I'm about halfway through F Paul Wilson's The Keep, which is badass. The premise (nazi-occupied fortress haunted by its resident vampire) is absolute gold.

(cries self to death)

Was there really a time when hitting a man with glasses was considered dishonorable or some shit? It seems to me like the best reason to not hit a man with glasses is that you might get broken glass in your knuckles.

Speaking just for myself, Excalibur also ended up being the closest approximation of the D&D movie I always hoped for as a kid until the actual LOTR movies came out, by which time I was old and wizened.

We usually get one every five or six years; the last one was Black Sea, though I don't know how Hollywood that is.

It did - and if you wanted an R-rated Star Wars this was it, moreso than anything with spaceships, anyway.

I'm not sure, Excalibur made a pretty strong impression on Gen X nerds.

(pumps up) Give me the power!

I remember liking the 2005 movie fine. It's reputation is so bad though I've not revisited it.

This movie looks suicidal.

It looked to me like the bear was running for whatever its own reason was, saw the guy on the bike, and immediately ran the other way.

Was it unfair of me to tell the Dwayniac, when he asked who this act was, that they're basically the South African ICP? They seem like they fill the same niche.

Last night I had a queasy "Were they ever that young? Was *I* ever that young?" moment when I found some old CD's I'd never ripped and one of them was from 2001 and had a huge booklet of photos.

But lonely middle-aged women are my prime dating demographic!

I cannot imagine watching this screaming-at-people shit voluntarily. I see two seconds of that and part of me withers and dies.

NO.

In both movies he's more invincible than even usual, but at least in ODG he starts out knowingly playing an asshole and doesn't play any songs. The speech does go a long way though.

He performs on most of the songs on Fire Down Below. There's even a scene where an all-star country music hoedown happens and they invite him on stage to play along.

Is it *the* Crimea? I only recently learned it's not *the* Ukraine.

I am slightly bothered that I cannot remember at all how much or how little I knew about the premise for this movie going into it. I probably watched it on its opening weekend; I don't remember having my mind blown, but I don't really remember knowing it going in either.