The point is that the exhibit was being used to contain a wild animal and it failed to do so. I would also contend that placing your child, who just happens to be dressed like a zebra, on the floor right up against the enclosure and leaving it there as the lion desperately tries to gain access to the child would…

The tiger that escaped its enclosure at the San Fransisco Zoo and killed a man in 2007 scaled a 12.5 foot wall. That tiger wasn't magical and the man did not have time to flee. The animal's enclosure was not adequate to contain it when it was motivated to escape and the zoo's visitors had no way of knowing that. No…

I don't know. What about parents who dangle their babies off of balconies?

I really enjoyed this whole list. It's not quite the list I would have made, naturally, but that's one of the best things about it. YOu've introduced me to a ton of new music, much of which is right up my alley. Great work.

Holy crap, prog-gasm! Ayreon, King Crimson, Uriah Heep, APP... Praxis! Oh, this is going to be awesome.

Couldn't agree more about Seven and Chakotay. Voyager was the only Trek series that had multiple regular characters that I actively disliked and Chakotay was second only to Neelix on that list. I didn't like Seven much either when she was introduced but she quickly managed to rise above her own boobies and become a…

Haha! Awesome. You dug up some things I've never seen before. You get a sense of scale of the thing in that last photo with the guy standing right next to the loop. It's a lot bigger than it looks in the other pictures.

The dangerous amusement park aspect of this reminds me of the late Action Park of Vernon, New Jersey. I never had the pleasure of visiting Action Park in its 18 years of operation, although the place was the stuff of legend and I saw the television commercials frequently growing up. That's probably for the best,…

The shockwave was still detectible on its third passage around the earth. It destroyed buildings and broke windows hundreds of kilometers away, as far away as Norway.

It does not help the anti-prohibition cause to make extraordinary claims for cannabis. All you do is weaken, by association, the legitimate, thoroughly scientifically tested arguments in favor of legalization. Cannabis MAY or MAY NOT have anti-cancer properties IN HUMANS. It doesn't matter at this point! The argument…

IIRC, the shark in Jaws 3 was supposed to be 35 feet long. It looks much larger than the sharks in any of the other films, almost absurdly so.

I don't know who Andy Pipkin is and I've never even heard of Little Britain. Could someone from across the pond let me know if I should be proud or ashamed of this?

Actually, you might have that backwards. Cameron claims he makes movies to fund his explorations, not the other way around. He described his Titanic profits as "fuck-you money" he used to finance his deep sea expeditions. No doubt, it's two way street, but he claims that exploration is his true passion and it seems…

So you're telling me you went into Tranformers 2 with high expectations? Well, there's your problem!

I would really like to know how many of the 869 people who've voted for Transformers so far have seen Manos or even knew it existed before they voted in this poll. I would bet serious money that it's very few. I did not like Transformers 2 at all but it is fucking brilliant when compared to Manos: The Hands of Fate. I…

Just do what I do and ignore any Alien film made after 1986.

And not because Nicaprio says it's bad means it's bad. That is all.

Seeing as how James Cameron wrote and directed Aliens, The Abyss and the only good parts of the Terminator franchise, all enduring classics in the genre, I strongly suspect you are in the minority in wanting to shoot him. Avatar's near-universal critical acclaim, numerous major award nominations and record-crushing…

I think it's a safe prediction that Battlefield Earth is going to go far in this contest, quite likely right to the end. There are many bad movies here. Only BE is an abomination unto the universe.

I never hated Return of the Jedi but I think that's because I was child when I first saw it. I'd wager that, for the most part, there's a direct correlation between the age you were when you first saw it and your opinion of it later in life, when you can see what all the hate is about. It's like if the Care Bears…