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Turtle! Turtle! Turtle! (Score:5, Funny)
Ahem.
Re:Turtle! Turtle! Turtle! (Score:2)
The website really was stupid.
Re:Turtle! Turtle! Turtle! (Score:2)
Ye Ghods - this is possibly the worst looking trailer I've seen in many a year. The sad thing is, I watch (and enjoy) ultra low budget and fan made productions, and enjoy them. This trailer, which presumably has some of the best moments in the film, has no humor whatsoever. The "turtle" moment is passably interesting - for a SF convention outfit.
By the three Kennedys[1], this is a most wretched production.
[1] Okay, that's it - I'm starting a Slashdot journal, and making a SF reference in each. Points go to whoever can nail them first.
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Evan
Re:Turtle! Turtle! Turtle! (Score:2, Insightful)
[apple.com]
http://www.apple.com/trailers/columbia/master_o
Domestic pain (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Domestic pain (Score:2)
Get used to it. It's the catch phrase of the summer.
In front of the tube? Try in millions of bedrooms across America. It's going to replace "Yes! YES! YES!!!" from When Harry Met Sally [imdb.com] as THE Most Faux-Passionate Movie Quote!
Dont knock it until you see it... (Score:2, Interesting)
Turtle! Turtle!
arghhhhhhhhhh!!!! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:arghhhhhhhhhh!!!! (Score:2)
WWII Forklift? (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, and BTW, to all you guys who answered that you'd like to be run over by a WWII forklift, I can arrange that ;-)
Re:WWII Forklift? (Score:5, Interesting)
chrisd
Re:WWII Forklift? (Score:4, Funny)
your answer is just as random as the option...
Old Passenger train cars? WTF was your mom-IL doing with those - and can I have one?
Re:WWII Forklift? (Score:5, Interesting)
He passed away recently, and they were willed to the sacramento rail museum. The two passenger cars were picked up this week. They hauled two 80 foot 110,000lb cars to the train yards in sacramento. Quite a site to see. (I haven't posted the pics yet).
Chris
Re:WWII Forklift? (Score:3, Funny)
Reviews not looking good... (Score:3, Informative)
Usually quite accurate with their percentage. Just let more reviews pile in... I'm waiting for Ebert's take on this one. He usually does quite good with trashing bad movies, such as actually suggesting another movie in his Scooby Doo review (he suggested Lilo and Stitch).
Re:Reviews not looking good... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Reviews not looking good... (Score:2)
Carvey? So what? Everyone knows he's a crackpot anyway. If this movie is truly as horrible as everyone says, the one I feel sorry for is Brent Spiner. He's been one of my favorite actors for a long time and has had many excellent broadway hits even though he's never landed a particularly large role in any non-Star Trek movie.
I mourn the innocent...
Re:Reviews not looking good... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Reviews not looking good... (Score:2)
Re:Reviews not looking good... (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed. Some would even go so far as to say it was... travolting
(rimshot)
Re:Reviews not looking good... (Score:2)
Seriously. It was in the paper this morning.
It also clocks in at 65 minutes + 15 minutes of b-roll credits. From what I can tell, Ebert hated it. Gave it a "D" on our paper's rating scale. (What does that translate into in thumbs? "1 thumb most of the way down"?).
Re:Reviews not looking good... (Score:4, Funny)
Sheer genius cannot even begin to properly address this cinematic achievement, to call it any less is an insult. Dana Carvey, on the surface, plays a bumbling Italian waiter who inherits the power of disguise; however, if you dig a bit deeper & peel away the layers, you'll find a motion picture which is a scathing, yet biting social political statement on society as a whole. One cannot begin to hopefully comprehend or decipher all the psychological & stereotypical boundaries this film breaks. It is a surprise to find this film in mainstream theaters as a film on this level & caliber would normally only be found in the finest arthouse theaters. If you plan on seeing Master of Disguise, I suggest keeping your afternoon free, as after viewing, no after witnessing it, you'll need the rest of the afternoon to invest in deciphering the dense narrative. Admittingly some of the jokes were over my head, but all truly great comedies take a bit of effort for comprehension. Only for serious film viewers & students of the artform as a whole.
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Cut and paste for a better tomorrow
Re:Reviews not looking good... (Score:3, Informative)
The short version is, he didn't like it, one star.
Nothing Against Master of Disguise...heh (Score:2)
Hot wax his car? I don't think so. (Score:5, Funny)
I'd rather hot wax Cowboy Neal with my tongue. Oh, baby!
Re:Hot wax his car? I don't think so. (Score:2)
Missing Options.... (Score:5, Funny)
Own Enron stock.
Own vested options for Global Crossing. (I really do...)
