Wow, totally did not recall that part. Now I'm wondering if I ever actually read the original rather than just its sequels.
'Why We Fight'
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It was at the very end. Just a few sentences, IIRC. But it was a nice parallel to the beginning, when after the aliens improved the intelligence of the proto-humans, they begin to use their new intelligence to murder ....
Dear GOD. Me, as a non-historian, felt that for a story, wodges could have been left out, and I'd have liked it more. I have no interest in a Howard Hughes documentary.
Mostly I just meant very important facts not mentioned at all, like that for the first two years of Hughes' life that the film portrays he was married. I know it's trying to focus on the throughline of aviation as his great love, but shouldn't his first wife merit a footnote?
Also, the fairly early cheapie Dark Star does a good job of evoking the mindfuck of staring into the black (in a black humored way).
Heh, love this movie. Best alien ever. Interestingly, one of the co-writers and actors was Dan O'Bannon (his character had all the interaction with the alien), who went on to co-write the original script that became Alien (though that was extensively re-worked by Walter Hill).
Also, does it need to be movies? Because a couple of the Firefly episodes really made that point - Bushwhacked, Our Mrs. Reynolds (for the ending), and Out of Gas being the main ones, but the first reavers sequence in the original Serenity gets some of that too.
Of course, they'll be a real movie for that soon, but probably not soon enough.
Brett Ratner is taking over X3 after the departure of Matthew Vaughn. This plus the scuttlebutt on the preliminary script has me very, very worried.
They need to dump both the script and the director, and get Joss in. Oh, and maybe Halle too, if they're spring cleaning.
Batman Begins is kind of mixed so far on Rotten Tomatoes.
Well, 80% positive doesn't sound too bad.
Ebert and that other guy raved about it last night on their show. Ebert is supposed to be a comic book buff, no?