M. Night and Sam Hoping for UNBREAKABLE 2 - Sep 25, 2008 - 10:56am
I loved Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and Signs. After that my enjoyment starts to go down. I liked The Village, except for the end, I really wanted a monster. Lady In the Water had potential but just got too silly. I hated The Happening. When I saw it there were scenes where the entire theater including myself burst into laughter at the absurdity of it. I just feel that if plants wanted to off people they'd have done it thousands of years ago if they could as opposed to now... Then again if I apply logic to Signs then it seems silly too, but I just liked Signs a lot better. That all said, I would LOVE to see sequels to Unbreakable, but I wonder if they could ever happen since he's left his original studio, etc. Mr. Glass was a great villian to me. He'd been teased and picked on his entire life, so his detachment to the rest of humanity seemed believable to me. His motivations for his actions seemed better than many a comic book villian's motives in many of the movies I've seen in the past few years, so I'd be all for more Security vs. Mr. Glass.

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DVD Shopping Bag: Great Pumpkin Issues - Sep 23, 2008 - 09:57am
I still enjoy "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown", and "Merry Christmas Charlie Brown". I thought your analysis of the Great Pumpkin was interesting and entertaining, but it was a real stretch for me. The idea that in '66 the rocks Charlie Brown received were supposed be cocaine, is a bit much. I'm not even sure anyone thought to make cocaine into rock/crack form until the 70s/80s. Lucy was a bitch with a capital B, but she was also a cartoon character for kids. There are a lot of characters that were asses. Oscar the Grouch, Jokey Smurf, the Grinch who stole Christmas, etc. No Lucy never truly gets her just desserts, however, sometimes life is like that. As far as the WW I stuff, that was always my least favorite part of the special because it was so boring. I don't know how much it damaged kids because the fighting is imaginary, and you never see Snoopy's opponent, the Red Baron. That all said, they did eventually make sequels or new specials that never quite lived up to the originals in my book. Also, I hope your column was in good humor, because if the Great Pumpkin really gets to you that much... well actually I can understand that because there are things (movies, shows, etc.) that get to me that much as well.

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Max Makowski Directing VOLTRON? - Aug 29, 2008 - 09:52am
WhiteKnight, that would be correctamundo. They changed the plot from the original cartoons. YEAH HOLLYWOOD! To be fair, it's hard watching Voltron as an adult, partly because of the bad stories, partly because so much is probably lost in translation due to US importers trying to protect the youth of America from death and violence in children's television.

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