Anna wrote: "would you like me to send you one of my handmade aluminum foil hats, kristn ? they're very attractive... :)"

They also keep the voices from penetrating your skull!
Freakin' government!

Anna wrote: "would you like me to send you one of my handmade aluminum foil hats, kristn ? they're very attractive... :)"

Thanks for the offer, but we already have a set :)

Jenny Wright was also in Pink Floyd's The Wall.

would you like me to send you one of my handmade aluminum foil hats, kristn ? they're very attractive... :)

He's also a reclining dictionary of useless information.

Tressa wrote: "You're like my husband. He's a regular Cliff Claven...a walking dictionary of useless information."

How do you know that? Maybe he doesn't walk all the time?

I rock at jeopardy though! Too bad no one will hire people who are a wealth of useless info... I'm great at playing ten thousand mindless questions with my 7 year old though.

You're like my husband. He's a regular Cliff Claven...a walking dictionary of useless information.

Tressa wrote: "I remember that part. I never would have guessed that was her. How'd you know that?

You know - I'm a wealth of worthless information that I have no recollection of where it came from... I often think aliens are beaming the stuff straight into my skull.

Yes, she was. Looks like she stopped acting in movies in 1998. The only other movie I've seen her in is St. Elmo's Fire. She plays Rob Lowe's wife, I believe.

I don't think I've seen her in anything else. She was good in Near Dark, wasn't she?

That's right, Paul. For some reason I was thinking Mae was one they tried turning into a vamp, but that was Adrian Pasdar.

Wonder whatever happened to Jenny Wright's career? I liked her small role in The World According to Garp, and she was good in Near Dark, too.

There were two female vamps - one was Diamondback, the other was Mae, played by Jenny Wright. I don't think they ever managed to turn Caleb's sister.

I can't remember how many female vamps there were. I remember his wife looking ragged out, that's why I wasn't sure if it was her since she's not too ragged out in other movies I've seen her in.

Tressa wrote: "I just don't remember who Diamondback is in the film. IMDB is great, but it never states things like "Diamondback, girlfriend of __________."

I get aggravated when I look something up on IMDB and ..."


She was Lance Henrickson's wife. The only female in the vampire clan...that I remember.

So you were all afraid to watch Not of This Earth!

Some 'Horror Afflictionadoes' you guys are!!

You think Titanic was the scariest movie ever made? WOW!! I think you'd better avoid the Nightly News.

I just don't remember who Diamondback is in the film. IMDB is great, but it never states things like "Diamondback, girlfriend of __________."

I get aggravated when I look something up on IMDB and I don't know the character's name and have to search for the thumbnail picture, that isn't always there.

Jenette Goldstein is her name. Her name was Diamondback in Near Dark.


Thank goodness for the IMDb!

Who did she play in Near Dark? I don't remember their names. Was she Lance Hernrickson's girlfriend? If so I thought that woman was so much older than this actress. Or at least she looked it.

She was also the woman who got speared by the "liquid terminator" in T2.

She was also a vampire in Near Dark.

I remember that part. I never would have guessed that was her. How'd you know that?

I guess she and her kids were some of the ones locked down there some of the upper crusts could put their wide behinds in the boats.

Tressa wrote: "Kristen, you've got to be kidding. Does she go down with her kids?"

Yeah, she's a red-head reading stories to her kids as the ship sinks

The only think I liked about Titanic was watching the ship go down.

Always,

I won't argue with you. Foundation is one of my favorites.

Kristen, you've got to be kidding. Does she go down with her kids?

Chris,
I don't really enjoy much Sci-Fi either,, But I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, Isaac Asimov.... He's a great writer & I dare anybody to say different.

I bet that was convincing.

Speaking of Titanic - Vasquez from Aliens plays one of the irish women who goes down on the ship.

AND WE COME FULL CIRCLE!

Hee hee hee. I love to stir up the Titanic hate around here.

Kristen, I hate Gone with the Wind. When I have seen it I expect it to end at the scene where Scarlett has her fists in the air vowing to never do yadda yadda again, but then it excruciatingly goes on for another two hours.

Aww, Rusty. What a catch you are. My husband wouldn't watch it with me--his excuse being he's Irish and didn't want to see how the lower class Irish were treated on the ship. Yeah, right.

It irks me that Titanic is still the #1 grossing film. And it makes me feel dirty that I contributed $10 of that. Damn me for being young and enraptured with the woman who is now my wife (Not so young any more, still enraptured).

I couldn't understand making a film where the audience knew what the ending would be. Give it props for being so historically accurate, but the finger for being such a crappy script.

