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So my husband brought home a copy of this last night, the hazzard of it's being 75% off and his working at a game store.

I'd never played Stratego before, so apparently this is the game crossed with Magic in an unecessarily confusing manner?

Ok, I need a group effort here.

Has there ever been a good book, written in first person that was successfully translated into a movie?

So TBS is showing it tonight.  Actually they've been showing it all week I think.  But it's a great movie.  Top notch.  I was just thinking of it in relation to The Princess Bride as one of the "everyone has to see this" movies.

The only part I still snicker at is the "slightly greasy solar ions" bit, which is just ridiculous even for a science-fantasy movie like this one.

My thanks to Brenna and her husband for 1.) showing me the movie  in the first place and 2.) giving us their extra copy.

This boils my blood.

A while back the Daily Universe (BYU's student newspaper) started getting regular letters arguing for and against legalizing gay marriage.  Everything was more or less civil and adult, (there were of course a few "you'll all burn in hell because you don't hate gays" type letters, but we mostly ignored them.)

Two of my former roommates wrote letters to the editor, intelligently discussing the topic.  One of the rules of the letters in the Universe is that you must sign your full name.  

Thanks to the wonderful BYU directory which lets you get info on ANY student, today, some BYU student sent out mass, unsolicited email, (which is spam, by law) to all the people who wrote any letter to the editor that was even partially in favor of gay marriage, my two roomates included.  This person was rude and self-righteous, insisting that gay marriage is a direct threat to society, and that the people who wrote letters were all bad bad people.  And they didn't even have the courage to sign their name.

I would like to beg everyone here to send an email to this person, worded as kindly you'd like, telling them what a rude coward they are, and how they should be ashamed of themselves.    Use a junk email address if you don't want to worry about it, they're not hard to get.

[email protected]

Sure, it's childish and vindictive of me to ask this. So be it.  Feel free to ignore this post with the knowledge that posting it has made me feel better.

So I just saw the first teaser for this movie.  Whose idea was it to cast Jim Carey as Count Olaf?  I'm not saying it's a bad thing-- just a bit weird.

In fact it might be a very good thing.  The dark humor in those books is so hard to translate to a good movie - making Carey the evil Count just might do the trick and make the tragedy funny without making it ridiculous.

So I'd like to get opinions on this as well, since the other thread made me think of it.

Why do you think that no one is trying to crack down on the piracy of TV shows?  Music, is the main focus. Movies are a huge deal, yeah, but we don't really do movies.  If we want to see a movie, we'll rent it or go the the theater.  
However we download shows that we don't have time to watch rather frequently.  Like, we missed the stargate season finale, and so we downloaded it.  
I'm most interested in what people like EUOL and Spriggan have to say about this, because they're so conservative in their views on this subject.  But I look at it as no big deal because we get the channel it's on, so we *could* watch it if we'd remembered.

Now what's important here is the two shows from premium cable channels that we download.  There's no way we have the money or the desire to pay for HBO and Showtime.
However- we really really like the shows, and when they come out on DVD we're going to buy them, which we wouldn't do if we'd not downloaded them, because we'd never have seen them.

So I've been wanting to create this thread for a while, and finally have a good topic to start with.   Keep in mind that this is a gross generalization by its very nature, and so obviously I'm stereotyping.  But just play along, 'cause it's fun.

My theory is that men (in general) are physically masochistic- enjoying rough dangerous sports and activities like football, rugby, rodeos, etc; and women are emotionally masochistic- enjoying sad movies, songs, books, things that make them cry.

Opinions?

(also, yes, Gemm, feel free to post some lyrics from the TMBG song if you want to get it out of your system.  Since I named the thread after the song on purpose, it's only fair.)