Any interesting things on the agenda, other than Obama's great win. Personally
I find it disturbing that some states still want to ban gay marriage in their
constitutions. Whatever one thinks of the whole issue, a constitution in my
opinion should be used to expand and guarantee people's rights,
Tavis Smiley was working with Brian Williams on NBC. I completely forgot he was
over there, as I was bouncing between CNN and TVOne. a friend said Tavis was
eating crow, but i know he still doesn't really support Obama because the
latter's not Dr. King.
Look: i was probably the biggest Smiley s
Same here. Is your son young enough so that some of the more poignant aspects
of color and the journey we've taken escape him?
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Count me among the puffy red eyed people. When the camera panned to Jesse
Jackson
I saw that. I had to say at that moment, for all that Jesse has pissed me off
recently, I did feel for him. Like him or not, get tired of him at times, can't
deny that he's worked for Black people, that he's done a lot of good. And for
that Jesse who's fought for us, who's bled for us, who's bee
Ha-ha-ha! That's one of the quotes of the night!
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I now believe that Sci-Fi channel can be a viable network. anything is possible.
On Nov 4, 2008, at 9:49 PM, ravenadal wrote:
With the states already proj
Unless i'm mistaken Rhodes has been portrayed as dark skin many times over the
years. In "Civil War', for example, he's wy darker than light-skinned,
greenish eyed Howard. In terms of pure skin color, Cheadle's closer than
Howard. But I still think they did Howard wrong. Might be business as
Congrats!
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Nice trend. Let's keep it rolling. Made my own mark on the shape of the Cosmos
an hour ago.
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Voted early last Friday here in the ATL...
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Anybody else at the polls yet?
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From: "Tracey de Morsella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]aladvantage.com>Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 12:50:37 -0800To: hotmail.com>; 'Alb
Well, i posted a link last week to Howard's interview with NPR. Here's the link again: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95833828
In it, he said he wasn't aware he was going to be dropped: he just got the news his services were no longer needed. Now we all know that actors
Funny, Chuck gets high praise from all quarters. But your point is well taken.
This article is rating stuff based on popularity, not intrinsic worth. That's
troubling. Guess it explains, though, how SciFi cancels things like "Dresden
Files", yet greenlights junk like "Flash Gordon", and the unde
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> From: "Martin Baxter"
>
> Precisely. The newer batch of filmmakers have lost sight of what
real horror
> is. All week long, we've been innundated with all of the classic
horror
> flicks, but the one horror movie that ma
And here's the big story from the AP:
Obama wins in earliest vote
12 minutes ago
DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. (AP) Democrat Barack Obama came up a big winner in the
presidential race in Dixville Notch, N.H., where the nation's first Election
Day votes were cast and counted early Tuesday.
Obama defeate
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From: "Martin Baxter"
Precisely. The newer batch of filmmakers have lost sight of what real horror
is. All week long, we've been innundated with all of the classic horror
flicks, but the one horror movie that managed to scare me, "Psycho"
wasn't sho
Interesting, a whopping 15 votes for Obama. Does this portend the shape of
things to come...? The results are so new I don't see them on the Net anywhere
yet, but here's a blurb on the area from CNN a couple of hours ago.
Like the fifth season opener of "Babylon 5" stated, "And so it begins..."
Remember him from the New Dragnet, but not Mom and Dad Save the World...
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Thalmus Rasulala (who I always referred to as Thalmus Rasulalalala for
the way his mellifluous name flowed off the tongue)actually had a
Well said. Same here. I like sword-and-sorcery stuff, but this wasn't
scintillating, just acceptable escapist fare. Like I said last night, I miss
the days when there were several shows like this on TV that I could watch (or
not) at my leisure. It's fun to have shows like this that you can watch
ds up. I've set the DVR to record. it took me a minute
tofind the first two episodes since I had missed them and I had to do a
littleresearch to figure out what I had missed but WGN has them rerunning this
week. Iset up a location station to record the rest of the series. I haven't
movies named after an implement used
to cut down trees... 8-O
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Yes it did. Pa
issed but WGN has them rerunning this week. I
set up a location station to record the rest of the series. I haven't read
the books and I don't know anything about it but I figured it was worth a
shot.
