Ironik

This is what those guys saw just before the heat ray was unleashed in War of the Worlds. (The good 1950s version.)

It looks like you hit him so hard his eyes crossed. Heh.

The only kids movies I can really get into are the ones that also have something for adults, as if the filmmakers have thrown in a couple things for the grown-ups who have to watch these things over and over. I like half of what Pixar does for this very reason, and I think the best Disney animated film ever made is The Emperor's New Groove.

But when I go back and try to rewatch stuff I loved in my youth, like Speed Racer or Yamato, I just can't get into that mindset because there's nothing adult there to hang my interest on. Whereas something like the Adam West Batman series, I loved it just as much when I saw it as an adult, because I finally got the jokes.

Conclusive evidence that Bill is on the Juice. Coincidentally, he homered forty-two-hundred times in 2010.

When I had my birthday senior year, my best friend remarked, "You aren't 17 going on 18, you're 17 going on 40." Which was true. I've always felt like I was in my 40s. So by the time I was 20, you can imagine how little tolerance I had for kids' action flicks.

I've been seeing the same thing. People are outraged. I tell them two things: 1) don't read the books and 2) don't get attached to anyone over four-and-a-half feet tall. Who isn't a Lannister.

For certain personal and professional reasons, I'm glad you like Undiscovered. The first draft of the script was better, though. None of that stupid Shakespeare junk Bennet added.

A friend of mine pointed out that Picard never left the glowy barber pole in the first TNG flick. Once you accept that, every other incongruous moment in the rest of the movies makes sense, and all the inconsistency goes away (such as the bizarre addition of a Borg Queen) because all of the TNG films are occurring in Picard's imagination inside that Aurora Galactialis. (What the hell was that thing called? Besides "plot device".)

Exactly. Original Star Wars, the first (and only good) version of CE3K, ST: WoK is the only good one.

I realize The Goonies is a touchstone for a certain generation, but I was too old for it. I tried twice but couldn't watch it. I'm not the target audience.

Gah, Star Trek was so bad, it's hard to even know where to start with that thing. I watched it just because my cousin and Trekkie friends were insisting that it was actually good. My opinion of *their* opinion has subsequently dropped precipitously. Inconsistent characterization, bad writing, over-the-top and dumb "humor" plus lens flares, lens flares, lens flares. Everything that's bad about a JJ Abrams production. Plus a plot and main antagonist stolen from Star Trek Nemesis.

I have enormous fond memories of the films of my youth, especially those of the late 70s and early 80s, and Lucas and Spielberg have done more than enough to destroy those memories without having to endure Abrams' hamfistedly manhandling them into gooey stupid paste.

I really hate that guy's work, apparently.

Do you mean she looked like that except we should imagine her without the cape and aura? Or did you accidentally add the wrong picture?