Movie Quotes: Constantine (2005)

Constantine (2005)

John Constantine: [speaking into a possessed girl's ear] This is Constantine. John Constantine, asshole.

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John Constantine: [Whispering into the ear of a possessed girl] This is Constantine. John Constantine, asshole.

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[from trailer]
[Constantine traps a fly under a cigarette smoke-filled glass]
John Constantine: Welcome to my life.

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John Constantine: What if I told you that God and the devil made a wager, a kind of standing bet for the souls of all mankind?

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John Constantine: Heaven and hell are right here, behind every wall, every window, the world behind the world. And we're smack in the middle.

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John Constantine: You don't need His protection. It'll be just like the old days.

Movie Quotes: Robots (2005)

Movie Quotes: Casablanca (1942)

Casablanca (1942)


Claude Rains(Captain Louis Renault): Rick, there are many exit visas sold in this café, but we know that you've never sold one. That is the reason we permit you to remain open.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blaine):Oh? I thought it was because I let you win at roulette.
Claude Rains(Louis): That is another reason.

Claude Rains(Louis): What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. Captain Claude Rains(Louis):The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): I was misinformed.

Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa Lund): Play it once, Sam. For old times' sake.
Dooley Wilson (Sam): I don't know what you mean, Miss Elsa.
Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): Play it, Sam. Play "As Time Goes By."

Humphrey Bogart (Rick): You know what I want to hear.
Dooley Wilson (Sam):: No, I don't.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): You played it for her, you can play it for me!
Dooley Wilson (Sam): Well, I don't think I can remember
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): If she can stand it, I can! Play it!

Humphrey Bogart (Rick): Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Humphrey Bogart (Rick): Here's looking at you, kid.

Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): A franc for your thoughts.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): In America they'd bring only a penny, and, huh, I guess that's about all they're worth.
Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): Well, I'm willing to be overcharged. Tell me.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): Well, I was wondering...
Ilsa Lund: Yes?
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): Why I'm so lucky. Why I should find you waiting for me to come along.
Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): Why there is no other man in my life?
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): Uh-huh.
Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): That's easy: there was. And he's dead.

Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): You're saying this only to make me go.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): But what about us?
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ingrid Bergman (Ilsa): When I said I would never leave you.
Humphrey Bogart (Rick): And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid.

Humphrey Bogart (Rick): Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Next-generation Xbox to target consumers

Next-generation Xbox to target consumers
By Kim Perterson
Seattle Times technology reporter
source

The next-generation Xbox video-game console will offer new ways for Microsoft and game creators to make money from players, the company announced yesterday at a game developers' conference in San Francisco.

The next-generation console will offer an on-screen guide with a shopping marketplace in which players can buy new game levels, weapons, cars or character outfits. Microsoft will set up a payment system so that even small-ticket items can be easily purchased.

The idea aims to realize what has long been a dream for developers: bringing in more revenue long after games leave store shelves. Up to now, console gaming has mostly been a one-transaction business, in which there is little incentive or opportunity for players to buy anything after the initial game purchase.

Players may also have the ability to spend money on music. The on-screen guide will allow players to listen to their own music during games instead of the game soundtrack. Microsoft said the feature takes the burden off of developers to include custom music in games, but the company may also have less altruistic motives.

Microsoft didn't give many details about the music system, but it's easy to imagine the Xbox connecting to a music ecosystem that includes the MSN Music online store or the music library on a Media Center PC. Microsoft executives have long expressed the desire for the Xbox to become part of a larger home-entertainment system with a sophisticated PC at its core.

The company said it will provide more details about the console in May at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, an annual conference for the video-game industry popularly known as E3.

J Allard, a corporate vice president for Xbox, said in a speech to developers yesterday that the guide will help bring more players to the Xbox and its online game-subscription system, called Xbox Live. There were 1 million Xbox Live subscribers in July, the last time Microsoft disclosed the subscriber count.

"We've got to create a consistent experience so that consumers can enter our worlds much more easily," said Allard, according to a transcript of the speech. "If we want to get to 10 or 20 million subscribers we've got to create some consistency and minimize the complexity."

The guide will also give each player an on-screen "gamer card" that could show such details as their name, location, skill level and accomplishments.

Microsoft also said that the next Xbox will use a processor developed with IBM and a graphics processor developed with ATI Technologies designed for high-definition game play. The company hasn't said when it will launch the new console, but analysts expect the system to be out by the end of the year

Microsoft mum about new purchase

Microsoft is buying another company, but a spokeswoman declined to provide details yesterday.

The company's identity is scheduled to be disclosed at 6 a.m. today, followed by a news conference with Chairman Bill Gates at 8:30.

