proper credit
The Space Jockey imagery comes straight out of Mario Bava's "Planet of the Vampires" (1965).

clarification about American Zoetrope
Leonard Pierce says: "From 1972 to 1979, the man seemed incapable of cranking out anything but pure unvarnished genius, but he took a tumble with the whole American Zoetrope idea…"

[Russ] Yo Ice Cube man, why you always kickin the shit about the bitches
and the niggaz? Why don't you kick some shit about the kids, man? The
fuckin kids?!

One of the best things Carpenter ever did was "Cigarette Burns" just a few years ago (2005). And "Ghosts of Mars" (2001) is consistent with Carpenter's movie-making vision (in being a horror-scifi pulp/comic). He's been maybe 50/50 since "They Live".

it's pretty obvious, really
Bruce Lee can fight off a hundred ninjas. He does this by taking them on one or two at a time. If the ninjas would just get their act together and attack all at once, that would be the end of Mr. Lee.

Like Dumbledore Calrissian said above, the opening ski chase in The Spy Who Loved Me is excellent as is the assault on the submarine base at the end. I heard or read somewhere that Stanley Kubrick was brought in to find a way to properly "light" the assault piece and ended up basically directing the sequence. You…

80% of Japanese are Buddhist. Annexation of Korea in 1910, sex slavery, Rape of Nanking ("the Japanese 'sliced babies not just in half but in thirds and fourths'"), mass murder in the Philippines, torture and mass murder of slave labor in southeast Asia, beheading of American missionaries in Borneo and murder of…

As I've stated elsewhere, Children of Men is total shit. And we should all be *praying* that human beings become infertile because we're completely overpopulating the planet. I can't imagine why anyone made this disgusting movie and, even worse, why anyone would watch it or praise it.

Here's two more
I'll give you two things that should have died a long time ago, although neither strictly fits the topic at hand.

Connecticut Yankee is great. The only Twain book I actively enjoyed, unlike all the other Twain crap we were forced to read in school. It confuses *you* because you're an idiot. And if it is "fascist," that makes it all the better; what, you don't like that the smart guy defeats the stupid? In reality, it's not…

To your left is a mailbox. What do you do?

You talking about Sean Lennon or Julian Lennon?

reviews as consumer guides
"…we're not, though this sometimes gets forgotten, consumer guides."

Zack Handlen is an idiot
Bakshi's Lord of the Rings is completely superior to Jackson's shitfest live action version. It was only the first half of a planned two-movie version, and the end was clearly rushed because they ran out of time and money; I have no problem with that. The crucial difference is that Bakshi…

(oh btw, the other criteria I had was that they be Flash games)

*** EXPERIMENTAL GAMES ***

some more games to check out
Inspired by Sawbuck Gamer, I've been checking out the free game scene lately. Here's a few good ones, all of which can be downloaded and played locally (a criteria I had):

Frankly it's hard to believe that anyone still thinks Obama was a good idea. I have to agree with the Prof. Ocean: AV Club writers need to stop interjecting their extremely liberal views into everything they write —- or maybe they need to do what European newspapers do and openly declare themselves to be politically…

Since everyone has seen "It's A Wonderful Life," they all know Donna Reed as Mary Bailey. Personally I thought she was hot in "Green Dolphin Street;" too bad she becomes a nun at end. The Donna Reed Show however, that's a little harder to come by on TV.

The quoted passage
I have no problem with the passage you quoted, Phipps. He only mentions two plants; well, three if you think fronds means ferns. Hopefully this isn't "every type of vegetation Burroughs can think of." Anyway, the writing does its job of establishing the setting and mood.