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There was a time in the 1950's and early 60's, when American IQ's were about three times what they are today, that the public would end a hard day of work by watching serious, adult literature and drama on TV. No "American Idol," no "Survivor," no comic book movies, none of the emotive, moronic, weakly-written…

"refusal to accept any dependence on the white man"
Get your history straight, O'Neal. Sitting Bull was a trained monkey in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and later he "earned a small fortune by charging for his autograph and picture."

Peoples of the ancient (northern) Mediterranean were much lighter skinned than today, due to constant invasions from the north and from central Asia (eg, the blond and red-haired mummies of western China http://en.wikipedia.org/wik… ; spread of Indo-European languages).

In your satin tights
fighting for your rights
And the old red white and blue!

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The Japanese giant monster movies of the 1950's and 60's were a response to the environmental devastation wrought by human activity. The monsters were demigod Spirits of Nature punishing the human race for what it was doing (compare with the Forest God from "Princess Mononoke", the lurking problems in "Fire…

Lock Ms. Adequate in a cage without food and she stops. Give her some food and she doesn't start again. Seems like Watson has the advantage.

Seems like the entire X-Files series was a sequel.

If this episode represents
the show "firing on all cylinders" then I shudder (brrr) to think what it was like in the past. The show was mildly enjoyable except when it degenerated into soap opera, which it did often. John Noble IS great as Walter of course and he's the only reason I've taken an interest in the…

Trurl, I've addressed this question in probably half the comments I've ever posted on this site: The human race is falling apart. People are stupid and getting stupider, at least in the Western world. It's the result of (at least) a century of social engineering in which money, resources, and power were taken away…

Mongo, that was brilliant.

Ricky Nelson was married to Mark Harmon's older sister and they had four children (Mark Harmon was of course the former UCLA quarterback turned "sexiest man alive"). Nelson had at least one recognized bastard, too.

He's at the North Pole. No, wait… the surgeon was his mother!

Err … didn't mean Miracle Mile … err, On The Beach … err, Meteor … err, Panic in the Year Zero?

"hulking" Bradley Nowell
At 5 ft. 8 in. tall, it's a little hard to describe Nowell as hulking. He was nicely toned, though. What a fucking waste, all those morons out in California and their drugs.

Bill Clinton … the man who taught us to lie whenever it's convenient.

The Wikipedia entry on the title is interesting:

"The film looks dispiritingly cheap"
When did $40 million become low budget?

Oddly,
I remember him as that guy with the handsome quads in Jurassic Park.

Rabin got it wrong. This is a decent movie.
AV Club at its worst. First the reviewer misjudges the movie, then all the commenters chime in in groupthink agreement based apparently on seeing trailers.

Cirque du Soleil
does this sort of drama + stunts mixture all the time. From the first time I heard about the show, I thought they should have subcontracted out to Cirque for the stunts and just had a few Americans in the lead roles and singing parts. Why reinvent the wheel? Maybe Broadway unions got in the way?