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<strong>Title:</strong> Alien<br/>
<strong>Year:</strong> 1979<br/>
<strong>Director:</strong> Ridley Scott<br/>
<strong>Plot:</strong> "In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a <a href=/films/17794/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Jaws</a>-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in <a href="/players/P___110579/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ridley Scott</a>'s sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the <i>Nostromo's</i> crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (<a href="/players/P____66091/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Tom Skerritt</a>) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (<a href="/players/P____34099/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>John Hurt</a>). Over the objections of Ripley (<a href="/players/P____75144/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Sigourney Weaver</a>), science officer Ash (<a href="/players/P____32962/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Ian Holm</a>) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide<br/>
<strong>Times Tagged:</strong> 120<br/>
<strong>Number of Lists:</strong> 126<br/>
<strong>Number of blog posts:</strong> 6<br/>
<strong>Number of discussion threads:</strong> 31<br/>
<strong>SpoutRating:</strong> 4<br/>
</td></tr></table>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:58:07 GMT</pubDate><spout:Title>Alien</spout:Title><spout:Year>1979</spout:Year><spout:Director>Ridley Scott</spout:Director><spout:Plot>"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a &lt;a href=/films/17794/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Jaws&lt;/a&gt;-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in &lt;a href="/players/P___110579/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Ridley Scott&lt;/a&gt;'s sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the &lt;i&gt;Nostromo's&lt;/i&gt; crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a nearby planet. Capt. Dallas' (&lt;a href="/players/P____66091/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Tom Skerritt&lt;/a&gt;) rescue team discovers a bizarre pod field, but things get even stranger when a face-hugging creature bursts out of a pod and attaches itself to Kane (&lt;a href="/players/P____34099/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;John Hurt&lt;/a&gt;). Over the objections of Ripley (&lt;a href="/players/P____75144/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Sigourney Weaver&lt;/a&gt;), science officer Ash (&lt;a href="/players/P____32962/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'&gt;Ian Holm&lt;/a&gt;) lets Kane back on the ship. The acid-blooded incubus detaches itself from an apparently recovered Kane, but an alien erupts from Kane's stomach and escapes. The alien starts stalking the humans, pitting Dallas and his crew (and cat) against a malevolent killing machine that also has a protector in the nefarious Company. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide</spout:Plot><spout:TimesTagged>120</spout:TimesTagged><spout:taglevel>Tag Target (&gt;10)</spout:taglevel><spout:Numberoflists>126</spout:Numberoflists><spout:NumberOfBlogPosts>6</spout:NumberOfBlogPosts><spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads>31</spout:NumberOfDiscussionThreads><spout:SpoutRating>4</spout:SpoutRating><spout:FilmCoverURL>http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u34482qd3hs.jpg</spout:FilmCoverURL><spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL>http://www.spout.com/films/Alien/853/default.aspx</spout:SpoutFilmDetailURL><spout:type>Film</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: 5 Film Franchises That Need a Genre Change</title>
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<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9325/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog on spout.com</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/27/2009 5:01:13 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Both are broadly classifiable as science fiction, but Alien is basically a horror flick and Aliens has all the conventions of a war film. That’s a pretty slick transition from one type of movie to another, especially since the switch was so immediate within the series. Most movie franchises don’t play with genre in such a way until they’ve gone through a number of sequels, and even then the series usually just simply takes its characters into outer space, a la Moonraker, Jason X and Leprechaun 4.
Genre jumping isn’t that easy, though, unless a franchise inhabits a whole universe in which to expand through. Like Star Wars, for example. Originally a film series, the Star Wars franchise spread out into novels, which has allowed for dips into the romance genre and now horror. That’s right, an upcoming novel by horror author Joe Schreiber, titled Deathtroopers, takes the Star Wars universe into frightening territory described by Schreiber as “in the vein of The Shining and Alien, with a little dose of William Gibson mixed in.”
So, if Star Wars can venture into the horror genre, what other movie franchises should attempt a genre jump? To toy with the idea, we’ve selected five film series in need of a change and suggested a possible redirection of genre for each.