Microsoft generally has focused on acquisitions of small companies in areas where it's developing new products such as security, video gaming and small-business applications.

Executives told Wall Street analysts last summer that they would continue making smaller acquisitions. Its last sizable deal came in 2002, when it acquired Danish business-software maker Navision for $1.45 billion.

Another Year at the Movies

Another Year at the Movies
source:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=506319

The Oscars, that annual self-display of bad plastic surgery and the art of assembly-line cinema, have come to a close for the time being. At least I can breathe a sigh of relief that Finding Neverland went home with nothing. I wouldn’t say particularly great films ran off with the famed statuettes (though Million Dollar Baby has its moments of melancholic beauty), but nonetheless the Academy smartly denied its honors to “that movie with the kids flying out the window.” Besides, no more children need to discover the wonder of Michael Jackson’s sprawling estate.

With American cinema’s “wonders” from 2004 now behind us (they didn’t leave much of a mark) and Vin Diesel’s beefcake-with-minivan vehicle The Pacifier commanding the box office, the best thing to do is look ahead to what 2005 has in store for us.

With industry buzz calling it “the year of the blockbuster,” it’s got to be pretty cool. I mean, honestly—last year’s Hollywood offerings like The Day After Tomorrow, Shrek 2, I, Robot, and Catwoman were way too arty. It’s good that Hollywood will finally be returning to films with extravagant budgets, whiz-bang special effects, Tom Cruise, and aliens. It’s about time.

The late-year releases could help rectify the cinematic damage done by the entire year of 2004 as well. Big nostalgia-filled period epic adaptation of Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha? Check. Big pseudo-political Steven Spielberg movie about the 1972 Munich Olympics? Check again, with the bonus round of remakes (The Producers, All the King’s Men) and a sequel to Underworld! Finally!

Let’s set the cynicism aside though. If you live for the movies—if the light-play of the darkened theatre gives you a chill, if you accept giving yourself completely to the didactic world of cine-representation in which you totally lose control—you might as well shoot yourself now because this year is going to suck.

Seriously. The only movie I’m really excited for is the remake of King Kong because Naomi Watts is almost as hot as Fred Savage in The Rules of Attraction.

Certainly a lot of “blockbusters” and “long-awaited films” are making it to the screen this year (perhaps more than usual). But does the world really need a mega-budget screen version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, which means more dopey Christian allegory than The Lord of the Rings already provided? And Hollywood apparently missed the joke of Team America: World Police’s hilarious spoof of the Broadway musical Rent (“Everyone has AIDS! My father…AIDS! My sister…AIDS!”) because the movie version will debut this year, helmed by none other than Home Alone director Chris Columbus.

This is when we all must evaluate why we go to the movies. And I don’t mean that in the theoretical sense—as in “why am I grafting myself onto the gaze of the male protagonist, thus feeling the power of his phallic signification?”—but rather in the day-to-day philosophical sense. Why are we still going? Most movies suck, and aren’t worth an inkling of your time, but somehow you’ll still probably see The Ring 2.

You’ll be sitting there, watching Naomi Watts be hot and her cute child be possessed, and suddenly you’ll think, “what the hell am I doing here? I could be listening to Zeppelin records and smoking pot. Or saving the world.” But you won’t leave. You’ll stay for Naomi.

There’s just something about the movies that keeps us coming and manages to hold our attention, even as the same product is churned out every year. The endless sequels, remakes, and concept plots hold our gazes and we have no idea why. Of course, there’s the familiarity of the experience—the specific experience of certain characters, genres, situations, etc.—that is so often referenced as the answer to Hollywood’s continued success in doing the same old crap.

But I think it’s the act of moviegoing itself that is responsible for its continued existence. We’ll see whatever they dish out, as long as we can retain the treasured experience of the act. Not even the greatest of writers on cinema can effectively define the universal experience of it—because its essence, its ontology if you will, is held in the depths of the individual soul, not in a regressive ideology of the masses.

The cinema is our fantasy and it is thus our experience. The cinema is mine and not yours—I experience it in my whole being and however you relate to it lies in the processes of your own subjectivity. The screen relates to me, and my dreams—and it enters me through a place that will open only for the filmed image.

Cinema sets us free of each other—it is the true incarnation of Buber’s Eternal You and we are actualized in that relation. I will watch it. All of it. Even Batman Begins. And you can’t make me stop for it is mine.

New Movies

Movies opening next week

March 11, 2005
source: http://www.startribune.com/stories/1553/5282656.html

ANYA IN AND OUT OF FOCUS (Not rated) Documentarian Marian Marzynski, who emigrated from Poland, follows his daughter as she adjusts to life in a new country.