B
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I seem to remember hearing some good critical reviews of it over the years
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From: "Martin Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In "The Whole Truth", Granger plays either a playwright or an author of
international renown who's also a real playa. He gets caugh
at I imagined when I read the books).
Jeff
2008/11/2 Bosco Bosco
Thanks for the heads up. I've set the DVR to record. it took me a minute to
find the first two episodes since I had missed them and I had to do a little
research to figure out what I had missed but WGN has them rerunnin
let us *never* mention the series of movies named after an implement used
to cut down trees... 8-O
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Wait, wait. Are you telling me the Book of Shadows didn't get treated in the
novel the way it did in the TV show?? say it ain't so!
I can get with you on Richard. I mentioned in another post he has a "gym body".
You're exactly right, his body is way too lean and precisely chiseled for the
type o
horror movie that managed to scare me, "Psycho" wasn't shown. TCM's
going to show it on Tuesday at 6:00.
And let us *never* mention the series of movies named after an implement used
to cut down trees... 8-O
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What specifically about the actor playing Richard do yoiu not like? What would
be your thought for a better type of actor?
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From: "Jeff Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have to warn everyone that if you have read the series and you really like
it, try
Let us know what you think. Responses in the group so far range from thinking
it's okay to not that good.
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Thanks for the heads up. I've set the DVR to record. it took me a minute to
find the first two episodes
osco <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com>
Thanks for the heads up. I've set the DVR to record. it took me a minute to
find the first two episodes since I had missed them and I had to do a little
research to figure out what I had missed but WGN has them rerunning this week.
I set up a location sta
What's "The Whole Truth"?
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From: "Martin Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Keith, I do have my Must Watch List. It's 52 movies to date, ranging from
"Lawrence of Arabia" (my all-time favorite) to "Purple Rain" (the movie that
once made over 1,000 women a
"Psycho" is a classic, no doubt. So is the original "Halloween", for that
matter. As for the "Saw" torture porn stuff, yeah, it doesn't exactly thrill me.
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From: "Martin Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Precisely. The newer batch of filmmakers have lost
Watching this series debut this weekend? It's based on the "Sword of Truth"
novels by Terry Goodkind. I've never read them, though I have several of the
books in that "gotta read this someday" stack. Seems they're taking it
seriously: filming is primarilty down in New Zealand, with Raimi and T
Do you keep a list of classic films you must watch, as I do? Mentioned it
before, I know, but it's got 130 films on it, compiled from the AFI's list of
Top 100 films of all time, and my own ideas of must-see films. The latter
includes quite a bit of films about Black people that I feel the AFI o
Yes it did. Part of the unfortunate modern trend toward minimizing suspense,
and increasing FX and cheap shot thrills.
If anyone had known that the seminal "Friday the 13th" and even "Halloween"
would start a slide toward this...everything that came after took the grossest,
least creative parts
all week and
Event Horizon was on one of the pay channels this month. Other sci-fi
horrors like Planet of Vampires and Species have been on as well.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote:
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> I agree! And I have to say, on further viewing, that TCM is
superiour
I've seen part of "Twitches" before. It's not bad, perfectly acceptable Disney
fare aimed at kids.
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Ouch! So this is probably a bad time to mention "Twitches" and
"Twitches 2," starring Tia and Tamera Mowry, is
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From: Grayson Reyes-Cole
Keith, thank you for alerting me... I knew there was a drinking
game/blacksploitati on movie to be had. I am s turning over there now...
Can I get some Devil's Son-In-Law into the bargain?
