Comments on: Wednesday Open Thread

By: RandyChandler

RandyChandler — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:46:33 +0000

Thanks. I think I'll check it out.

By: Willow_DeWisp

Willow_DeWisp — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:38:48 +0000

I saw "Yankee Doodle Dandy" colorized, and I thought it looked a little creepy. For some weird reason, they put James Cagney in a powder blue suit. He looked like he was going to a wedding in the 1970s.

By: Willow_DeWisp

Willow_DeWisp — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:36:49 +0000

"Hey, mister, can we have our ball back?!"

By: Willow_DeWisp

Willow_DeWisp — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:35:05 +0000

It's a social networking site from Turner Classic Movies, focusing primarily on films. It's relatively new, I think.

By: The Original K

The Original K — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:39:11 +0000

Saw "Terminator Salvation" last night. Worst killer super AI movie evah. McG should stick with the fluffy "Charlie's Angels" movies and stay away from the serious action genre.

The most annoying thing about it was having to play "spot the reference / homage to other Sci fi films" during the entire movie . Let's see, there was Road Warrior, Aliens 2, Star Wars 2, or was it 3? Escape from New York, Mars attacks, Transformers 1, and even Apocalypse Now with the wumpa wumpa wumping Hueys. A big reason to go to a new FSX movie is for the novelty of the new effects, cool designs and original scenes – but by and large TS was sewn together from a "Best scenes of late 20th century Sci-Fi movies" DVD. It was distracting and took me out of the movie several times.

And, as has been already pointed out, the movie is also over long, drags often between action scenes, drags in the final action scene and has the stupid but now oblicatory "Stay the course" Bush Iraq reference / slap in the face.

McG owes me and my wife 20 bucks.

By: Terry_Jim

Terry_Jim — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:22:48 +0000

"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”

“If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong though. It's Hambone.”

By: CgntvDssdnt

CgntvDssdnt — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:11:27 +0000

The Greatest American Hero… was a member of the Teacher's Union.

By: LambicBrain

LambicBrain — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:29:29 +0000

what to do about the troubling troll infestation?

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:29:17 +0000

Oh, man, I remember the day I first saw 'A Hard Day's Night'. I was at the 4th Avenue Theater in Anchorage, Alaska and seated in the balcony. From the first explosive chord, I jerked up to the edge of my seat and sat there the entire time. For the first time in my life, a movie exalted me. When I left the theater afterwards, I had a hard time hearing my sister chattering or Mrs. Wilson (who took us to the theater) laughing. I was just buzzed. I hadn't just seen a film, I'd seen a world and walked into it. My body sat in the back seat of Mrs. Wilson's car as she drove me and my sister back home, but my mind was in Liverpool with those guys, it was racing down those streets, it was screaming at them in the concert, it was laughing at them as they played cards in that train, etc. Lord, it was nearly 3 days before I came down. That wasn't a film, that was an experience. Wow! I loved that film. I loved it then – and I love it now. I love it, yeah, yeah, yeah.

By: Jimmy Arone

Jimmy Arone — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:58:51 +0000

"Give us a kiss"