Cheers placeholder - I have a friend in Greece who will be mightily grateful!

@Prole Hole: I'm pretty sure you can't say "a real black" any more either. The preferred nomenclature these days is "ingredient B".

@Please: it's the cradle of civilisation, not of life. Either way, how does it follow that that's where machines come from? More plausible theory: it's another poorly-thought-out parallel (aptly preceded on the DVD by inconsequential Final Fantasy-style soft porn). Meh.

@KOD: you mean the inevitable TV series on Sky One?

@Troof: I'm pretty sure you can't say "lobotomized spac marines" any more. The preferred nomenclature these days is "windowlickers".

There was were some books written by K W Jeter as sequels to Blade Runner, and in those, the only way to definitively tell a replicant was to examine their bone marrow after retirement (ever-so-slight spoiler: turns out Pris was actually human). I think those books were authorised by Philip K Dick's estate, but then…

Daleks have rather more than "a little bit of alien glup hidden away", so they're definitely not robots. Also, the issue with going up stairs was sorted out back when Sylvester McCoy was in it (there were claw marks on the sofa that day).

I don't know, but the BBC are doing a pretty good job. Does anyone know of a way to get iPlayer outside the UK?

Did anyone else read Closing Time? I started it, didn't get very far, didn't warm to it at all, and gave up. I'm still not sure whether or not to go back, because I didn't warm to C-22 at first, and loved it by the end. Do any other people I don't know have an opinion?

@Thatches: that is the geekiest, most over-researched in-joke I think I've ever heard. (It's even more obscure than the continuity error in the car crash in Fight Club.) And that makes you my kinda guy. +25 internets.

Hey, back off Kyle. A man who wears the face of Manuel J Calavera is good peeps in my book.

Other than Scott Tobias, um… yes. Yes they had.

That's good. Some plots are driven solely by the fact that you don't know whether or not the MacGuffin has value, and I thought it might be one of those. Added it to my LoveFilm list today.

Except the Hudsucker Proxy.

If this thread has taught me anything, it's that I need to see more Coen bros films. Love Lebowski to bits, but unfortunately I can more or less recite it by heart now, so that kinda ruins it. There's only one film (by any director) that I can think of that makes me smile all the way through, and that's the Hudsucker…

Spoilers?
I hope that's not a spoiler on Burn After Reading up there. Is it?

"I had no idea what would happen next but I really wanted to find out. Very few movies have done that for me…"

Donnie Darko seems to think it's cleverer than it is, but it's still a decent film, as long as you don't try and make a sequel for it. Which you shouldn't.

Word.

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