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Nothing but Trouble
1991 · Film · 94 min
Directed by Dan Aykroyd
While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant "Brazillionaires" who tagged along end up in the court of a grotesque and vengeful judge, who has a special vendetta against the wealthy and erudite.
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Wondering about Mr Bones' Wild Ride and suspecting it might be a reference to the 1991 movie Nothing But Trouble I took a look, and found I had remembered it wrong.
The roller coaster in that movie was called Mr Bonestripper, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEZEgd8GjJc .
Instead it comes from Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/mr-bones-wild-ride .
As for the comparison with spam, there we kind of settled on making people accept spam by vacuuming up their email addresses in pretty much every commercial and social computer network setting, giving it a veneer of legitimacy. I think it is likely to happen in this area too, perhaps some combination of Oracle licensing surveillance agent style software and automated dependency management, i.e. 'solving' supply chain malware by whitelisting some other malware.
Orthogonal but the early 90s film Nothing But Trouble [0] starring Chevy Chase, Demi Moore, John Candy, and Dan Akroyd incorporates a likely Centralia-inspired mine fire into the overarching story. It's a ridiculous film but worth watching, they definitely don't make em like this anymore.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uOBF6r040U
Another early inertial navigation system for cars was the Etak Navigator, which was originally released in 1985. The idea for the device was conceived onboard Nolan Bushnell's racing yacht in a conversation between Nolan and his navigator, Stan Honey. Stan, who was also an accomplished engineer, went on to found Etak with Nolan's financial backing. You can see the device in Chevy Chase's car early on in the 1991 film Nothing But Trouble.
1. https://www.fastcompany.com/3047828/who-needs-gps-the-forgotten-story-of-etaks-amazing-1985-car-navigation-system
Oouf. This game is fun for trivia
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Chevy Chase and Demi Moor did a documentary about this practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_but_Trouble_(1991_film)
If you are interested in something completely absurd, I highly recommend the 1991 masterpiece "Nothing but Trouble" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_but_Trouble_(1991_film)
The film features Digital Underground and Shock G as part of the plot.
A deep and comedic breakdown about the film can be listened to on Youtube from the podcast "How Did This Get Made" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7VdLG-0Gwk
I cannot stress enough how bonkers this movie is. It is truly unique and like nothing you have seen before.
Hah. The last traffic fine I paid was for a highway speed-limit sign (65 to 30mph) more than a mile from, and around a curve from, a Midwest whistle-stop that a few hundred called home. A lot of these flat-plain potholes probably survived only because their leaders had the connections to get the highway routed through them.
( Akroid's 1991 film 'Nothing But Trouble' sums up my feelings.)
I do have Netflix, and other subscription services, but by the nature of licensing, they're very limited. Do you only watch/read/etc the most common, most popular, current movies/music/etc? If you seek out anything a little off the beaten path, you pretty much have to own it or you won't be able to consume it, or get access to it later.
For example, I recently went through several lists of underrated (i.e. not the megahits like Ghostbusters or Indiana Jones) movies from the 80s and 90s and I'm hunting them down and watching them. Of the seven movies I watched this past couple of weeks (About Last Night, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Nothing But Trouble, Other People's Money, The Wrong Guy, Top Secret, Used Cars), ZERO of them can be found on Netflix or Hulu. Five of them can be rented individually from Amazon Prime at $4 a pop, but aren't included in their prime subscription that I already pay ~$100 a year for. That's the full extent of how you can get access to these movies from subscription services. I could have just stuck with what subscription services offer, but if it's not something new the selection gets increasingly worse and worse.
Is that what you want the future to be like? Where these movies might as well have disappeared off the face of the earth because no one can get ahold of them anymore? Because that's the direction we're starting to go in with more and more things going digital only and subscription only.
I used to work in the video game industry, but I have almost nothing to show for it outside of some trailers on Youtube, because almost all of those games were released on digital channels and are no longer available to download. I had two games on the Wii Shop and the Wii Shop is now closed and the company is defunct, so those games are gone. Another on Xbox Live for 360, and a couple of Xbox Indie Games that you can't get anymore because they killed the service. The only game you can still get is Neverland Card Battles on the PSP, and that's because it was released as a physical game.
You can still also play my Flash games I did before I got into the industry, at least until browsers kill Flash off entirely. There was a whole thread on HN recently about how we're about to lose a whole decade of culture from Flash and how one guy is trying to preserve it as best as he can.
Not being able to own the media (even if only in digital form) sucks, because companies can't be trusted to always remain solvent, always have license agreements in place, and always care about keeping all the content available for people to get. If you don't care about the content, then you probably don't care that you only get some access to some stuff some of the time, but for those that care about the time and energy that creators put in and want to experience and share those things with people that may have missed it the first time around or whole new generations of people, this current trend is terrible.
That's actually one reason why I shifted gears and started designing board games the past few years. I have perfectly good and playable copies of board games that are 60 years old now, decades after the companies have gone out of business. I won't have to go through extra effort to make sure that people can still have access to my board games long after I'm dead.
Also, see the movie 'Nothing But Trouble'.