Okay, okay...here's the deal. As a GenXer, I do NOT carry disdain for the boomers in general. MANY of that generation have been GOOD mentors and encouraged my growth...even taught me to love my country. Its for the Boomer LEFT I reserve my scorn, my heaps and heaps of derision and mockery and scorn. It is the Boomer LEFT that refuses to release their death grip upon mine and my children's arms, that poisons the well, that wants to continually remind us to never forget just exactly where their foot is. It upon the Boomer LEFT that I want to fling the same spittle they flung and vomited onto the brave men who fought in Vietnam...they ESPECIALLY deserve that!

Cheers! :D

I PROMISE YOU - will NEVER make you listen to rap.

Gads...do you know how much your DAD you sound like? Who's the establishment now? And arent we younger generations SUPPOSED to rebel against you?

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As a GenXer myself I just wanted the boomer generation to fff fff fff off...take their stinky unwashed bodies and platitudes about how we werent active enough (in following in their footsteps "be a rebel, man! do what we did!" WTF?!) and go moulder in some ganja-inhanced room somewhere while the rest of us put things back to rights. Personally I satisfy myself with the thought that we can now call them the establishment. I didnt buy the lie that our generation was pointless. We had a point...and it was to avoid being like them.

As I said in an earlier thread, Ronald Reagan meant something to my generation because he was the good-humored grandpa who said "Pssst! Over here, son...listen, dont pay attention to your freeze-dried communism-constipated hippie parents...they're lying to you. America was good, America IS good...let me tell you about...."

Excellent review! There were things about that movie that I picked up when I first saw it but didnt know how to verbalize it. Thank you for sharing that!

RONALD COLMAN!! - discovered him through my love of A Tale of Two Cities - beautifully played Sydney Carton!! In the days before Amazon.com, I looked all over for his radio broadcasts (was it called Halls of Ivy???) Anyway, lovely voice, and lovely man.

OH I LOVE THAT movie - "flaaaaaaaacid" Its just too funny the way Meryl and Bruce go after each other.

Really makes you wonder about Hollywood doesnt it?

OH - totally cool is Isabella Rosselini as the vamp...

My guilty pleasure is the Rankin Bass production of the Hobbit. Ah the childhood memories! I had the record with the little booklet. Played it to death.

I will draw the line at the R-B version of Return of the King - which was supposed to complete Bakshi's LOTR. There I think Jackson won the day - Jackson would have had to be deliberately obtuse to use the same tactic RB used for Pippin's reaction to the palantir. *shudder*

"Rough Magic" - Russell Crowe, Bridgit Fonda - has a totally "The Gods Must Be Crazy" vibe to it that I love. DONT appreciate some of the more juvenile gags in it, but all in all, its one of those little movies that they actors themselves probably would rather forget but Russell makes the character of Ross completely adorable (have read the book its based on as well - just as much fun)

That also brings me to "The Gods Must Be Crazy" I gotcher uncool here: try a movie that only a group of scruffy looking archaeology/anthropology students could love. Slapstick humor, romance, languages that use click sounds...if liking this movie doesnt make you uncool, I dont know what will.

I thought Neal McDonough was slated to play Captain America?