Franchise: Indiana Jones
New Genre: Spy Film
With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the franchise already made a slight genre leap, turning an adventure series with minor fantasy elements into a lame science fiction tale. In a way, George Lucas pretty much did for Indy what past producers did with James Bond, Jason Voorhees and the Leprechaun. Only, this time, the outer space came to the characters instead of the other way around. That installment was quite a disappointment and now the only way to save the series is to head in a more serious direction and cut out all sci-fi/fantasy material altogether. Set in the 1960s, Indiana Jones and the Bay of Pigs will be more C.I.A. thriller than mystical archaeological adventure, but while Harrison Ford will get to bring a piece of his Jack Ryan portrayal into the franchise, it won’t completely abandon the elements that make it an Indiana Jones movie. He’ll still be in search of an ancient object, this one located in the Cuban rain forest, but he’ll also be battling Communists in more of a Jason Bourne and Daniel Craig as 007 style. No flying fridges, no swinging Shias and definitely no aliens. Just pure Cold War-era suspense.

Franchise: Harry Potter
New Genre: Teen Sex Comedy
The Harry Potter series has evolved throughout its novels and films to darker and more mature themes, but the next step, if Warner Bros. decides to continue the franchise after the last J.K. Rowling adaptation, is to regress into a lighter and more immature genre. Along the lines of the teen sex classic Zapped!, as well as the hilarious fantasies/screenplays of actor Patrick Stewart (as depicted on Extras), Harry Potter and the Clothes That Magically Fall Off, would involve Harry’s days at university, during which he uses his powers to see female classmates naked and win basketball games (because it’s an American “Muggle” college and so there’s no Quidditch team). But in the end, he realizes that he doesn’t need to use magic to win the girl of his dreams (really just his college fling since he later settles down with someone else) or the championship game.

Franchise: Ocean’s Eleven
New Genre: Western
There aren’t many places left for Steven Soderbergh to go with this series, which kicked off with a remake of the Rat Pack film Ocean’s 11. So, instead of moving ahead with Ocean’s Fourteen, he should move sideways and do a remake of Sergeants 3. Itself a loose remake of Gunga Din, the western comedy was the only other movie to feature all of the Rat Pack guys. Technically, this new version won’t be another sequel to Ocean’s Eleven, but it would surely be considered part of the franchise, as it will still star Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Affleck, Caan, Jemison, Qin, Gould, Reiner and Cheadle (sadly, Bernie Mac can not join them). Who wouldn’t love to see that cast playing tongue-in-cheek in the old west? In any genre those actors together would make an enjoyable piece of blockbuster fluff.

Franchise: Die Hard
New Genre: Marital Drama
Weren’t you disappointed to learn that John and Holly McClane are divorced by the fourth Die Hard installment, Live Free or Die Hard? After all, the original movie wouldn’t have happened were it not for the main character’s attempt to save their marriage. And the events of Die Hard 2 also pretty much revolve around the status of the relationship. So, let’s go back to the beginning and look into the cracks between the four action flicks. We know John can thwart terrorists in any given scenario, but how does he function on a normal day? How does he deal with the threats of separation and divorce when he doesn’t have the distraction of action and the benefit of coming off a hero? This prequel/concurrent drama, titled Die Slowly, would depict marital dysfunction and collapse similar to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Revolutionary Road, except that in this film, whenever the couple goes at it, the husband gets to shout, “I saved you from terrorists. Twice. Give me a f—ing break!”

Franchise: Friday the 13th 
New Genre: Romantic Comedy
We’ve seen Freddy Vs. Jason. Now it’s time for Jason , a romantic pairing of Jason Voorhees, of the Friday the 13th series, and Angela Baker, of Sleepaway Camp. The two meet-cute when they both attempt to kill the same camper, accidentally stabbing each other instead. Rather than uniting to kill more kids, the new lovers realize that they’ve only been slashing people because they’ve never been hit with Cupid’s arrow (Jason actually had encountered the little cherub once, but he mistakenly decapitated him, stole his arrow and used it to impale a naked teen). But the movie isn’t all happy lovey-dovey montages. Like all romantic comedies, this one features a misunderstanding, and here it comes about when Jason and Angela first become intimate and the former discovers that the latter is in fact a boy. The result, though, is tragically more Boys Don’t Cry than The Crying Game, and ends with Jason killing Angela and returning to his old murderous ways. It’s a harsh conclusion, sure, but some genre jumps must be expected to be only temporary. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:01:13 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/27/2009 5:01:13 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Both are broadly classifiable as science fiction, but Alien is basically a horror flick and Aliens has all the conventions of a war film. That’s a pretty slick transition from one type of movie to another, especially since the switch was so immediate within the series. Most movie franchises don’t play with genre in such a way until they’ve gone through a number of sequels, and even then the series usually just simply takes its characters into outer space, a la Moonraker, Jason X and Leprechaun 4.
