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Crackpot theory: Are Bobby and Toomy from The Langoliers the same character? Both are super nuts and inappropriate, both are on airplanes, and while one is in Boston the other needs to get there. Were they two nearly identical souls about to somehow exist in the same time and place and are merging which is making them crazy/physic-magic? And is that why time stopped in Langoliers so that one of them could be erased? And if this is all true, would this be an offense worthy of JCVD's time? We do need more PIs investigating supernatural crime. I watched Cast a Deadly Spell last night, which I enjoyed. I kind of want to watch the sequel now, but I heard it's real lousy.

Oh man, Second Sight was rough for me. I'm glad I didn't see this when I was a kid, since I had such a crush on John Larroquette. He was so flat! Little me would have been heartbroken. I hope you guys had a great holiday season, and I hope the next year is full of nothing but happiness and prosperity for you and yours!

I think they should've just straight up animated both Ultraviolet and Aeon Flux. I know American audiences don't really go out for adult orientated animated movies, but if everything but the actors onscreen is fake... Not saying both movies still wouldn't have been messes, but at least they would have been visually coherent. As for pump up songs: And I have a lot of Power Glove in my mix, .

Thank you caller with the correction about the Halloween tagline! To the caller with the friend troubles: I don't believe it's about the food, I definitely agree that your friends are too polite to tell you that they need some alone time. Talk to them, maybe only come over once a week for a while? It's been a bit so I don't recall much of Ultraviolet, other than aggressive CGI, Milla being absolutely gorgeous per usual, and it making me want to dye my hair purple.

Same here. Also, as I was watching Second Sight last night the Lorimar logo popped up, and in the foggiest back reaches of my memories I could hear the VHS coming attraction voice over, "...coming soon from Lorimar..." No, brain, we could be using that space for more important things, like telekinesis.

I think the real takeaway from 4 was that Crispin Glover has excellent bone structure and you'd be crazy not to hit it, candy stripe wallpaper blouses and other conventionally attractive boys aside.

You guys are right, as soon as I read 'survived, lived as a hermit, was bullied' a lot more came flooding back.

So this has never been my favorite horror franchise, but I've seen each one so many times I have a soft spot for them.* I’ve honestly always felt that you're supposed to sympathize with Jason. Unlike serial murdered and possible molester Freddy, or super messed up cult kid Michael Myers, Jason was just a happy, developmentally challenged boy who went swimming at the summer camp his mother worked at and drowned because the teens who were supposed to be watching him were too busy necking to notice. Now, his mother going HAM and killing the first group of teens/twentysomethings to come back to the camp to reopen it was definitely not okay. And how his mother’s death caused his unrested soul to enter the body of a fully-grown undead man will always be a mystery, but he was kind of protecting that lake from further needless child death. He always went after the teens and adults, who with very few exceptions were lousy people. I think in the sixth installment there’s a big to do over him possibly hurting the children at the camp, but other than scaring them I don’t remember him hurting any.** And he was pretty lukewarm to Tommy in the fourth movie, it was only when Tommy aged up that he became an issue. And Child Jason pops up numerous times to help the Final Teens and be at odds with Adult Hell Vessel Jason. I think in his own weird way Jason was making sure no child ever died again on Crystal Lake, and in his mind adults and teens would always be a threat. *Not for this one though, it totally looks and sounds like a budget CW show and I was happy to hear Paul agree. **I could be wrong; it’s been a while since I’ve seen that one.

So that Halloween tagline and the fact that the trailer uses that Drowning Pool song, I'm guessing this was supposed to come out in October of 2001 but was shelved after 9/11? That song was one of the many kept off radio play lists after the attacks, and I don't remember any heavy or horror movies coming out the rest of that year. I know studios push movie dates around all the time, but I can't imagine them wanting to release a movie where a spacecraft crashes into and obliterates a space station full of people so soon after.

I prefer my raisins ants on a log style and really nowhere else.

