Prophetic movies?

fast_eddie_72 wrote:

Mental wrote: "I'll buy that for a dollar"

I use that line! Love it. People look at you funny. Sometimes when I'm in an odd mood, when someone I don't know says "hi", I'll say "plate of shrimp."

The correct answer to Hi is "I like pie". The answer to all other questions is 7.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: The correct answer to Hi is "I like pie". The answer to all other questions is 7.

My son is a huge fan of "I like pie" as a responce to about anything. He has set his cell phone up to sig all his text messages "John, aka Lord of Pie."

oldsaw wrote:

Tom Heath wrote: In reply to Dr. Hess: That would have served us all better as a private message. Movie thread about movies, politics thread about politics. Mentioning political figures doesn not make this a political thread. kthanxbye.

So, how did Margie react when you knocked on her office door to talk about board etiquette?

Oops, Tom was too polite to come knock on my door (which is already open, anyway). But he's right, my bad. Offending comment and rabble it roused removed (though I thought Hess did, as usual, have some valid points buried in the stuff I violently disagreed with).

Margie

orphancars wrote: and +1 for Running Man -- aren't the reality shows just about a season or two away from this reality? Isn't that why we have the Biggest Loser -- we're just waiting for an overweight person to have their heart explode on TV?

I would pay real money to see that.

Marjorie Suddard wrote: Oops, Tom was too polite to come knock on my door (which is already open, anyway). But he's right, my bad. Offending comment and rabble it roused removed (though I thought Hess did, as usual, have some valid points buried in the stuff I violently disagreed with. Margie

Honestly, I didn't find either comment "offensive". But, I'm having trouble reconciling the thoughts of Margie-violence and expanding patio space.

On topic, the prophetic movies depicting societal-decline are a bit too real. Maybe "War of the Worlds" needs to come true............

oldsaw wrote: On topic, the prophetic movies depicting societal-decline are a bit too real. Maybe "War of the Worlds" needs to come true............

I think society as a whole could use a good nuking every couple hundred years... don't ever give me access to "the button"

Aw, man...how could I have missed this one! I actually work in TV!

"Network", 1976. It's about the evolution of television from public service & entertainment to the modern Corporate Billboard that it is today. The plot involves the bosses insisting that the news division of their network should become another profit center, rather than part of their corporate responsibility.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/

"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box." -Edward R. Murrow

"..you've got to say, `I'm mad as hell! And I'm not going to take this anymore!!" -Howard Beale

friedgreencorrado wrote: Aw, man...how could I have missed *this* one! I actually work in TV!

You didn't miss it, the thread is over a year old.

In reply to mtn:

yeah I was kind of wondering when I started this thread and why it was still alive...

Wait it was dead and has risen from the dead...IT'S A ZOMBIE THREAD! BREAK OUT THE ZAB (zombie attack browser)!

Now back to our regularly scheduled insanity.

I watched idiocracy and it really bothered me.

But when I finished and sat down to watch primetime television.... I started to feel sick. The first ad I saw really struck home as to how close we already are.

ohh old thread..

how about when SNL makes fun of something and then it comes true?

A razor with FIVE BLADES!!!

We did this play in high school: David and Lisa As a side note, this actor was the David character: Hi Loren. I think he's done OK with the acting profession. I was the doctor. How weird is that? Anyway, David is a psychotic teenager with a "time" problem. He envisions a watch or clock that is linked by radio to a central time system to that it is always exactly on time. At the time everyone thought "Man, that kid is really nuts. A clock linked by radio so it's always exactly on time." Today you can get them at Walmart for under $30.