Innovator

Phft, Newton's laws....who elected him anyway. J/K.

Tell that to J. Howard Marshall, he is notorious for using his money to marry Anna Nichole Smith to make his last days on earth as pleasant as he could with lots of Viagra. Despite everyone complaining about it (especially his son), he did what he wanted, and didn't personally seemed to have any regrets doing so.

Everytime I see someone in need of help, I try do what I can, and I feel bad cause I can't do more, and I feel worse when I can't do anything at all. I don't think I could be a supervillain, it's not in me to not help.

I believe it was because the book and Let the Right One In was set in the 80's to reduce technology. In Let Me In, case it was clearly to show off the Ms. Pac-Man machine!

You pretty much hit the nail in the head. It showed Owen's lack of relationship with his parents. Mother was always shown in half face, to show her as someone only partially touching his life, she was there and not there at the same time. Owen's father is not there at all except as a disembodied voice on a telephone.

I know the Good Doctor has had been to America in the past, there was some episodes in New York I remember, and the 8th Doctor was in L.A., but I don't think they were actually filmed there. I wonder if this will introduce the new Torchwood, which is also supposed to be shooting in the states?

Who knows, a lifetime may be longer than you think.

The last 30 years. I'm actually quite amazed at how fast technology has developed in computers, robotics, medicine, communication. I have great hopes, as I was there when there were no cell phones, music was played on large vynil disks and magnetic tape on machines called 8-tracks, and people just started to have computers, when BBS's ruled and the internet was nothing but people trading software and porn through usegroups, when gopher sites were the first inklings of the www. I was also a student at the very first computer programming course offered in schools in California, where I was paid $15 dollars a week to be part of the course, as that's how they got us to come in for it during the summer, now I write code for smart phones!

My parents are probably doubly amazed for they had to draw on cave walls to entertain themselves and walk 30 miles in the snow uphill barefoot to school, cause there where no cars or some such...

Edit: As far as people, I think we're still a little shaky but hopefully getting there. We had good times and bad. Remember, I come from the time of the cold war, where nuclear threat was talked about every day, as well as the evil communist empire called the USSR. Then, I also remember, that we danced after the wall fell, and boy did we dance

Loose, footloose
Kick off your Sunday shoes
Please, Louise
Pull me offa my knees
Jack, get back
C'mon before we crack
Lose your blues
Everybody cut footloose!

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Yeah, that goes for the movies as well. It's what I liked most about LMI, Abby was nasty, manipulative, and monstrous...and didn't sparkle...well once when she got flash burned by the sun, and yet they still made a great vampire romance that was believable in a way you can say, yeah I can see why Owen is attracted to her and develops feeling for her, and why he makes the choices he does, sad that it is.

No worries, my brother tells me that all the time.

"We suck" thoughts are what keep people in trailers, the world didn't become smaller and get the technologies to make 7-11 burritoes because of them (well maybe the last part). Personally, I think it's a silly attitude. The world became what it is because of adventurous spirit, and those that didn't let limitations that life set before them keep them from doing anything, but instead invented ways out of that darkness...like lightbulbs and toaster ovens and the little thing on my desk shelf that I'm still not sure what it does yet.

Yes, there will be people behind those that exploit the strides they create, history has proven that, but thats also how these things spread to even the luddites who still think their CRT sets with static viewing is good enough for them. There will be those with less than morale intentions that will use the strides built for their own gain, hell without them we wouldn't have had the spread of pornography that made the internet what it is today! So I agree, let's do something, instead of complaining about how much we suck.

Humans must thrive and expand through the galaxy...period. I'm kinda getting sick and tired of the self hate...

So? What did you think?

I don't think the bank robbers worked for the CEO, they never showed any connection to him. The only person that did was the TKer, and he wasn't working with the robbers. He was only at the bank as he was following the officer.

Major SPOILER about The Father in Let Me In (so don't read please!).







What I thought was really interesting in Let Me In was how The Father was portrayed. The scene on the bed where he was listening to the walkman and how he was seated, and the tantrum like-way he argued with Abby conveyed subtly that he was not an old man, but a boy that never grew up, just older, which is I think serves the plot better. When it was revealed what he is, you look back at the subtle moments (at least I did) and say oh I should have seen that! Then by the end, you think back see the sad existence that Owen puts himself in (so no need for a sequel).

Spoilers below (don't read).



As I understand it, there was a quick scene showing Eli was not all girl so to speak in Let the Right One In. From what I read, many people had real problems with it, and wished it not being in the movie at all. In Let Me In, the scene is changed, and keeps the perspective that Abby's comments about herself being not a girl is that she inferring that she is the monster that she is. She even stops saying it, after Owen learns what she is.

From what I read about LTROI there are other changes in motivations as well, in LMI, Abby is portrayed as a monster and Owen a good kid being turned to the darkside, while in LTROI Eli is remorseful about what she is, and Oscar is conveyed somewhat as a monster. I will watch LTROI myself (though I'm saving it for Halloween), but so far from what I've read, I think I'll like LMI better.

As for what was changed from the book, it was the pedophillia aspect of Eli and Hakan's relationship that was avoided in both movies, which in my opinion served the story better.

The pedophilia or the homosexuality? I thought I addressed both points.

From what I hear about the book, the plot element was when Elli (Abby in Let Me In) met Hakan (The Father in Let Me In), which was a lot later than portrayed in the movie. I think the movie version of that element plays out much better.

I also heard that they took out one shock scene from LTROI...well, not really took it out but changed it significantly, since I now know what scene they are talking about and remember the scene in Let Me In. However, from what I read most people had problems with the scene in the first place and thought it was totally needless. So from what I read, it sounds like a good change as well.

I think it's hilarious that there are people on those boards seriously suggesting Catherine Tate and Scarlette Johanson for the role of Mary Jane in this film which is supposed to be set entirely in High School.

Nice! The girl playing Rush is coolness too!

Of course, you know that since you've hype up the Swedish film in my eyes, this now means that when I do end up seeing "Let the Right One In" and I find it to suck, I will blame you for it.

I never would have known about the Swedish film if not for this one. If the purpose for this remake is to get people to be curious about films we don't normally hear about, than this film succeeded in my case and in the case of several friends of mine who now want to see the Swedish film. I'm all for supporting good works, so I don't mind paying for a movie twice if I like it enough.

America already planted a flag there, that's the rule, the moon is Americas. Native Americans lost the continent cause they didn't have a flag.

Seriously though, I'm still hoping some big advertising company puts a giant digital billboard on the moon, maybe sell ads to Pepsi, or Pizza Hut.