It's killing me to wait until this weekend.

You forgot speculation of both the fact-based and baseless kinds.

I sit corrected, thank you sir.

Well, they are made from gophers …

Well shut, talk about a When Airlift. This might actually be watchable.

Wasn't there some sort of clause in a producer's contract that it had to have a cinematic premiere? I only half-remember the rumor, but it involved someone getting shit-canned when it came off the movie release schedule and because a "tv event", but the IMAX screenings were part of the contract.

It's on it's what? 13th host now?

I once tried to buy a full mascot suit for a defunct minor league hockey team. I'd just gotten a bonus at work and it seemed like a really sound investment. Anyway, they wouldn't sell it to me for fear I'd use it in the commission of a crime.

That's how you *know* it's summer.

Well, not books or sports memorabilia. But dolls? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.

Yeah … I'm from New Jersey, so …

It's an eight foot python.

Jesus fuck, Ice Pirates was terrible. That said, I'd love to see Cannonball Runs I & II, Smokey and the Bandit I & II, Stoker Ace and Rad. (Also, I just found out that Hal Needham directed half of my childhood favorite movies.)

I'm planning on seeing this next weekend. I'm excited to be seeing the movie from a perspective other than the American forces. We don't get a whole lot of that over here.

The point is, at no where in the book does the Iron Giant show up. MechaGodzilla, yes. But no Iron Giant.

It wasn't glamorous and there were no real US glory moments in it. Therefore, it doesn't appeal to the red-blood-steak-eating-pick-em-up-truck driving 'Mericans. If you think about it, the last time Americans saw WWI depicted on screen before Wonder Woman had to have been Legends of the Fall, and the Ludlows were…

The difference is this … Cline originally started writing this as a screenplay. It's not a dumb book getting turned into a shitty movie. It's a shitty screenplay that got flipped into a geekbait novel that's going to be made into a crappy movie.

Enemy at the Gates
Victory
(Neither are particularly factual or good, both are favorites though.)

The book relies so much on "hey, I remember that" instead of actual plotting or good writing it's actually kinda sad. It's a fluffy read and quick to breeze through, but don't put any actual thought into it or else you're going to ponder at it's design too much for your own good.

Yeah, but that doesn't make it bleak. For one thing, it's a super hero movie with a big big bad, for another, there's no funerals involved, no anguished crying-to-the-sky-with-a-dead-body-Wolverine style, and lastly, it's not even visually bleak in that it's still the MCU-approved color scheme. It looks like our…