Me test driving an Airport Crash Truck:

The same crash truck. Try having to climb up an down 50 times to grab tools
or what ever. Not as fun as it looks:

My "Bat Cave" screen that I use to relax after turning wrenches or chasing down
electrical problems all day(The girl on the screen is my sister n law aka Ramoma
Flowers(for Halloween)):

I post messages all over the net, but I have never seen people
so worried about how a message is type out. Most people use
these tiny screens on a phone or pad, where the words are
end up just like this, or it will be so small that you cannot read it.
Now, there is a reason that I write this way, and that I will not change.
First off is that I am always using a screen that is 13 feet wide, and I
really don't feel like turning my fucking head when my sentence goes
past my natural gaze. Excuse me after I have worked all fucking day at
my job, where I might have removed and replaced a transmission out
of a Firetruck or maybe spent most of the day tying to figure out why
a school bus isn't running properly, and my neck along with the rest of
my body is sore as hell.
I that a good enough reason for you? Jesus Christ on a stick!
You would think that someone with OCD would love words close
together, being that it is a more efficient way to read and not
strain you eyes, like reading a novel, where the page is less wide
and more long.

Everyone is so worried about my word placement and not its content,
which seems to be a running theme: more worried about lens flare
than the cool content of a characters dialog.

What are
you talking
about?

This is how
you are
supposed to type,
isn't it?

You post your way
and I'll post mine.

OK, I have an Excellent suggestion:

"Meet The Robinson's"(2007)

Not only is it some of the BEST animation to ever come out of Walt Disney Animation Studios,
but gives any Pixar film a run for its money(The Chrome and Paint on the Time Machine is insane)

The Characters are awesome, plenty of catch-it-or-you-miss-it humor, and a kick ass Time Travel
story.

It's hands down one of my all time Favorite Disney Movies.

Only Drummers get pussy, didn't you know that? Apparently you haven't
seen "That Thing That You Do!"

Band Geek?? Really?? Oh, maybe this is sarcasm. but just in case its not, Um, someone who is
in a school band/marching band is a geek. If you play in a garage band with electric guitars,
you are bad ass and get hot girls, even if you are Michael Cera. I don't make the rules.

I just want to say one thing. I thought the ending was pretty clear.
He goes back in time, then makes sure to catch both missiles, now that he
has some more time. We just don't see them getting caught, I guess
they thought it would be redundant?  I remember watching it as a little
kid, back then I thought that he actually made the planet move which caused
the time travel, but still got that he caught both missiles. Just seemed obvious
to me?

And you read this where? Because I have seen the movies multiple times, but have not read the books.

I get what you are saying, but there is nothing in the movies that suggest this.

Not only that, but I think what the poster above yours missed in my reasoning of
the Time Turner is that even if they could go back and save Harry's parents, Harry
and the gang would know better not to, it would cause such a ripple that could
keep people from being born and other worse things. which is exactly why they
don't do it in the movie, and why Dumbledor would only ever consider giving the
time turner to is Heromine.

Now what you are saying about the time turner not working that way, I don't know
about that because the kids do go back and mess with their own lives, if only very little.
Its basically a paradox, which I think is what you mean when you say they can't change
anything. You are right, of course, but are not really saying it right. They can change
things, but its something they were going to do anyway, because they are only messing
with themselves.

OK, 2 things

First, this movie was made for guys like me who watched this 80's cartoon as a kid.
The movie follows the 80's cartoon almost perfectly except for a few things.
As far as the big ass toys from the 60's, that has nothing to do with this movie
and they never expected men of that age to come and watch this movie.
If you were not a boy or tomboy born between 1970-1975, then you would have
no idea what this movie should be about as far as the story and characters.
I have even watched the cartoons recently, they are actually well written sci-fi.
I never played with the toys. but they basically were identical in size to the Star Wars figures.
Also, every type of flying craft and magic bean tech they have in this movie is all in the
original 80's cartoon. In the Cartoons universe, it was in the future and also was def.
had an alternate history going on. All of this I clearly remember thinking about when
I was 11 yrs old watching this show. I am actually surprised that they went to killing
people in the movie, since they(obviously so parents wouldn't flip out) had super high tech
ejection seats and bodyarmour and nobody died. Also they did not use bullets, they were
using some type of stun phasers, because use could get shot by the enemy and still survive.
But one things is for sure that this WAS NOT made to sell toys. There is a whole generation of
guys like me with families who they expected to go and see this movie for nostalgia.
Don't get me wrong, this was not a good movie.
BTW, the backstory on the 2 Ninjas might have been about what seems like minor
characters, but the 2 ninjas were a major deal in the cartoon, and there was entire
stories that spanned multiple episodes based on them.

Second, The fact that the invisibility suit wasn't used is not bad story telling.
They have been doing that in spy movies for years, look how many gadgets
they showed Bond over the years that looked cool in the map/training room,
but wasn't given to use in the movie. So every Bond movie should automatically
be crap because they all have MIA Chekhov's Gun...

OMGOMG, LMAO!! OK, Trey hates that Blond chick, well her name was Cover Girl, who in the cartoon
was bad ass.  But, um, OMG, OK so they. maybe with keeping true to the cartoon, they actually
got a REAL covergirl to play that part, she had absolutely no acting experience whatsoever, LMAO.
Clearly someone wasn't thinking straight on that one. It most have been someones girlfriend..

