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Perhaps it's an age thing, but I was about 13 when it came out and remember howling with laughter at some story Phoebe Cates' character told about why she didn't like Christmas. If I remember correctly, her dad had tried to play Santa one year and had broken his neck when he tried to come down...

Alright then, my take (cool discussion BTW): Mal - Chaotic good: He may have been Lawful good during the war but he's really enjoying tweaking the established authority as a criminal mastermind now. Yes, he has a very powerful internal code, but I think the code has more to do with what's...

A celluloid classic, indeed. The part that sticks out the most for me is the creature reaching up from the water to pull a swamp rat (I think it was Jack Elam) down into the water. 'Bout swallowed my tongue on that one. Oh, and I seem to remember the two leads playing a tape of the screaming...

I'm relieved to see that I'm not the only one that had issues with Sasquatch as a kid. I was semi-obsessed, really, and would watch anything that came on related to the beast. The pattern seemed to be that I'd watch some documentary or low-budget horror movie featuring Sasquatch on a Saturday...

Well, it wasn't my mistake, but as a teenager I rented (or thought I rented) some action movie (Stallone? Schwarzenegger?) only to get home and find 'The Care Bears Movie' in the tape case. Very disheartening.

The one I'm enjoying most is Black Gate (http://www.blackgate.com/). They appear to be putting out only about two issues a year, but what I've seen is pretty entertaining. They focus pretty exclusively on fantasy fiction but also include book and RPG reviews (which, admittedly, are fairly...

Please, oh please, let this have been a simple oversight. As much as I love this show, not having Inara in the movie could be a deal-killer for me. Hyperbole? Perhaps, but this is concerning news indeed.

I'd submit that that may well be the case. I enjoyed the series well enough when it was on, but it wasn't until watching the DVD set that I became such a huge fan. I'm not sure if the DVDs are available for rent anywhere, but if so, I can't recommend a series more highly. No question, one of...

While it wasn't a romance, per se, I always thought that Croaker's infatuation with the Lady was charming as hell. I found it one of the more moving aspects of the first book, perhaps because it was in direct contrast with the dominant bleak atmosphere of mercenary life. And as for writing...

Absolute tinkly music to my ears. You write it, I'll buy it.

Dumb and Dumber is the only movie that actually had me on the floor of the theater. I have never laughed so hard or so frequently at a movie in my life. Pure comic genius, and I'll second its nomination for funniest movie ever.

As you can tell, these are a pair of my favorite as well. (Theater talkers really are among the lowest form of life.) But I have a question for the forum -- River was just so awesomely bizarre that I still haven't been able to decide if she was telling the truth or just trying to freak Jayne...

I thoroughly enjoyed it; found it quite the page-turner, in fact. Though I didn't find it as strong a story as Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, or Guy Kay's work. Enjoyable nonetheless, however.

Every time I get frustrated with Privateer Press and start to think it's time to write them off, they come up with something like this. Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

And that's the funny thing about this category. Just about everyone in my circle has seen this one, definitely my favorite Coen brothers flick. "No, not that mother-scratcher! Bill Parker!" Another one I get a lot of blank stares at is Waking Ned Devine, a great little movie about a winning...

Not sure whether it's coincidence or not (this discussion and the following announcement), but it appears that Green Ronin has obtained the license to produce the Black Company campaign setting. http://www.greenronin.com/press_releases/?id=black_company Way, way too cool.

Great topic, and I have the perfect movie to suit the category -- the version of 'Robin Hood' which starred Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman. Loved, loved, loved that movie, and I don't know of anyone else that's seen it. It came out at approximately the same time as Costner's version <*spit...

Funny you should mention that. I avoided the original Black Company book for the longest time. The cover wasn't particularly evocative and the description on the back was a piddling paragraph that amounted to just about nothing. It being the days before my association with the internet, I'd...

I just want to echo the sentiments of Endur and CCamfield -- the first four books of the Black Company and Tower of Fear are far and away my favorites. I'm afraid the Black Company lost me in the Books of the South. Lost some of their charm somehow. Didn't know about the SF books. Thanks for...

The president of Mutant Enemy hopes to have "official" news soon: http://www.fireflymovie.com/news.html So it appears it isn't a done deal then, but this is encouraging nonetheless.