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Yikes!!! Please don't think Steve and I were ganging up.... I love Star Wars, in fact, I was one of the few people that can actually say that I was at the Drive In with my buddies on the night that it was released... and I worked at a theatre when "Empire" opened. I have been a devoted fan since 1977. Can or should they ever be remade??? Nope. Are there things I would change if I had originally directed? Hell yeah... but not in the main flow of the story, just the goofy side characters. It's like Braveheart. I am a history major... and Braveheart was as historically fabricated, so much so it hurt. The execution scene where Edward I dies in his bed and William Wallace dies as a result of beheading could never have happened... they died two years apart. Should it have been remade to correct the inaccuracy? No way... it rocked!

Close... but Seagal is a two, John Jackson is a one. The Baconator is a zero.

Oh c'mon Castle!!!!!!!!!!!!! The place was overindulgence with a capital OOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Bicycle Thief was fantastic... but like all of the Italian films and many of the post war European films of the time, just so freaking depressing. In the same vein, La Terra Trema was amazing but you have to stay away from sharp things, large bottles of pharmaceuticals and full bottles of cleaning products after. The Battle of Algiers is another in that category.... it tells of the struggles of the Algerians to throw off the colonial yoke of France in the 60's. An important film, it gives perspective on the other side of terrorism... as viewed through the eyes of freedom fighters.

I would like a hamburger and a diet coke. Low fat cheese. See, I am watching the calories.

Music? Dave Brubeck - Take 5 Take 5 is that one Jazz tune that just takes you somewhere else... it's like an instant trip back in time to a smokey jazz club... beautiful Will Millar - Celtic Reverie Will Millar was the former lead singer of the Irish Rovers. That is NOT why I love this album. He left the group for a while and concentrated on traditional instrumental Celtic music... and this my friends is a masterpiece. Florence K - Bossa Blue Florence K is an incredibly talented singer/songwriter/musician from Montreal. This is her debut CD with that smooth Euro Bossa Nova flare. Enchanting. Literature: Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Zafon Lamb - Christopher Moore Kenneth - Nigel Tranter Anything by Ian Rankin Art: Anything that amazes... all art has merit. This is incredible:

Ahhhh mea culpa. Ahem. Yes, yes I agree with everyone who has a valid opinion on this matter. Kudos for them and you for bringing this compelling topic to light. Outskirts are important. Carry on...

... if the Nazis had uniforms like this, we might have been more sympathetic.

I have to agree with Angela... Ferris Bueller can NEVER be remade. Ferris Bueller IS Matthew Broderick, Matthew Broderick IS Ferris Bueller. I couldn't imagine anyone else in the role. Any of the James Bonds with the young Sean Connery. As much as other actors have done admirable jobs in the role (with exception to Roger Moore) NOBODY beats Sean BONDery. Braveheart - Mel Gibson may not be the most popular guy in Hollywood but you have to give him this one... It was a masterpiece. Field of Dreams - Like Gibson, Costner may have fallen out of Hollywood favour, but this was his role of a lifetime and he shone through. WTF? Howard the Duck. No need to say anything else on that The Love Guru. Mike Myers is a genius... most of the time. This is the exception.

I have a few.... (1) Jason and the Argonauts With all due respect to the genius of Ray Harryhausen, this is a great old movie that just seems dated. Could also redo the Sinbads as well..... (2) The Magic Sword - No, you have probably never heard of it. It's a 1960's fantasy flick about the quest to beat a sorcerer and save the damsel in distress from being fed to a dragon... but it has SO MUCH POTENTIAL with CG. (3) The Roger Moore James Bonds. Loved Connery. Loved Brosnan. Liked Dalton. Liked Lazenby. Tolerated Craig. HATED MOORE. (4) Battle of the Bulge - HUGE cast in the original but you can't believe that rural California is the Ardennes forest. With Band of Brothers you saw that it could be done... I would love to see this well made. (5) The Dirty Dozen - I know the original was FANTASTIC but it is a film that could be remade every 20 or 30 years with a great new cast. Just sayin'

Happy burfday SNS!!!

CONGRATS RG!!!!

Hmmmmm. Would you travel in skirts alone? What about slacks? heheheheheheheh

It's movie day... and I thought in keeping with the day to reintroduce an old fave... and an amazing cheat to the game. If you are not familiar, the game was developed in 1994 based on the premise that you can name any actor and in as few links as possible make a relation to Kevin Bacon. For example. Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was in "Some Like it Hot" with Jack Lemmon; Jack Lemmon was in "JFK" with Kevin Bacon. So Marilyn has a Bacon factor of 2, Jack Lemmon has a Bacon factor of 1. Example 2. W.C. Fields W.C. Fields was in "Follow the Boys" with Andy Devine; Andy Devine was in "How the West was Won" with Eli Wallach; Eli Wallach was in Mystic River with Kevin Bacon. Fields has a Bacon factor of 3, Devine has a 2, and Wallach has a 1. The cheat? http://oracleofbacon.org/help.php They have taken the names of 1.5 million actors, 1.2 million movies and 200,000 nicknames from IMDB (The Internet Movie Database) and created a program to find the connections. The most remote??? Some actor out there has a Bacon factor of 9. I have tried a few, the best I can come up with Hollywood actors is a 4..... Give us your most remote Bacon factor!!!