Grayson Reyes-Cole
http://www.graysonr eyesco
Ha-ha-ha! It is the perfect ending to the Halloween night, isn't it? I can't
tell you how much I laughed my arse off watching "Blacula"! I had forgotten how
poor the production value, acting, and plot were in this movie. It had that
cheesy 70s soul/funk soundtrack so many blaxploitation pics had
ir2] Horror Marathons on Cable
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Date: Friday, October 31, 2008, 8:44 PM
Fox Movie Channel has been playing Alien and Aliens all week and
Event Horizon was on one of the pay channels this month. Other sci-fi
horrors like Planet of Vampires and Species have been on as w
Lots of potential here. It'd be nice to have a legal method to view stuff off
the Net instead of having to keep fishing for sites that are here today, gone
tomorrow. Not that i'm against the "independents", mind you...
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Forget all the horror stuff on TCM and AMC and FX. "Aliens"? Bah--just a bunch
of overgrown lizards with bad attitudes and a drooling problem. Frankenstein?
Puh-lease: a guy in a goofy suit whose vocabulary is limited to "Raar!" "House
on Haunted Hill"? Don't bother staying. No, for good, class
Don't think I have FMC. I love "Event Horizon", but already own the DVD
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Fox Movie Channel has been playing Alien and Aliens all week and
Event Horizon was on one of the pay channels this month. Other sci-fi
hor
ies have been on as well.
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, KeithBJohnson@ ... wrote:
>
> I agree! And I have to say, on further viewing, that TCM is
superiour to AMC because the latter's bringing in some fairly modern
and mediocre stuff that we've all seen --or avoided--before.
I agree! And I have to say, on further viewing, that TCM is superiour to AMC
because the latter's bringing in some fairly modern and mediocre stuff that
we've all seen --or avoided--before. AMC is doing a big block of all the
substandard Halloween movies today, followed, I believe by stuff like
Meant to drop this yesterday. Both cable channels AMC and TCM are showing
horror movies all day. They started at least yesterday, though I've been
watching stuff on TCM in the evenings all week. Since they have so many hours
to fill, movies are going all the way back to B&W classics starting the
Yep, it's all about the story. That's why I resist all the "who's the next
Batman villain?" talk, especially when it goes after all the A-list names like
Johnny Depp or Angelina Jolie or something. I said a few weeks ago when it
started up that I was less in favor of discussing which star got th
I was listening to a podcast of a show called "Slice of SciFi" the other day. A listener sent in a long voicemail review of the series "Voyager", and how it was lacking in some ways. Most of his points were good, but right in the middle of it he said "Tuvok was a good character, but I'm not so sur
Good stuff. Glad to hear that Nolan is resisting the automatic pull to do a
third movie. I'd *love* to see how the Batman's plight at the end of "The Dark
Knight" would be resolved. But nothing bothers me more than a sequel that's
inferiour to what's come before. Sometimes when the suits get
year. It's actually interesting
despite some X-Men-ish family melodrama. Papa Petrelli is a far
scarier bid bad than Adam was last year, Mohinder has actually turned
into a credible old school science based villain and the Sylar
revelations have been fun. If only Peter and Claire got rid o
Yeah, I left out Sanctuary. It's just an okay show. Last weeks--about the
illusion-casting Yeti that was attacking the survivors of a plane wreck--was
the best so far. Of course, they killed off the only Brother... But still, the
show feels limited to me. One, i really hate the computer game CGI
Indeed!
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Kevin says he originally had Rosario Dawson in mind for the role of Miri when
he wrote the script. Imagine how crazy the controversy would be THEN!
On Oct 29, 2008, at 9:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTE
Well, you know that I already lambasted "Knight Rider", so am surprised it did
well enough to be picked up. ( I swear the original was better). "Valentine"
was on my hit list too, not at all surprised it's tanking. I haven't watched
"The Mentalist" yet; guess I kept thinking of it as a serious
Good point on that "Sex Drive"!
