In the introduction, it states: "I suspect that the one-sided praise stems from the sheer length of the RLM review. [...] Because the RLM review is seventy minutes long, I doubt that most people, including those who praise it to the skies, have actually paid attention while watching the whole thing through."

I wonder if the author then sees the irony of writing a novella-length rebuttal, as if all we unattentive skimmers of the RLM review will somehow persevere to the end of...oh, look! A giraffe!

Speaking of confusion over older men and younger women in the cinema: I saw 10 when it came out, and despite being only slightly younger than Bo Derek, I simply couldn't grasp why anyone with an ounce of sense would cheat on Julie Andrews.

Actually, I'd stopped already, but okay...

I saw the three-and-a-half hour version.

Note that my comment was about the relative pacing of the two films, not a value judgement on either.

I think it's the other way around. As I understand it, it's Freeman's company that has the option to make 'Rama', and they've attached Fincher:

http://www.revelationsent.com/movie_page.php?movieId=12

Okay, but I'm worried that you've spent far too much story time in character development that could be better spent on sharks.

Actually, it's funnier (and cleverer) than that.

Also, several enormous octopus tentacles.

Yes, but he can't see you. Or the Captain.

A real surprise would be Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol.

[ ...has a quick look at the play counts and last played data from his iPod...]

In no particular order (hence the numbering):

1) 'Star Trek' by Michael Giacchino

2) 'Invincible' by Two Steps From Hell

3) 'The Art of Orchestration' compilation CDs from Scott Smalley's course

4) 'Doctor Who Series 5' by Murray Gold

* WHOOP! WHOOP! Sycophancy Alert *

5) something called 'Down in Front' by some bunch of geeky film geeks.

Since I haven't yet had the time to read the rest of this thread to see which questions have already been asked, I offer the following choice of questions from my top five list of top-five questions of the moment:

a) the top five gadgets in movies
b) the top five music cues in movies
c) the top five uses of a top-five list in movies
d) your favourite five movies starring a famous Belgian
e) the top five questions that haven't been asked yet

P.S., happy new year.

While it's still downloading in iTunes, I note that the metadata for TRON says: "Down in Front presents Reservoir Dogs." I'm guessing that's not entirely correct.

I don't have the problem of consecutive podcasts not playing automatically, but I listen on my iPod, which might follow different rules from iTunes. I also synchronize only the unheard ones, which might also affect how they're played.

However, on iTunes, you could try adding the podcast you want to listen to to your On-the-Go playlist, and playing that. Or even, set up a Smart Playlist that contains unheard podcasts (play count is 0), and see if that will just play through them all.