a star cast who distanced themselves from the movie and some hardcore scenes)

Dr Angelo? is that you?

That was a joke. It was really a full length movie... to advertise Nintendo products. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098663/

Mason?

Mel Brooks may argue with you

"Two or three years ago it was just another snake cult, now... they're everywhere." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082198/

No viruses from the crew infecting the ship (BSG, Voyager).

Voyager's gel packs were not infected by "crew's viruses".
In all cases it was either alien bacteria, (Get the cheese to sickbay.) alien viruses or radiation.
Gel packs being clearly new technology - none of that was surprising.

I will grant that a ship with sophisticated self-repair, artificial intelligence and the ability to communicate is very much like a "living ship". It also won't bleed if you shoot it, nor does it have a spongy mass of brain tissue at the controls.

Voyager doesn't have "a spongy mass of brain tissue at the controls" no more than is your computer actually controlled by a series of hourglasses (made out of silicon AND based on telling time).
Unless you are referring to Janeway, which I would have to object to as well. She really wasn't THAT bad.
She was not Picard, granted, but she really was not that bad either.

What BSG, B5, Farscape and some of the latter additions to Star Wars and Star Trek involve is ships made of living tissue. And that makes no sense whatsoever. It's like the writers somehow got the idea in their heads that flesh can be engineered to extreme levels of durability and regeneration, or without the limitations of conservation of matter and energy. It ties into a fundamental misunderstanding about the capabilities and limitations of evolution and life in general.

You don't like bio-ships/bio-parts being vulnerable "like they should be", you don't like them being super-resistant "because that's impossible" (and here I thought we were discussing SF shows).
Hmm...

I believe that I know what's your problem with all these bio-thingies.
Gynophilia. You really, really, really want to fuck a robot.
Probably because you were molested by a robot as a child.
But don't worry. This is Slashdot. You can tell us.
What did Optimus Prime made you do?

Summary: Hollywood studios typically set up a corporation for every movie; that corporation's job it to pay the studio insane fees so the entities which are paid based upon profit aren't paid much.

Silent Running (1972)

Oh come on! Why was I modded troll here? This is from a cult classic film "Kentucky Fried Movie!" I thought it was funny, anyways.

I would add Jaws 3D to that fine list.

IMDb and The Star Trek Transcripts (reason why explained by Spock's mother).

I thought the trip to Mars required extra bits on your body....

What engineer writes their software to intentionally miscalculate?

I take it you never watched Office Space? ;)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204686/ - and Timescape of course: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104362/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0204686/ - and Timescape of course: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104362/

He's the kid from Some Kind Of Wonderful, not Breakfast Club: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000655/

You're confusing him with Anthony Michael Hall.

This makes me worry who will show up as the spoiler like the idiot-vice-president / cunning-evil-genius character in the move My Fellow Americans. Jack Lemmon, James Gardner, Dan Aykroyd, and John Heard as the evil idiot-savant.

Cheers,

I'm gonna wait for the Dark Helmet outfit worn by Rick Moranis in Spaceballs

I'm gonna wait for the Dark Helmet outfit worn by Rick Moranis in Spaceballs

Worst thing is, it's a copy/paste from a well-known website.

So Broken Arrow means missing nuke.

Apparently Dull Sword is the term for a non-functioning nuclear warhead.

Is your dad's name Sgt. Oddball ? :)

Any relation to Oddjob?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065938/

Is your dad's name Sgt. Oddball ? :)

Yeah, and remember when those killer bees in Texas were going to move north and kill us all? I think there was an Irwin Allen movie made about it... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078350/ I wish I'd been tallying how many times I've been told the world was ending, and how many different reasons for it.

Look, let's just all agree that humans are evil horrible thoughtless creatures and we're going to blow up the world, do our little Charlton Heston "you maniacs!" moment, and move on to live our lives, ok?

We are one step closer to idiocracy! I for one welcome my new "AOL Time Warner Taco Bell US Government Long Distance" overlords.

Mmmm.. foamy lattes.

-6d

The best you can compare is what VHS did to the film industry. A few obscure independent movie makers is all that you have left.

And all this because of piracy. Right?

You joke, but unauthorized copies are causing losses to the film industry.

After all, who would pay to watch shitty remakes when you can download the original?

The best you can compare is what VHS did to the film industry. A few obscure independent movie makers is all that you have left.

And all this because of piracy. Right?

