just flipped it on HBO since I have it free this weekend and remember seeing this in the theater, Be Kind Rewind. I think this ought to be a good you if you guys do it.

Welcome to the forums, sir! Good list. Many of those are on our to-do list, Gattaca is an interesting idea.

I would love to do Ratatouille since I love Pixar and I love to cook.  Gattaca I have a lot of love for.Serenity is inevitable.  AI I hate worse than Cloe hates Pan's Labrynth.  Seriously, I'm a nice enough guy but I turn into a relentless hate machine when that movie is even mentioned.

I "understand," AI just fine.....and I fucking hate it.  Specifically the last third of the movie which is the biggest dick tuck I think a director could make.  I love Spielberg but that was utter tripe.

Also, by saying I hate it because I don't understand it, wether intentionally or not, smacks of condescension.  I am smart enough to know what Spielberg is attempting, how the story works, and what the themes are.  I just disagree fundamentally with almost all of it.

Yes.  AI posits the theory that humans are the real monsters/heartless machines.  A theme that has never been explored in cinema before, especially in every zombie movie ever.

And your theory about how subversive and misanthropic a film it would be would hold water if not for the fact that Spielberg completely cuts the legs out from underneath his own argument in the last act.  You want brutal and nihilistc?  *Spoiler* leave Haley at the bottom of the ocean.  Pull out, fade to black, credits.  That would have taken my breath away and I wold have thought the movie brilliant.  But no.  We have to have the hollywood ending where this MACHINE that is not actually capable of feeling at all, but is by the films own admission just a complicated series of algorithms, gets an alien family that loves him and the happy ending after an extra long life.  Nothing about that is subversive.  Nothing about that is challenging.  Nothing about that is brutal.  He experiences hardship before being treated to heaven.  That's nihilism, that is the book of Job.

You're right.

I mistook aliens for advanced robots. 

Either way, my issues remain the same.  A mercy killing after a simu-heaven is not that bad at all. 

I was in no way moved emotionally by any of David's trials.  And I fucking tear up at Wall-E.

I'll go you one better. I think at least eight out of ten stories period are either Pinocchio or Frankenstein.

"The Fountain" is a masterpiece, a life-changing work of art.

"The Fall" is pretty okay too.

Just re-watched Strange Days.  Core members follow suit and report, this is a good one.

And that's why I haven't had much luck getting Strange Days onto the schedule.  It's one of my faves, but few to none of the rest of the team have seen the thing.   

Which is just plain wrong.