Genre jumping isn’t that easy, though, unless a franchise inhabits a whole universe in which to expand through. Like Star Wars, for example. Originally a film series, the Star Wars franchise spread out into novels, which has allowed for dips into the romance genre and now horror. That’s right, an upcoming novel by horror author Joe Schreiber, titled Deathtroopers, takes the Star Wars universe into frightening territory described by Schreiber as “in the vein of The Shining and Alien, with a little dose of William Gibson mixed in.”
So, if Star Wars can venture into the horror genre, what other movie franchises should attempt a genre jump? To toy with the idea, we’ve selected five film series in need of a change and suggested a possible redirection of genre for each.


Franchise: Indiana Jones
New Genre: Spy Film
With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the franchise already made a slight genre leap, turning an adventure series with minor fantasy elements into a lame science fiction tale. In a way, George Lucas pretty much did for Indy what past producers did with James Bond, Jason Voorhees and the Leprechaun. Only, this time, the outer space came to the characters instead of the other way around. That installment was quite a disappointment and now the only way to save the series is to head in a more serious direction and cut out all sci-fi/fantasy material altogether. Set in the 1960s, Indiana Jones and the Bay of Pigs will be more C.I.A. thriller than mystical archaeological adventure, but while Harrison Ford will get to bring a piece of his Jack Ryan portrayal into the franchise, it won’t completely abandon the elements that make it an Indiana Jones movie. He’ll still be in search of an ancient object, this one located in the Cuban rain forest, but he’ll also be battling Communists in more of a Jason Bourne and Daniel Craig as 007 style. No flying fridges, no swinging Shias and definitely no aliens. Just pure Cold War-era suspense.

Franchise: Harry Potter
New Genre: Teen Sex Comedy
The Harry Potter series has evolved throughout its novels and films to darker and more mature themes, but the next step, if Warner Bros. decides to continue the franchise after the last J.K. Rowling adaptation, is to regress into a lighter and more immature genre. Along the lines of the teen sex classic Zapped!, as well as the hilarious fantasies/screenplays of actor Patrick Stewart (as depicted on Extras), Harry Potter and the Clothes That Magically Fall Off, would involve Harry’s days at university, during which he uses his powers to see female classmates naked and win basketball games (because it’s an American “Muggle” college and so there’s no Quidditch team). But in the end, he realizes that he doesn’t need to use magic to win the girl of his dreams (really just his college fling since he later settles down with someone else) or the championship game.

Franchise: Ocean’s Eleven
New Genre: Western
There aren’t many places left for Steven Soderbergh to go with this series, which kicked off with a remake of the Rat Pack film Ocean’s 11. So, instead of moving ahead with Ocean’s Fourteen, he should move sideways and do a remake of Sergeants 3. Itself a loose remake of Gunga Din, the western comedy was the only other movie to feature all of the Rat Pack guys. Technically, this new version won’t be another sequel to Ocean’s Eleven, but it would surely be considered part of the franchise, as it will still star Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Affleck, Caan, Jemison, Qin, Gould, Reiner and Cheadle (sadly, Bernie Mac can not join them). Who wouldn’t love to see that cast playing tongue-in-cheek in the old west? In any genre those actors together would make an enjoyable piece of blockbuster fluff.

