I'm more disappointed that Peter Jackson decided to make "The Hobbit" a trilogy, meaning it might be 6 years before he starts work on Temaraire.

I don't know how well-known (or not) this is, but according to IMDB.com, Gert Fröbe (a/k/a Auric Goldfinger) spoke so little English that his dialogue was dubbed by another actor, Michael Collins.

A virus!

Picasso,

...and with this new Barbara Carerra hat, you'll Never Say Never Again to DirecTV!

A lot of Moonraker seemed intentionally tounge-in-cheeky, making fun of Superman, Star Wars, 80's pop culture. Critically blasted, but one of my faves, thanks to that awesome John Barry score.

"Aqaba, from the desert!"

Add to Moonraker those post-apocalyptic Kill-Bill jumpsuits.

Seems the primary obstacle to Chinese Superpower status is their own hierarchy and it's propensity to try to socially re-engineer itself to the extent of rewriting it's own history and culture (like Mao's Cultural Revolution) or failing to take advantage of its own vast creative knowledge pool for the sake of the…

It's only a matter of time before Dreamworks treats us to "Bee-I-Joe Movie".

So this is what happened to Ultros and Relm after Final Fantasy VI (III-SNES)?

Actually, isn't the very concept of fanciful "anthropomorphization of beasts" a uniquely human thing? On the other hand, didn't God once use a talking ass (donkey) to prove a point to someunsavory fellow named Balaam? What might be offensive is how it can be abused, but sadly that's another uniquely "human" thing as…

Sandy is coming...

I don't know about you, Joss, but I'm ready for some "Romnenity".

I was lucky enough to see "Watership Down" during its very short US theatrical run around 1978. By then I was a very jaded, image-conscious, 15 year-old who thought "cartoons were for kids", but Watership Down was the first cartoo—no—animated film that was so well done in the story, awesome music, and lush…

Add to that another semi-spoiler: in the book the person who sold Snitter (the Jack Russel) to the animal lab behind his owner's back while he was in hospital (and was his sister no less) was "busted" by the reporter and thoroughly chewed-out for it (one of my favorite scenes in the book—also cut)! (btw—the Lab's…

Like "Watership Down", they left a lot out from the book (or it would have been a three hour movie!). Unlike Watership though, critical scenes from "Plague Dogs" were left out of the film that really annoyed me (having read the book first). The film was given a very mean and misanthropic ending as if trying to be…

I read Richard Adams' "The Plague Dogs" in the late '70's as a teenager and loved it (Watership Down as well). When I found it a few years later as a (VHS) release by the same folk that so-nicely realized "Watership Down", I rented that too. It looked so gorgeous (a beautiful rotoscoping job that would give Ralph…

Oh, I spotted the K-7 easily enough, but I'm referring to the other station /above/ the Klingon ship (the K-7 is below the Klingon ship). (Update: my memory since jogged enough to recognize the other station as a drawing in the 1978 book "Starfleet Technical Manual" (which was probably intended to be in an earlier…