JimeneX

Don't forget to bring a towel!

"You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough"

"Sam Mendes' disastrously miscalculated Revolutionary Road"

huh? The film was in several well-respected top ten lists for 2008. I thought it was great. What was miscalculated about it?

I saw this movie again recently for the first time since it came out and I loved Terry O' Quinn's Howard Hughes. Specially the scene near the end where he goes 'The sunovabitch WILL fly!' refering to the hercules model.

Harry Connick Jr

I don't understand the US rating systems. Heads and brains blown off: OK. Penis: BAD.

I was watching TheDeparted on TV one day and of course, they bleep out all the curse words. Yet they had no trouble showing Brains being splattered on the wall.

AWESOME! It's about time! I was getting sick of that ugly Black & white picture and that horrible soundtrack! and Orson Wells is fat! [/Target audience that does not exist?]

I love Kiki's delivery service. Spirited Away is a very close second.

ahem...it's 'cojones', not 'cajones.' Sorry, it's one of my pet peeves (along with 'banditos' instead of the real 'bandidos')

Anyway, I just read about the BSG remake. What the hell are they thinking? Seriosly, do people think it's going to work when they cast a Not-Olmos as Adama and a (ugh) guy as Starbuck?

You, sir or madam, win

I love Eyes Wide Shut as much as my favorite Kubrick movies (Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Clockwork Orange), I think Kubrick had control over the final cut.

On that subject, I would have loved to see A.I. as kubrick would have directed it. The story of that movie is just PERFECT for kubrick, but Spielbergh tried to make it audience-friendly. I could envision how abstract kubrick would have made it, and have people debating for years about what happens in those final moments, similar to 2001 (instead of a british robot flat-out saying what's happening). Please picture the final scene of 2001, and give that same robo-british voice to the monolith while telling the astrounat what's going on.