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**Mal Hombre** · June 30th, 2017, 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Wendigo

Screamers (1979) aka Island of The Fishmen
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081467/

The Fishguy on the right has noticed a couple of points of interest..

**Wendigo** · June 30th, 2017, 06:59 PM

Kull the Conqueror (1997)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119484/

Kevin Sorbo (who else ???) plays a soldier Kull of Atlantis who becomes King when he defeats the old King in combat.
Excellent cast as Robert E Howard's character is brought to the big screen at last. Not quite Conan but an enjoyable sword & sorcery yarn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLWayoYSLHA

**Devius** · June 30th, 2017, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Devius

According to the BBC, The Fate of the Furious has raced to the top of the box office chart - breaking an international record in the process.

The eighth film in the action thriller franchise took an estimated $532.5m (£424.7m) globally over Easter weekend.

The figure makes it the strongest worldwide debut ever - marginally overtaking the $529m (£421.8m) taken by Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

However, the film's US takings were down sharply on the previous movie.

Furious 7 opened with $147.2m (£117.3m) in the US when it was released in 2015 - but the latest instalment of the series debuted with $100.2m (£80m).

Details:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39619840

As you said, that franchise is critic-proof...

Started watching F8 last night, hoping to give my two cents worth...but I had to stop after the opening several minutes, since I was pi$$ing myself laughing at the first big scene (Dom Toretto's Havana car race).

The [abrigded] scene is on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqxMAeFYlwY

There are classic movie car chases like Bullitt, French Connection and Ronin.
There are classic movie racing scenes like Grand Prix and Le Mans.

But the scenes in the "Fast and Furious" franchise are so increasingly unbelievable, I would compare them now to Sly Stallone's Driven (yep, that bad).

**Wendigo** · July 1st, 2017, 01:09 PM

Open Graves (2009)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870937/

A bunch of surfers play an old board game that turns out to grant the wishes of the winner but the losers all die in the ways described on their cards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TXupLZg7is

**Rogerbh** · July 1st, 2017, 07:16 PM

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) A movie about Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematician from the 1914-1920 era who I had never heard of - played by Dev Patel because I guess Aziz Ansari wasn't available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

Jeremy Irons portrays G. H. Hardy - a Fellow at Cambridge who collaborated with him.

I felt like a moron as I barely understood the one mathematical discussion they tried to explain - and still cannot understand why it is of any importance.

This guy was like the Isaac Newton of his time. A pity his life was cut short by illness before he could produce more work. I wonder if any of you know of his work and can appreciate him - as I feel too stupid to understand his stature in his field.

**Brecht** · July 1st, 2017, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Rogerbh

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) A movie about Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematician from the 1914-1920 era who I had never heard of - played by Dev Patel because I guess Aziz Ansari wasn't available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

Jeremy Irons portrays G. H. Hardy - a Fellow at Cambridge who collaborated with him.

I felt like a moron as I barely understood the one mathematical discussion they tried to explain - and still cannot understand why it is of any importance.

This guy was like the Isaac Newton of his time. A pity his life was cut short by illness before he could produce more work. I wonder if any of you know of his work and can appreciate him - as I feel too stupid to understand his stature in his field.

Ramanujan is mentioned in Good Will Hunting. That's the first time I heard of him.

**Mal Hombre** · July 1st, 2017, 07:57 PM

I only heard of Him through the BBC programme QI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB2RO8DGa74

**trailmaster** · July 1st, 2017, 10:50 PM

These are two of the Netflix films that I saw yesterday and today. They are both based on true stories: The first one is "Lion" starring Sunny Pawar as the younger Saroo, and Dev Patel as the older Saroo. In 1986 in the small town of Khandwa, India 5 year old Saroo follows his older brother Guddu to a job and they end up at a nearby train station. Saroo is too tired to go on so he decides to take a nap on a bench while his older brother Guddu goes to the job. Hours later Saroo wakes up in the middle of the night and his brother is not there. Saroo looks for him, and assumes he might be on the next train that has just come to the station. He boards the train and the compartment is empty and he again falls asleep. Whe he awakes he finds out that the train has driven to Calcutta which is 1600 kilometers west of Khandwa. Saroo gets off the train and spends days looking for his brother. Eventually the police and the Indian equivalent of "The Department of Children and Family Services" places him in an orphanage. He is then adopted by an Australian family who take Saroo to live with them in Tasmania. He stays with them for 20 years, learns English and then uses on his computer Google maps to try to locate his home in Khandwa so he can go back to India and try to find his mother. This is a good, emotional film. It received very good reviews from the critics and 6 Academy Award nominations, but did not win any. It did very good at the box office earning more than 10 times the money it took to make the film. The title of the film is Saroo's name translated into English which is "Lion"

The second film was much better. It is "Hidden Figures" which tells the true story that was never written about in any U.S History book about three young black women who were all mathematical genuises who went to work for NASA in 1961 to help the U.S. beat the Russians and put a man on the Moon before the decade of the 60's ends. It stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst and others. This is a fantastic movie. In 1961 American Caucasian people were still very prejudiced against Negroes. These three women who as young girls were all mathematical genuises got jobs years later at the Langley Air Force Base in their computing department. After the Russians surprised America with it's very successful launch of Sputnik. NASA and the rest of the U.S. government were obsessed with beating the Russians and get a man on the Moon. These three black women were hired by different departments at NASA to help with the enormous mathematical calculations necessary to get the rockets operational, and the early Mercury program underway that eventually led to John Glenn making his historic three orbits of the Earth and a successful re-entry and splashdown. If these three black women had never been hired the U.S. space program would have failed. The U.S would never have put a man on the moon in 1969, and our shuttle program would never have happened. You must see this film!

