Tonight is movie night

Question

Tonight I went to my friend's for a movie night and he asked me what we should watch.

As I was playful, I handed him the following picture so he could guess the movie:

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He couldn't figure it out, so after a while I gave him the following hint:

Tolerance is not important

But he was still stuck.

Could you help him find the movie?

I don't like riddles which require obscure domain knowledge like this. — Philipp, Jun 16 '15 at 07:22
Had you seen Tryth's very similar puzzle when you posted this? I haven't studied either of them closely enough to tell whether this should be closed as a duplicate, but am just leaving this comment so others are aware of the possible issue here. — Rand al'Thor, Jun 16 '15 at 14:48
@randal'thor No I didn't. I was surprised that it was so similar. — A.D., Jun 16 '15 at 14:49

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 16 '15 at 03:02

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The movie is:

Star Trek: First Contact (1996)

The message is:

Resistance is futile. Although this phrase was used in earlier Star Trek episodes, it was made more popular as the tagline of the 1996 film Star Trek: First Contact by the actor Jeff Coopwood who was the "Voice of the Borg".

The encoding uses:

resistor codes as shown in the following chart. Per the hint, the tolerance band is absent. The resistor codes are then converted to ASCII characters as shown below.

edited Jun 16 '15 at 03:02

A.D.

4,341
1
20
38

answered Jun 16 '15 at 02:07

Len

8,936
2
30
65

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Was literally typing my answer as you posted. Damn :) – Tryth Jun 16 '15 at 02:07
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Beat me by about 30 sec.. I know I've seen this before though. – Quark Jun 16 '15 at 02:08
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@Quark Maybe because I had a very similar idea before :p – Tryth Jun 16 '15 at 02:09
@Tryth ah that was it. Funny how although it wasn't space related, the message also matched (either coincidence or homage probably). – Quark Jun 16 '15 at 02:10
@Len that answer is right though... not sure how another would benefit. – Quark Jun 16 '15 at 02:15
@Tryth I thought it was original. I was wrong :( – A.D. Jun 16 '15 at 03:01

Tonight is movie night

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