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Personally, despite being a Liberal Prude in Good Standing, I never had a
problem with the original title. Still don't. And, if I may dare to ask, where
were these Fine Upst
While watching TV tonight, I saw a trailer for Kevin Smith's movie about a
couple of folks (Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks) who start making adult films to
pay the bills. It's not the kind of movie I'd pay to see at the theatre, so
I've paid little attention to the trailers. But tonight, glancing
NPR's Scott Simon did a really good, in-depth interview with Terrence Howard
recently. He's a different kind of cat. Reminds me of old school brothers from
back in the day: philosophizing and pondering, mixing old folks' slang and
sayings with religious tenets or New Age ideas. He's kinda lik
The wiki refers to what I mentioned before, which is that in many treatments
now, the Eugenics War is not like WWIII. (the relevant passage pasted below).
That third world war has now been moved to around 40 -50 years from now. The
Eugenics War is now seen as a covert global conflict; again, it
t's pretty much all the shows I hadn't watched in the same 15
year period. In December I plan on starting to watch Babylon 5 from
the beginning.
>
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>
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> On Oct 25, 2008, at 11:42 PM, KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net wrote:
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>
> It's not you--the s
been great. Then I discovered hulu. I now watch more TV than I have in
about 15 years. Great thing about that is, it's pretty much all the shows I
hadn't watched in the same 15 year period. In December I plan on starting to
watch Babylon 5 from the beginning.
On Oct 25, 2008, at 1
I watch a decent amount of TV, but it's a part of me in that I love keeping up
with popular culture. But what you've done is really cool.
Babylon 5--aw man, don't get me started! Love that series, trying to save the
ducats now to buy the whole thing on DVD. If you've never seen it before,
you're
I like Khan, but wouldn't put him over Sisko. But then, i haven't read any of
those Trek books you mentioned. Didn't I hear a while back that one Trek author
reimagined the "Eugenics War" as going on *now*, and that, instead of being a
war in the nature of WWII, it's actually more like the war o
Ditto. And more importantly, it sends a horrible message to your girls of all
colors as to what is attractive. Being incredibly thin, if it's not your
natural body shape, can be just as unhealthy as being overweight, in terms of
what you're doing (or not doing) to get to that point. I still ree
Elevated daily!
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Chin up, my friend!
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True. i'm still not sure of the chronology or rankings of anyone...
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From: "Martin Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Keith, three words into that.
This is H'Wood.
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You might be one of a relatively small number of people who'd list Janeway
among the greatest characters in the Trek universe. What about Janeway appeals
to you? Not that I'm disagreeing, mind you. When one steps back and thinks
about the enormity of what she did, bringing Voyager home, it's an
Here are a half dozen cool pics from the new Trek film, showing the entire crew
and a couple battle shots, a shot of the Enterprise, and the alien villain.
Links to three different sites where you can see them are at the end of this
e-mail.
The IMDB link shows movie pics, as well as the publicit
Okay, so my taste ain't just slipping! I'm hoping that with the return of the
cold days of winter, SciFi will bring back more of the classic old bad scifi
and horror shows. This film notwithstanding, most of their new movie stuff is
just bad. But many of those old classic films are indeed MST3K
The standard of beauty has sucked for years. Look at those old Trek eps and
you'll see the vast majority of the women would be considered overweight by
today's terms: Uhura, Janice Rand, Dr. Helen Noel (the brunette beauty in
"Dagger of the Mind"), both Green Orion Slave Girls (Susan Oliver and
It's not you--the season just isn't that impressive. I've watched a fair amount
of television my entire life, but it's never interfered with my reading. I
still buy 5 - 10 comics a week, read the newspaper, and always have at least
one book in reading, which is currently the awesome "Lord of Lig
Don't know about y'all, but for some reason I've found the new TV season to be
very mediocre. Unlike previous years where there were lots and lots of new
shows to watch, this season seems to be very sparse. That's especially true
when some of the "new" shows are actually remakes ("Life on Mars",
So, I'm sitting here on a cold, wet day in the ATL, a little down in the dumps:
bemoaning my fate in life, ranting about the evils of Palin and McCain,
concerned about the economy. Devastated that the Cowboys--America's Team--suck
(as I'm sure we all are). While trying to take a nap, I do some
I agree. Judi Dench comes off as the kind of person McCain would *like* to be,
but his temper and lack of tolerance for disagreement from others is an issue.
