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This brings a tear to my eye:

"Forty-two radio telescope dishes near Mount Shasta will again start listening for sounds of intelligent life in the universe this fall after donors -- including actress Jodie Foster -- came up with more than $200,000 ..."

When the real-world actress saves a radio telescope, it makes the movie that much more real and meaningful.

SETI Project: We're Listening Again, ET

I also liked this quote:

"There is something very quintessentially American about it," Shostak added. "There's something in our culture about being willing to try long-shot but high-stakes experiments in the name of exploration."

The iPhone: will it double as a mini-projector?

You had me at "Minority Report-style hand movement" ...

http://mobile.theweek.com/article/index/218280/the-iphone-will-it-double-as-a-mini-projector

Premakes

These are very satisfying. -0.00003 for adding some modern overdubbing / occasional sound effects, but this is a minor point.


"Premakes" Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GUPDuQq9GsM

"Premakes" Raiders .. A frame by frame breakdown

youtube.com/watch?v=eE9-FcJnQGA&feature=watch_response

"Premakes" Ghost Busters (1954)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kAboGO9MDsQ&feature=related

"Premakes" The Empire Strikes Back (1950)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmTpOQrqoO0&feature=related

Watching Olivia Wilde on House. I'm kind of going in the reverse direction, having seen her first in Tron: Legacy -

I'm realizing my BIGlist is like a virtual library. I should treat it as such. 

What makes Star Wars such a perfect movie?

Planet of the Apes

Am I too cynical? The new Planet of the Apes, it looks ... first, it's insulting to not delve into the existing intelligence that chimps have, and not build on this ...

Liveblogging (the first five minutes of) Cars 2

I don't know what John Lasseter was thinking. 

Apparently this was an idea borne out of a small sequence, clipped out of Cars 1.

This movie just doesn't feel like Pixar.

It feels like someone broke into the studio, utilized all of their technical talent, but the script is missing. The story is missing. 

But Lasseter figured it out, like George Lucas before him.  Make a movie directed at, marketed at *kids*.  Make a ton of money. 

Give a heartfelt story a backseat.

Make money.

Anyway ...  
Although it is cool to hear Michael Caine's voice. But it doesn't make up for it. 

AMC Pacers and Gremlins in the harbor scene. 

(as soon as we cut to Mater:)

What a pathetic ... there's no story here, no set up. It's an injustice to the first Cars movie (not that the first one was especially *spectacular* ... but it did have a lot of heart.)

And I think that Lemon that Mater is towing is a Trabant.  That's cute.

Something's wrong here. There's no development, no re-introduction to the characters.  And we just sailed by Bonnie Hunt like she wasn't even there. 

Miles Axelrod = a Range Rover

Ok, that's just weird, to have cars in an airplane, it just kind of ruins the suspension of disbelief .. a vehicle inside of a vehicle? I mean, cars are sentient, airplanes are sentient, cars are sitting inside of an airplane's innards?

i'm convinced it's a dangerous thing to upgrade OSes on existing machines. I'm of the "if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it" mentality.

I hear horror stories of people upgrading to Lion and having problems, and really, why f**k with something that has all your apps on it, all your data, all your settings, sheesh.

Just buy a new machine. OS is on there, it was on there since the factory, everything works, just buy it.

I really don't like fing with something in regards to OS and the machine. The two should go hand in hand.

First Trailer For The George Lucas Produced Red Tails

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/First-Trailer-For-The-George-Lucas-Produced-Red-Tails-25969.html

I just can't look at any George Lucas-produced image and not think "Jar-Jar Binks", "heavy, over-produced, over-busy-special-effects-space-scenes", basically the travesty that was Episode I, Episode II, Episode III ... it's going to take a lot to get that stuff out of my head ...

Maybe if he hadn't put his name on this ... we'd look at this as a much better movie ..

Nicole Kidman used to be really hot.