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  1. Re:True, and... on MS Cites National Security to Justify Closed Source · · Score: 1

    you don't believe in creationism but you DO believe in God? Why? What is God role if not to create? This is so typical of those who believe (or profess to believe) in the suernatural, they can't even be bothered to construct a self consistent fanrtasy world, let alone one that makes ANY kind of sense. Believe what you want, but don't bore anyone else with your useless fanatsies.

  2. Re:Like-with-like? on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    2 whole Euros worth? Americans only give their opinions a value of 2cents. you must be pretty conceited :-]

  3. Re:Effects change over time. on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    how do you reconcile the fact that the effects in 2001 are more interesting and realistic than any other of the list films save Bladerunner, then?

  4. Re:Dune was bad on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    fuck off he's great! and I'd give him one if I was a bird 'n all

  5. Re:What about these landmark films? on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    I think that's unfair. Toy Story was really very good (although I thought both the sequel and Bug's Life superior) but Final Fantasy wasn't a total loss, was it? It was never going to be easy to lip sync "realistic" characters with their voices, but I thought a great deal of the animation was deftly handled and quite convincing - I don't think ou could pick many holes in the quality of the rendering or compositing. I'm still glad they made it, the plot was even a fairly bold move considering the appalling hollywood expectations they were up against. I'd give it a groundbreaking 7/10, personally - certainly some of the characters were LESS wooden than Keanu Reeves.

  6. Re:My thoughts... on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    I enjoyed the ANDROMEDA strain, but your list is even more ridiculous than theirs

  7. Re:Why this happenned! on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    is there a substantive difference?

  8. Re:Best Sci Fi Movie Ever on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    the 60's soundtrack was better too; Reagan era soundtrack produced by MTV - very nasty

  9. Re:T1 on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    oh come on! she's magically delicious. who could resist Jane Fonda? not me, that's for sure

  10. Re:Jurassic Park??? and no eXistenZ?? on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    eXistenZ had the aroma of freshly laid dog-loaf to my nose. What a stinker.

  11. Re:Pffffft! on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    "Although a Clockwork Orange is a good movie, does it really qualify as Sci-Fi?"

    Do you have any idea what Science Fiction means? (Clue: space ships and laser guns NOT required). One film the definitely should have made the list is Phase IV.

  12. Err... on The Wired Top Twenty Sci-Fi Movies · · Score: 1

    Matrix beats Clockwork Orange and 2001??

    NO, I'm not taking THAT

  13. Re:One more reason to buy on XBox Live Network · · Score: 1

    old Batman racing really is crap, amzing to think that for HALF the price you can buy GT-3 A Spec for the PS2 which crushes it in every conceivable way. SHame, MSR was actually quite cool on the Dreamcast.

  14. Re:Computers and video games down, TV and cable to on XBox Live Network · · Score: 1

    worse than that, their called NTL(?%) and Telewest (26%)

  15. Re:One more reason to buy on XBox Live Network · · Score: 1

    give it a rest

  16. Re:Supersonic Pioneers on Review: U-571 · · Score: 1

    do you think that the NASA X-30 looks suspiciously like the cancelled BAe HOTOL project by any chance? Is it official American policy to brook NO competition? Do Americans believe that it was THEY that invented 20thC rocketry and not the Germans? Does American revisionism have ANY limit?

  17. Re:Effect of Piracy on File Swapping and the Analog Hole · · Score: 1

    I couldn't agree more. When Napster was around, i heard a Brazillian song on the radio, went to the radio stations website to find the name, went to Napster to find the track (took a while). Listened to it, liked it more and more - went to HMV website to find albums it was on - bought ojne from HMV. Can you imagine a BETTER business model for the record biz? Ridiculous that they'd shut it down. they'll shut down digital radio next...

  18. Re:Hindering independent filmmakers on File Swapping and the Analog Hole · · Score: 3, Insightful

    that's the stupidest comment I've ever read. In EVERY way it's now FAR easier to shoot and distribute your own productions and with INFINTELY better quality tha was possible 10 years ago. Editing decks? You don't edit with DECKS these days. HDCAM? Apointless format if ever there was one, and a great many commercial producers neither can or want to afford it. You are an absolute fool - if you were that interested in making TV you'd get a job in... TV!

  19. Re:I wonder... on Review: U-571 · · Score: 1

    if you really want to feel the wrath of the geek, just point out how Shrek was the worst insult of a movie you'd ever been subjected to and list the top thirty reasons why. My uber-geek colleague wouldn't speak to me for the rest of the day was actually on the verge of tears as I was skewering his beloved film. Seriously. It's terrifying, isn't it?

  20. Re:Insult to British on Review: U-571 · · Score: 1

    inspired by! it was virtually a carbon fucking copy! The British were ready and willing to co-operate with the Americans on this, but the Americans made one visit to to Miles, classified THEIR part of the projet and never came back! It's all fairly irrelevant as MANY Allied and Axis fighters inadvertently broke the barrier during the war anyway

  21. Re:Everything you know is wrong on Review: U-571 · · Score: 1

    the British have nothing but the utmost respect for the Polish war effort - many brave Poles few in the RAF helping to protect England from Nazi bombers. There is fine memorial to this fact close to where I live.

  22. Re: This Guy Is Directing "Terminator 3"... on Review: U-571 · · Score: 0, Troll

    are you implying that big Jim Cameron is a GOOD director? for goddness' sake!

  23. Re:The USA is the Empire on The Case for the Empire · · Score: 1

    you got me there - I just thought that Powell was the tallest. Mind you, I think he'd be more effective in the Middle East if James Earl Jones did his voice...

  24. Re:Closer to home on The Case for the Empire · · Score: 1

    I think Castro can be considered somewhat MORE benign than Pinochet. Certainly, the USA's behaviour towards Cuba is totally unjustified. Sure he's a dictator, but what is more oppressive to the Cuban population the Castro regime or the US economic castration? I rather feel it's the latter. To place him alongside people of the calibre of Saddam or Hitler is genuinely unfair.

  25. Re:The USA is the Empire on The Case for the Empire · · Score: 1

    Of course we are. You're first (Blair's already telling dimwit what to do), and Palestine's next. If they can't sort themselves out, aunty's going to have to do it for them... now play nicely or someone's going to be taking a short, sharp trip to botty land.