Great Commentary!!!! Like a well oiled machine....

OK, I don't know who might read this, and I don't know where else to post this, but you
guys were talking about it on this episode and other episodes as well.
I am referring to The Saw Franchise. Most of you say the first movie was good, and that
at lease some of you have seen part 2. And I know that it is made fun of because it
has 6 sequels.
So I just want to say, as of a couple of years ago I was totally on the same page as
you guys. I had tried to watch part 2 and couldn't much past the "needle pool" scene
before turning it off, and simply blew off the rest of the movies as garbage.
Well I'll have you know that my wife, who really doesn't like horror movies has insisted
on me watching all the movies with her, and this started back when only 4 or 5 movies
had been made, so we are talking 7 yrs ago.
So I think that most people, not really caring much for the movies, might not know that
ALL of the films were produced by the same 2 guys and this really gives the movies a
consistency that I would never have thought would be there. Also when the director
of parts 2, 3, and 4 left, the production designer for parts 1-4 directed part 5 and then editor
of parts 1-5 directed the last 2.
This really gave the movies a sense of cohesion that I did not expect.
So as you can tell, my wife finally talked me into having a Saw marathon
one weekend many years ago, and I was blown away by the story.
Right up to the last frame of the last movie, they wrap and fold the
story from the first movie. And, not to give anything away, but most of the
reveals that we see throughout the movies, is that the events we see the
latter movies actually are happening simultaneously with events in the first
and second movies. They do an amazing job of keeping continuity throughout.
Plus the score as also great, IMO.

I just think if some of you sat down and watched them all, that maybe they wouldn't
be made fun of.

Everything in this movie either has an explanation, or simply didn't need one.
Somehow people keep saying "well that piece of tech or car should be working like
everything else". Um, it's real simple, it only killed stuff that was operating at the time.
The camcorder that was shown obviously wasn't turned on till after the EMP burst.
The Van was dead. But Cruise, (obviously being a master mechanic by way of a
small block engine being rebuilt in his kitchen) was smart enough to tell the mech
to replace the starter solenoid which the the original one fried because someone
was trying to start the van while he EMP burst was happening, and the rest of the
electrical components in the van were OK, because they are connected to the
accessory side of your ignition switch. when you crank your car, that stuff gets turned
off momentarily. This is why you hear your radio and a/c turn off while cranking your car.
(and I know this because I have been a mechanic for the last 20 years)

As far as the Son is concerned, when they are on the hill and there are tanks and army
guys blowing stuff up, he doesn't say "let me go" like he is tied of his dad, he says
"I have to see this!!", which obviously means that in his sons mind and heart, he
needs to see the battle. It is the same as when my granddad and everyone else
went and signed up for WWII without a draft, they were compelled by their very
being to go and fight, to see the great battles that they were watching on those
newsreels and listening to one the radio. after were attacked at Pearl Harbor, it
became even more compelling to go.  The son didn't want to leave his sister and father,
he HAD to. I myself can't understand this concept, but I know guys that reenlisted that
very hour after the second plane hit. 
About him being still alive at the end, we don't see him die. We see a bunch of tanks and
men run forward over the hill, and the son runs out first to see the most fantastic/horrible
thing that he we ever see, that anyone, anywhere will ever see in the history of Mankind.
There is every reason to believe that some of the men ran around the legs of the tripods.
Father and daughter are in the basement, which has camera cuts and we are not sure of
exactly how long they are there, giving Robbie plenty of time to have hitched a ride on
a transport, a helicopter, we will never know his story.  Just as we are there to see one
mans(Cruise) journey of survival, there are countless other stories of people here and there
making it out alive in some way, just like the son did. We see the look in the Fathers eyes and
the look in the Sons eyes before he lets him go.
I really think that kid who played the son did a fantastic job there at the last seen we see him.
I just cant get that image out of my mind of the look they give each other, its just so real.
I have a daughter, and it just makes you see a scene like that in a different way IMO.

About the tech being under the ground. Has anybody ever considered that when the
walkers were placed in the ground, it was probably done by remote control, which
is why the aliens have never been there before, just a probe to send back data.
It most likely was before humans, and perhaps even before dinosaurs. when they
arrived here, by way of some kind of electrical beam, like a transporter, they probably
didn't even know that we were here, and didn't care. and as far as there being no reason
for having the stuff under the ground, it is probably the best FTL travel plan that I have ever seen
in a movie. send your tech by REMOTE control, and then many years later, when that planet
comes up on the queue, then simply beam yourself there, no hyper-sleep crap, no having
to eat, one moment you are on your planet, then you are in your tripod walker thing
ready to terraform.
AND, AND if you really want to get into it, maybe its not like you think. Maybe the tripods
were sent to the planet at the same time as the aliens, but the only way to send something FTL that is not organic, due to their magic bean alien technology, it has to travel BACK IN TIME, which is why the stuff was already there. Then it remotely buries itself to be protected from the weather and any lifeforms that happen to be there.
So the aliens and their tripods attack all at the same time, put the tripods go first, and back in time.
Then they Beam over a moment later, and the tripods have been waiting for you all this time on earth,
and it is all seamless as far as the aliens are concerned.
plus they probably don't even consider it bad to kill us, we are just insects to them.