Franchise: Die Hard
New Genre: Marital Drama
Weren’t you disappointed to learn that John and Holly McClane are divorced by the fourth Die Hard installment, Live Free or Die Hard? After all, the original movie wouldn’t have happened were it not for the main character’s attempt to save their marriage. And the events of Die Hard 2 also pretty much revolve around the status of the relationship. So, let’s go back to the beginning and look into the cracks between the four action flicks. We know John can thwart terrorists in any given scenario, but how does he function on a normal day? How does he deal with the threats of separation and divorce when he doesn’t have the distraction of action and the benefit of coming off a hero? This prequel/concurrent drama, titled Die Slowly, would depict marital dysfunction and collapse similar to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Revolutionary Road, except that in this film, whenever the couple goes at it, the husband gets to shout, “I saved you from terrorists. Twice. Give me a f—ing break!”

Franchise: Friday the 13th 
New Genre: Romantic Comedy
We’ve seen Freddy Vs. Jason. Now it’s time for Jason , a romantic pairing of Jason Voorhees, of the Friday the 13th series, and Angela Baker, of Sleepaway Camp. The two meet-cute when they both attempt to kill the same camper, accidentally stabbing each other instead. Rather than uniting to kill more kids, the new lovers realize that they’ve only been slashing people because they’ve never been hit with Cupid’s arrow (Jason actually had encountered the little cherub once, but he mistakenly decapitated him, stole his arrow and used it to impale a naked teen). But the movie isn’t all happy lovey-dovey montages. Like all romantic comedies, this one features a misunderstanding, and here it comes about when Jason and Angela first become intimate and the former discovers that the latter is in fact a boy. The result, though, is tragically more Boys Don’t Cry than The Crying Game, and ends with Jason killing Angela and returning to his old murderous ways. It’s a harsh conclusion, sure, but some genre jumps must be expected to be only temporary. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:The Onion AV Club recently featured a list of "5 unnecessary film sequels that are great anyway."  Which do you find the best?</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/Re_The_Onion_AV_Club_recently_featured_a_list_of/657/39516/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u34482qd3hs.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Movie_Polls/657/discussions.aspx'>Movie Polls</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/14/2009 10:19:51 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Wow, I'm the first one to vote for Before Sunset! I'll tell you why. The article in the paper I picked up didn't define their criteria further than the phrase "unnecessary film sequels that are great anyway" Here's what I think they mean by that. 1.  The original film must have been great 2.  After finishing watching the first movie you do not necessarily feel like a sequel is warrented or required to fulfill the full movie experience 3.  The sequel must be almost equally great So here's my reasoning. First of all, I just have not seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 so I can't say much about that. I absolutely LOVED Alien.  And after watching it you do not feel like a sequel is necessarily required.  As for Aliens, it was cool that since it was unnecessary it was in a different genre, more of sort of a straight up action movie than horror / suspence.  But I did not like it nearly as much. It is kind of the opposite for me with the Mad Max movies.  While I enjoyed the original I did not think it was really THAT great.  Also the same as before, the sequel was not necessary and it was in a different genre of sorts.  The Road Warrior is really more of a straight up action movie over Mad Max which had a lot more drama.  In fact it's maybe my favorite action movie.  But since I did not find the original as great, I didn't vote for it.  Is that fair?  Maybe not. As for the Godfather series, I'd say that both movies are fantastic!  But, maybe it's difficult for me to judge on this since as long as I've been alive I've known that there was a sequel, so the first time I watched the original I had that in mind.  And so to me the sequel didn't seem that uncessary.  I felt like I needed to know more.  You may disagree with me. You may disagree with me even more and say that the same is the case with Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, that in that case you also want to know what happens later!  Maybe it's because the movie was made so much later with such a different outcome than you would have assumed after watching the first movie that makes me love it.  Anyways, I think both of these films are fantastic.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:19:51 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Movie Polls</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/14/2009 10:19:51 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Wow, I'm the first one to vote for Before Sunset! I'll tell you why. The article in the paper I picked up didn't define their criteria further than the phrase "unnecessary film sequels that are great anyway" Here's what I think they mean by that. 1.  The original film must have been great 2.  After finishing watching the first movie you do not necessarily feel like a sequel is warrented or required to fulfill the full movie experience 3.  