Tallguy

Say what you want, but the one that gave me a lifetime phobia was Kingdom of the Spiders!

Clearly you've never smelled an SCA camp.

As the man said:

I don't think my teenagers were scared like crawling over the backs of their chairs scared. (But then, neither was I.) But it was scary enough and they liked the movie. Now playing Alien: Isolation? Whoooo, that's different. We should watch The Thing while they're still young enough to be messed up.

I learned the word algorithms when I was 13 from the novelization of Tron. Flynn would describe his chemistry with Lora by obnoxiously declaring "Algorithms!" (Yup. I'm a nerd going way back now.)

Were we typing at the same time?

"Algorithms" is a much scarier word that "focus testing" or even "decisions by the suits". Every time there is a breakout success like Oppenheimer or Dune going back to Star Wars and certainly beyond everyone says "Oh! Someone took a big gamble and trusted the audience" or whatever. But then there is some weird thing that is an absolute disaster (like... Dune) and everyone says "Who thought THIS was a good idea?!?" "So! You've got a new movie for me?" "Yes sir, I do!"

Gotta say "cosplay" beats the hell out of "garb". I'm not sure if I ever met John, but I met Bjo just before TNG went on the air. (I might have met both of them at the same time. But she was the one who had written a book.)

I still love Always. The movie. The score? It's an all time classic and I have nothing to apologize for. It's in my "The Black Hole" category of expanded scores that I bought and years later I still listen to CONSTANTLY.

On a heavier note: https://www.startrek.com/news/remembering-john-trimble

Ahhhh yes. Jerry's second best score of 1979!

It was a great year to be 20. You forgot the Abyss. And everyone forgets Always.

RIP Colonel Tigh. https://variety.com/2024/film/people-news/terry-carter-dead-battlestar-galactica-mccloud-1235979429/

I would point out that Smithers and Bond still drank the brandy and that M thought there was nothing wrong with it.

That's not terribly surprising given the plot.

Pierce Brosnan (1986 - 1994).

I enjoyed Skyfall and SPECTRE well enough. It's been more a timing thing that I haven't seen NttD. And I will watch anything in the Craig or Brosnan era (including - barely - Die Another Day) before I watch A View to a Kill again.

Where could you get "old" HD for The Abyss?

I still need to watch Argyle.

I've been seeing that headline a lot lately. I don't get how a movie that came out last year is "set to blow its budget" now. Is the movie somehow doing worse than it did a year ago when it was a bomb?

Agreed. I just feel like someone "important" wants him to. We watched The Breakfast Club last night. It was remarkable to think that every one of those five kids seemed to be on the cusp of superstardom and none of them really made it.

I always thought the same thing until I got the 1997 set and I realized that it isn't another droid motif, it's actually a variation on Jabba's theme.

Hmmm. The director is Josh Cooley, a Pixar guy. Specifically "Worked on a lot of MG scored Pixar films" guy.

What time do they usually announce?

I'm using "star" in the most superficial leading man kind of sense. I didn't want to make the Cruise comparison just because of Powell's Top Gun connection. No, I don't think Philip Seymour Hoffman was ever a star in this sense. An astonishing actor, but not a leading man star. I remember a friend of mine pointing out that in the 70's Walter Matthau of all people was this kind of star. As was Dustin Hoffman. But Powell seems to be in his "Risky Business" phase. Or maybe even before. He hasn't had his Top Gun. (See why I was avoiding the Cruise comparison?) Top Gun was more like his Taps or The Outsiders. Is he going to be Tom Cruise or is he going to be Rob Lowe? I'm trying to think of someone who was going to be The Next Big Deal that then totally fell off the map. For a minute that was probably going to be Robert Downey Jr. To me the last Big Star that we've had (and yes, I know I'm picking guys) was Matt Damon. We don't have many (any?) traditional Leading Men anymore. Henry Cavil might be getting there. But he's kind of a weird case. None of the Chrises (Pratt, Pine, Evans) seem to be able to open a movie. Mel Gibson is good example. He became known because of Road Warrior but when did he become a reliable Star? It seems he was there by the time they made Thunderdome. If not then shortly after. Alien probably put Sigourney Weaver on the map, but by the time she returned for Aliens she was as more of the draw on her own than as being the returning star (survivor) of Alien. Depends on how many and for how long.