You joke, but unauthorized copies are causing losses to the film industry.

After all, who would pay to watch shitty remakes when you can download the original?

You might want to ask Christopher Nolan about it.

That part of the process -- synchronizing the shots -- was what made it difficult for amateurs to make a good movie.

I think that goes a little too far.

It will never be easy to bridge the gap between your basement production of Lego Star Wars and the sophisticated puppetry of Corpse Bride and Coraline.

For the character of Coraline, there were 28 different puppets of varying sizes; the main Coraline puppet stands 9.5 inches high.

At one point in the movie, Coraline shows 16 different expressions in a span of 35 seconds.

Coraline's facial combinations consist of 3D printed prototypes. New technology enabled a prototype to be molded by a computer, which was then hand-painted by the modeling department. Each jaw replacement was clipped between Coraline's eyes, resulting in a visible line which was later digitally removed frame-by-frame. There were at total of 207,336 possible face combinations for the character. Trivia for Coraline

And then there's Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus.

Yes

Even better would be pure-animation Robots vs. Corpse Bride, made same year with $75M vs. $40M budgets.

Robots:
Run time 91 minutes

Corpse Bride:
Run time 77 minutes

55 week shoot.

Corpse Bride was the first stop-motion feature to be edited in Apple's Final Cut Pro.

The puppets used neither of the industry standards of replaceable heads (like those used on The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)) or replaceable mouths (like those used by Aardman Studios in Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)) but instead used precision crafted clockwork heads, adjusted by hidden keys. This allowed for unprecedented subtlety, but was apparently even more painstaking than the already notoriously arduous animation. One animator even reported having recurring nightmares of adjusting his own facial expression in this fashion. Corpse Bride

s1m0ne ...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S1m0ne

Can Slashdot please be the lone voice of reason that doesn't feed into the newsmedia's misuse of the word "hacker"?

No - Hackers == crackers.

Here's is my proof - a movie about hackers that break into things.

It wasn't called Crackers but Hackers!

:-P

Nacho Libre.

That woman is an idiot. I can't stand her. She used to be attractive, then she put on weight. A lot of weight. She may have been pregnant at one point, though, causing the weight gain afterward. [ stuff about flirting clipped]

For the record, yes, she had a baby; she's been married for almost the entire time she's been on Mythbusters and she seems to be regarded by people who know her as a funny, reasonably intelligent woman who gets to be a sort of scientist on TV while pursuing a somewhat successful career as an artist. Sure, that's not a stunning endorsement, but it's an order of magnitude more success, in the world's eyes, than 99.9% of the rest of humanity will ever achieve.

You're thinking of Boss Cock. It's my friend's boyfriend's favourite film, yet she insists he isn't gay.

As we begin to run lower on a given resource it becomes increasingly more viable to recycle it or look for alternatives.

Quite so. Supply and demand will sort everything out perfectly, as a famous 1973 documentary film explained.

Gosh...when i hear "libre," i think of this.

This is a movie not an Instructional Video. No more TV! Outside! Now!

unless you can find a Bob Ross rerun on PBS

Or this classic episode, where he uses his inimitable style to reeducate a budding tagger.

then you need to go out and aggressively demand good manners.

Could you clarify this? It sounds kind of contradictory, my dear sir/madam.

No drill needed, just a large Rita Hayworth poster and some elbow grease.

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex gets a whole new level that way.

Also, Jean-Luc Godard, for the 3rd episode at least.

They did a space jump with a Corvette in Heavy Metal back in 1981.

I wish I could give mod points to whoever tagged this story "tuttle". That was the first thought that popped into my head. If you're on /. you should already know, but for the youngun's out there:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/

Watch this movie

Sounds like the plot of Peter F. Hamilton's novel Pandora's Star. Basically a Star being observed by an astronomer goes goes out suddenly, it turns out it was enveloped in a solar-system sized impenetrable black barrier. Some alien entity did so to wall-in a potentially dangerous civilization intent on expanding to other systems. In this case the planet may have been sealed off.

Now given this star system is 20 light years aware they must not have liked something they saw in our leaked radio or TV from 1980, been deeply offended and immediately dispatched their interstellar battle fleet. Cue dyson barrier locking them down.

It may have been the original Battlestar Galactica, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080221/

...And you don't look like a dork (or worse) showing up in a Prius? I'm with Mark Wahlberg on this one.