Okay... ummmm.... how about we just edit out all the stupid stuff that George Lucas thought was fun. Like the Ewoks. Jar Jar Binks. The alien band in the bar. The guard pig guys. Any actor that played Anikin Skywalker. Samuel L Jackson as a Jedi. The lizard kid that grew up to be the lizard man that Han killed. Tarzan Wookies. Bad robot dialogue. Jabba's little laughing monkey dog sidekick. and this guy... and this guy... Don't get me wrong... I loved the series... there were just parts that made me throw up in my mouth a bit. Additional Comments: Oooooh... LOTR... good choice!!!!

As sung by Noel Coward in the "Meaning of Life" Isn't it awfully nice to have a penis? / Isn't it frightfully good to have a dong? / It's swell to have a stiffy. / It's divine to own a dick, / From the tiniest little tadger / To the world's biggest prick. / So, three cheers for your Willy or John Thomas. / Hooray for your one-eyed trouser snake, / Your piece of pork, your wife's best friend, / Your Percy, or your cock. / You can wrap it up in ribbons. / You can slip it in your sock, / But don't take it out in public, / Or they will stick you in the dock, / And you won't come back.

I got to thinking when the other thread was started today about remakes on movies... just some of the movies that for whatever reason should never be remade. Some are classics - like Casablanca or Gone With the Wind, others so horrible that they should never have been made in the first place like Gigli or Plan Nine from Outer Space. So what are your "Untouchable Classics" .... or your "WTF were they thinking when they made that?" Movies? Untouchables Classics: 1. Casablanca: Bogart. Bergmann. Pure Cinematic magic. 2.The Shawshank Redemption: One of those movies that defies definition. Simply Brilliant. 3. The Usual Suspects: Kevin Spacey at his finest. A great cast, twists and turns all over... and who the hell is Keyser Soze???? 4. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: A sleeper, but it is one of those movies that just appeals on so many levels. 5. The Great Escape: Between this movie, and the one at number 6, two of the greatest ensemble casts of all time. War movies rock. 6. The Longest Day: Another fantastic cast. Henry Fonda, Sean Connery, John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Red Buttons, Peter Lawford, Richard Burton. It was the movie that made "Saving Private Ryan" possible. 7. Cinema Paradiso: It doesn't matter whether you like foreign movies or not. This one is just so compelling - it's funny, it's sad, it's romantic, and it absolutely tugs at your heart. 8. Monty Python and the Holy Grail: It's Python at their very finest. Nothing else needs to be said. 9. Pulp Fiction: Tarentino's master work. So much to tell in such a small period, the stories weave together perfectly. 10. The Wizard of Oz: No person should ever grow up without seeing this. WTF??? 1.Gigli: Ben Affleck. J Lo. ummmmmm. HORRIBLE. 2. Glitter: Mariah Carey can sing. She did well in "Push". Glitter was... well Glitter was.... ummmmm.... okay... it sucked, and not in a good way. 3. Leonard, Part 6. - Bill Cosby. Just be happy that parts one through five were NEVER EVER made. 4. Santa with Muscles: As an actor, Hulk Hogan is a great wrestler. 5. Glen or Glenda: Before Ed Wood made the awful classic "Plan Nine from Outer Space" he created "Glen or Glenda" a thinly veiled autobiographical movie about his love of wearing women's clothes. Oh Ed. Even today with our modern attitudes, this would still be a god awful movie.

oooooh it get's better.... remember Cliff Clavin when he was a rebel in Star Wars???

Actually it was sort of a remake, though not OFFICIALLY. There were 5 movies in the original Planet of the Apes series (Planet, Beneath the Planet, Escape From, Conquest of and finally Battle for the Planet of the Apes.) The new apes movie mirrors the plot of the Conquest of the Planet of the Apes from 1972. I have no life.

Okay... but I even had a second avatar for ya.... or

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Tattoos, Body Art, piercings... as long as YOU feel sexy in your own skin, that's all that really counts. Let's face it, to most men, a woman is the most fantastic development in the history of... well.... history. Adorned, unadorned, fully clothed, partially clothed or fully exposed... she's just magic. There's an old saying "To thine own self, be true." If your "self" loves your "self" then it really doesn't matter what others think of your modifications - your personality and the fact that you love who you are will shine through all else. That's what I love about women I love... they are their true selves. They are real. They believe in their own inner beauty... and that too will shine through.

Cleavagy? Kinda sounds dirty. I like it.