Stealth, the Movie

[Tuberski]

Not one of you people got my joke.

ACK!

[Pekka]

if no one got it, does it mean it doesn't qualify as a joke, or does it mean it was simply a bad joke. OR does it mean the joke was good, but we are bad? What is bad? The opposite of good, and if bad is the opposite of good, should we try to avoid the bad, since we know good is something we want.. but if sometimes we want cold, we might sometimes need heat, so why would not wanting bad be trivial.

SO MUCH QUESTIONS UNANSWERED OMG!

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
I can't stand the point of the movie. It's philosophically anti-technology, anti-artificial intelligence.

AI going haywire is a cheap convenient excuse of a plot for an action movie. There is an episode in ST: TOS along similar lines.

I think the movie would be much better if they used an SSBN instead of an airplane. An SSBN that happens to carry nuclear missiles, that is. The thing can stay out at sea for years, and it can launch devestating attacks against any country in the world. You can do a lot with something like that.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Q Cubed

Like far too many movies these days, being dullardly luddite ...

[Verto]

Originally posted by Tuberski
Not one of you people got my joke.

ACK!

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by Verto

Oh, I get it, stealth laughter......

ACK!

[LTEC!]

Was a cool movie (period) but not the coolest i've seen.

[JohnT]

The Family T went to Sky High, which was kind of cute for a little nothing movie. It was about what I expected, other than the John Hughes 80s-teen-movie hommages - that wasn't expected at all. The movie even ended with Modern English's I Melt With You - no Tenderness though, which would've made the references complete.

Sophie liked it and spent the next few hours impressing us with her superpowers ("I can run REALLY FASTER!!" plus she is able to do her karate warm-up exercises at the drop of a pin. ) Mommy liked it because Sophie was quiet (well... relatively quiet), relaxed, and sat in her lap for the entire film.

[JohnT]

OK, here's the thing. My brother is not the brightest bulb in the X-mas tree string. He, in fact, is that one that irritates you with that constant flickering no matter the settings.

So he goes to see Stealth today. When done, he calls me up and says, in drop-dead seriousness:

"This movie explains perfectly why we shouldn't have computers replace people!"

I just burst out laughing. "Jim! It's a movie!"

"Yeah, but if we put these planes and missles in control of computers, and lightening hits them, they'll go all crazy!"

"Jim! It's... a... MOVIE!" still laughing

"You just don't keep up with military technology developments like I do!"

"You mean I don't get them from movies? Yeah, you're right there. Guilty as charged!"

"The idea is to save people, but if the things go haywire it could kill more people than it saves! And the cost is incredible!"

"So what dollar-value do you place on human life?"

"Huh?"

"How inexpensive will an automated plane have to be before you determine that producing them is cheaper than producing planes that end up killing pilots? $50 million? $20 million?"

"... You're not getting it."

Click!

[Hueij]

Are you sure it's your brother that is not the brightest bulb?

[JohnT]

Pretty sure.

I mean, I really love my brother, but that was just too funny.

[Kuciwalker]

re: #39

[Mordoch]

Originally posted by Az
bet your ass it's going to be profitable.

No it won't.

"Stealth," about Navy pilots (Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel and Jamie Foxx) taking on a rogue drone plane, crashed and burned, finishing at No. 4 with $13.5 million. With an estimated $100 million production budget, "Stealth" will prove a costly money-loser for distributor Sony.

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/12270942.htm

Basically mainstream Hollywood movies like this one generally drop alot in the revenue they produce the second week they are out, so this one is almost certainly going to be a huge money loser.

From what I heard, the movie was originally going to be released much earlier, I think the reschedueling of its release means Sony wrote it off as being likely to suceed in advance when they realized how much it sucked. (Even Holleywood movie execes have a certain level of perception.)

[Urban Ranger]

Yuck. Rottentomatoes rates it at 11%

[Az]

justice