I like all the Harrison "Jack" Schmidt stuff in both the final episode and the Apollo 15 ep. The fact that NASA caved in and put a geologist on the moon in the final moon shot was a victory for all science geeks!
Why couldn't Giles have shackles like any self-respecting bachelor?
Xander ,'Beneath You'
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Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 7:21:39 am PDT #9371 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 7:29:46 am PDT #9372 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Loren Dean puts on a Chicago accent for no explicit reason
Was he the kid genius who worked Ken Mattingly on the start-up procedure? If so, he was HAWT!! When I first saw Apollo 13 in the theater, I told my mom afterwards that the guy who played that NASA guy was drool-worthy, even in those horn-rim glasses.
IRL, that NASA guy was also the one who saved the Apollo 12 launch by telling the astronauts to "Try SCE to aux," as shown in From the Earth...:
"FCE to aux? What the hell is that?" Pete
"No--SCE, not FCE..." Mission Control
"I know what that is!" Al, who saves the day
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 7:41:27 am PDT #9373 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So I checked the AFI Top 100 Movie list and I've seen 95.
I haven't seen:
Raging Bull
High Noon
Sunrise
The Gold Rush
In the Heat of the Night
Raging Bull is just a weird oddity in my film going since I've been holding out to see it on screen instead of on a TV and though it's played around SF at the rep theaters, I've never managed to go.
This list on Wikipedia also notes which movies were bumped.
I can't believe they bumped The Third Man and The Manchurian Candidate and Frankenstein!
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2007 7:43:34 am PDT #9374 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In The Heat Of The Night? Seriously?
Dude. Remiss.
DavidS - Jun 21, 2007 7:45:39 am PDT #9375 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Dude. Remiss.
The Gold Rush too.
Five isn't so bad. I can knock those off this year.
How many have you seen?
§ ita § - Jun 21, 2007 7:48:20 am PDT #9376 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Probably very few (I can't really look at the list from here). But I'm not a movie buff, nor from around these parts.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2007 7:49:57 am PDT #9377 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I've seen about half of them.
Kathy A - Jun 21, 2007 7:50:17 am PDT #9378 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm really bad--I've only seen 58 of those films all the way through.
Polter-Cow - Jun 21, 2007 7:51:17 am PDT #9379 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
That's better than me! And I even counted A Night at the Opera, which I may have fallen asleep during. I was disappointed, after all the hype. It was no Duck Soup.
bon bon - Jun 21, 2007 7:52:27 am PDT #9380 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas were in the 90s on that list. So last night we had to develop an oral macro for "THIS is better than Pulp Fiction/Goodfellas?" And once Godfather II came in at 32, "This is better than PF/G/G2?!" I have to say, it's a very Western-heavy list.