Films you've watched recently.

Brass Monkey wrote:Well, there wasn't even a defence. I don't need one for a 'yeah, you're right that is silly, but I don't take it that seriously'. I was actually horrified to see my post wasn't there.

Horrified?

So you take forumming in this tinpot shitheap seriously, but not sci-fi?

You want to sort your priorities out, man.

Dello wrote:
Horrified?

So you take forumming in this tinpot shitheap seriously, but not sci-fi?

You want to sort your priorities out, man.

Maybe my phrasology was a bit OTT.

But, what, you take sci-fi seriously? Have you any idea how difficult it would be to build a Terminator? For starters, there's the human tissue thing but the even bigger point is that it would be nigh on impossible for a human to program a cognitive enough brain? I did AI at uni - creating the billions of neurons and synapses required to make something even resembling a human are beyond our capabilities. Oh and it would be impossible to cause the nuclear apocalypse by Skynet simply interlinking into 'everyone's "mainframes". Poppycock from the start. Like almost every science-fiction book and film since the dawn of the genre.

F*ck off. I once made a human head out of papier mache. Piece of piss.

Add the science, bish bash bosh, got yourself a robot.

Good point, but you don't know what the robots primes directives are. It could be: "I's ams as robots, mys primes dis-rectives is tos goes tos the shops and buys tens fogs. Thens kills Kyles Reeses. Do's yous computes?"

May have had to travel a looooong way for tens fogs.

I assume 1) Serve the public trust 2) Protect the innocent 3) Uphold the law 4) (Classified) comes as standard.

Then you just tweak them a bit to suit your objectives.

Isn't that an android? Get your robots right. FFS, I don't like random intolerance.

Can I programme it to nosh me off? Then it's a f*cking robot.

It eats baby food, it's not a proper robot! But yes, it can nosh you off, but it won't. It's into women.

Brass Monkey wrote:Salvation is big daddy. Top banana.

Lardy, 18-19 years later? **shakes head in disappointment**

The shame ... I just never found the time.

Red wrote:

Henry wrote:Saw 'Horrible Bosses' yesterday. Tried formula, but funny.

Yeah, it was quite good. Saw 'One Life' at the weekend. Enjoyed it but it's more a chick flick so probably wouldn't have appeal here. Anne Hathaway was pretty good in her lead role.

Barely On-Topic but I saw this shopped pic of Anne Hathaway recently and it made me laugh. Eyebrows obviously serve the function of stopping you look freaky...



And even freakier without eyebrows is the Terminator...

aye, that was a favourite student trick - shaving off your mates eyebrows (or maybe just one) whilst he was lying unconscious

watch out Vilks

I've not seen T2 either. Seem to see the same bits every time it's on. The bit where he tuns his arm into a spike and kills people and the bit in the lab where the police are outside where it's all explosions and sh*t.

I did watch T1 when I was about 10 and I remember loving it.

Dan - the T2 couldn't be created now. Wouldn't their defence just be - it's the future, we advanced. Peeps probably thought a laptop was impossible as little as 100 years ago.

What the f**k is with people having not watched T2? Philistines.

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:I've not seen T2 either. Seem to see the same bits every time it's on. The bit where he tuns his arm into a spike and kills people and the bit in the lab where the police are outside where it's all explosions and sh*t.

I did watch T1 when I was about 10 and I remember loving it.

Dan - the T2 couldn't be created now. Wouldn't their defence just be - it's the future, we advanced. Peeps probably thought a laptop was impossible as little as 100 years ago.

You haven't seen T2? Are you out of your f*cking mind? I took it well when it was old lards, ye? Ye're supposed to be 'all filmy'.

People thought laptops were impossible 50 years ago. People thought home computers would be the size of an entire room back then. They thought a computer that size would be able to perform the computations of a 2002 model mobile phone - at best. I'm willing to think that things will change in the future, one's the brain has been adequately mapped and reconstructed extensively enough but it's a massive task - they're on about some IBM supercomputer the size of a shoebox having half the complexity of the human brain now.