The sequel must be almost equally great So here's my reasoning. First of all, I just have not seen The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 so I can't say much about that. I absolutely LOVED Alien.  And after watching it you do not feel like a sequel is necessarily required.  As for Aliens, it was cool that since it was unnecessary it was in a different genre, more of sort of a straight up action movie than horror / suspence.  But I did not like it nearly as much. It is kind of the opposite for me with the Mad Max movies.  While I enjoyed the original I did not think it was really THAT great.  Also the same as before, the sequel was not necessary and it was in a different genre of sorts.  The Road Warrior is really more of a straight up action movie over Mad Max which had a lot more drama.  In fact it's maybe my favorite action movie.  But since I did not find the original as great, I didn't vote for it.  Is that fair?  Maybe not. As for the Godfather series, I'd say that both movies are fantastic!  But, maybe it's difficult for me to judge on this since as long as I've been alive I've known that there was a sequel, so the first time I watched the original I had that in mind.  And so to me the sequel didn't seem that uncessary.  I felt like I needed to know more.  You may disagree with me. You may disagree with me even more and say that the same is the case with Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, that in that case you also want to know what happens later!  Maybe it's because the movie was made so much later with such a different outcome than you would have assumed after watching the first movie that makes me love it.  Anyways, I think both of these films are fantastic.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Top 5 Ass-Kicking Heroine Films</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Top_5_Ass_Kicking_Heroine_Films/190/39317/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u34482qd3hs.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5353/default.aspx'>Risselada</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/190/discussions.aspx'>Top 5</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 1/9/2009 1:42:23 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Ripley from Alien and Selen from Underworld are a couple of my favorite ass kicking heroines. Also while searching for Underworld to link here, I saw the poster for the movie Underworld Beauty which I have not seen.  But it looks like it has an ass kicking woman on the front.  And it's directed by Seijun Suzuki so I'd definitely watch it.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:42:23 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Risselada</spout:postby><spout:postto>Top 5</spout:postto><spout:postdate>1/9/2009 1:42:23 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Ripley from Alien and Selen from Underworld are a couple of my favorite ass kicking heroines. Also while searching for Underworld to link here, I saw the poster for the movie Underworld Beauty which I have not seen.  But it looks like it has an ass kicking woman on the front.  And it's directed by Seijun Suzuki so I'd definitely watch it.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Weekly Theme for November 24: Cyborgs, Androids, &amp; Sexbots, Oh My!</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/Re_Weekly_Theme_for_November_24_Cyborgs_Androids/625/37597/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u34482qd3hs.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/140759/default.aspx'>mciocco</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Weekly_Theme/625/discussions.aspx'>Weekly Theme</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 11/24/2008 8:20:50 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Let's see here, some of my favorite robots that are a little too human, or at least striving to be that way: The Terminator - Of course, it's not a particularly good thing that he looked so human, but this is one of my favorite movies of all time, so there! Ash from  Alien and Bishop from  Aliens - I'd bet most folks had no idea that Ash was even a synthetic until he went crazy and Ripley knocked his head off and he started squirting out all that white milky bloodlike stuff.  And Bishop, of course, is not as crazy.  He even follows Asimov's first law of robotics! Speaking of Asimov's robots, how about Data from Star Trek:TNG - Perhaps not so much in the movies (though I do like First Contact), but Data's quest to become more human was one of my favorite things about TNG. Gigolo Joe from A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - Ok, fine, maybe Haley Joel Osment's character too, but Jude Law's performance was awesome. Major Motoko Kusanagi from  Ghost in the Shell (and it's various  sequels and  Anime series) - She's a strange one because as a full replacement cyborg, she has a lot of identity issues (if you replace your entire body with artificial parts, are you still you?), but she's a great character. I suppose that a few of the above are technically cyborgs, but whatever.  I still like them:p Oh, and I believe they're called "Fembots" not "Sexbots" (but I like where you're head's at.  I also like women of that... caliber!)