First things first: This was the first episode of Fargo I've ever seen. Heard lots about it, but I've been cable-free for several years now, so a visit with family was the first time I've watched "Fargo" (along with "The Americans," another great show), and I loved it. So now I feel like I have at least one new show…

That's *Cap'n* Ron to you, pal.

I was lucky enough to see 'Alien' opening day at the Egyptian in '79( I met Ridley Scott! He autographed my program!), and it was everything I'd hoped it would be. In addition to a thousand other things I could blab about, Derek Vanlint's photography really comes alive on a big screen. He had worked with Scott making…

Please don't suck, please don't suck.
I mean, seriously, it looks good. A bit too much slo-mo(let her kick ass at her own speed, lose the "bullet time"), but I can buy Gal Gadot in the part, the costume looks *great* here, and Chris Pine knows his place. Cautiously optimistic, if DC learns to take their damn hands off…

[appropriate Australian accent]"People are friends. Not food!"

Never saw the show, but heard some good things about it. Maybe a 2nd season might have helped it get its bearings. It's a shame this show got the axe and garbage like "Girls" gets auto-renewed for two seasons despite scathing reviews, bad word of mouth and quantifiably bad ratings. Oh well, no accounting for taste.

Story of my life.

Oh, I know it was a massive success, partly due to one of the best PR campaigns ever. I was there opening day(and hated it). My point is, Emmerich's films reflect an assumption that the audience are idiots, all led by the nose, by explosions and cheap applause lines. You have only to watch "The Day After Tomorrow" or…

Roland Emmerich, the director who never passes up an opportunity to insult an audience's intelligence. I'm still amazed that ID2 got greenlit.

Yes, that's the big issue. I just thought if a name actress was behind a push to create a new movie/game series tie-in, then there might be some effort made to untie all those problems.

Re: Gillian Anderson, I've already suggested that, instead of Jane Bond, she should try taking NOLF's Cate Archer and making a film series from that character. She could make it her own.

People have forgotten what a crap-shoot this show was back in 2000. I can remember in the weeks leading up to the premiere, most people thought it would be a Gilligan's Island-type joke.

Agreed. As a former recording engineer, I knew well the challenges of multi-track recording in the '70's. On "Snowflakes" I don't even think Tomita had a 16-track machine, but a Scully 8-track and he had to keep ping-ponging tracks to create submixes while building the rest of the track. Even a single note had to be…

I heard the same story sometime after the release of "Alien."(there are some flashes of Tomita in the original "Alien" trailer) I remember listening to "The Bermuda Triangle" and imagining this as the soundtrack to a Ridley Scott film. But I think the other problem with a Tomita soundtrack at the time was that it…

It ticks me off that I was living in Japan in '03 and had never heard of this film. We did see Jet Li's "Hero" there before Tarentino repackaged it for the US audiences(who's the hipster now? ;) ), but didn't even hear about Twilight Samurai.
But I come here to praise Tomita, who has been a hero since "Snowflakes Are…

I didn't see "Comin' At Ya!" but I did see "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone" and "Jaws 3D" back in the day. The big problem with the 3D pictures in the '80's was too many shots of things "comin' at ya" so to speak. It always made you go cross-eyed and I'd more times than not, leave the theater with a…

Same here. Although, when the credits did come up, the whole audience basically got up and *ran* for the exits. Silent and *pissed.*

I've been to the beaches at Tarawa, where the Marines waded ashore into murderous fire, as well. There are still a few grounded, rusting Higgins boats in the shallows. I was there with the Commandant, Gen. Carl Mundy in '93 filming the Commandant's birthday message to the Corps(we also filmed on Iwo Jima and Okinawa).

I'm glad to see that Jim Wong and Darin Morgan are back to help the series. Morgan's writing created some of the series' best episodes(Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" is not only my favorite episode, but one of the best hours of television ever written), it's great to see that 'X-Files" can still laugh at itself.

Thanks for the memories. Up All Night got me through many lonely nights and gave me the chance to see a lot of cheesy movies I'd missed in the '80's when I was deployed overseas. This and Joe Bob's Drive In Theater were great bad-movie fun. And hey, Rhonda Shear.