Your favorite movies

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I saw Rockula Friday night. It is now my favorite 1990's rock musical about vampires. It was hilarious and nonsensical.

[blade2k5 1,523]

I saw Angry Red Planet on free OnDemand a couple weeks ago and Prometheus last Saturday. I hate realistic horror but I am OK with SciFi and Fantasy Horror.

The LGM will get you if you don't watch out.

EDIT: 1346 EDT.

A thought. The most effective horror film I've seen is 2001, a Space Odyssey. The monster is not HAL, but the people who gave him the conflicting instructions which drove him to decide that humans should not be allowed to be on board.

I wouldn't call 2001 a horror film. Not even close.

That is because you haven't worked with a lot of big computers. If HAL had been working correctly, it would have shut down on receiving the second set of instructions. Computers that "disobey" are a real horror.

First rule of computing:

I will do what you say.

Corollary:

If what you say is contradictory, I will halt.

You can spin it any way you want, but there is nothing horrific about 2001. By the way, just because I don't 'work with a lot of big computers' doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about. That's narrow-minded comment and you should keep those comments to yourself buddy.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

im not a moderator but this is starting to get heated up....i dont think nonny meant anything by what he said.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion......

[hym 358]

Ariana is correct. There is no need to be taking jabs at each other.

[The Avatar 1,089]

I'm not really one to see movies, but here are my favorites (or, at least the one's I can think of) in three main movie categories. (They are in no particular order):

Animated:

• Fantastic Mr. Fox
  
• Hoodwinked
  
• Rango
  
• Wall-E
  
• The Pirates! Band of Misfits
  
• Ice Age
  

Comedy:

• Get Smart
  
• R.V.
  
• Bernie
  
• The Stupids (I love those dumb movies and parodies that make you think, "Why am I watching this?")
  
• The Master of Disguise (I have never seen the whole thing, but I've seen enough to love it.)
  
• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
  
• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (Same^)
  
• Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (Erm... same) (Steve Oedekerk is an absolute genious)
  
• Beverly Hills Ninja
  

Action

• Star Wars Saga
  
• First Three Indiana Jones Movies (Again, not sure if I watched all, but I love them nonetheless.)
  
• L.O.T.R Trilogy (Same)
  
• Super 8
  
• The Avengers
  
• Back to the Future (The first one)
  

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I think what people find horrifying depends more on their background than anything else. A lot of people said Prometheus was a terrifying movie. I thought it was stupid.

Have yet to see it, but the trailers are only confusing. Prometheus was a demi-god who brought fire to man. He was chained to a rock with an eagle tearing out his liver which regrew overnight forever. The Greeks were really good with views of hell.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Paranorman ? when they said it was by the makers of Coraline i thought they meant Neil Gaiman and were doing The Grave Yard Book

apparently not.

[hamsterTK 93]

That is because you haven't worked with a lot of big computers. If HAL had been working correctly, it would have shut down on receiving the second set of instructions. Computers that "disobey" are a real horror.

I'm not trying to continue the "personal" debate and I respect Nonny Moose's argument, but I have a legitimate bit of fan wank to add here....

HAL is a black box(literally!), not a ghost in the machine.

Yes, from the perspective of a programmer or computer scientist, the idea of a self aware machine having a crisis from recieving contradictory instructions is absurd. One will be accepted and the other tossed. But that's assuming HAL is a clean slate, just some logic functions.

Does the crew of the ship really know the extent of HAL's information resources and the true purpose of it's programming? It's possible that HAL's AI has a very very large database of preexisting information it can use to judge the reliability of human input post-activation and use it to make it's own decisions based on some criteria. This would be indispensable on a space ship I think, and in some ways it might be better if the crew didn't know everything.

In a way that is scary. The philosophy of utilitarianism brings up some interesting outcomes, to say the least. And it's all about perspective, as individuals we value ourselves and have our own interests. A computer that is designed to be the central authority would have different values even if it was programmed to function like human thought process. It's crisis isn't really a crisis just a planned graceful degradation of functionality the way all good software should crash. Maybe HAL is only "insane" because the humans can't accept how awful the truth is?

  Edited August 4, 2012 by hamsterTK  

[Easy Bakes 253]

Look up a movie called Dark Star hamster.

  Edited August 4, 2012 by Easy Bakes  

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

That is because you haven't worked with a lot of big computers. If HAL had been working correctly, it would have shut down on receiving the second set of instructions. Computers that "disobey" are a real horror.

I'm not trying to continue the "personal" debate and I respect Nonny Moose's argument, but I have a legitimate bit of fan wank to add here....

HAL is a black box(literally!), not a ghost in the machine.

Yes, from the perspective of a programmer or computer scientist, the idea of a self aware machine having a crisis from recieving contradictory instructions is absurd. One will be accepted and the other tossed. But that's assuming HAL is a clean slate, just some logic functions.

Does the crew of the ship really know the extent of HAL's information resources and the true purpose of it's programming? It's possible that HAL's AI has a very very large database of preexisting information it can use to judge the reliability of human input post-activation and use it to make it's own decisions based on some criteria. This would be indispensable on a space ship I think, and in some ways it might be better if the crew didn't know everything.

