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It's been a while, but wasn't Michael Douglas the bad guy in Falling Down? Robert Duvall was the good guy who was making an effort to stop him.

Yes. He starts out slightly sympathetic, but gets so less and less as the movie goes on. In fact, he acknowledges it in character at one point: "I'm the bad guy? When did that happen?"

I thought more than anything else, it was a demonstration that no one is the villain in their own head.

This is an unpopular opinion. Aliens is a sweet action nougat covered in a delicious candy coating of science fiction-horror.

What's unpopular about it?
 

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A friend of mine dumped her BF shortly after she invited him to a meal with her extended Sicilian-American family and he proclaimed the marinara to be “hot”. (Many eyes rolled in her direction.)
Hee. One of my older brothers is one of those people who consume fire-plane foods happily. He was in the Navy with stays in Guam and Sicily. Both places, locals loved him and he often got invited to home meals with co-workers. They were amazed at the American who liked reasonably seasoned food. :)
 

It’s just that I can’t safely consume mega Scoville peppers and other stuff apparently grown on the elemental plane of fire.
There was an Indian restaurant that opened near me a few years ago that didn’t last long. Now, there’s a large and growing population of Indians, Pakistani and Nepalese immigrants moving into my typical stomping grounds, so there’s been a boom in restaurants and groceries catering to them. So some will naturally fail just because of oversaturation. But this place was different.

They failed to find a balance between “hot & spicy” and “flavor & enjoyable.” I never ate there, but I had food from there handed to me to try…by some Indians who owned or were employees of a restaurant in the same strip mall. They were trying to welcome the new guys and get them a jump start on sales.

I tasted the food offered, and proclaimed it to be spicy but essentially flavorless. It was so over-peppered that I couldn’t tell what the meat was. My assessment was echoed by the people who asked me to try it…and then they binned the rest of the order. They never went back.

And that place failed a few months later.
 

I was an army brat, so we moved several times during my childhood. I can remember what was available in Chinese and Mexican restaurants in several states (and even in Europe) back in the 1970s, and compared to modern iterations, it was SPARSE. It wasn’t until the 1990s that I walked into a Mexican restaurant and saw seafood. Y’know, from Mexico, a country with two long coastlines and a Gulf band after it.
Me too! Remember when Red Lobster was a somewhat fancy restaurant you went to on your birthday or some other special occasion? Most Mexican food in the United States is Tex-Mex which doesn't typically include fish or other seafood. But like you, I didn't have Mexican seafood until sometime within the last 5-8 years. Which is weird because, as you point out, Mexico has two very long coasts.
 


To undermine my elitist credentials from the last hot take: ketchup is good actually as a master sauce. It's a complete blend of sweet, sour and umami thanks to the tomato, makes a great basis for other flavors, is surprisingly easy to make and adapt for different purposes with other ingredients but still perfectly serviceable in nearly all mass-market forms.

I've already said as much in this very thread, but as much as tomato ketchup deserves more respect as a sauce and sauce additive... banana ketchup is superior in every possible way, and some impossible ones.
 



Yikes, I was going to say it holds up, but under no circumstances see the extended cut, with Newt's family, a kid on a Weyland-Yutani Big Wheel, and Paul Reiser and Sigourney Weaver giving Basil Exposition a run for his money. All of the scary stuff that was implicit in the theatrical cut is a lot lamer -- and features cringeworthy 1980s hair and costumes -- when spelled out in the cut scenes.

The only thing worth watching in the extended cut is the auto-gun sequence.
The extended cut of Aliens mostly showed me that edits are a good thing. And, yes, that included the auto-gun sequence which mainly serves to undermine how intelligent the xenomorphs seem to be in the better, theatrical release cut.
 

Me too! Remember when Red Lobster was a somewhat fancy restaurant you went to on your birthday or some other special occasion? Most Mexican food in the United States is Tex-Mex which doesn't typically include fish or other seafood. But like you, I didn't have Mexican seafood until sometime within the last 5-8 years. Which is weird because, as you point out, Mexico has two very long coasts.

Depends where you are. I'm in the Greater Los Angeles area, and it seems like there's mariscos places every four feet.
 

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