I, too, would recommend Dark City. I haven't seen it recently, but I think the themes of the movie still hold up.

OWN IT.

I liked the fact that they went retro with the "time period" and I think that helped it age well.

I really like Dark City, much prefer it to the Matrix.

May have to put it on the watch pile for the weekend.

Apart from one rather poor special effect I love "The Quiet Earth", unfortunately its great line is unknown by a vast majority "He tells lies"

Is that the one with from New Zealand? saw it years ago...I remember it being okay.

Yes, apparently the ending has two meanings around the world.

I need to watch it again. What are they?

I'm not sure, I think it depends on your religious viewpoint.

My point of view has a hole in the logic, how in a world of around 4.5-5 billion people at the time the film was made, are 4 people the only people who die at exactly the same time.

AND they die in the same country?

At this point, I am SO confused by all of this.

But, keep it up, Guys; it's entertaining, if nothing else.

I also liked Mystery Men. The Girl can't stand anything with Stiller in it. She just can't stand the guy, so it's off my viewing list, for the most part.

Speed Racer is full of ambivalence for me.

When it was on Channel 44 (How's that for a flashback, Chicagoans?) my mother read some article in the Tribune saying how violent it was. She never even watched it. She'd come in the living room, watch the end of Ultraman (talk about your VIOLENCE) with me and then turn the TV off when Speed Racer started and tell me to go outside.

So I went to my friend's house to watch it until she caught on.

When I got to NIU, MTV was playing reruns of it at midnight every weeknight, so there was a Speed Racer/Ramen Party in my room every damn night without fail.

We laughed at how bad the dub was, and we laughed at some of the animation. It was like a drinking game. Every time someone launched into a badly dubbed run-on sentence, we'd all yell, "Breathe! Breathe!" until he finished. (Usually Pop Racer.)

Anytime someone went, "OHHHHHHHH!" we all did as well.

The movie had the stink of overblown summer blockbuster all over it (see Wild Wild West, Godzilla, et al) so I gave it a wide berth. But an Ignatz recommendation is something I can't just take lightly. Your point about being "the right age" has me interested. Maybe I'll run it up the flagpole.

Someone in real life has also recommended Tinker. I might give that a whirl too.

Critics favorites that I don't get:

Midnight Cowboy
Cool Hand Luke
Butch Cassidy

And I'm in full agreement on The Graduate.

None of the above are BAD movies. They're all pretty good. They all just have me scratching in regards to the critics love for them.

This bothered me to some extent as well

But Aunt May's garage sale speech made me forget about it. That's the whole darn movie as far as I'm concerned, and it's worth the price of admission.

I'm watching Captain America for the second time and looking on it MUCH more favorably than last time.

The effect of putting what's'name's head on some other guy via CGI isn't playing any better than the first time, but there's some heart in the story that I missed the first time that I'm enjoying.

On man, just did a search (Shriek), Zone Troopers is on Amazon as a print to order DVD,.

This one a super guilty pleasure.

It very weird to me in a particular way, if you study the equipment of the Germans it is very accurate to the time period, the only oddity is the Lmg one of the US characters carry, I have never seen its like before or since, but because the German equipment is so accurate I have to believe it is a weapon.

I thought the Nick Fury: Agent of Shield TV movie was cheesy as hell, but I thought that Hasselhoff did a GREAT Nick Fury. I was hoping he would get the nod when they started making all of these newer, Avengers-centered movies.

Knight Rider came out when I was of an age that I was young enough to REALLY like the show when it started, but by the end of it I had an accurate idea of what an egotistical nut The Hoff was.

So between that and Baywatch he was little more than a walking joke by the time the movie came out and I avoided it on those grounds and that was confirmed by everyone who ever saw it.

Prior to the Ultimates, however, I will say that physically speaking, he was perfect for the role.

His best work, in my opinion, was his performance in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie.