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[swashbuckler332]

"Me in a metal tube, deep underground with hundreds of people in the most aggressive city in the world?"The train ahead of mine broke down at the Roosevelt Avenue station. They managed to get the train I was on into the station just enough to open the doors and evacuate it before taking it out of service. While I have been riding the subway all

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[lehah]

The Last Starfighter is - by a wide margin - one of the best and most enduring fantasy pictures from the 1980s not because it borrows from the Lucas/Spielberg idiom, but because it understands it. As much as I love Willow or Legend, both those movies lack a certain stupid ernesty that Starfighter has.

Everything about it hits just the right notes in the way that Star Wars did - but since its a follow-up movie, some of that is lost - and the fact that its something of a "toy tie-in" with the arcade game in the movie, there was bound to be some cynicism involved. But musically and emotionally and acting quality - its hard to find a better bit of escapism.

(I'm amazed you haven't mentioned that Gul Dukat makes a very brief, unspoken appearance in the movie as the Zan-do-zan who mortally wounds Centauri)

[lehah]

Bill Murray also played Thompson in a very bad movie called Where The Buffalo Roam. Its a bad, bad movie but Murray said one thing about the man that I may never forget - once you have Thompson in your head, he's never gone. Apparently, Murray had about as much problem leaving the role as Kirk Douglas had with playing Van Gogh.

(I walked around my last year of high school doing a crackerjack impersonation of Thompson for hours on end at times. I love everything having to do with the man.)

If you want to see Thompson, you need to get the Criterion copy of F&L. The bonus features alone are worth the price.

[swashbuckler332]

(I'm amazed you haven't mentioned that Gul Dukat makes a very brief, unspoken appearance in the movie as the Zan-do-zan who mortally wounds Centauri)

Yes, Marc Alaimo does appear, but half the cast has appeared in some Star Trek or other... Barbara Bosson and Geoffrey Blake were on DS9, Norman Snow and Dan Mason were on TNG, and, of course, Wil Wheaton got all of his scenes cut. But my favorite is Meg Wyllie; Mags might have been shocked to learn that Granny was really a Talosian!

I have the Criterion of Fear and Loathing, it's what got me interested in reading the book. But the glorious presentation on HD-DVD is what I watch nowadays...

[heybishop]

What? No pictures?

Fuck this shit. I'm not reading.

[swashbuckler332]

Maybe this'll help:

[revolos55]

I'm cautiously interested in the new Mummy movie. But new director, and replacing of my favorite actress and character in the movie... hrmm. I mean, I like Maria Bello a lot, but I like Rachel Weisz more, and it always bugs me when they recast within a role unless it's an age transition thing.

[swashbuckler332]

Unfortunately, Weisz left the project because of issues that she had with the script. Brendan Frasier and John Hannah will be the only two actors to appear in all three movies. On the other hand, this film takes place something like ten years after the last one (which took place ten years after the first one), so there is a lot of time to assume that Weisz would have somehow morphed into Bello due to some strange side-effect of having vanquished Anck Su Namun in this reincarnation. Or something like that.

[ehowton]

"Me in a metal tube, deep underground with hundreds of people in the most aggressive city in the world?"
Having only ever taken the underground in London when I lived there, my wife and I were living in New Jersey and decided on some fresh submarine sandwiches for lunch. As we were leaving the store we were in we asked, "Do you know if there's a Subway around here?"

"Where ya headed?" He asked.

We just blinked at each other.

"Teriffic. I'm about to get killed a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax."
I haven't seen that movie in ages, but do so love Robert Preston. I read the novelization some years later which, though about as comprehensive as a book from a movie can be, was still entertaining. Of course I was very young. Your entry stirs in me a desire to watch it.

"You better think of something fast, because, if he turns me into a mummy you're the first one I'm coming after."I didn't enjoy the first one, which I saw in the theater with my father, and never saw the second one - though my

[swashbuckler332]

Me in a metal tube, deep underground with hundreds of people in the most aggressive city in the world?

Talk about a plate of shrimp moment... I just ate Subway yesterday for the first time in months.

Jersey doesn't really have much in the way of a subway... they have PATH, I think... but here in New York it is pervasive. It's one of the reasons why I'm not terribly concerned about my ailing car; it doesn't effect me getting to work one way or the other.

Terrific. I'm about to get killed a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax.

I bought a whole bunch of Alan Dean Foster novelizations a couple of years ago online for very cheap, this was one of them, though I never got around to reading it. I should pick it up, but while the story is decent, it is the performers and the music that I think keeps this movie fresh.

You better think of something fast, because, if he turns me into a mummy you're the first one I'm coming after.

You got those expansions I made, didn't you?

Your suggestion of a

[melancthe]

Did someone say the illustrous name of teh melancthe?!

Alan Dean Foster novelizations

Just novelizations? His Icerigger was one of my childhood favourites, even though it's not a novelization.

[swashbuckler332]

I ordered the novelizations because we were discussing them; I have actually never read any original Alan Dean Foster books... you're saying Icerigger is good, any others?