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Yes, and it was also pretty bad. Only pleasure was seeing Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann again. (However, the short film "The Blair Witch Mountain Project" is GENIUS.)

If it was pate, it IS delicious.

And "Home On The Range." And "Brother Bear."

Yes, but in all fairness, our ideas and attitudes about handicapped people have changed over the past several hundred years.

I've never gotten the fetishization in some circles for "The Lion King." "Hunchback" is, to me, light years more ambitious and gripping.

Finally saw "Return to Witch Mountain" a couple years ago on TCM for the first time since I was 11 years old in '78. It….did not age well.

I have that reaction to a lot of anime—once you understand the Japanese formula, it's often pretty textbook. (And the endless focus on post-Apocalyptic stuff—yes, I know, Hiroshima/Nagasaki—gets old.)

He wants what he can't have.

Weirdly, you could argue that "Silence of the Lambs" "The Prince of Tides" and "Bugsy"—if not "JFK"—all dealt with beauty-and-the-best dynamics, i.e. angry/violent/emotionally messed-up man meets woman who changes his life.

Considering most animated films not from Disney rely WAY to heavily on fart and toilet humor, LeFou's pratfalls look like Steve Martin-level slapstick in comparison.

In college, Anita Baker's "Rapture" album was pretty much a go-to, especially the first 3 tracks on Side 1: "Sweet Love" "You Bring Me Joy" & "Rapture." Sweet. Sexy. Soulful.

I love that Spanish version, but think they whiff the very ending. It's got that melancholy Spanish thing that embodies so much of their art (cinema, music, etc.), but it's not dramatically satisfying. Still worth seeing though.

You and Aaronius need to get a room.

The ending is only sappy if you don't realize it's all a construct—an artificial dream of an artificial home and mother for an artificial boy. Mankind no longer exists, we're only a fairy tale now told to machines. It's not sweet and touching like "E.T.," it's the anti-"E.T."

Every time "A.i" gets discussed, there's always someone in every thread who grouses that that's the ending they wanted, rules of storytelling be darned. (There's also usually a Kubrick devotee who always claims—falsely—that Spielberg "ruined" the ending Kubrick would've wanted, i.e. leaving David underwater;

I loved this show as a kid (around 10 or 11), can't stand it as an adult—everyone is written and directed to be as stupid as possible, ostensibly to play up the farce angles. If it had been a more vicious satire of Southern California culture, it might hold up better ( a la "Soap"). What exactly happened to Sommers'

To this day, if I want to make my sister fall over in hysterics, all I have to do is imitate Tom Hanks' frozen look of horror and spokesmodel hand gestures: "Hi, Mrs. Desmond….Look we got a HAM!!!" (The eulogy for Hilly—"Nuts to you!"—is also vintage Hanks at his looney-tune best.)

Pauline Kael actually loved Anne Wedgeworth and spotlit her in several of her film reviews. She gives a lovely, haunting performance in "Made in Heaven" as a woman who loses her son (Timothy Hutton), then picks up a hitchhiker years later who is Hutton reincarnated and develops a brief, fragile bond with him. It

Nice deadpan irony there……..yes?

Well, with the commercials taken out, it's seriously probably closer to 5 hours. (About 75 minutes of drama per 2 hours, over 8 hours of broadcasting.) As folks commented, it'll be a great overview (if not an in-depth examination) for classroom use.