I noted to several friends recently, that McCain hasn't changed as much as some
people claim. Oh, the giving in to Rovian tactics of paint
Why aren't you into Saldana as Uhura? (Too bad they couldn't have changed that
name to the real "Uhuru"). What about the dude playing Sulu, does he look the
part?
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Obviously, I was already in for Star Trek
ting a degree. I've never had
one. it could be interesting to give that a shot.
B
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Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] The New Entertainment Weekly
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From: Bosco Bosco <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com>
I worked in the music business for many years. Spent a lot of time in crowds
seeing bands and going to music business events. I've calculated seeing some
where in the neighborhood of 5000 plus bands/shows in my
i've heard a lot of things about Shatner over the years that I've pretty much
taking with a grain of salt, not seeing him as necessarily any more of an
arrogant star than many other actors. But this--have to say this one takes the
cake, unless he was joking??
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I'm either getting more crowd friendly, or remaining the same in terms of
crowd. Just my nature--but then, you can probably guess that from how much I
participate in this group at all hours. I just love to be around and "talk" to
people, and my longsuffering wife after a while gets a
little--ov
e whole experience pumps me up, just being there with me and my couple
of hundred closest friends!
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I'm not crowd friendly and get less so as I get older.
B
--- On Wed, 10/22/08, KeithBJohn
Really? Why is that? I haven't seen a change in my love of crowds. But then,
i'm a high extrovert, according to three Meyers-Briggs tests, so no surprise
there. The whole experience pumps me up, just being there with me and my couple
of hundred closest friends!
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Well, I'm almost always there for opening weekends for scifi flicks, so I will
definitely be there!
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Has a cover story about the JJ Abrams Star Trek Film. Lots of pics and
interview material. I've gotta say tha
It was good. This was during the (my opinion) best time in recent DC history:
the period right after the Crisis on Infinite Earths. This was when Superman's
powers had been reduced to a more realistic levle, when the Justice League was
just forming, when the "Year One" comics were redefining th
Ha-ha! No love for Dunst at all, I see! Ya'll are rougher on her than me by
far. I agree it's a good idea to rest the Spidey franchise. Or, they need to go
back and look at the elements that made the first movie so good and duplicate
those--sans the bad CGI, of course!
A team up movie? I don't k
ary Jane in the comics.
>
> I'm more interested in who the villain(s) will be in the next
movie.
> I always thought the Lizard being hunted by Kraven the Hunter would
> make a good story.
>
> Man-Wolf could be interesting as well if done right.
>
> --- In scifinoir2@
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> From: "B. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The list of lead roles Val Kilmer has turned down is a mile long:
>
> Morpheus and Neo in The Matrix
> Point Break
> Interview With The Vampire
> Blue Velvet
> Dirty Dancing
>
> --- In s
Yeah, you right. In at least one incarnation of Superman since the Crisis,
there was even some hint that a fully powered Daxamite might be stronger than
Superman. At least ,they were on his level, because during the "Invasion"
minseries, a Daxamite bloodied Supes' nose with one blow. So I get a
What's "Twilight of the Superheroes"?
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Alan Moore created Sodam Yat and had big plans for him before he and
DC fell out. He was going to be one of the main figures in Moore's
Twilight of the Superheroes series.
Problem is, Dunst is very closely associated with MJ, so like her or not,
recasting her would probably be a problem. I tend to think a limited role, or
simply having her off traveling for her career as Martin suggested would be the
way they'd go. That would then open up the field for one of Pete
Wait...Kilmer was offered Neo *and* Morpheus? You sure? And this was before
Will Smith and Reeves?
