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Tag: movies
The Office floorplan
Watching Borat in Beirut
When it opened on Thanksgiving, Borat was the third most watched movie in Lebanon, trailing only such blockbuster fare as Casino Royale.
quite remarkable from a cultural / societal standpoint (via rekha)
Public domain films
mashup material or source of amusement?
What code DOESN’T do
- Code does not move
- Code is not green text on a black background
- Code has structure
- Code is not 3 dimensional
- Code does not make blip noises as it appears on the screen
- Code cannot be cracked by an 8 year old kid in a matter of seconds
- Not all code is meant to be cracked
- Code isn’t just 0100110 010101 10100 011
- People who write code use mice
- Most code is not inherently cross platform
Funny because it is so true!
2007-04-08: Movie computer feats. I especially like
They strike at core mythologies about how computers work and the great yearning we all have for them to anticipate our thoughts and desires and meld with our own minds.
Online Firefly
Landing Firefly on the Multiverse platform would seem to be a sure-fire promotional move. But satisfying the show’s committed fans will not be easy. Online communities like FireflyFans.net, the show’s premier fan site, have generated an endless stream of fan fiction, art, blogs, podcasts, meet-ups and even a fan-produced documentary, Done the Impossible, which briefly broke into the top 1000 in DVD sales on Amazon.com.
this has the potential for awesomeness and a huge timesuck. fuck that elves / mage shit
Apocalypto
When a fruitcake like Mel Gibson produces a movie called ‘Apocalypto’, I don’t know. A major flick on the mayans, on the other hand.
2Chums
this zombie short is pretty awesome. i discovered it on valve while dorking around with half life 2 (yeah i know, soo old. i am not a gamer)
2 Chums
Hollywood Eats Scifi Brains
Hollywood is afraid to produce true scifi. Instead we get little boys on broomsticks
Why has Hollywood stopped making serious scifi? It is all about risk and money. “Scifi is hard to fund — it’s never a slam-dunk. You have to put a certain level of budget into these films.”
If scifi has always been hit-or-miss with studios, investors these days seem less willing to gamble. Who knows if The Terminator could have gotten the green light in this environment? It was made in 1984 for $6M — the kind of midrange budget that rarely exists any more — and starred a little-known weight lifter with an unpronounceable name.
Star Wars, a monumental struggle for George Lucas to produce, would likely be a non-starter these days. Blade Runner? Perhaps too dark to get financing. And 2001: A Space Odyssey? With its cast of unknowns, enigmatic ending and (in inflation-adjusted figures) more than $50M budget, it just wouldn’t compute with today’s backers.
Family Values Film Criticism
Recently, when trying to find out about films I’ve wanted to rent, I’ve forgone the usual paganistic blogs, flesh-worshiping review sites, upside-down crucifix-wearing DVD listing books and also IMDB.com (which I’ve heard eats aborted human fetuses). I’ve cleansed my palate, and opened my eyes to a whole new way of thinking when it comes to the art of film, while using the ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP) movie review database. With it’s highly detailed reviews of 100s of titles, it’s a refreshingly different look at every movie I’ve ever loved. The key? It filters every title through it’s biblical-based value rating system and “society influence density” scoring chart while it theorizes, theorizes, theorizes away about how almost every movie is just plain wrong, wrong, wrong. It’s all some of the most refreshing film criticism I’ve ever read
ah the culture wars. too funny
Gregor J. Rothfuss 