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Well, you see, you respect people more the less you hear from them. Like that Uncle who you loved until he thought you were old enough to hear his theories on Jews. By ignoring Twitter, I still have heroes

I admire the fact the members of BMG are disposable. You can't identify any of them, so they're free to fire anyone wanting more money, as well as having a dozen touring versions if they wanted.

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Clara has been a companion for too long. I liked how they handled it in the older shows. They'd introduce a new companion just before the regeneration, so the new Doctor had someone tailored to his personality to play off of. Clara is starting to reach Jamie status.

It's the kind of thing you do if you're from a Hockey city. I'd bet money the writer/director was from the North East or the Chicago area.

To be honest, though, the first trailer I saw that consisted of just that scene was labeled the "Canadian" trailer so I wondered if this was a non-movie scene and the sport would be changed for every area.

Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1979)

Picked up the new Blu Ray of this last week, for the obscenely cheap price of $15. I'm thinking of posting a review over in that section, see if I can wake the crickets, but I'll post here too.

This is the first film directed by Hayao Miyazaki, who was an assistant director on the Lupin TV series and directed three episodes. Lupin is... well, a thief. A thief, a womanizer, and all around scoundrel. He is also the grandson of the great French thief Arsène Lupin, although this was done without the creator's estate's approval. For a decade or two the character's name couldn't be used outside of Japan, but that deal has expired.

The story? On robbing a casino, Lupin finds all the bills are counterfeit. Not only are they counterfeit, but they are the legendary bills that have been flooding Europe for a century. Deciding to check it out, he gets tangled up with a fleeing bride, and wacky mayhem ensues.

This is a wonderful movie, an influence on future shows as diverse as The Great Mouse Detective and the pilot of Moonlighting. Fun action set pieces, which take one minor mistake and logically snowball them to their obvious conclusion. If you are a fan of the character, the downside is Lupin is horribly out of character. He should be hitting on the young bride like craze, not being all noble and such. The rest of you shouldn't have a problem with that

The DVD has the Japanese track with both newly translated subtitles, and the 1980 theatrical subtitles. It also has three dubs: the 1990's Streamline dub (which is well acted but has jokes changed to try and appeal to middle America), the 2000 Manga dub, which added cursing to try and make it more like Manga's other releases, and a non-curse version of that dub. That's the one I'd recommend. There's also a "fan" commentary I haven't listened to yet.

Over all, this is a must see classic. The animation looks incredible, and just seeing a younger Miyazaki doing a comedy with some serious moments, instead of the other way around, makes you wish he had gone in a slightly different direction as a film maker. Mixed some comedy films in with his serious stuff. But, at least we have this.

Naturally, because if it was pointed out nerds would have said "But Max both found then gave away the music box in that film! How could it be here?!?"

Finally managed to see this, my cousin and brother in law being the only others in the theater. Very fun. The most interesting aspect was HOW they showed the madness. Quite nice, with no details needed or given. Only the ghost girl calling him "Daddy" (iirc) seemed wrong. Was his kid that old in the first one? I can retcon it to being a girl who adopted him at some point, but that line wasn't needed.

I'd recommend the anime El-Hazard (the original seven part OAV, not the TV show). It's set in a sort of Arabian fantasy world. It's also one of the few cases where the dub is actually better than the original.

There's Nazca, set in the old Incan empire, but that's only fantasy if you factor in reincarnation.

Ever since I was a teen and read 'All Quiet on the Western Front', I've wanted to write a first person story where the narrator dies in the middle. You turn the page, and get "Um, hi. I'm not Dave. See, things didn't go well last night..."