<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:20:50 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>mciocco</spout:postby><spout:postto>Weekly Theme</spout:postto><spout:postdate>11/24/2008 8:20:50 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Let's see here, some of my favorite robots that are a little too human, or at least striving to be that way: The Terminator - Of course, it's not a particularly good thing that he looked so human, but this is one of my favorite movies of all time, so there! Ash from  Alien and Bishop from  Aliens - I'd bet most folks had no idea that Ash was even a synthetic until he went crazy and Ripley knocked his head off and he started squirting out all that white milky bloodlike stuff.  And Bishop, of course, is not as crazy.  He even follows Asimov's first law of robotics! Speaking of Asimov's robots, how about Data from Star Trek:TNG - Perhaps not so much in the movies (though I do like First Contact), but Data's quest to become more human was one of my favorite things about TNG. Gigolo Joe from A.I.: Artificial Intelligence - Ok, fine, maybe Haley Joel Osment's character too, but Jude Law's performance was awesome. Major Motoko Kusanagi from  Ghost in the Shell (and it's various  sequels and  Anime series) - She's a strange one because as a full replacement cyborg, she has a lot of identity issues (if you replace your entire body with artificial parts, are you still you?), but she's a great character. I suppose that a few of the above are technically cyborgs, but whatever.  I still like them:p Oh, and I believe they're called "Fembots" not "Sexbots" (but I like where you're head's at.  I also like women of that... caliber!)</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Best Horror film so far this year!!!</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_Best_Horror_film_so_far_this_year/222/36926/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u34482qd3hs.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/140759/default.aspx'>mciocco</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/222/discussions.aspx'>HORROR MOVIES 101</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 11/3/2008 11:27:53 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Let the Right One In starts playing in Philly next week, and I can't wait to see this movie.  I've heard nothing but raves.  I can only hope that high expectations don't ruin it for me:p As for foreign remakes where folks don't know about the originals that aren't Asian, I believe the recent  Quarantine was a remake of the Spanish film Rec. This probably doesn't count, but half the kills from Mario Bava's Bay of Blood were appropriated for  Friday the 13th (and I believe the initial sequel too).  Bava's Planet of the Vampires also bears a striking resemblance to the original  Alien in terms of basic plot (though I think Alien is by far the superior film).  Neither of those really counts, but it's interesting when you find these original influential movies.<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:27:53 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>mciocco</spout:postby><spout:postto>HORROR MOVIES 101</spout:postto><spout:postdate>11/3/2008 11:27:53 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Let the Right One In starts playing in Philly next week, and I can't wait to see this movie.  I've heard nothing but raves.  I can only hope that high expectations don't ruin it for me:p As for foreign remakes where folks don't know about the originals that aren't Asian, I believe the recent  Quarantine was a remake of the Spanish film Rec. This probably doesn't count, but half the kills from Mario Bava's Bay of Blood were appropriated for  Friday the 13th (and I believe the initial sequel too).  Bava's Planet of the Vampires also bears a striking resemblance to the original  Alien in terms of basic plot (though I think Alien is by far the superior film).  Neither of those really counts, but it's interesting when you find these original influential movies.</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Games that should be movies and High School Horror flicks</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Games_that_should_be_movies_and_High_School_Hor/190/36572/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u34482qd3hs.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/2470/default.aspx'>SkyPilot</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/190/discussions.aspx'>Top 5</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/22/2008 10:33:14 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> [quote user="mercurial"]  1.) Contra - Rambo meets Alien. Could be pretty fun.  [/quote] Merc, you're describing Aliens! I'm half kidding. A Contra movie could be fun! I'd like to see Nathan Fillion (Firefly) and... maybe Ryan Reynolds (Blade III)?<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:33:14 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SkyPilot</spout:postby><spout:postto>Top 5</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/22/2008 10:33:14 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>[quote user="mercurial"]  1.) Contra - Rambo meets Alien. Could be pretty fun.  [/quote] Merc, you're describing Aliens! I'm half kidding. A Contra movie could be fun! I'd like to see Nathan Fillion (Firefly) and... maybe Ryan Reynolds (Blade III)?</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:Games that should be movies and High School Horror flicks</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/Re_Games_that_should_be_movies_and_High_School_Hor/190/36566/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u34482qd3hs.