BlackArachnia

You see, Statham, Li, and Austin were never action stars when I was younger. They are the new group. As for the others, they simply never impressed me with their glut of cliched movies. The action film did become a cliche. That is why so many here enjoyed Tropic Thunder. (Never watched it myself. I really do not like that kind of movie.) Stallone says Keaton killed the action star. No, bad acting killed the action star. Laughable performances killed the action star. Seagal, Van Damne, and Lundgren killed the action star with their awful movies.

Action movies were the attempt to make a super hero movie before we really had the technology to make good super hero movies. Now we have it. In addtion, like all action stars, they change over time. The 80's action was nothing like the stars Eastwood, Bronson, and Reynolds. And they were different from John Wayne. It simply changes over time.

The fact that Scott Pilgrim is a comic book movie, and makes references to the old NES side scrolling fighters, combined with the special effects, makes it a preferable movie aimed not only at the young comic reader, but also the older geeks. I am looking forward to seeing it in the theatre. I may not like the lead actor, but I like the idea behind the story.

oooo Yummy. Thanks for the recipe Impish

huzzah!!!

Now BBQ, the special effects alone scream big screen with Scott Pilgrim. Super hero/video game effects on the big screen.

I am not going to let myself get drawn into an anti-Expendables rant. For all I know the movie will be good. Look at the cast of the Dirty Dozen. It just screams rental to me.

I should watch Eat, Love, Pray just to be contrary, but it simply does not appeal to me even as a rental.

I prefer that sort of food in the morning. I lost my taste for overly sweet breakfast, and I rarely eat pancakes/waffles/french toast.

In fact I never eat pancakes. Waffles are a rare occasion as is french toast. Give me eggs and bacon, left overs, or a sandwich. Or a breakfast burger.

Durakken, not that I think you are wrong, but can you link the source saying that Birds of Prey are linked to Smallville? I thought they had different producers.

You are correct. I used the generic curry powder when I did the trick. I am sure making a real curry sauce would have made a differnt taste.

(Oddly enough, I learned about curry being different from Azure Dreams.)

You peel your tomatoes? *baffle*

As for beans, I rarely put beans in my chili. The way I was taught was that beans have no place in chili. Other than that, it looks like our ingredients are similiar. I put:

1 lb ground chuck roast
1 lb pork suasage, (Or country sausage.)
3-5 peppers of different types
1-2 garlic cloves
1 onion
chili powder
salt
pepper
red pepper flakes
paprika
onion powder
garlic powder
the tomatoes.

I use the brown sugar, 1 handful, to mitigate the chili powder
I also put in 1 handful of masa flour.

The original recipe called for using a can of tomato sauce, I just added more tomatoes instead. Less preservatives. You cook the meat first, but save the drippings. I get very few drippings off the beef as I use a very lean meat. You sautee the onions inhalf the drippings until the they translucent. You then sautee the garlic and peppers in the rest of the drippings. Make sure to remove the seeds unless you want your chili to give you a kick.

Clearly I skipped many directions.

The tomatoes need to be chopped, as do the other ingredients. Save the tomato juice. I do this by cutting mt ingredients on a plate instead. As I said, remove the seeds from the peppers. The spices I could not give you a measure for. I simpy shake until I feel it is right.

I put enough tomatoes in my chili. A minimum of 6 and up to 10. I forgo adding sauce to my chili and let the tomatoes break down and do the work for me.

Oddly enough, a smidge of curry powder in burger meat works very well. I gace it an odd look when I was told, but I tried it out one day, and I was pleasantly surprised. Mustard also works well in burger meat,

A Texan taught me to make chili, and she said the brown sugar helped to mitigate the chili powder bitterness with out detracting from the flavor.

This is important. I noticed that as well when I used to use a kettle. The water got weird, as did the odor in the kettle. The same goes with pots and pans. Wash the pot after boiling your water in it. If you do not, it will develop an odor, and start to ruin your tea.

Ugh. I tried grits once. Never again.

Broiled burgers are not bad either, just need to flip them alot. I think it takes more time for a broiler to cook them than the stove top though.