Hollis, I'm afraid you are mistaken - the ten gallon hat carries more beer than any other hat. That, Sir, is a gift from the Gods, and is the true origin of the phrase "God blessed Texas." I would turn my nose up to your baseless accusations, but I am currently carrying precious payload, a...

My mother is currently celebrating today in beautiful Hawaii. I would call to wish her a Happy Mother's Day but I'd probably be an interruption at this point! Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there in cinema land. Without you the world wouldn't go 'round - nor would all the naughty little b...

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I am constantly on the verge of giving up on this country and its people. As the lyrics go, "We got a man of the people, says "Keep hope alive" Got fuel to burn, got roads to drive" Funny, that. The entire song could have been written yesterday. We've made so much progress since ...

Texas is quickly, or, rather, has mostly turned into California. It's a sad state of affairs. After living in five different cities and visiting most of the Union in my (short) life I have come to the conclusion that Americans are just god-awful people - they are, after all, mostly outcasts from oth...

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So, I'll start. The 20th - and now the 21st - century, its advancements in technology and culture (I would argue the single greatest leap in both since the Renaissance), has made now the greatest time period in which to live. Here are a few reasons, without qualification , why: Both of my grandmothe...

Birdy, you weren't being a curmudgeon at all. Sorry for the confusion of my post.

Well, that's another strike against Chicagoans and their horrific taste in everything from hotdogs to beer (but not music!). Every idiot customer I deal with says it's a Chicago beer and I've never taken the time to look into it. The fact that it's brewed in Munster - boy, I just have to know if tha...

Folks, I'm sorry for derailing the thread, and I'm definitely trying my hardest to understand where you all are coming from. Let me put it this way: I like talking to my teller, I like writing checks out for my payments, I like receiving paper bills, I probably teach people how to use things a littl...

Hi Jack, why would you ever think that would offend anyone? Fantastic opinions, thank you for sharing them! Disagree I must, though, and I know that I can't offer up anything of substance that will change your mind. I argue that the film isn't simplistic or immature, but instead a fully realized man...

Anne, perhaps if you would have read my post you would have noticed that I wasn't referring to you in the first place, I was specifically addressing silentscreen. What little I did mention you was in a positive light. Regarding the pros and cons of technology, silentscreen: you cite didn't cite a si...

Wait, so, let me get this, in the one thread I thought I'd never see, where Anne comes out and admits bewilderment/amazement at the present and its technology, someone else decides to jump on the old curmudgeon bandwagon? Sheesh! :evil: Can't we have - just for once - a positive thread where we look...

The single most interesting thing about the progress of the last decade or so is that it is the direct result of almost a hundred years of invention and innovation, with the great bulk of it having taken place in the last 40 years. LCD celebrates its 45th birthday this year, but you wouldn't have ev...

You could find numerous similarities between just about any genre film - just compare Forrest Gump with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - but superficial coincidence doesn't mean they're anything alike past skin deep. There are only so many stories out there to be told. "The devil's in the ...