Special K

#1 Eraserhead Beyond that it's sort of an honorable mentions list: Texas Chainsaw Massacres (original, ntach.) Suspiria Audition Jacob's Ladder Fulci's Gates of Hell

Let me reiterate I DO think the 10 commandments displayed on gov't property is wrong, ESPECIALLY in courts. I don't mind the prayer to lead congress, they've had Hindu prayer open Congress (over, which, BTW, some conservatives threw a shitfit. Years ago, though.)

Actually, I do think judges have too much power in terms of the checks in balances, only if because they are making out of left-field (not in the political sense) moralistic interpreatations of the constitution (as seen in the minor death sentence case) I'm leery of this whether libs or cons are in the majority in the Supreme Court, BTW.

I actually like some of the odd Japanese names like Emerald Fusion/Frosion/Erosion, stretch plum; and you get some gems like Burning Hammer and Iconoclasm. Tokyo Magnum has two moves with hilariously (and purposely) bad names, the Viagra Driver, Erect Smash and the Adult Video Star press. His hip-swivelling Frankensteiner was called something horrible like the groin attack. Greetings From Asbury Park was a lame name, and a lame finisher. Slop Drop is a horrible name for a horrible gimmick. Test Drive is a horrible name. Whisper in the Wind, Poetry in Motion, and to a lesser extent, twist of fate are bad. Edge-o-matic is lame ('specially since it was a pun on a just slightly less lame name: Sledge-o-matic) The Bareback When Rock called it the 'corporate elbow' I didn't like Styles calling everything a tazzplex, leave that for the tazzmision suplex (just realized it's natural to type his names with to zeds now. Weird.) The Molly-Go-Round The Raven effect is really lame compared to the Evenflow DDT. What did Konnan actually call the carpet muncher? And in my mind, I remember the dragon sleeper being called the 'taker care of business' the first time it was used, because I was cracking up. Either I misheard, or they realized how drastically lame that was.

I hope they gave Arrested D ANOTHER future classic.

Harold and Maude. Doesn't get more offbeat than that. Or the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Doesn't get more beatoff than that.

Lohan does not have nice breasts. They go up to her collarbone.

He's in Sin City!

We could destroy the planet as an inhabitable planet, but we'd have to make a concentrated effort. The point is not that we can destroy the planet, it's that we can make it basically uninhabitable for our own purposes.

Hinduists and Taoists both believe in an overriding single God or God-soncept. Confucionism doen't really deal with any higher power at all, and is more a behavioral guide of social ethos than a religion with any direction in terms of a higher power. So I guess Buddhism is the only major religion left out of our money. And Buddhists are a bit too concerned with ego distruction to worry themselves with something so minor. You can put Deism up there too. Although their motto might be "In God we don't really trust at all." I still don't see how that motto establishes a state religion or oppresses anyone, but we're obviously never going to agree on that, so whatever.

^ How do you figure that, Mike? We can clearly affect the planet in a manner adverse to ourselves. Or at least cause global changes. I don't think the earth's inhabibility is going to change for a long time, but saying we can't affect the planet at all is pretty silly, IMHO.

Yeah, Shane is sort of a tragic figure. He was freaking out over being involved in Terry's murder, and that took form in violent outbursts and paranoia (Vic's response to, for example, Shane pissing on the guy seem to indicate these outbursts were new to Shane.) He CLEARLY just absolutely WORSHIPS Vic, and sought his approval through emulation, the clearest example being begging Vic to let him execute that administrator at the end of Season One. Without Vic he has nothing to hold him back, and he'll never be satisfied because now Vic will never see him as an equal. Mara being a psycho bitch constantly pushing him sure doesn't help.

It's been backed up in every study I've seen that men are better at or more inclined to math and science, and women are better at language and the liberal arts, with the two being basicall equal in things like business that mixes the two. He wouldn't have gotten in the same shit if he had made disctinctions about left- and right-handed people. It was perhaps stupid to say these things publically, but it's nothing he should lose his job over. Ripper, if he had said left-handed people do better in liberal arts, and right-handed people do better in math and science, should he be fired? I'm left-handed. I can take it.

