Kaylee: [about Simon's birthday cake] Couldn't get ahold of no flour, so it's mostly protein. In fact, it's pretty much what we just had for dinner.
[everyone laughs]
Kaylee: But I tried to get the frosting as chocolatey tasting as possible.

Ah...wait...it's a Vita-Mix: [www.vitamix.com]

The funny thing is one of her good friends is named Steve Rogers.

The charity?

That other weird game we play is actually Scottish in origin, and hasn't ever been officially recognized over here (although many have tried to do so): curling. [en.wikipedia.org]

Man if you've never tried it, let me tell you how much it can hurt if you don't know what you're doing. You've gotta slide that rock (which weighs a tonne) and every time I did it my right knee slammed into the ice. Hurt like hell.

My now 86 year old great-aunt, of course, was laughing her ass off because it's a technique thing and she was fine (she was 83 at the time.)

Adamantium laced bones would be a huge benefit in Lacrosse. I've an uncle who used to play, and basically it's like hockey on grass and cross checking is LEGAL. That's right: feel free to slam your opponents across the back with that hardwood stick. Not to mention the Indian rubber ball that whacks you up the side of the head.

Yes yes, we are a peace loving nation. Truly.

Me? I prefer Baseball. A great game. My Grandfather instilled the love of that sport in me, and it remains the only mainstream sport I truly love. (I'm a cyclist, but one could hardly call racing road bikes a mainstream sport in North America.)

@braak: If you doubt our super soldier credibility, clearly you've never watched either of our national sports: Hockey and Lacrosse.

Especially Lacrosse.

How we ever got a reputation as a peace loving nation while endorsing those two things has puzzled me for ages.

To be clear: MI: I and MI: II basically sucked. The only thing I liked about them was the fact that my PowerBook showed up in it.

But MI: III? That was a rock and roll good time all around. I saw it twice, and it was just as fun the second time.

So I give Abrams some credit.

Cloverfield wasn't /crap/ nor was it great. It was definitely the most original "monster movie" in a while, and in that sense it succeeded.

You should watch Abrams' talk at Ted. It was good, for the most part.
[www.ted.com]

The general consensus of the comments on that thread seemed to be more along the lines of "doubtful."

Sorry. I was channeling Moff there for a minute. I kid because I love.

there were those little tiny ones, and I'm envisioning a plot where some of the little guys were caught by government scientists and kept for study.

Only one wasn't caught, survived in the New York sewer (because anything can down there) and goes searching for its fellow monsters (telepathically connected, of course.)

Pretty much the plot of every 'aren't the aliens dead?" film really...well executed it can work, poorly executed...blurg.

When you start to treat a unique creative process like any other mass produced product, it happens. The Trek crew was stretched too thin and made too ubiquitous...it was all about giving fan boys what they wanted, but not just some of it....all of it. All the time.

Same problem Lucas has with Star Wars.

Sometimes, less is just...more.

It is, at least, one that's been lovingly translated with the involvement of the original creator.

These Hollywood remakes are just blatant cash grabs.

Just because YOU haven't been keeping up, and are jumping the BSG bandwagon late doesn't mean the rest of the world needs to keep its mouth shut.

I bet Baltar and Adama have a go at it one of these days.

Jackson's version was good, but when I left the theatre I was left with a fundamental sense of...well..."Why?" more than anything else. It just seemed unneccesary.

And I agree with @Priam we need more remakes like I need a hole in the head. Somebody please TRY something ORIGINAL for god's sake and I might plunk $12 on the table again.

Tonight I'm going to see Persepolis....that qualifies.

I guess somebody drank a bit too much of someone's milkshake.

Seriously thought, if the opening of the Hellmouth doesn't convince people in Texas that they need to be less dependent on an oil economy what ever will?

@daived: I'm not saying your wrong, but I want to be clear on something here:

There is /NOTHING/ inherently wrong with showing more cleavage.

Moving along now...

Just to be clear, it's not THIS that spells trouble for Smallville. It's SO many other things.

That movie is stunning.

You're entitle to your opinion of course. I just think it's important to make you aware that it's wrong.

And yet, in the third movie the issue of an attack on Zion's mainframe never comes up. It's a physical attack on the city.

More, from Morpheus:
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What is The Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer generated dream world, built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.
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but yes, he also says this:

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'As long as the Matrix exists, the human race will never be free.' After he died, the Oracle prophesied his return, and that his coming would hail thedestruction of the Matrix, end the war, bring freedom to our people
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but through the first two films, the physical manifestation of the Matrix was minimal: the story focused on the battle /inside/ the code.

Suddenly, in Revolutions Morpheus has competition? A board of directors? A general? These things are never discussed in the first film.

So I see a disconnect.

I never bought that Wachowski bullshit about "planning it as a trilogy all along." They made a great movie, a tonne of money and the studio wanted more. Suddenly a whole bunch of plot elements got created and grafted on the back end of the thing, with only the thinnest of connections to earlier work.

I call it "Lucas-itis" most times, but it happened here and it made the third Matrix film the weakest of them all, despite the presence of Monica Belluci's substantial (previously mentioned) assets, and Carrie Anne Moss in leather.

As long as he keeps nailing the hot chicks between now and then, I say all power to him!

The movie did have some goodness though: Keanu & Carrie Anne get shagadelic; some kick ass fight scenes a la the first one (but a bit too a la...some could have BEEN the first ones.)

The second was better, and more original than the third. It wasn't as shocking as the first, but it was pretty bad ass. That scene where Laurence Fishburne rolls out of the way and takes out the twins' Cadillac with a Katana was just part of the awesome highway chase scene (and a good predictor of the quality level of domestic automotive product.)

And those shots of her draped in honey and caviar.

I need a minute here...I'll be /right/ back.

It does not have Carrie Anne Moss in a wicked highway chase scene with a Ducati, ergo it is not better than The Matrix Reloaded.

There's a better than average chance that it's better than The Matrix Revolutions.

Miller's four issue miniseries turned Woverine into a complex and noble character.

The X-Men movies, and so many other portrayals, turned him into not much more than a rage machine. A man with a bad temper that he can't control.

As a Samurai, Wolverine was a great character.

Every since about mid-last season I've been expecting a conclusion in which Cylons and Humans cooperate, in order to provide a demonstration of how similar they are. The old "people are people, even if some people are related to toasters" trick.

There were basically two alternatives: they continue to fight, forever or they gain a mutual understanding and respect and work together in some capacity.

Adama and Roslin in love? That's not surprising at all. I mean c'mon. Roslin. Schwing! She's a total babe: brainy, gorgeous, sensitive to her friends but tough. Who WOULDN'T fall for that?

It's not like she's a frakkin' Cylon, after all.

Duh. Clearly. Jesus never got laid THAT much.

Now Baltar as John Holmes? Giddy up.

(I'd say Baltar as Priest, but he seems to prefer...women, and what would be out of character for that profession.)

> Here are some pics from the Smallville
> series finale

Why, I remember when you couldn't BUY dinosaur poop no matter HOW hard you tried.