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As the movie unfolded, all I could think of was how scared my date was and how she must have thought that I enjoyed bloody violent horror movies.
To her credit, she took it well and laughed at my later attempts to apologize for taking her to such a sadistic movie.
In the end, through dinner and all, we had a great time but we both would have liked to have enjoyed the movie too, which neither of us did.
11/26/09
Another favorite feast scene involves Sam and Dean in Supernatural; the episode "Jump the Shark" is a standout episode in every respect. The elements of family and feasting are prevalent, even if they're twisted by the ghouls.
And finally, the all in all creepiest Thanksgiving moment in TV history, for my money goes to that canceled weirdfest Millennium. I remember watching it near Thanksgiving on broadcast TV back in 98 or 99. I thought I was still on the standard Thanksgiving commercials so I was only paying half attention waiting for the show to start back up - the people were bright and cheerful, the turkey was on the table, everyone was smiling, then wham! They all started to bleed out of every orifice - eyes, nose, ears, etc. It gave me a serious case of the wiggins, messing around with the concepts we hold of "reality" on TV versus "storytelling".
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There's got to be a great comedy sketch in there, somewhere.
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One big, happy, family meal.
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Hellooou? Li-Ion batteries can leak and explode in contact with air.
And who is the kid gonna call anyway, and if it did - what will it talk about?
I may be a little old-fashioned but I say "Let the kid first learn to read and write and then CONSIDER giving it a phone".
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Here's a short history of '9' - you can fact check this on imdb, wiki and even other interviews with Acker himself.
'9' the feature film is based on a short film that Acker started about 10 years ago for his thesis project at UCLA. The short, also titled '9,' has the same character designs as the feature. The short played in Sundance in 2005 and won the Student Academy Award the same year. It was nominated for the Academy Award in 2006.
Little Big Planet on the other hand was released in late 2008 - that's 9 years *after* Acker started the short, and 3 years *after* the short was in wide circulation on the festival circuit.