Benjamin Grimm

Just saw this the other day. I enjoyed it well enough. Gave it three stars. I'm not by any stretch a Star Trek fan. I used to watch the original series on Channel 11 when I was a kid, so I'm familiar with the characters, and I saw the first movie or two, but that's about it.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I've seen the video for the Paula Abdul song "Rush, Rush." Would that more or less cover my bases? I guess you'll have to ask someone who's seen both the video and the movie! I only meet 50% of the qualification!

There were billboards for this movie all over Lisbon this past summer. I heard it was a fun movie. I might watch it when it hits cable, if it hasn't already done so.

Watch it if you're curious to see a slice of film history, a time capsule from the 50's, and James Dean in action in one of only three films that he made. If you're looking for a terrific movie... maybe not.

Some of the scenes were okay, entertaining in a kitchy way: the knife fight at the planetarium and the game of chicken at the bluff. But I couldn't muster up any sympathy for Sal Mineo's character. The first thing we learn about him is that he likes to kill puppies, and later he gets a gun and starts shooting people. Was I supposed to care about his fate? The scenes with Natalie Wood and her father were pretty laughable. He doesn't want her to show him affection anymore. The unstated reason is probably that he's made uncomfortable by her extremely perky breasts. She kisses him on the cheek and he reacts by slapping her. He really handled that poorly!

Maybe that was my problem: I wasn't drunk or high when I saw the movie.

Watched this the other day, for the first time in many years.

Maybe they were trying to be like Disney, where almost none of the characters have mothers, and those that do have to endure their deaths. Many instead have step-mothers, who are, of course, evil.

The robot gopher was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. It was a long time ago, so I don't remember the details, but I do recall sitting in the theater when that gopher started dancing at the end of the movie and the crowd roared with laughter, and I was wondering what planet I was on.

You didn't give me a zero option, so I had to give it a half. HATED IT!

HATED IT!

I'm about 65 million years too young to have been there.

My experience has been that kids, when they're little, are not very discriminating about what's good and what isn't. Somehow I managed to avoid ever having to watch this one. Since my youngest is now nine, I seem to have dodged this particular bullet, at least until grandchildren come around.

I'll do whatever I can!

Best Picture �Black Swan� Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers �The Fighter� David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers �Inception� Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers �The Kids Are All Right� Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers �The King's Speech� Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers �127 Hours� Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers �The Social Network� Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ce�n Chaffin, Producers �Toy Story 3� Darla K. Anderson, Producer �True Grit� Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers �Winter's Bone" Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers I'm reminded of why I don't pay much attention to the Oscars... Every year I've seen very few of the nominated films. Of all the movies on the longer list that metfairy posted, I've only seen two: Toy Story 3 and Iron Man 2. I'm sure I'll see more of them eventually, when they come to HBO and Showtime, but by then their Oscar buzz will have passed. (The ones I'm most likely to watch on cable: True Grit and The Social Network. Other possibilities include 127 Hours, The King's Speech, and Black Swan. The one I'm almost certain NOT to watch: Inception)

I haven't seen this in a while. (I watched it in 2000 on a transatlantic flight and it kept me nicely entertained.) I'll say 3.5 stars, but it's a fuzzy vote, given that it's been almost 11 years.

Cool stuff! Didn't we once calculate how long it would take Tom Seaver to drop out of the top 500? I think the answer was something like 60,000 years.

TiVoed this movie just the other day. Hope to watch it in the next couple of weeks. I remember liking the movie, and the book, a lot.

My kids are now old enough to go to the movies by themselves! We gave them money, dropped them off, and picked them up when it was over! That means that neither my wife nor I were forced to sit through a two-and-a-half-hour movie that neither of us cared to see! WOOOOOOO!!!!

In order to make even more money, they split the seventh book into two movies, so that there would be eight Harry movies instead of seven.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'm waiting to read these books with the 'Pail before I see any more HP films. I think I saw the first. How old should a kid be before I start? He's 4 and a half. My son started reading them when he was six or seven, I think. I know he was eight when he was reading the fifth book because I remember him getting carsick and puking all over his copy when we were in Italy.

The 30 is just part of the formula. Their actual scores, the products of the formula, is 8,820 points for Gooden and 6,030 for Mazzilli. It's those numbers that affect the all-time rankings.

Did she spot any time travelers on the set?

I've only seen this once, and it was a long time ago. (I might have been 15 or 16.) I recall not entirely understanding what was going on. I don't know if it was because the plot was complex or confusing, or if it was because I was watching late at night. (Back before VCR's and TiVo, I had to actually stay up very late to watch a late movie.)

Star Wars never did anything for me. Don't know why.