If it's not an A, I'd rather it be an F. I might have to see a C- out of affection for the original and just be all disappointed.

T. Herman has nothing to say to Los Angeles and San Francisco.

That was a pretty good defense of the grading system Josh, and like others here I always sniff around reviews that get high or low grades even if I don't care about the movie.

This is gross
But soup in a bread bowl is yumm-o!

It just occured to me that Sulu was one of the only (maybe the only) original cast member who never had a romance moment.

Christmas 1974
I got that half-n-half guy in action doll form, and I'm pretty sure he never saw any action. My brother got Gorn, who had his ass kicked by the rest of the Enterprise crew on a regular basis.

Transcript of Flashman family talk
From Saturday night, moments after alighting from the theater:

Only the good die young?

Go ahead, give it a F-
I'm still gonna see it. The trailer made it review-proof for me.

"Fonzie Forever"
I had a sticker on my bedroom door that said that. I also had a t-shirt with a color drawing of the Fonz saying "aaaaaaaayyyyyyyy," and flashing TWO thumbs. I wore the shit out of that shirt for about a year.

you're gonna die

I grew up in arcades, playing Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, etc., so when I got my first personal computer, I think it paid for itself in quarters saved.

Swine flu attracted to hubris?
This disease is the cure!

Shadowlands

FWIW, my boys, ages 8 and 10, have seen Sprited Away, Princess Mononoke, and Howl's Moving Castle and like all of them. I don't think my sons (or me, really) can fully appreciate them, but they there's no cultural or familiarity barrier.

I thought the alien was funny, but I especially liked when the aliens took the earthlings to task for buying their implausible story. "Spacejail? Really?"

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Zombie.

Just a beautiful film. I've seen it a bunch of times, never get tired of it.

This is good
His destruction will be complete.

@ group therapy: Exactly. The only good things that are supposed to come out of this recession are a return to truer, simpler pleasures and a rejection of shallowness, and the fucking fashion industry hijacked those sentiments.