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35 and feeling 75. Started playing D&D at 11. Prone to incomplete sentences.

Another vote for Night of the Living Dead. Still gives me the willies late at night. I think NotLD is my favorite for the "serious zombie film" aspect. Granted, 28 Days Later had its dramatic moments, but (at least to my jaded sensibilities) felt more like Trainspotting meets NotLD--not serious...

Round 8-9 1. LotR: The Fellowship of the Ring (though both were well-made) 2. Frankenstein (see above comment) 3. Creature from the Black Lagoon 4. Planet of the Apes (it's fun to see Taylor go from misanthrope to simianthrope to misanthrope again) 5. The Thing (1982) (I'm an unabashed Howard...

What does that entail, exactly? "Only the popular survive?" ;)

Melee and Death Test were my "gateway games" to RPGs; a friend from school got me into those, and it was only a matter of time (maybe 2 months) before I started on "the D&D." He was lucky enough to have an older sister whose boyfriend was "into wargaming;" and Tim spread the bug to me.

Round 6-8 1. The Adventures of Robin Hood 2. The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester version) - arguably one of the most entertaining movies around. 3. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 4. Camelot (let's see--Richard Harris vs. Richard Gere) 5. Raiders of the Lost Ark 6. Phantom of the Opera (Lon...

Ack! Tough choices! 5-19 1. A Clockwork Orange ("as clear as an azure sky") 2. Dr. Strangelove ("...but you'll have to answer to the Coca-Cola company") 3. The Seventh Seal ("229") 4. Robocop ("I like it!") 5. Rebecca ("Bring me a chocolate.") 6. The Princess Bride ("He's only mostly dead!") 7...

One person's opinion (not mine): http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbur/arts.artsmain?action=viewArticle&id=735169&pid=30&sid=13

After 4 years of looking forward to The Day, it's now a different situation. So I use this:

(movies) Akira Apocalypse Now Redux The Big Sleep The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Casablanca The City of Lost Children Clerks Dawn of the Dead Dr. Strangelove (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb) Fahrenheit 9/11 From Hell Ghost In The Shell A Hard Day's Night Hellboy It's A...

Round 4-2 1. Sleeping Beauty (too jaded in my ancient years for BatB) 2. The Scarlet Pimpernel (yes, it's privilege for the royalty, but Benny Hill did a "Scarlet Pimple" routine, so what the hell) 3. Nosferatu 4. The Breakfast Club (pit me against the Boomers, will you? Guess who loses.) 5...

Apologies to Eric's Grandmother

Sorry, it's been done... ...with SWISHPUNK!!! Combine the theatrics of Edwardian Theater with the glittery weapons of the late Liberace!

Absolutely.

Round 3-5 1. The Empire Strikes Back 2. Star Trek: The Motion Picture 3. Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4. Spider-Man (IMO probably one of the best comic book-to-movie transfers ever, though I like the sequel even more) 5. Being John Malkovich 6. Can't say, h'ain't seen 'em. 7. Blade Runner...

New artifact for aging PCs: The Hip of Vecna. I'll post powers when I can find my DMG.

I envy you. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086340/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9c29yY2VyZXNzfGh0bWw9MXxubT1vbg__;fc=4;ft=20;fm=1 Just keep telling yourself that! ;)

Round 2-8 1. Brazil 2. City of Lost Children 3. 12 Monkeys 4. Metropolis 5. Dark Star 6. Videodrome 7. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory 8. The Haunting

One of my friends from college was originally from Norway, and his mom was living in Oslo at the time. We spent a couple days in Oslo, took the cross-country train to Bergen, took the train half-way back for some fjordy goodness, trained it to Stavenger, took the (now sunken) high-speed ferry...

To be honest, this whole situation sounds very similar to what my ex-girlfriend is going through: she's on (permanent) disability, going to the only local clinic that takes Medicare/SSI patients, severely underfunded (i.e. overloaded with patients whose schedules are very difficult to manage)...