If it were my list, there would be many more surrealist movies on this list. They have Jacob's Ladder, I would include El Topo, Eraserhead, Iron Man, Tetsuo: the Iron Man, hell even Akira before many of these. Scream? Alien at number TWO? Jurassic Park? Pacific freakin' Heights? Terminator? Re-Animator? Near Dark? The Devil's Backbone? I like all these movies (OK, I'm sort of ambivalent to Pacific Heights), but they never scared me ONCE. Them! Wasn't scary when I was a 4 or 5. They do have a lot of great movies on this list, but it's pretty messed up. Suspiria's scarier than most of the top 20.

Goldfish, Torso, Jinx, Powers, and early Ultimate Spidey (and I hear, Alias) are all really good. Bendis is simply spread to thin, and seemingly bad with continuity, which makes him a good fit for ultimates/original stuff, and a bad fit for 616 books. I think Loeb is overrated, not bad, but overrated. Yoshitaka Amano is underrated. His style doesn't lend itself to action scenes, and he doesn't have a large volume of work (most people are probably familiar with his Final fantasy artwork), but I've always loved his style, weird and androgynous though it may be. I think Bagley may be underrated. you never really hear anyone praising him (or at least I haven't), but he was a super-solid artist, and drew the best-looking Spideys and Venoms, IMHO. Hiroaki Samura's artwork in Blade of the Immortal is underrated, simply because he's probably my favorite artist. Books: I'm not big on Tom Clancy. His books are filled with technobabble that he doesn't even attempt to make interesting. Neal Stephenson, for example will spend pages on technical topics, but make them interesting to the reader. Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan could be considered overrated because they started good series, then drew them out too long and they turned to shit. Both are now just repeating themselves, and things happen at a SLOOOW pace, not exactly a good thing for escapist fantasy. It takes a special kind of suck to make you give up on a series in disgust when you're 8 huge books into it. I'll say Harry Harrison is underrated in the old school sci-fi field. Like pretty much every old-school sci-fi author, he went crazy and pretty much lost his ability to write late in his career, but man, he had some GEMS back in the day; he had a wicked sense of humor too. You rarely hear his name, though, since his most famous book was 'Make Room! Make Room!' (soylent green). Aaron Elkins was overrated. He was ok, but I can't believe he won an Edgar (for Old Bones, right? It's been a long time.)

In the old days, quite a few hair bands had videos with lame medievel sets, with the lead singer wandering around with a sword and singing, which is a weird cliche. One video, the singer put the sword on a pleiglass coffin, which lit up and transformed the sword into a Flying V guitar. THAT should be a cliche.

If anyone else had posted this topic, it would have been followed by 5 different incredibly "funny" fluff pictures, within minutes.

People were mad the Incredibles got a PG? Some Star Trek movies and I can think of also Star Trek VI had much worse in it (limbs getting shot off). PG all the way.

Aw, poor Lem. I miss him. His freak-out last season was one of the best builds the show has had. I wonder what they're going to do with Dutch. Having him just be a dork with no respect again, getting cowed by Vic's lame dick jokes seems a bit off.

Hopefully we can get some creative re-dubbing in the 'super-special edition' of the original trilogy to deal with these pesky things. And they can superimpose Lance Bass's face over Chewbacca's.

Hopefully we can get some creative re-dubbing in the 'super-special edition' of the original trilogy to deal with these pesky things. And they can superimpose Lance Bass's face over Chewbacca's.

Man, this just goes back and shows that the new trilogy did the impossible and made Vader a pussy. Should have casted an adult.

I wonder if people who read books are detached from reality too. Granted, I've never played D&D (besides the occassional PC game), but I don't think those who get dangerously obsessed with that game are the type of people who could get into the special forces.

Sweet! I've been wondering lately if this series has a planned arc that ends, or if they just want to keep it running as long as possible.