Maybe I was thinking of The Goonies, which is a horrendous movie my 9th grade English teacher made us watch over and over for some still mystifying reason.
You are dead to me.
Jayne is a girl's name.
River ,'Trash'
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Emlah - Aug 27, 2003 7:45:45 pm PDT #6443 of 9843
To every idea a shelf...
Jim - Aug 28, 2003 12:53:07 am PDT #6444 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Sorry. There seems to be some confusion here. Both the Goonies and Gremlins are absolute classics - the Goonies wasn't matched for splendour until POTC - you must be thinking of other films.
evil jimi - Aug 28, 2003 1:15:04 am PDT #6445 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Gremlins yes, The Goonies NSM. The Explorers is an unheralded gem from around the same era.
Leigh - Aug 28, 2003 1:39:16 am PDT #6446 of 9843
Nobody
Heh, I seriously just found my 'review' of The Goonies (ah, trusty computers--you only lose what I will actually need) which it turns out, I apparently wrote in grade seven not nine (I'm kinda worried about my memory at the moment--my ninth grade English teacher would have an aneurysm at the thought of teaching on a film containing the mere mention of pirates and/or their treasure). It seems I got very prissy about it's believability and all the screaming. I'm tempted to post bits, but I can't get it to copy/paste properly for some reason.
Emlah - Aug 28, 2003 2:51:02 am PDT #6447 of 9843
To every idea a shelf...
The Explorers
Is that the one with River Phoenix in it? And they go to space and there are bizarre aliens who've learnt everything they know about humans from TV?
I love the two Gremlins movies, or at least I did when I was younger. I haven't seen them in a while. I once tried to teach my budgie to whistle Gizmo's tune.
The Goonies is a classic. A CLASSIC, I TELL YOU. It is the cheesiest, greatest, funnest thing ever.
(Edited because os and es are not interchangeable.)
Leigh - Aug 28, 2003 3:13:10 am PDT #6448 of 9843
Nobody
The funniest thing from either of the Gremlin movies was the Smart!Gremlin with the glasses and the snooty accent. So. Funny. I don't want to watch them again because I'm happy with my remembered adoration.
evil jimi - Aug 28, 2003 3:14:33 am PDT #6449 of 9843
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
Is that the one with River Phoenix in it? And they go to space and there are bizarre aliens who've learnt everything they know about humans from TV?
That's the one! The movie Joe Dante did between Gremlins and Innerspace. :)
Also happened to be Ethan Hawke's first movie.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 28, 2003 5:54:30 am PDT #6450 of 9843
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Smart!Gremlin with the glasses and the snooty accent.
Voiced by Tony Randall, no less. I like 2 better than the original, because they didn't even try to make it serious and just went for the gags. And John Glover as a benevolent cross between Ted Turner and Donald Trump was a riot as well.
moonlit - Aug 31, 2003 6:08:51 am PDT #6451 of 9843
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell
Accord permits generic drugs
US pharmaceuticals lose monopoly rights
The World Trade Organisation yesterday sealed its agreement to allow poor countries to import cheap copies of patented drugs to fight killer diseases such as Aids, malaria and tuberculosis.
Eta, the agreement is not without it's critics however ...
The accord, hammered through the WTO's 146-member executive General Council, seeks to reassure patent-owning multinational firms their rights will be protected, while helping poor states fight diseases that kill millions each year, mainly in Africa.
"Today's WTO agreement that is ostensibly intended to get drugs to the poorest countries does not provide a workable solution," Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF, Doctors without Borders (news - web sites)) and Oxfam said in a joint statement.
from yahoo article
Emlah - Aug 31, 2003 11:00:38 pm PDT #6452 of 9843
To every idea a shelf...
Hey, kismet. I've just been re-reading Fences and Windows.
the agreement is not without it's critics however
I'm not entirely clear on what their criticisms are. Is it that they feel that if WTO implements 'soft' reform they can get away with not instituting more radical reform?
In other news, has anyone been watching the kids program Bootleg on ABC? I stumbled across it last week, and it's really clever and interesting. I'm not actually sure if it's set in Britain or Australia, because it's one of those joint productions. The idea is that a radical health party is in government and have banned chocolate. It's a brilliant scenario, and the writers have taken it and really run with it, exploiting any possibility for satire or parody. I mean, it practically screams USE ME IN THE CLASSROOM TO FOSTER DISCUSSION!!!! but I don't care, because I love that shows like this are getting made.