In a way that is scary. The philosophy of utilitarianism brings up some interesting outcomes, to say the least. And it's all about perspective, as individuals we value ourselves and have our own interests. A computer that is designed to be the central authority would have different values even if it was programmed to function like human thought process. It's crisis isn't really a crisis just a planned graceful degradation of functionality the way all good software should crash. Maybe HAL is only "insane" because the humans can't accept how awful the truth is?

Now you see why the three laws of robotics are so important to Asimovian automata.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Just watched Zookeeper. A silly romp but the talking animals CGI is really good, and after all it is rated G. Contrived but fun.

[Superbacon 380]

The Fifth Element. It's a classic, I never get tired of it and I get excited when I see it on TV.

[Easy Bakes 253]

heading off the see Borne Legacy

[blade2k5 1,523]

The Fifth Element. It's a classic, I never get tired of it and I get excited when I see it on TV.

That is a good one. Will most likely get it on blu-ray sometime down the road.

[Easy Bakes 253]

The Fifth Element. It's a classic, I never get tired of it and I get excited when I see it on TV.

That is a good one. Will most likely get it on blu-ray sometime down the road.

great very underrated movie.

Zorg: Aknot, is that you? What an ugly face. It doesn't suit you. Take it off. Much better. Never be ashamed of who you are

[Odainsaker 2,137]

I've recently been hyped about the 2011 Korean war epic "My Way," which fictionally expands upon the curiously real historical footnote of photograph of a Korean soldier in Wehrmacht uniform captured on the shores of Normady amidst the Allied invasion. As the movie takes us across Eurasia from Korea to Normandy, we see old Seoul under Japanese colonization, the dramatic battles of Nomonhan on the remote borders of Mongolia and Manchuria, the nightmare of Stalin's Siberian POW camps, and the ruins of western Russia facing total war. This is a unrelenting total war movie, pointedly even called "Saving Private Jun." While some of the bomb blast survivals are a bit much, I have no doubts as to the realism of the Soviet and Japanese use of soldiers as cannon fodder, and we know we are in trouble when The Nazis are the nicest guys in the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-TXKdxfjko

I admit, though, I am a sucker for historical dramas depicting colonized East Asia in the late 1930s, with nostalgic prewar Asian cities blending orientalized Art Deco and steam engines with kimono dresses and rice paper parasols. And the clash at Nomonhon between the Soviet Union and Imperial Japan marks an ironic moment where the Axis powers would already strategically lose World War II even before Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

Next up is "Nanjing Nanjing," an even harsher mainland Chinese war drama set in the horrors of the Nanking Massacre.

  Edited August 12, 2012 by Odainsaker  

[LastTrueChamp 196]

The Dark Knight Rises! Such a great film, and even though the storyline wasn't as tight as The Dark Knight or Begins it was my favourite of the 3.

Bane is incredible, Tom Hardy is doing so many good things including the movie Warrior which is another movie I'd highly reccommend.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I guess I am in a farce mood. I watched St. Trinian's II last night. It had at least one belly laugh when parodying Henry IV Part II, and I guess the "performance" of Romeo and Juliet was as good. I won't publish the denouement. It is as good a guess as any.

[Ocram's Razr 964]

I just watched The Dark Knight Rises yesterday. It was a pretty cool treat for my birthday (which is today).

--Ocram

[Easy Bakes 253]

Hmm they remade Judge Dread too.

whats next Logans Run?

[LexusInfernus 908]

Hmm, favourite movies? Lets seee, in no particular order:

Akira

The Bourne Identity

The Matrix

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Sherlock Holmes

Oceans Thirteen

The Boondock Saints

Hmm...yeah, thats about it, these are at the top.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I've posted my favourites previously. I just want to comment that favourites are subjective and depend greatly on the length of time you've been watching them. I saw my first movie when I was around six years old, and it was the original release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, probably in 1943. I have seen a lot of movies since then.

[blade2k5 1,523]

whats next Logans Run?

Yup. Not sure when, but there's been talk of remaking Logans Run for quite sometime.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I am waiting to see if anyone has the guts to try to remake Gone with the Wind.

[samima 92]

Space Balls, Avatar, In Time, or Hunger Games.

[Susaji 523]

Cars 2,The Karate Kid.

[blade2k5 1,523]

I am waiting to see if anyone has the guts to try to remake Gone with the Wind.

Shhhh! Don't give those nitwits in Hollywood anymore ideas.

[Easy Bakes 253]

I am waiting to see if anyone has the guts to try to remake Gone with the Wind.

Shhhh! Don't give those nitwits in Hollywood anymore ideas.

they already tried to remake Casablanca but i don't think it got past casting.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I am waiting to see if anyone has the guts to try to remake Gone with the Wind.

Shhhh! Don't give those nitwits in Hollywood anymore ideas.

they already tried to remake Casablanca but i don't think it got past casting.

That's a high crime and misdemeanour against humanity. To attempt the other would be sacrilege, and we'd have to turn them over to the secular arm for disposition.

To attempt a remake of either will always fail in casting. That qualify of actor isn't around any more. That all died with Liz Taylor, who was probably the last of them.

[Easy Bakes 253]

oh how nice

A fish called Wanda is on.

Kevin Kline could have been a Python.