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I've completely had it with Hollywood. I haven't seen a truly geat, unique, innovative movie in ages. And every time I see they are remaking a great movie, I want to puke. It pisses me off to no end and I go out of my way to boycott. In fact, I don't know what is worse: a re-hashed tired plot, a "trendy" remake of a classic, or some insipid waste of film made for the lowest common denominator of intelligence (to use a term loosly).

The fact that those greedy fucks put commercials in front of a movie that I paid $10+ to see makes me even more angry.

How many times must I rent a DVD (I don't go to theatres because of the rant above) and be dissatisfied by a cheeze-ball "hollywood" ending.

Okay. I need to stop writing now. I'm getting frustrated and feeling a need to kill again...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ and http://www.imdb.org/ are your friends.

I like how they show the results as a histogram of ratings. This makes it easy to distinguish a game that everyone thought was mediocre from one that a lot of people liked, but a lot of others didn't. I wish imdb, iblist, and all the other similar sites would do the same.

Everybody who has seen the horryfying British TV movie Threads knows that it is just a question of a high-altitude nuclear detonation, and all electrical appliances fail due to the following EMP...

USA is already looking into using mini-nukes in conventional warfare, so why not take it one step further? Would also make use of all those big-nukes which might still be available...

-- someone who was a child when the fear not was of terror, but total and global annihilation of all things human

(VG) at the end of an IMDB entry means it is a Video Game. I don't quite get why the "International Movie Database" lists video games as well, but I guess a number of actors have had voice roles in them, and there does seem to be some bleedover from Hollywood into games, as you noted.

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psilo

why is it that you can't block partial nudity without blocking "entertainment"? which includes the infamous IMDB

The correct link is : Plan 9

On IMDB is a link to the X-Men Trailer in RealVideo format, so you can view it on Linux..