DEAR FRANKIE (PG-13) Unable to tell her son that his father abandoned them, Emily Mortimer makes up a story about him becoming a sailor and then writes the boy fake letters. Everything is fine until the dad's alleged ship pulls into port. (www.miramax.com/dearfrankie)

GUNNER PALACE (PG-13) Documentarians spent eight weeks living with the troops in Iraq. (www.gunnerpalace.com)

ICE PRINCESS (G) A young figure skater (Michelle Trachtenberg) pursues her dream of making it to the Olympics despite the objections of her mother (Joan Cusack). (disney.go.com/disneypictures/iceprincess)

THE RING TWO (PG-13) Naomi Watts returns in a sequel to the 2002 Japanese-inspired horror hit. It's directed by Hideo Nakata, who made the original "Ringu." (www.thering2-themovie.com)

STEAMBOY (PG-13) An animated sci-fi adventure set in Victorian England, it's the first feature in English from acclaimed Japanese animator Katsuhiro Ôtomo. (www.sonypictures.com/movies/steamboy)

THE UPSIDE OF ANGER (R) When Joan Allen's husband walks out on her and their four daughters, she drafts her drinking buddy (Kevin Costner) to help tend to the family. (www.upsideofanger.com)

Movie Quotes: Anger Management (2003)

Movie Quotes: Anger Management (2003)

Williams to return as Mrs Doubtfire

Williams to return as Mrs Doubtfire
Staff reporter
source: http://entertainment.iafrica.com/news/422881.htm

Funny man Robin Williams has agreed to once again don lipstick and pantyhose as he is set to star in the sequel to Mrs Doubfire.

According to Ananova.com, director Bonnie Hunt is writing a sequel to the 1993 comedy hit co-starring Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan.

Williams says that the first movie was a lot of fun to make as he enjoyed the concept of the film.

He told the website that, “The first one was so much fun because the concept was pretty good and the make-up was great. The really good news now is that make-up has come along. The make-ups have just gotten better and better."

Williams comments that he has high hopes that the film will be successful as long his character is scripted well.

He says, "If they don't do it right, it's not worth doing it. You've got to find a way of doing the character,” reports Ananova.com.

Movie Quotes: Army of Darkness (1993)

Movie Quotes: Army of Darkness (1993)

Movie Quotes: Garden State (2003)

Movie Quotes: Garden State (2003)

Movie Quotes: White Noise ( 2005 )

Movie Quotes: White Noise ( 2005 )

Movie Quotes: Get Shorty (1995)

Movie Quotes: Get Shorty (1995)

More movies head to Sony's PSP

source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4325293.stm

Movies Open Water and Saw are among those to be made available for Sony's PSP games console.

Film studio Lions Gate entertainment has announced an initial list of 12 movies that will be on the UMD format used by the handheld.

"The typical buyer of the machine [is] the core demographic to whom our films generally appeal," said Steve Beeks, president of Lions Gate.

Already available in Japan, the PSP is released in the US on 24 March.

Spider-Man 2 on UMD will be given to the first million customers in the US.

'Movies to go'

The Punisher and House of the Dead along with older titles such as Total Recall and Rambo: First Blood, will be in the UMD format, with disks costing between $20 (£10.40) to $30 (£15.60) for new titles and $10 (£5.20) to $20 for older films.

Open Water is heading to PSP

"When we first saw the machine and started talking to Sony, we immediately decided it was going to be a winner, both from the gaming perspective and from the perspective of people watching movies on the go," Mr Beeks said.

The disks, which are smaller than DVDs, only work in Sony's PSP and can hold up to 1.8GB of data.

"We actually believe people who buy the UMD would not have bought it on DVD," he said.

"There are people who will want UMD because of the portability. Maybe they're already taking the games with them out of the house, and they're bigger gamers than they are movie watchers."

Four movies have already been announced for PSP. They are: XXX, Hellboy, Resident Evil: Apocalypse and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

Bill Gives Parents Power To Edit Hollywood Movies

Bill Gives Parents Power To Edit Hollywood Movies

source: http://www.koin.com/news.asp?ID=1600

Proposal Gives Families Control

PORTLAND -- You may soon have the power of a Hollywood studio in your own home.

A proposed bill would allow parents to use new technology to edit DVD copies of movies, cutting out any scenes or words they find offensive.

Hollywood filmmakers are against the law. They’ve already sued companies which help people edit scenes out of DVDs, saying the practice is against copyright laws. The proposed legislation would bypass those laws.

A similar bill has already passed the U.S. Senate. If the House passes the bill, it will go to President Bush for his signature.