Great stuff but dammit, it's the Special Edition. Even here the extra scenes feel superfluous.
Last year's Kill List felt like a crime-addled remake of Wicker Man with an even more devastating ending.
Yes I've read WWZ and RA is that but with robots, I agree. The structure of these novels--basically short stories tied within a theme--is the logical vehicle for the scope of worldwide apocalypse. It's the reading equivalent of flipping the channels. Admittedly it was a welcome relief after slogging through the concentrated minutiae of a late William Gibson novel.
I'd like to add Robopocalypse by Daniel H Wilson to the list. It's a great page-turner on the robots turning against us via the birth of AI.
Not only are you wrong about the merits of this "movie", CJA, but you're terrifyingly wrong considering your track record of great reviews. BLA is the most artless piece of propaganda I've seen in a long time, insulting on so many levels. This is just one long loud and stupid war simulation drowned in dripping melodrama, shell-shocking the audience into entertainment. An interstellar spanning species fights with primitive tactics and technology just a couple of steps ahead of ours. Right. Why bother to even have the enemy be aliens at all if you're going to have them be as dangerous as any modern army?
The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey is a perfect example of a movie which sneaks in fantastical elements through the side door. Great little movie, depressing but it's set in the Dark Ages after all.
In Kenny Hotz's Triumph of the Will Season 1 Episode 6 Kenny (of Kenny vs Spenny) "eats" his camera crew among other things to become a cannibal.
Don't forget that Jane Wiedlin had a cameo in Star Trek IV, looking perky in a Federation uniform.
Adding Walter Chang--grabbed by a Graboid in Tremors.
How about in Fantastic Voyage, where Donald Pleasence gets crushed by a giant white blood cell?
They should genetically engineer glow-in-the-dark plants for this.
I want to see the original dewback scene, as clunky as it was.
Best trailergasm of all time for me is the Alien trailer. If you don't leave a liquid mess after watching it, then you're a goddamn robot.
Piers Anthony's Xanth series = mass appeal.
The movie 'Eating Rauol' features a great example of an asexual couple.
In a likely case of parental abuse my friend's mom took him to see The Exorcist when he was nine.
Back in the day I warned my dad not to take my kid brother to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. I was ignored and my brother had shrieking nightmares.
I saw 'Rubber' at the VIFF last fall and the poster is completely appropriate to the in-your-face, over-the-topness of this fine film.
All good...as long as 'Down in the Park' doesn't come true.
