@ Zack: Thank you very much and Woof! Woof! to you. And I do absolutely agree with your comment about how often crushes (I think the use of the word "crush" is what really prompted my original response) are reciprocated.

The whole sequence of taking Picard back was mind-blowing at the time. Once they launched that anti-matter spread it was unlike anything we had ever seen on a TV show at the time. The comment I heard most often was that it was just like watching a movie. Really, all the affordable CGI they can do on cheap syndicated…

Disagree about the "what, she likes me?" trope
"It always bugs me on TV shows when cute girls are really obvious about liking a guy, and the guy doesn't catch on."

Dalton, as usual, rocked it. I always enjoy him playing comedy (as far back as the rather mawkish Hawks with Anthony Edwards as a football quaterback!) so I'm glad to see he's doing more in his later career. Quite enjoyed him being nebbishy in his earlier scenes and didn't see the Volkoff reveal coming, even after his…

I was bothered by the how-did-he-survive question as well but then just let it go. I assume that the flowers stopped being watered long before everyone left/were killed, and they shouldn't be used to establish when he stopped getting his IV bag changed.

I've only seen the Dawn of the Dead remake in the theatre and that version had the "downbeat epilogue" during the credits. I remember people in front of us complaining that they wished they had left before it because they thought the depressing ending "ruined" everything that happened before it.

I haven't seen it since it first came out on video, but Sleepaway Camp was the only movie I remembering "offending my sensibilities". And I'm an incredibly tolerant movie-goer who loves all kinds of trash. I think it was the fact that the victims, dispatched in some incredibly cruel ways (curling iron, anyone?) were…

I think that people's disappointment with the books are based on two issues - the incredible hype around them and the translation. I had read that the author's sort-of-widow (together for years but never married) was horrified at the clumsy translation. The scuttlebutt is that Larsson's family pretty much used the…

I remember that episode of Moonlighting
It introduced me to Lisa Blount (playing a high class hooker) and Pet Shop Boys (West End Girls was the only song they ever played at the bar where Blount's character plied her trade).

Despite my joke above, I think that Caan is the best part of the new show.

At least he lived long enough…
…to see Scott Caan take over his role.

From what Joel says it shouldn't look different - in terms of resolution - than HDTV or Blu-ray. One of the reasons that I love watching films at my local rep theatre is that 35mm film has a sharpness (I'm probably using the wrong terms here) roughly equivalent to 4,000 lines of resolution. So that would be almost…

Just don't say it again.

I had thought this was directed by Burton, so I had no desire to watch it. Now that I know it was the guy who directed Coraline I'll give it a shot.

I thought that the pilot was the best of the episodes (three more to come next year!) and would have given it an A+ if not for the too-extended bit with the killer and Holmes. As a huge fan of the original Conan-Doyle stories I was amazed at how true to the characters they stayed, and thought the updating was perfect.…

@ seeingl

Just my two cents…

I loved BWP, and I really enjoyed seeing it with an audience.

A cartoon character in a comic book?
What will they think of next..?

I thought of True Hollywood stories as soon as I saw this…
…and then realized I was thinking of Hollywood Babylon instead. Did anyone other than me ever see that? I caught it around 2:00 a.m. one night when I was sick, and it featured actors that looked even less like the people they were portraying than in these…