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[Neil]

Why is it that EVERY movie seems to have a romance element tacked onto it?

Silent Running.

[Queequeg]

Why is it that EVERY movie seems to have a romance element tacked onto it?

Alien.  At least, I wouldn't call it romance. 

[Admiral Yi]

Alien.  At least, I wouldn't call it romance.

I felt pretty romantic when Sigourney took off her clothes.

[Lettow77]

 Ignores the integral romance between the audience and Jonesey.

[Lettow77]

 

What the fuck movie did you watch?  Their daughter is murdered because all the doctors are out on the street dying of starvation, and their son dies due shoddy workmanship, and the cathartic ending comes when Mao is dead and seems to prefigure the Xiaoping thaw.

Murdered is a strong term, and the doctors were held in jail- the fellow from the red guard got them out. The son mostly died from a combination of exhaustion and a car crash, no shoddy worksmanship.  I mean, I agree- at the end the Father is not so starry-eyed about communism, but that everyone was -initially- was sort of endearing. People believing in something to that degree always makes me feel good, even when it is communism.

Mind, communism is probably evil, and watching a woman bleed to death sort of put a damper on my cuddling, but. It had a FORWARD, TO THE VICTORY OF COMMUNISM feel to it. If we melt down our pots and pans, we'll take taiwan! 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Dude, the Eloi were people in the book.

Evolved from people but I'm sure I recall them being small, dumb, odd looking rabbitish things, not modern humans.

I always thought they sounded like elves.

I don't remember them being rabbitish but they were written as being like deteriorated humans.  Weak, small, fragile, ugly, unable to speak and presumably not very intelligent.

I believe they started as degenerated humans, and as he went forward in time he found that they eventually became rodentish vermin. 

The latest Time Machine was awful.  The Rod Taylor version was more acceptable.

[Eddie Teach]

Yeah, but in the main story 800,000 years in the future they were like silly little children.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

tried to watch "Ex-Drummer"...  first movie I've turned off part way through in ages. Couldn't get into it's "look how avant garde we are" style. :blergh: No ratings.

[Admiral Yi]

Heard on an NPR interview with Lucas that the entire budget for American Grafitti was only $700 K.

[Sheilbh]

Mean Girls.  A triumph!

[DisturbedPervert]

Just watched Avatar in 3D.  Was great, I wasn't expecting to like it at all and am glad I saw it in a theatre for the 3D instead of on dvd or downloading it.  Think I'll see it again in IMAX.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Love Find Andy Hardy (1938)

One in the series of 16 Andy Hardy films that were used to showcase up and coming MGM talent.  This film has teen-aged Ann Rutherford, Lana Turner, and Judy Garland as well as the star Mickey Rooney.  The films are all comedy-dramas set in the fictional town of Calvert, sort of a Depression era Maybery RFD.  The plot revolves around Mickey Rooney's difficulties with getting a girl to take to the Christmas Dance.  The funniest part of the movie is Mickey is supposed to be 16, and Judy Garland is supposed to be 13 yet she towers over him (as does everyone else, of course, it's just funny to watch him dismiss her as a kid when she could easily dunk over him.)

I used to watch those.  They don't hold a candle to The Little Rascals.

[Savonarola]

I used to watch those.  They don't hold a candle to The Little Rascals.

There aren't any black people in Andy Hardy's town so they can't explore the same range of humor as in The Little Rascals.

[Savonarola]

Saw the first disc of Robot Chicken Season 4.  There are some hits and misses as in the other seasons.  My favorite was Le Wrath di Khan:

http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/le-wrath-di-khan.html

(Though I think it should be L'ira di Khan :dago:)

[BuddhaRhubarb]

"Public Enemies" by Michael Mann. Solid film if a bit soulless ( I blame Bale there, he wasn't up to Depp's level in this outing.) Very entertaining though and a very decent look and feel to it. Some great operatic momments in the gun battles etc. Definitely Mann's (maybe since Heat) best in a while imho.

8.11111 mousy French girls from Wisconsin outta 10