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[Ideologue]

The Chickens at least more closely resemble actual velociraptors 

[lustindarkness]

I would like to have a pack of trained velociraptors. It would be a glorious few seconds until they kill me.

[celedhring]

Something I've been meaning to watch.

I'll get around to the 1930s Imitation,of Life eventually, although of the five Douglas Dirk films I've seen, I think it was my least favorite except (only maybe)  Captain Lightfoot (Rock Hudson, Irish rebel ). Still pretty good, tho, mind you.

There's a lot less singing and a lot more pancakes in the 1934 "Imitation of Life." 

I preferred the original "Imitation of Life" (I'm sure that's not a surprise.)  Given the era it was made (even Benny Goodman wouldn't integrate his band until 1935) it's a gutsy film.

I prefer the Sirk film (I just love Sirk), but it's true that the 1930s film was very daring for its time. It's particularly hurtful.

[celedhring]

There's a Portuguese film cycle at the Barcelona cinematheque, so I got dragged to some film called "Os Sorrisos do Destino".

50-something guy finds out his wife cheats on him with a black dude 20 years younger. He gets angry, but ends up befriending the black dude. They get drunk together. End of the film.

[Admiral Yi]

Eurofilms have a tendency to end in the middle.

[viper37]

The Chickens at least more closely resemble actual velociraptors 

They have the feather, but they lack the teeths

[viper37]

I would like to have a pack of trained velociraptors. It would be a glorious few seconds until they kill me.

I always wondered why reptiles can't be trained like mammals.  Or there are alligator trainers I just don't know about?

[jimmy olsen]

The Chickens at least more closely resemble actual velociraptors 

When Chricton wrote JP it was during a brief momment where a prominent paleontoligst argued that Deinonychus should be subsumed into the Velocirapator clade, with the name Velociraptor antirrhopus.

Of course, feathers at the time weren't envisioned yet.

[celedhring]

Eurofilms have a tendency to end in the middle.

Yeah, the film was annoyingly inconclusive. It had some bizarre moments that made it lightly entertaining, though. I.e. the black dude is obsessed with Wagner, owns a dog called "Wotan", and signs "Tristan and Isolde" to him at nights.

[Eddie Teach]

I always wondered why reptiles can't be trained like mammals.  Or there are alligator trainers I just don't know about?

[Syt]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683524/

In this hilarious and sexy stoner adventure, the blazed students and faculty of Austin's Ladybird High attempt to shake off their slacker demons to stand up for their lifestyle and the eccentric city they love.

[jimmy olsen]

Arnold dresses up as the T-800, full make up and everything, and go trolls a wax museum!

https://youtu.be/IBCSrC0TIgo

[jimmy olsen]

[Liep]

[celedhring]

Fantastic