Load Slackware 2.0 on a P90 laptop through a SLIP connection...
Integrate Sendmail and Exchange..(Chills up my spine)
Have Arthur Anderson as my "former employer".
Re:Missing Options.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Missing Options.... (Score:2)
The obvious missing option is:
Posting +5 Funny comments on Slashdot.
Re:Missing Options.... (Score:2)
Reading any story posted by michael
-Bill
Re:Missing Options.... (Score:2, Insightful)
Out of any dist. I can think of, Slack 2.0 would probably be the *best* one to install on a P90 laptop through a slip connection. Now Mandrake 8, that's a different story...
Re:Missing Options.... (Score:2)
LOL, shivers actually went up my spine as I read that line, until I saw the comment in the the parentheses and pretty much laughed my ass off.
Re:Missing Options.... (Score:2)
Being forced to read John Katz stories all day.
Re:Missing Options.... (Score:2)
How about an #emerge world on gentoo with a 56k modem on a 486sx.
Re:Missing Options.... (Score:2)
Re:Missing Options.... (Score:3, Funny)
Glue my nostrils together with crazy glue
Get a hundred thousand paper cuts on my face
Clean all of the bathrooms in Grand Central Station with my tongue
Dive naked on a huge pile of thumb tacks
When I was your age (Score:5, Funny)
Kids these days...
Re:When I was your age (Score:2, Funny)
At least you had oak trees! When I was a youngin, we didn't have natural trees of any sort. If we wanted trees, we had to build 'em out of dirt! And then we had to let 'em petrify before we could make pointy things out of 'em. After that, and only after that, could we drive pointy things into ourselves. And you could forget about eyes! No sir, we didn't have 'em, didn't need 'em, and didn't want 'em! Running blindly into petrified dirt trees was what we did for fun!
Now turn down that awful ruckus you call music! And get out of my yard!
Re:When I was your age (Score:2)
Re:When I was your age (Score:2, Funny)
I decided to drive nails into EyeMacs
AM Radio (Score:2)
I listen to AM radio. It relaxes me to hear people jabber while I try top get work done, especially with numbers.
Am I the only one... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Am I the only one... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Am I the only one... (Score:2, Informative)
windows... (Score:3, Funny)
Drive Nails Under My Favorite Eyeball
Get Run over by a WWII Fork Lift
Listen to AM radio
Hot Wax CowboyNeal's Car With My Tongue
why redundant? they are listed in the SP3 for W2K EULA... well maybe not the CowboyNeal's car part, but Billy's car(s)
A Legitimate Question? (Score:4, Insightful)
That said, the options about driving nails under your eyeballs and about WWII forklifts were quite arbitrary, but I assume that those were meant to be arbitrary.
Re:A Legitimate Question? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:A Legitimate Question? (Score:3, Insightful)
That said, I don't get it with the rash of these stories lately. What am I supposed to do when a kid gets napped at gunpoint in California (I live in Kentucky)? I'm empathize for parents who have suffered this experience, but this is not newsworthy to anyone unless it is _local_. This is cheap journalism that preys on soccer moms' fears.
Re:A Legitimate Question? (Score:2)
Over %80 of statistics are made up on the spot.
M@
Fox News sucks too... (Score:3, Insightful)
I agree with you on CNN, too. CNN is about pacifying people to give them the news they expect, but don't present anything too harsh or gritty which might alter their consumer-driven, SUV driving minds.
PBS is still pretty good (though they've blurred the line somewhat between underwriting and advertising and that could lead to sacrificed journalistic integrity). If you want televised newscast, I highly recommend watching "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" [pbs.org] on PBS (typically around 5-6 PM local time -- you can look it up here [pbs.org]).
There are quite a few problems with the media in general in this country and I think the book Rich Media, Poor Democracy [amazon.com] by Robert McChesney explains it best.
P.S. I am acutely aware of the perceived irony by decrying consumerism in one paragraph and then listing an Amazon url in another -- but I'm not trying to say that all consumerism is bad; just rabid consumerism. ;)
Re:A Legitimate Question? (Score:2)
You say CNN doesn't have a liberal slant, even though some on the right say it does. You then say that Fox news is absoultly conservative. Sounds like what some people on the left say....
Do I detect a hint of bias in the apparent conflict in your statements?
Re:A Legitimate Question? (Score:2)
I watch FoxNews (my bias emerges), and I have never ONCE heard them call themselves conservative.
