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Oh, C'mon?!?

Well, it was hinted at, but only just: In First Contact they suggest he's with Leah Brahms. But the fact is that the android, the alien and the kid all had better romantic lives than Geordi.

The idea of a well understood technology turning into something regarded as magical and mythical: Good idea. The idea of the happening within the coming of age of a young adult: Nonsense. Other good things: Why raise a child in "secret" by having him use the last name of the person you're hiding him from, and have him raised by someone you know he may have an active grudge against? If making Jedi involves training them from birth, why not train him from birth?!? If Amidala was, briefly, a Queen, isn't it strangely coincidental that her daughter is a Princess, even though she's, hopefully, also being kept secret? See also training from birth. Did Lucas really make her mom a queen just so we'd instantly know who she was, even though that makes no sense?

The trick from War Games was to ground the receiver with a pull tab from a soft drink can, which was just supposed to get you a dial tone. No idea if this ever did anything, or was just made up for the movie.

Quick note: If your spaceship is doing gravity by acceleration, you accelerate half way at Earth normal gravity acceleration, flip the ship around and decelerate the rest of the way. That puts you at your destination with zero velocity. Of course that means periods of zero gravity, especially at your destination.

I haven't seen the latest one, but the two with this cast were so boring and devoid of story that you'd almost think they were prequels. I kept waiting for the meat of the story to start and it never came.

"Two shriveled raisin tits in Vampire Raisin Bran."

Or the Canadian Agency for Space Exploration: http://users.synapse.net/robr/green.html

That thing with killing vampires with metal shafts appears to be a British thing, because the same idea appears in an episode of the old doctor who called State of Decay, part of the E-space trilogy.

The etymology of disaster is based on ill-starred. It's not exactly what they said in the movie, but described as a calamity derived from an unfavorable position of a star or planet.

Although it's a well worn path by now, the prequels would make an interesting special occasion podcast for hdtgm. There is still some meat on the bone, like, why are they OK with using clone troopers that were made from a guy that works for a known Sith Lord?!? We're supposed to know that Jango is leading Obiwan to find clones, right? Why does Anakin have better chemistry with Padme when he's played by Jake Lloyd? And so on.

Horror= scary. Thriller= suspenseful.

Two different people get killed for blackmailing Berry: The first covering up the death of an abusive father and the second to cover up the first's murder. Plus Willis gets framed for that murder. Also, the second is an obsessive stalker who wants to coerce her into a sexual relationship. Good job populating your film with unrelatable weirdos.

I think the point is to suggest bad movies.

*Was thinking of something else*

Almost thought Paul was talking about this movie, before coming to my senses and remembering Perfect: http://forum.earwolf.com/topic/12576-heavenly-bodies/page__hl__"heavenly+bodies"__fromsearch__1 Still ...

Well, the best movie ever made is one of the worst provided you have a sufficiently long list of them such that it includes every movie in the world. Yellowbeard is not in any sense of the word a bad film.

He was in Time of Your Life, the Party of Five spinoff and married to Christina Applegate. That and a ton of small roles.

It's basically the Japanese 300. Then again, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is the American Civil War with vampires thrown in. Basically, there isn't a historical battle that someone doesn't think would be better if only there were some kind of supernatural element thrown in.

This is one if those unnecessary sequels that are produced way to late for anyone to care about them. I saw this one and it was fairly boring and dumb. That's all I can really remember about it.

Last ditch rationalization: The bike had one of those generator things on the wheel that power a headlight. Since that's electrical, the aliens used it to, uh, do something, and that's what knocked him over. Yeah, OK, that's just shifting insane logic to insane physics, but still.

So, Occam's razor: The comet is cover for the alien craft to discreetly wipe out humanity via its machines, but an automated Russian "weather satellite" destroys the aliens, probably because it thinks it's an American satellite, and a threat.

Automatic sprinklers are controlled by electricity. Water pressure moves the moving parts, but electricity turns the water off and on.

Weirdly, the best movie version of this story, so far, is Beowulf&Grendel with Gerard Butler and Sarah Polley. The one with Christopher Lambert is just strange in the sci-fi milieu. The semi-animated one is crazy pants.

So, in Three, they have Diesel swing by at the end and be, "I need your help." From the guy who was the lead in Three, and then they have three movies that flash back before that movie. So, like this guy from Three must be so important, right? Nope! This three movie flashback is only setting up a brief chat about Han. The guy contributes nothing. Of course, the real takeaway from the end of Three is, "Yeah, we're done with these 'means nothing' sequels. Diesel is back for the next one, so you can start caring about these movies again, starting with the next one.