Moonlight Graham

I pretty much agree. The U.S. has used up virtually all of its political capital in the Arab world, thanks to Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran war drums, and not to mention its strong support for Israel and decades of mucking with governments in the middle-east. Bush's policies is a large part of this. Now the US has to sit on the sidelines, reluctant to even support a no-fly zone. Should be interesting to see how everyone on the UNSC votes on the likely no-fly zone resolution. It will be interesting to see the fallout if the West does not intervene in the democratic Libyan uprising and Ghadaffi is able to eventually crush the rebellion.

The original Halloween was excellent. Trivia: John Carpenter (director of the film) composed that theme.

This is such a non-story. Why does this trivial poop take up the main page on news websites when there are far more important matters going on?

It works both ways. Anyone who purposely murders innocent civilians is both an idiot and an arsehole. This goes for both Hamas and the Israeli gov/IDF. As for the arms ship, i'm glad they stopped it.

Your last post was pretty interesting. Something to ponder. However, if we're applying power & money to politics, then that is a very different dynamic than family. Basically, power and money are two distinct things, but often interwoven. You can obtain power using money, and obtain money using power, but don't necessarily need one to obtain the other. It all depends on the circumstance. Hmm how vague

Seen her on his show before, just yesterday in fact in an older episode as i was fumbling around Youtube. She's seems decent.

What did the people of Japan ever do to you? Grow up man. Friend, you are better than this.

That's actually not true. Jihad means "struggle", not "my struggle".

An EKOS poll released March 10 says 35.2% Cons, 27.8% Liberals, 14.9% NDP, 10.1% Green, 8.8% Bloc. So who knows.

Say whaaaa???

I can't stop staring at this thread. I want to write more, but i can't.

Sounds like hell to me.

Scores, not soundtracks peoples! Instrumentals. DoP i've never loved & hated a song so much in a long time.

Women sure get the short end of the stick in terms of equality, both in opportunity and wages. It's slowly been improving in Canada. In developing countries, the situation of women compared to men is ridiculously bad. Where most people are poor, women and children are the poorest. Women are also treated inhumanely in many regards, including abuse, rape, human trafficking etc. I'm glad their are awareness campaigns for these issues. I would consider myself a feminist and hope equality and rights for women continues to improve.

The war on climate change cannot be won without these jets! To launch a successful attack on climate, Canada needs this superior air fighting technology. CO2 WILL HAVE NOWHERE TO HIDE!! AHAHAAHAHA!!!!

Interesting point. If this was his true intent, he should have made the end credits run a few hours then, i'm still trying to figure out most of that film!

This is an amazing soundtrack few have ever heard of, from the documentary Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (great doc by the way, amazing atomic test footage), score by William Stromberg, performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwVWXBhuVXI&tracker=False

List your favorite original film scores, and/or post your favorite individual score songs. There are so many to list. some of my favorite overall scores: Dances With Wolves Braveheart Rudy everything Star Wars E.T. Jurassic Park Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie That's just the tip. Here's a couple songs i love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JusB0GbbkV8&tracker=False

I'm not saying the effects don't stand up well. They're great, even today! I'm just saying that when that movie first came out in the 1968, they were absolutely astonishing as virtually nothing that good had been seen before on screen. My theory is that because they were so impressive and unprecedented for the time, having such long scenes with the rotating ships made more sense since they more visually interesting to viewers. If Kubrick made that flick today (and was still alive), would he have made those particular scenes so tremendously slow/long? That's all i'm saying. Maybe there's another reason Kubrick cut those scenes that way, i could be wrong. I think the movie still holds up very well. It's a great flick, I just think it painfully drags in parts.

Every major political party in this country is steaming pile of crap. It sure would be nice if time in the House could be spent debating issues to improve Canadian lives, rather than being spent holding the government to account with scandal after scandal. The CPC, like the Liberals before them, are a bunch of corrupt & greedy scum. Why do we have to keep making laws plugging up loop-holes so that politicians/parties don't take advantage of them even when they should know that abusing them is clearly wrong?

Because newspapers can't take positions. Only people can. I was lonely one day, so i dug that day's newspaper out of the recycling bin and asked for it's opinion on the current recession. For some reason it didn't respond, so i threw it back in the trash.

Those scenes in 2001 with the spinning space stations were so long and draggy, destroyed the pacing of that movie early on. I guess those special f/x were a lot more amazing back then though to keep viewers (and Kubrick) occupied.

Was their ever a practical purpose for the spike on top of the Pickelhaube? Was it ever designed/used as a weapon, or simply for ornamental purposes? I can probably see why they got rid of it during WWI, i wouldn't want to be walking around with a big vertical spike on my helmet while walking around in the trenches.

Pretty good documentary. It's crazy to think how different ordinary people were back then, many still believing in the divine right of kings and in the holy do-no-wrongs of the church. Also fascinating to be reminded how horrible conditions were for many workers under laissez-faire capitalism back then, and how Socialism/Communism and Fascism were a reaction to this. Interesting to hear the quotes from the leaders of the time, whom predicted the future and the great war. For those that bemoan current US hegemony, is a multi-polar world any better an alternative?

Funeral March by Frederic Chopin A good one. I love John Williams, but he clearly "borrowed" this tune (consciously or not) for his classic for Empire Strikes Back, although he turned up the tempo.