Alan Colmes and Greta van Susteren are on fox news and not conservative, and are infact liberal. Bill O'reilly is in-your-face opinionated, but he is just as hard on republicans and democrats, and when he speaks on a topic, he has both sides on to debate (not something you would see from a bias network). FoxNews isn't conservative, it is simply more thorough about exploring topics other networks do not. Presenting the other side may make it seem they are bias towards that side, but I would argue it to be the case that other networks are bias for excluding the other side of the argument.
In any event, it is just plain wrong for you to say "CNN is unbias, even though lots of fanatics say it is. Oh yea, FoxNews is SOOOO bias!"
Re:A Legitimate Question? (Score:3, Insightful)
This cracked me up.
So restated: "The networks that agree with my personal political, leftist affiliation, are non-biased. Sometimes it may seem that they are biased, but I agree with them, so they aren't. Fox, on the other hand, doesn't slant stories towards the left, so therefore they are biased."
Sheesh!
-Bill
Re:A Legitimate Question? (Score:2)
Citation of Fox saying this is the offical policy of the network?
-Bill
How about ... (Score:2)
Anyone...anyone....
I just spent 7 hours backing up, formating, restoring, formatting again, installing, repairing, formatting again, restoring, and repairing. Yes, I don't know what I am doing. Now I could probably do it in an hour or two after all the experience.
I remember the good old days when disk drives came with utilities that would automatically copy partitions and worked. This one had one, except it doesn't work on NTFS partitions. MS failed to let me know that when I installed W2K a few months ago.
Next time, install, reload, which is what I did with Linux anyway
Re:How about ... (Score:2)
Missing Option - Read EULAs (Score:2)
Dana Carvey (Score:2, Insightful)
Oh well, it can't be as bad as that Carrot Top movie a few years back.
36? (Score:4, Informative)
It's a shame everyone is calling him a "has been".. the only reason he's been absent since Wayne's World 2 is because of major medical problems with his heart. He had surgery done, and the surgeon hooked up the wrong tube!!! He nearly died, but had corrective surgery done just in time. All Carvey wanted from the surgeon was an apology, but the guy wouldn't even admit he had made a mistake. Because of this, Carvey successfully sued the guy, and gave all the money to charity.
A great, talented guy. Too bad this movie looks like a real stinker... because I feel like this guy really DOES deserve a decent comeback.
Someone explain this for us ferriners? (Score:4, Informative)
But just what is this poll about? Can somebody explain just what this show is, what its about, and what the turtle reference does?
Without knowing a thing about Master of Disguise, it sounds pretty bad given the depravity of tortures listed (except the cowboy neal option, which sounds kinda fun). So somebody dump on the rest of us what specific things make this show BAD.
the AC
Comment removed (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Someone explain this for us ferriners? (Score:4, Informative)
Apple.com's Movie Trailer Site [apple.com]
Enjoy?
Re:Someone explain this for us ferriners? (Score:2, Insightful)
Turtle Club members only (Score:2, Interesting)
The first rule of Turtle Club (Score:5, Funny)
Uhm... wait a minute...
What about "Country Bears"? (Score:4, Funny)
I mean, just because it looks like it should really be called "Chucky Cheese Animitronics Gone Wild" you shouldn't dismiss it right away.
Actually, I take that back, it does mean that, and those bears freak me out.
Re:What about "Country Bears"? (Score:2)
Guess what SP3 is for? (Score:2)
Win2k SP3 (Score:2)
SP3 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:SP3 (Score:2)
Rinse and repeat.
Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell (Score:2)
Andre060
Hotwax CN's car? (Score:2)
Cowboy Neal called! (Score:2)
Otherwise he will send you a copy of the movie.
Thanks for giving me a good laugh (Score:2)
AM radio is the best (Score:2)
Of course, it takes a critical mind to find the gems from the raving lunatics on AM, but at least it's not sterile.
AM Radio (Score:2, Insightful)
Why, amongst the tortuous options of waxing Cowboyneal's car and the like, is there an option for listening to AM radio, implying it to be a bad thing?
AM radio has a lot to offer, and the fact that it still exists is testimony to that. Here in the UK AM not only broadcasts two independent national radio stations (bear in mind there is only one on FM), it also has a whole host of other local commercial stations, a wealth of restricted license stations (hospital and student radio, etc), and a growing number of community non-profit stations.
Put that against FM: There's the BBC stations. (local and national) - fair enough. There is one independent national, Classic FM. Not everyone's cup of tea, but also fair enough. But then most of the rest is just not worth the bandwidth it's broadcast on. So many local FM music stations wear the same old tired brand and pump out the same old stuff day in, day out.
Programming wise, while not being entirely innocent of all charges, AM still has a lot to offer.
