I wonder if she ever met Tsutomu Yamaguchi?
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I had always assumed it was just an offshoot of the terminology used in military maneuvers and simulations, where Blue represents US/friendly forces, and Red is the opposition — that in any given election, Blue had been the incumbent party, and Red the "challengers". Odd that ABC decided to reconceive the whole thing…

It's a big farm, upstate… With lots and lots of dogs.

Take care when breeding dogs to fight monsters, lest you end up breeding monsters yourself.

I think the variations of the 9/11 theories that have "holograms" disguising the missiles that actually hit the WTC and Pentagon as airliners, or for that matter the ones that have the conspirators coordinating explosive demolitions and kamikaze airliners, are dumber than the lot of them.

The dialog there was improvised, of course, but that's not all that easy to get to work and seem really natural.

My enjoyment of Williams' prequel scores is always undermined by a sense of sadness — I can just feel him doing his damnedest to elevate the proceedings, and give them real emotional power and punctuation, but in the end there being nothing for him to work with.

I ended up kind of enjoying Suicide Squad, but the opening 20 minutes or so, where most of the gratuitous and trite pop cuts are concentrated, had me thinking it was going to be just as self-impressed and awful as I'd feared.

I remember the liner notes from the original Star Wars soundtrack album mentioning how composers hated being confronted by a director who has been using temp tracks/classical music cuts, and having to get them to buy into a new vision.

There was much controversy not long after the attacks when someone (a German symphony conductor, I believe) described them as "works of art". I fundamentally agreed with him. We're just so conditioned to think of artistic expression as a positive thing, we resist the idea that the impulse to "make an impression" — to…

As I was waiting in the ferry line, the traffic-free quiet was broken by jet fighters overhead, and I mused that this was the first time I'd ever personally had air cover.

Legend had it that "Red Ghost" had the skeleton of a rider lashed to its back:
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I was working in midtown Manhattan. My boss and I had a rather important client meeting crosstown and looking down the avenues as we walked we saw smoke from the impacts. My boss, being kind of paranoid by nature, thought there might have been a bombing (he'd been working in the towers when the bombing occurred in…

"Captain! The shields aren't holding!"

Sounds very '70s to me. She sounds hardly anything like Stevie Nicks or Bonnie Tyler, and much more like Donna Summer.

Thoughtful reviews of genre movies were hard to come by in the pre-Internet era. Some local newspapers might have had reviewers with a taste for them, who took the task seriously, but most seemed to consider it beneath them.

True enough, but in the Corman factory, I think killing someone off was a sign of respect.

Cameron's a master storyboarder — he has a gift for action narrative logic that really stands out if you watch this, or even something like True Lies, alongside something directed by the likes of Michael Bay, or others of the "action-means-stuff-happening-real-fast-and-blurry" school.

I was among those zero-expectation viewers in 1984. My friends and I knew Schwarzenegger from Conan, and were indeed expecting nothing but an entertaining B movie matinee, and we were indeed bowled over.

Terminator inspired a major wave of review revisionism after its success. Siskel was hardly alone in criticizing it, and it was genuinely funny to see those same reviewers refer to it as a classic in their reviews of later Cameron films.