The Off-Topic Thread of [adjective] [abstract noun] (September 3rd edition)

but there you go.

No big loss. I still hope “Star Trek” destroys it at the box office.

There are three horror movies that, no matter how many times I’ve seen them, always get me:

The Exorcist
Poltergeist
Aliens

Alien was really good, but to me, Aliens was even better. But really, they’re both stellar films.

What makes “Alien” such a great film is the slow reveal of the creature, aside from the horrific chest-bursting scene. You never really catch a look at the Xenomorph when it’s fully grown. “Aliens” to me is the 1980’s encompassed in one film: Bigger, faster, more action.

What makes “Alien” great is the pacing of the film.

Vigo the Carpathian.

Even when I was in high school it reeked of Cash-in.

The acting was so horrible it became funny. Keanu Reeves’ character was essentially Ted with guns.

I’m also the only person in America who didn’t like “Iron Man”.

They’re what your stomach do once you realize you’re sitting through yet another stupid Matrix movie.

where there’s a contingent of people who think they’re incredibly awesome, and a contingent that for whatever reasons insists they’re the worst movies in the history of film.

This is seriously the first time I’ve ever seen anyone, outside of people who had some fundamental disagreement with the subject matter, trash these movies so much.

I love that movie so much.

Star Trek VI is my favorite, though.

was because the design of the ship was to fit on 4:3 standard TV screens, and it just didn’t look right in 16:9 or 1.85:1 widescreen.

Say what you want about John Archer, but you leave Sam Beckett out of this.

All of his movies are the cinematic equivalent of Donald Trump – if you can stomach the bombast, you’ll find a good movie, but it’s sometimes hard to get past the Oliver Stoneness of his films.

Dr. Wily’s Stage 1, from Mega Man 2. Love it, and it is inoffensive to customers so I can leave my ringer on at work

I want a phone ring that sounds like a fax machine, just to confuse people. Until then, it’s the Hold Steady for me.

Way to spend your money properly.

He saw Magnetic Fields, too, which I missed as well. I need to start having him buy me tickets to these things.

We have tickets for the Portland show and the NYC show – my wife’s in Delaware the week of the NYC show. We were all set to go, but then it turns out her work schedule got all changed around and she has to work pretty much 24/7 the weekend of the NYC show (she’s doing a systems integration that goes live the Monday after NYC) and can’t remote in), so we can’t make it to NYC. So, I have two tix to the NYC show that we can’t use, and no tix to the Seattle show that we passed up a chance to buy so we could get the NYC tix.

When tickets for an event go on sale four months before the event, it can’t be a surprise that people who could go when the tickets were bought can’t go now. My wife’s a perfect example of this – we had it all figured out, as above, but then her work schedule got all jacked up, which is something she has no control over, and now we can’t use one set of the tickets we bought.

Your rage is misplaced here, sir.

Are these things sensitive to sunlight?