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I watch Aliens once a year and am reminded each ti...

2009-06-26T09:12:28.001-05:00

I watch Aliens once a year and am reminded each time that divine grace can become instantiated in a Power Loader with industrial backlighting.

I saw Aliens for the first time on a 13 inch TV in...

2009-06-25T15:21:08.689-05:00

I saw Aliens for the first time on a 13 inch TV in broad daylight and it still scared the bejesus out of me.

I watched Aliens 32 times between 6th and 7th grad...

2009-06-25T13:52:14.979-05:00

I watched Aliens 32 times between 6th and 7th grade. I haven't watched it since I got it on DVD circa 1999.

Ebert gave Aliens 3 1/2 stars, but also acknowledg...

2009-06-25T11:44:32.539-05:00

Ebert gave Aliens 3 1/2 stars, but also acknowledged its effect on him, that he left the movie unnerved by it. I'd say that's pretty accurate.

Aliens is a terrific experience, and it wrings you out emotionally as well as from a sensory standpoint. In that way, I'd compare it to The Exorcist, a movie I only want to watch oh, every 10 or 12 years or so.

Well the comments about Transformers 2 sound disap...

2009-06-25T10:10:19.525-05:00

Well the comments about Transformers 2 sound disappointing. I hated every minute of Transformers that dealt with humans with no robots. If a movie is called Transformers it should have giant robots either beating, shooting, transforming or sucking down energon cubes, hopefully in exotic locations that highlight moments of destruction.

They needed to drop the soldiers, John Turturro, the geek hacker squad, John Voight, Megan Fox and Shia LeBouf. Seriously, who in the world said they went to see Transformers to see Shia LeBouf?

I will be the first in line to see Zombieland though. It looks as demented as Evil Dead and that's a good thing.

I think Ebert is one of the best living writers, not just on movies, in the US right now but he's always had a disinclination to pure action movies. Read his review of Aliens, the greatest pure adrenaline take no prisoners action movie of all time. Sometimes, you're just in the mood for a bucket of popcorn, ham-fisted one liners and the thundering of tracer bullets in surround sound.

Clarify: Robosaurus I might consider.

2009-06-25T09:47:21.013-05:00

Clarify: Robosaurus I might consider.

I totally would like to see robots beat upon one a...

2009-06-25T09:38:33.706-05:00

I totally would like to see robots beat upon one another. Sounds like a grand time (but I have also paid money to see Robosaurus in real life).

I just don't want to see the particular circus of Megan Fox's cleavage, lowest-common-denominator humor, bland action and poorly designed cgi on top of a nonsensical plot where a lot of things occur, but nothing actually happens that was T1 reiterated.

I cannot bear to spend ten bucks to watch f#&k...

2009-06-25T08:51:58.941-05:00

I cannot bear to spend ten bucks to watch f#&kin' robots beat each other up.

As a father of a 4 year old girl I have to bank my...

2009-06-25T08:29:47.057-05:00

As a father of a 4 year old girl I have to bank my movie nights as we don't have easily accessible baby sitting here in Ottawa.

One movie I was looking forward to seeing was Transformers 2. My enthusiasm started to diminish when I heard it was nearly 3 hours long. No summer blockbuster action movie where giant robots beat on each other needs to be 3 hours long. I can only assume that the story has been padded to allow the human "actors" can have some more screen time. (Except for Kevin Dunn, he should be the lead character not Shia LaBeouf)

Newsflash! We don't care about the actors we just want to see the Transformers beating on each other for about 90 minutes. The plot doesn't have to be very involved. Something like more Decipticons have arrived on earth. They have the means to fix Megatron. The Decipticons and Autobots get into a fight and it looks bad for our heroes until more Autobots arrive in a deus ex machina ending.

Better yet the Autobots uncover 5 missing Autobots from millions of years ago who are actually the Dinobots who then proceed to kick the [REDACTED] out of Devastator.

It really isn't that hard to write a Transformers story.

Anyway, I will be looking to hear from people I trust to see if it is worth going or not.

Easy enough to remedy. You know what people like ...

2009-06-25T07:52:00.063-05:00

Easy enough to remedy. You know what people like at Rated-R movies? 2 year olds.

I'm a pretty awful and absent father

2009-06-25T00:44:25.829-05:00

I'm a pretty awful and absent father

good lord, RHPT. how do you get out to the movies...

2009-06-24T23:29:58.934-05:00

good lord, RHPT. how do you get out to the movies so often? I suspect you have moved the family into a projection booth.

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Of ...

2009-06-24T23:06:31.463-05:00

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Of course, my expectations were very low. It's definitely too long. There were whole chucnks of the movie without any freakin' robots.

I'm looking forward more and more to Transform...

2009-06-24T23:00:36.726-05:00

I'm looking forward more and more to Transformers II.

Wait. No I'm not.

Woody Harrison has aged well.