**Wendigo** · July 2nd, 2017, 11:50 AM

Attack of the Sabretooth (2005)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443334/

An SciFi Channel cut price Jurassic Park wannabe as an entrepreneur opens up a new project on a Fijian island with a breeding couple of Sabrebooths brought back from the dead through cloning. A group of US frat kids on a scavenger hunt turn off the security systems as part of their prank and guess what happens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TByrlJJKReI

**george anson** · July 2nd, 2017, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Brecht

Ramanujan is mentioned in Good Will Hunting. That's the first time I heard of him.

Unfortunately in the great scheme of things, even the most 'important' of scientists get scant exposure in the media. Vera Rubin, Roger Tsien and Marvin Minsky all passed away this year for instance. Not a word in the mainstream news.

Notwithstanding that the very fabric of modern life depends on science and all the technological gadgets, the very internet I'n using relies on subtle mathamatics such as packaging information thanks to Donald Davies once of Bletchley Park.

Ramanujan is a great genius, one whose neural network allowed him an almost intuitive insight into numbers and equations and without computers developed extraordinarily complex equations.

Given that certain patterns repeat in his work (much of which is still being studied today) they seem to imply patterns in the Universe indeed dimensions of it. Some of which are visible others which we are still trying to find.

Some films on notable scientists include The Imitiation Game, Creation, A Beautiful Mind although liberties have been taken in all. With regards to Ramanujan in India, there is a memorial day for him coupled with Mathamatics Day.

June 30th, 2017, 06:59 PM	#9872
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,773 Thanks: 259,883 Thanked 1,139,274 Times in 113,893 Posts	Kull the Conqueror (1997) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119484/ Kevin Sorbo (who else ???) plays a soldier Kull of Atlantis who becomes King when he defeats the old King in combat. Excellent cast as Robert E Howard's character is brought to the big screen at last. Not quite Conan but an enjoyable sword & sorcery yarn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLWayoYSLHA __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content

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Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,773 Thanks: 259,883 Thanked 1,139,274 Times in 113,893 Posts	Attack of the Sabretooth (2005) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443334/ An SciFi Channel cut price Jurassic Park wannabe as an entrepreneur opens up a new project on a Fijian island with a breeding couple of Sabrebooths brought back from the dead through cloning. A group of US frat kids on a scavenger hunt turn off the security systems as part of their prank and guess what happens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TByrlJJKReI __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content

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July 1st, 2017, 07:16 PM	#9875
Rogerbh Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Land of the free within reasonable limitations Posts: 10,903 Thanks: 50,525 Thanked 91,193 Times in 10,751 Posts	The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015) A movie about Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematician from the 1914-1920 era who I had never heard of - played by Dev Patel because I guess Aziz Ansari wasn't available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan Jeremy Irons portrays G. H. Hardy - a Fellow at Cambridge who collaborated with him. I felt like a moron as I barely understood the one mathematical discussion they tried to explain - and still cannot understand why it is of any importance. This guy was like the Isaac Newton of his time. A pity his life was cut short by illness before he could produce more work. I wonder if any of you know of his work and can appreciate him - as I feel too stupid to understand his stature in his field.

July 1st, 2017, 10:50 PM	#9878
trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Posts: 59,897 Thanks: 1,329,020 Thanked 707,232 Times in 60,071 Posts	These are two of the Netflix films that I saw yesterday and today. They are both based on true stories: The first one is "Lion" starring Sunny Pawar as the younger Saroo, and Dev Patel as the older Saroo. In 1986 in the small town of Khandwa, India 5 year old Saroo follows his older brother Guddu to a job and they end up at a nearby train station. Saroo is too tired to go on so he decides to take a nap on a bench while his older brother Guddu goes to the job. Hours later Saroo wakes up in the middle of the night and his brother is not there. Saroo looks for him, and assumes he might be on the next train that has just come to the station. He boards the train and the compartment is empty and he again falls asleep. Whe he awakes he finds out that the train has driven to Calcutta which is 1600 kilometers west of Khandwa. Saroo gets off the train and spends days looking for his brother. Eventually the police and the Indian equivalent of "The Department of Children and Family Services" places him in an orphanage. He is then adopted by an Australian family who take Saroo to live with them in Tasmania. He stays with them for 20 years, learns English and then uses on his computer Google maps to try to locate his home in Khandwa so he can go back to India and try to find his mother. This is a good, emotional film. It received very good reviews from the critics and 6 Academy Award nominations, but did not win any. It did very good at the box office earning more than 10 times the money it took to make the film. The title of the film is Saroo's name translated into English which is "Lion" The second film was much better. It is "Hidden Figures" which tells the true story that was never written about in any U.S History book about three young black women who were all mathematical genuises who went to work for NASA in 1961 to help the U.S. beat the Russians and put a man on the Moon before the decade of the 60's ends. It stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst and others. This is a fantastic movie. In 1961 American Caucasian people were still very prejudiced against Negroes. These three women who as young girls were all mathematical genuises got jobs years later at the Langley Air Force Base in their computing department. After the Russians surprised America with it's very successful launch of Sputnik. NASA and the rest of the U.S. government were obsessed with beating the Russians and get a man on the Moon. These three black women were hired by different departments at NASA to help with the enormous mathematical calculations necessary to get the rockets operational, and the early Mercury program underway that eventually led to John Glenn making his historic three orbits of the Earth and a successful re-entry and splashdown. If these three black women had never been hired the U.S. space program would have failed. The U.S would never have put a man on the moon in 1969, and our shuttle program would never have happened. You must see this film!