[KC]

I was watching some movie that aspires to a "B" rating; it's an ice age, no-one apparently saw this coming, and our heros are cold. What do they burn first, in a room full of wood furniture and fixturing?

Books.

Of course, the effiminate nerd whose library is being burnt doesn't really seem to mind, and throws "Paradise Lost" onto the top of the pyre. He, and they, don't deserve it, and certainly never read it.


I know, I know; it's only Hollywood, and they are too stupid to know better, but still...

KC

[Orthonym]

Awright, what's the name of the movie, is it in the theatres now, is it on TV/cable/tape, etc etc.

[WonderNine]

Sounds great! I don't even bother to watch TV or movies anymore if they don't make an attempt to insult my intelligence at least every few minutes. The ones that only annoy me a couple of times during the course of the movie really bother me because I get the impression that they're trying to be serious.

[dinosaur]

The big question is were the babes hot? Or for the ladies, how hunky was the star? The good thing about movies straight to cable is you can watch them with the sound off in case you`re an insomniac and don`t want to disturb the family. At 3 a.m. even with 400 channels on the satellite usually the choices are paid programming, yak throwing from Tibet or shudder college baseball. :barf:

[KC]

Orthonym:
I dont know what the flick called itself. It was on, I think, SciFi.

There was a little gunplay, but of the usual clueless, never-fired-a-real-gun movie-maker variety.

[Mark Tyson]

How fitting that a B grade movie celebrates the destruction of literature.

Destroying television was one of the few sensible things the Taliban did (I'm joking, people, joking).

[Doug444]

I caught the last half or so last night. Title was "Ice". The one cool point was where a nurse had to use an smg (sorry, I'm not that into military arms so I'm not sure which) to dispatch a BG and then stood there saying "I killed him. I killed him." sort of in a stupor. Female lawyer (who didn't know how to cock her smg) deadpans "Self-defense. I defend these cases all the time", or words to that effect.

Sadly, I've seen worse. And much better.

[4v50 Gary]

And no one knew how to make a shelter so they wouldn't have to burn books? Gee, even if it's a trashy book (Danielle Steele, anything on the Kennedys, Das Kapital, Mao's little red book, anything by Michael Moore or his spiritual cousin, Michael Bellesiles), it makes mighty fine toilet paper since you can't get leaves.

[gun-fucious]

ooooh!

giant scorpions vs AR15s!:
http://www.scifi.com/bugs/

Antonio Sabato Jr. and Angie Everhart must save humanity from giant insects.
— Saturday, Sept. 6, at 9/8C

more fun with heavy metal:
http://www.scifi.com/tremors/postcards/images/postcard_alwaysaim.jpg
http://www.scifi.com/tremors/characters/burt_gummer.html
He is not actually a nut. He is, however, a gun nut. "You have nothing to fear but fear itself — and running out of ammo," he has said. He can talk endlessly, and with first-hand experience, about any firearm from a CO2 paintball rifle to a .50 caliber anti-aircraft naval deck gun (a very effective tool for Shrieker eradication.) A hard-and-fast adherent to rules and regulations (his own, not the government's), Burt will never point a firearm at any human. Never. He's fanatical about gun safety.