But programming the ability to be functional enough to be anything like the Terminator, in the timeframe given, is unfeasible in any reality. What must be remembered is that if the computer is intelligent enough to create the Terminator, that means that they must already at least be as intelligent as us. This raises the issue that already being intelligent as us, they would already be as enlightened as us and ergo would never had made the 'nuclear war' decision in the first place.

But, as I've already said, 'pinch of salt', as with any film really. Any film is made up, even if it's based on true events. It's all good, IMO. Imagination at it's best.

Blah blah. I get the same reaction every time. I haven't seen the Die Hards, True Lies, The Predators, the Alien films or the Rambos either. True story. Alien 1 and 2 are the only ones that interest me out of that lot.

Seen all the Rocky's though! *Dello's avatar*

Da - thanks for the info. I will look up the IBM supercomputer. I like reading about stuff like that.

True Lies is sh!t.

Well I think it is, that is the one where Jim Carrey can't tell lies right?

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:Blah blah. I get the same reaction every time. I haven't seen the Die Hards, True Lies, The Predators, the Alien films or the Rambos either. True story. Alien 1 and 2 are the only ones that interest me out of that lot.

Seen all the Rocky's though! *Dello's avatar*

Da - thanks for the info. I will look up the IBM supercomputer. I like reading about stuff like that.

Look it up and remember that 'having half the complexity of the human brain' in no way means that it has the ability to learn to any fruition. It would only have a fraction of our cognition and would not be able to reason in any way enough for them to have a persona.

As for you not seeing those films **shakes head** what is wrong with you? What the hell is wrong with you? Seriously?

Die Hard and 4.0 are the best.
True Lies is pretty good.
Predator is f*cking wicked, Predators is quite similar in a lot of ways. I like the 2nd but I wouldn't necessarily recommending going out of your way.
Alien is good. Didn't have time for the rest.
Rambo? They can pretty much f*ck themselves.

All of those films are worth probably about a quid. Did you watch any of the Ashes '06/07? All of those films that I've mentioned are a better two hours than watching any of that gash was.

spangler wrote:True Lies is sh!t.

Well I think it is, that is the one where Jim Carrey can't tell lies right?

No, that's Cable Ventura: Pet Mask.

Lara Lara Laughs wrote:Blah blah. I get the same reaction every time. I haven't seen the Die Hards, True Lies, The Predators, the Alien films or the Rambos either. True story. Alien 1 and 2 are the only ones that interest me out of that lot.

Die Hards - see. First is best, of course, as with pretty much all franchises, but 2 is reasonable, 3 quite decent, 4 sokay.

True Lies - don't bother.

Predator - I'd give it a go. Predator 2 and all the Alien vs Predator shite aint worth owt.

Alien and Aliens - see. The rest, not worth it.

Rambos - not missing anything. Then again, I've only seen the first one.

Brass Monkey wrote:

Look it up and remember that 'having half the complexity of the human brain' in no way means that it has the ability to learn to any fruition. It would only have a fraction of our cognition and would not be able to reason in any way enough for them to have a persona.

So they've built a chav?

Scary days...

That's the worst bit, they haven't even built it yet! It's just a box. With a clown pendant hung upon it.

If LLL hasn't seen any of those films then he's not "filmy", Danny.

It's a strange one. I reckon you have to purposefully not watched them. Refused to see them, even.

He's out of the badger pack.

There, I've said it.

You've got draw a line somewhere or the whole circle of trust comes crashing down. I can't go into battle alongside a man who hasn't seen Die Hard.

How will he even know how to wear a vest properly?

Dello wrote:He's out of the badger pack.

There, I've said it.

You've got draw a line somewhere or the whole circle of trust comes crashing down. I can't go into battle alongside a man who hasn't seen Die Hard.

How will he even know how to wear a vest properly?

Yeah man! TBH, I thought we were all Bruce Willising it around here. I feel like he's been sticking statements on my back whilst try to get me killed by the Dingos.