ET isn't 1/10th the film Close Encounters is. Plus it totally ripped off Mac and Me, the Surrogates of its time.

And THAT reminds ME of a moment in The Schoolteacher in College, the second Edwige Fenech Schoolteacher Italian sex comedy. The lovely schoolteacher keeps the cheeky student after class to demand some extra work in his language class. The language is Jarai (which I had to look up is a Vietnamese language), but he says, dubbed in English, "I'll write it in English, since my Jarai hieroglyphics are worse than my English". His grammar is awful—even tho they are speaking English—and she corrects him. They never address "Jarai" again. It's surreal.

The fact that the person doing the dub chose to pretend that they were studying Jarai instead of English because the dub was in English was the funniest part of the movie.

The first Schoolteacher movie was good, tho. It should be remade by Hollywood. And Scarlett Johansson  should be the titular schoolteacher.

/film nerd/pervert

Cool

That commentary is AWESOME.

A very long time ago, a group calling itself C&C Music Factory had a pop music hit with "Everybody Dance Now". 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2VQQEoWlTg

It wasn't as good as the book, but hardly anything is.

Watched this last night for the first time with DIF. It really was kind of amazingly boring and completely failed to live up to the basic premise. I can't think of another zombie movie where the zombies had a specific target, let alone one where they were zombified by demons/angels. Yet this totally fell flat because it made no sense.

I started this quite late and thought for sure I'd turn it off, but the discussion was really engaging. Thanks!

Re: the Plinkett test: I think Mr. Plinkett’s point was that Luke, Han, Leia, Obi-Wan, and the droids are stock characters (orphan with secret greatness, lovable rogue, plucky princess, cunning mentor/manipulator, stalwart servant, and I think C-3P0 is a hooker with a heart of gold). That’s great for a kid’s movie (Belle and the servants in Beauty & the Beast, for example, are largely the same characters); but you don’t want them in every movie. The question is: if these are not easily-categorized stock characters are they complex character or flat characters? In the prequels and in Legion, they are flat.

Oh lord, that is hilarious. I can't count the times I laughed out loud.

Oh, I hear those are expensive. They don't grow on trees, you know.

Wait....

/Welcome!

Uh... yeah... I'm pretty much that guy giving rather than receiving the shit.

/Desperately trying not to respond to Doc's post, for example.

Frighteners was good fun. Thanks guys!

I must say, this looks like fun. That last line suggests that the dialog might not *sparkle*, but I'd give it a shot. I'm a sucker for high adventure in general. National Treasure, Sahara, Shanghai Knights.... I have no excuse.

I think what I respond to is highly skilled adventurers "going to work" and facing almost certain defeat. I blame Indiana Jones.

No, no. I've got ya.

Mulholland Drive with laughs (10 min)

It's not pretty.