I couldn't even get through Gladiator.

I will proudly admit to never having seen Gone with the Wind

I've never understood the hate for Titanic. To tell the truth, until I joined GR I didn't know there was hate for Titanic. You people are brutal, lol. It's just a sweeping weepfest, no different from any other romantic movie such as Gone with the Wind. It's not supposed to be a documentary on the sinking of the Titanic or the passengers riding her.

I will defend Gladiator to the death.

I have to defend Ridley Scott. He directed Gladiator, so in my book, he gets to rest on that laurel for the remainder of his life.

And yes, Titanic sucked rocks; the only part I enjoyed was when I realized Dicaprio had frozen to death.

Not all that different - a few changes but not enough to really turn it into a great movie

I love Fincher's films. Has anyone seen the director's cut of 3? Is it much different from the theatrical?

AVP, I'm a fan and owner of the original dark horse comics series, so that said, there is no amount of explicits that can tell you my bitter feelings at the travesty that people call the AVP movie, the first one I tolerated, it was a sorry attempt and putting a little bit of every plot line in the AVP comic series into a movie. The second one was even worse, how anyone could be entertained by it is beyond me.

With each alien movie they have their own distinct style and for the most part I liked what each one brought to the table, I still have problems with Hicks being killed in the 3rd by a safety beam though [smells like political bullsh*&t:]. I think the third movie shows how crippling FOX exec's can be and was the true turning off point for allot of people in the series. The director of the third is a mega successful director [now anyway:] and can do a good story, he was so upset by what the studio was doing, he doesn't even claim it on any official list of his movies. And if any of you think you don't like David Fincher, you must be mistaken; do an IMDB search.

But I'm glad that they Alien saga has been put to rest for now, hopefully they'll do it with AVP, another waste of a good potential.

[end rant:]

Really? Well, might have to check that out, then.

I thought the first APV was okay - nothing spectacular.

The second we rented, watch the first 45 minutes of and then the DVD crapped out on us. Up until that point it had been a lot of fun. I was expecting to like it better than the first AVP

Yeah, you are right, Kristen...although that scene in the 4th movie where they are trying to flee the aliens and swimming underwater and they aliens are swimming after them...that was pretty cool.

On a sidenote, the first Aliens vs. Predator film was better than I thought....haven't scene the second one.

I always considered the first Alien to be a horror/suspense movie.

The second to be an Action film

The third attempted to harken back to the first with the claustrophobia and the suspense - but fell flat for some reason (a bit to contrived maybe?)

The fourth went back to the action flick idea and really pushed the scifi aspect. Though some of the action was a bit better - I felt like the actors (for the most part) were just going through the motions and never really drew me in. They also pushed the action to the realm of unbelivable as far as bullets doing this or that which got on my nerves.

Not that I don't watch it when it's on TV

The City of the Lost Children is an amazing movie, another good Pearlman/Jeunet movie.

The first Alien is the best...although the second one is a highly enjoyable film but very different than the first. The third has its moments. But I've always felt the first Alien was more horror than sci-fi...

Jason wrote: "I love the first Alien, but I've seen the second, Aliens, so many freakin' times that I think I've worn it out. I also love the isolated dread of the third. The forth sort came in during this cotto..."

Yeah, I can see how there is a change of tone in the fourth Alien movie. I love the characters, though, and I'm a huge fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet and his visual style. I highly recommend his other films, particularly Amelie and The City of Lost Children.

I love horror, period. Don't really read sci-fi or fantasy...although when I was younger I loved the original Robert E Howard Conan novels. The Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever series by Stephen R Donaldson was pretty good as well as his sci-fi Gap series. Okay, so I've read some sci-fi/fantasy...

Now if they remade it where the ship gets overrun by zombies...that'd be way cool! :)

Kristen wrote: "I hated Titanic... stupid movie.

we were drunk the first time we watched it and swore that then the ship hit the iceberg - eskimoes fell off the iceberg and landed on the deck. Everyone says we..."

Oh, all I meant was it was written during the beginning era we are currently in, the "lets make it quick and stupid", and it shows. The plot may be more complex, and the ending is really dark, but it lacks that creeping slowness of the other movies. I think it might have been a better movie if they made the plot move a little slower. But it certainly isn't stupid.

No, the stupid movies came a little later...lol

I don't see how it's quick and stupid when it has the most complex story of any of them.

I love the first Alien, but I've seen the second, Aliens, so many freakin' times that I think I've worn it out. I also love the isolated dread of the third. The forth sort came in during this cotton candy, make it quick and stupid modern era of movies. But it still has its good points. Ron Perlman, for example.