Uh, good one?

1) That cool, Standing Still. I believe infinitely repeating decimals are of the same phenomenon as a parabola that comes infinitely close to a line but never reaches it, because you can always divide a number in half (but not a physical distance, fuck off Zeno.)

What? No mention of
Lord of the Rings? Or at least the Hobbit?

Thin Red Line is one of my all-time favorites. I found it interesting that it was over-shadowed by Private Ryan, and a good contrast in what a war movie could be (or a movie in general) in that it demonstrated that PLOT IS OVERRATED. When I was describing it to people, I would just tell them that, "Well, it's a bunch…

One gopher would merely arouse my appetite without beddin' 'er back down.

Mr. Hinds,
You are a badass. That is all.

Dude, Norton
Why the dour face?

Does . . .
. . . Tom Petty in "The Postman" count?

Me, I want to upchuck reading some fuck who writes for an entertainment mag asking some starlet "the takeaway lesson here." Lesson? Here's a lesson.

Say it ain't so
It's always felt to me like Siskel and Ebert were just taking a break from the show and the other guys were filling in for a while. The show being over makes it finally hit home that they really aren't coming back.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Ditto on Raiders!

Mmmmmm
The Matrix makes me crave synthetic sludge that looks like old grits.

Yeah, I'm ready to flee at mention of a "chosen one."

I would have liked to have
Heard her thoughts on Factotum, and her character Jan. She took what could have been a shallow role in another's hands and gave her humanity.

Damn.

First
A first for me.

Good points above. The exact same thing has happened with the word "samaritan," which has become synonymous with a doer of good deeds, rather than a member of the ethnoreligious group of the same name.

Tell me about it. As a kid, I was not only a pretty big trekkie, but like just about every other kid I watched Growing Pains when I got home from school, and I just found out he was Walter Koenig's son when the story broke.

When I was a kid I always thought the skeletons' shields looked just like Triscuits. That's what me and my friends cracked up about. Their Triscuit shields.