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From: "B. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The list of lead roles Val Kilmer has turned down is a mile long:
Morpheus and Neo in The Matrix
Point Break
Interesting list, but I wonder why arguably the most famous of all was left off: Tom Selleck not taking the Indiana Jones role due to scheduling conflicts with "Magnum, P.I."?
It would also be cool to take a list like this and add another category: "Was the second choice better in the role?" Fo
I hear that
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From: "Martin Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'd been hoping that that was another one of those really weird dreams I have
around four o'clock every morning...
Even so, I'd still rather see Peter with Betty Brant than Gwen. Please, don't
Alas, 'tis true.
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From: "Martin Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Keith, what I fear is that every reason you mentioned behind Powell's
endorsement will go right over the heads of the sheeple who'll be pulling the
levers on Election Day. All they know is
Interesting that Jordan may not be the greatest Lantern. A Daxamite Lantern
would be powerful, too bad the lead poisoning angle was added. Can't his Ring
automatically maintain his body without requiring his willpower? I thought the
Lanterns could give standing orders the Rings always carry out,
Well, Gwen's still alive in the movie universe, isn't she? i seem to remember
her character seeming to be no the edge of buying it, but being saved by Pete.
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I'll take the last two certainly. But *please*,
"Ashamed". Ashamed?! Well, all true-blue, red-blooded Americans love our
country no matter what! We're proud of everything it's ever done, and we have
nothing to apologize for, genocides, lynchings and discrimination included! You
sound like some kind of commie-pinko-socialist like that American
Ha-ha-ha! Write it down: Martin voluntarily watched a SciFi Original movie!
I saw the ads for "Fire and Ice" and was going to watch it, but got home late
from the movies. I was intrigued. So it was good huh? Did you watch any of the
other many dragon and mythical creature themed movies they showe
Wish I could un-watch it myself.
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From: "Martin Baxter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Words cannot express how overjoyed I am to have missed that...
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Prepon is something else, all right. On "That 70's Show", so much focus was on
Mila Kunas (who is cute as hell, no doubt). But Prepon's more
er--robust--figure wasn't something to be overlooked, and she always drew my
eyes in the end. Well, when Tanya Roberts joined the cast, maybe my eyes went
So you didn't like the storyline of Superman killing Zod and his fellows? I
loved it, thought it was a bold move.
I haven't read any Lantern stuff recently, having spent the last few months
following Civil War, Secret Invasion, Eternals, the Captain America storylines
fromWinter Soldier on, and
Well, I hope this can be one of the final nails in the McCain Presidential bid
coffin. Of course those who oppose Obama will call Powell a traitor too, for
basically not backing the Bush administration to the end, for turning on a
fellow Vietnam war vet, for blaming McCain for a "few" racist nut
This has got me thinking. In keeping with renaming much of that list as "wow"
moments, there's a lot of stuff they left off--stuff that belongs on a
"Greatest/most shocking moments" list. One moment I can think of --Superman
#22. This was the John Byrne, post-Crisis tale where Superman travels
Yeah, it might not be strictly accurate, but WTF? is usually used for something
that makes no sense, that leaves you angry and confused. For a lot of this
stuff--including the appearance of Superman--I think the term "wow" might be
more appropriate.
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Thinking about this more, i really do think many of these are just memorable
moments in comic history. Indeed, I think at least half or more should be
removed from the list in favor of true "WTF?" comic moments. I can think of a
few that should be added instead (don't have any comic numbers):
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It's an interesting list, but the title "WTF?" is a bit of a misnomer to my
mind. Many of the things mentioned--the fate of Batman co-creator Finger, the
death of Jason Todd, the appearance of the first Superman--aren't moments that
shock and stun people, puzzle people, anger people. They're mo
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