As far as broadcast quality goes, OK, AM is at a disadvantage - especially within close proximity to a 'puter. But AM can sound good - our college radio station sounds absolute lovely. If quality bothers you, then I suggest (if you're in the UK) you get your act together and try and get something sorted for digital radio in the Communication Bill [communicat...ill.gov.uk], other wise the trend towards slashing bitrates to squeeze in extra stations on the DAB multiplexes - disgracefully led by the BBC, I might add - will not get the regulation it sorely deserves. We are supposed to believe that Digital Radio is the future of radio, but if what they're doing to the bitrates is allowed to go unnoticed then;ll digital radio will have shot itself in the foot and be premanently crippled below its potential before it even gets going.
You'll have to hurry though - the last day of consultation on the Communication Bill is today!
I refuse to answer..... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not a big Dana Carvey fan but the trailers make the movie look funny. There's a place for fun escapist entertainment done well. I'm going to check this out.
Cursed slashdot! (Score:2)
grumble grumble.. *flash*
People..... (Score:2)
But seriously, don't get all bent out of shape over this movie, it's not meant for your age group. Think about it...Gammy Num Nums? The Turtle Guy? The PG rating? Dana's even said in many many interviews that it's for kids because he has a 10 year old and doesn't want to make anything his kid can't watch til he's old enough.
Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 (Score:5, Insightful)
Be sure to read the new EULA/privacy statement for Windows update, it has an
interesting portion about how Windows Update and Automatic Update (which
gets installed with SP3) can, by agreeing to this license, send the
following pieces of info to Microsoft, this was posted on the MS focus list
by Javier Sanchez:
"With the latest version of Windows Update (essentially a mandatory download
and now part of SP3) you consent to sending the following information to
Microsoft:
* Operating-system version number and Product Identification number
* Internet Explorer version number
* Version numbers of other software
* Plug and Play ID numbers of hardware devices
This is stated in the "Windows Update Privacy Statement" which you can read
at You can also
follow the "About Windows Update" link off the WindowsUpdate page. Don't
bother trying to right-click, they've made sure to disable that."
Scary. A poll option is better than nothing, I suppose.
What's wrong with Master Of Disguise? (Score:2)
So would someone tell me where all the negative backlash is coming from? Did he say Linux is bad or something? Would you rather he dressed up as a penguin, instead of a turtle?
So uh... (Score:2)
Just taking a wild stab in the dark here, but I'm guessing this movie sucks a litle?
Everybody Sing! (Score:2)
(Many thanks to MST3K and Escape Velocity)
Triv
Austin Powers wannabe (Score:2)
I wish him luck...I don't think the new Carvey movie looks *quite* as bad as everyone here is implying. I like some his standup.
But I'd rather do *all* those than watch AustinP 3 (Score:2)
If I see one more 5 minute blurb on the news about the Austin Powers phenominum, i'm gunna die.
"Nothing But Trouble" Misunderstood (Score:3, Informative)
"Nothing But Trouble" is a spoof on the corruption-filled court system of the Scranton, PA area. A family known as the DeNaples, who have extensive mob ties, own a massive junkyard outside of the city. It is well known that the DeNaples have many ties to local law enforcement, and many a body are suspected of being hidden in the hundreds of acres of the DeNaples junkyard.
The movie, while downright idiotic in some aspects, was very entertaining to me because I am familiar with it's background.
Re:AM Radio (Score:2)
AM has some good stuff.
Re:AM Radio (Score:4, Informative)
Can be a bad thing? (Score:2)
Re:Can be a bad thing? (Score:2, Insightful)
Just my $0.02, adjusted for the Canadian exchange rate.
Re:Can be a bad thing? (Score:2)
Re:Can be a bad thing? (Score:2, Insightful)
Though I agree anything based off of an SNL skit is doomed. I'm gunna vote a slow WWII forklift if Mad TV gets a skit based movie out...
Re:Can be a bad thing? (Score:2)
I guess we should feel glad that the project to bring Mike Myers' Dieter character to the screen fell through. Myers reportedly canceled it [go.com] when he decided that there was no way anybody could write a good enough script to make the movie work! Now if only a bunch of other ex-SNL people had the same fortitude.
OBTrading Places: Many stock boards have quoted Trading Places in the last year or so... every time the market burps off a few hundred points, somebody throws in the obligatory "Turn those machines back on!!" and "Beeks! Where the hell is Beeks?!" Ah yes... one of my favorites.
Re:Can be a bad thing? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Can be a bad thing? (Score:2, Informative)
Are you just young or have you forgotten the original Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Stripes, National Lampoon's Vacation, Animal House, etc. These were all great movies.
Re:Can be a bad thing? (Score:2)
Re:Forklift (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dana Carvey (Score:2)
Re:What about... CANNIBAL! (Score:2)