I wasn't aware until last week that A1 sauce was partially made up of raisins.

I can't wait to see this (and The Snowman) when they Redbox drop, but man was this bad timing. After the trailer played before It, I overheard a lot of unhappy murmuring.

Agreed on PiL, and I'm going to add in The Damned.

Loverboy's "Turn Me Loose" always drives me nuts with that. And I was here to please / I'm even on knees / Makin' love to whoever I please I guess I've never realized how much I like DLR Van Halen. As for hated bands, Bachman-Turner Overdrive. I've always hated BTO, they just sounded so smug, and then Tal Bachman's "She's So High" came out while I was in middle school and it was everywhere. I also absolutely cannot stand Imagine Dragons. Fling me into the sun.

I think my dad's favorite movie was Forbidden Planet (not sure if it still is), and he made me watch it after I'd seen Terminator 2, Aliens, and Jurassic Park. I didn't care for it then, but I learned to appreciate it in my teens, and now it's one of my favorites too. So there's hope I'd say.

I feel like everyone I've met in my age bracket saw this movie as a child and enjoyed it. Seeing it again for the first time with adult eyes I only had three new thoughts which I yelled out loud as they happened: "How'd he get that patch!?", "I bet that fancy flash drive popped that police cruiser tire", and "Kaley Cuoco? Really? Huh. Good for her."

I watched this the other night as it's one of the very few King film adaptations that somehow escaped me. Wow. Was everyone in this movie high? I felt high watching it, but like bad-weird high. This movie is a mess, but one I would watch again with other people.

Oh, Virtuosity. I remember watching this at a friend's house as a kid on their parents’ very illegal cable box. We loved this movie, maybe because Crowe is so looney tunes in it. We watched so many inappropriate things. I have a special place in my heart for 1995 movies because of that cable box.

Forgot to mention during the 80s talk, there's an online UK station I'd definitely recommend: http://www.thisismax.co.uk/. They have a solid selection of songs and the ad breaks are short.

I'd stay on those roads.

Ah, understandable. I don't think I'd be able to choose between them, too many good tunes; also I'm pretty indecisive. If there can only be one -for the time being- maybe just download the album(s) from the artist with the most songs you like? Or raid your local library's CD section, that's how I acquired most of my music as a broke teenager.

Those are all excellent bands, and I'm not sure what we're deciding on, but I'll throw my hat in for OMD based solely on my lifelong crush of Andy McCluskey. Got a slight jolt of anxiety just hearing Christmas with the Kranks. I was working at Hollywood Video when that came out for rent and every single DVD our store received was warped. So many angry customers. And I was made to watch every copy to see how bad the damage was. Some of them wouldn't play at all, some would get janky half way through. That was a bad time.

For sure with the above sentiment. This movie is upsetting, crazy, and now readily available.

Adding a bump because this movie is amazing.

Late-late theory reply, but I just thought of it: Chloe/Cloe's dad ran off with Meredith's mom. Doll business and classism aside, it would help explain her initial disgust of her. Sure, she thinks Cloe's mother took her doll, and she's not trilled about seeing this girl make eyes at her boyfriend*, but even before Cloe and her friends 'ruin' her second MTV party there's real contempt there. Cloe and her friends want to destroy Meredith's clique system, just like how Cloe's dad destroyed her family unit. For Meredith, Cloe's family has done nothing but take from her. It explains why she needs constant order/control, and why she keeps Paris so worryingly close but pushes people out. Her father, Principal Dimly, a real shell of a person seems to feel pity for Cloe's mother. Why else does he keep hiring this woman who is such a mess professionally? Because their callous spouses ran off together and destroyed five lives in the process. Mrs. Baxter Dimly is only ever brought up as a cold threat, and we don’t talk about what happened with Cloe’s dad, so I believe the two are linked. *The doll and Cameron are both inconsequential to her, it's only her ownership of them that matters.