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/119628/default.aspx'>mercurial</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Top_5/190/discussions.aspx'>Top 5</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/21/2008 11:46:49 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Video Games  1.) Contra - Rambo meets Alien. Could be pretty fun.  2.) Castevania - Killing Dracula. As long as Uwe Boll doesn't direct could be interesting.  3.) Kid Icarus - Kid with wings fighting ancient Greek monsters.  4.) Metroid - Badass chick pummeling aliens with an assortment of weapons.  5.) Legend of Zelda - The Sword in the Stone / Legend / Lord of the Rings.  <br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:46:49 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>mercurial</spout:postby><spout:postto>Top 5</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/21/2008 11:46:49 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Video Games  1.) Contra - Rambo meets Alien. Could be pretty fun.  2.) Castevania - Killing Dracula. As long as Uwe Boll doesn't direct could be interesting.  3.) Kid Icarus - Kid with wings fighting ancient Greek monsters.  4.) Metroid - Badass chick pummeling aliens with an assortment of weapons.  5.) Legend of Zelda - The Sword in the Stone / Legend / Lord of the Rings.  </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Re:The List!</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Heroines_in_Hollywood/Re_The_List/647/36482/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u34482qd3hs.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/5711/default.aspx'>Dr_Gor</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Heroines_in_Hollywood/647/discussions.aspx'>Heroines in Hollywood</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/18/2008 5:45:20 AM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong>    "There are only two things that scare me...   women and the police."   (Burt Reynolds in "White Lightning") ...    You gotta love those warrior women!   I thought the  "Kill Bill"  movies were EXCELLENT and I have a secret fantasy of Uma Thurman just beating the living shit out of me...   just as long as she doesn't pluck my eyeball out of my head or cut me in two with her fucking sword!   Other than that, it would all be good...   Another good one would be Sanahl Bergman as 'Valeria' in  Conan the Barbarian .   She kicks some serious butt in that movie.   Also, I think it is the same chick who plays Conan's Mom in that movie who also plays a boner inducing 'Viking Princess' in the excellent  The 13th Warrior .      Along these lines we must not forget Sigourney Weaver in the  Alien  series and Jamie Lee Curtis in  Halloween .   And, of course, Linda Hamilton in  The Terminator  series...    I could ramble on for hours on this subject but I will stop for now.   Thanks again for starting this wonderful group!                                                                                            &lt; GOR &gt;<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:45:20 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>Dr_Gor</spout:postby><spout:postto>Heroines in Hollywood</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/18/2008 5:45:20 AM</spout:postdate><spout:body>   "There are only two things that scare me...   women and the police."   (Burt Reynolds in "White Lightning") ...    You gotta love those warrior women!   I thought the  "Kill Bill"  movies were EXCELLENT and I have a secret fantasy of Uma Thurman just beating the living shit out of me...   just as long as she doesn't pluck my eyeball out of my head or cut me in two with her fucking sword!   Other than that, it would all be good...   Another good one would be Sanahl Bergman as 'Valeria' in  Conan the Barbarian .   She kicks some serious butt in that movie.   Also, I think it is the same chick who plays Conan's Mom in that movie who also plays a boner inducing 'Viking Princess' in the excellent  The 13th Warrior .      Along these lines we must not forget Sigourney Weaver in the  Alien  series and Jamie Lee Curtis in  Halloween .   And, of course, Linda Hamilton in  The Terminator  series...    I could ramble on for hours on this subject but I will stop for now.   Thanks again for starting this wonderful group!                                                                                            &amp;lt; GOR &amp;gt;</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: Leonardo DiCaprio and Ridley Scott to enter a BRAVE NEW WORLD</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/10/7/36013.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u34482qd3hs.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/9325/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/default.aspx'>SpoutBlog on spout.com</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 10/7/2008 4:01:26 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> io9 has confirmed an earlier report that Ridley Scott will direct an adaptation of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s classic dystopian future novel. Scott says that Leonardo DiCaprio approached him about adapting the book, and it looks like he will star in the film as well. This is exciting news; not only does it herald the return to science fiction for the director of Blade Runner and Alien, it also means that Leo, who is working on a live action adaptation of Akira, has two dystopian future projects in progress.
Brave New World is one of my favorite books, and Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies, for many of the same reasons, but I’m still having trouble getting excited about this news. Scott’s work on Blade Runner was amazing, but that was 26 years ago, and he hasn’t made a science fiction film since. I’d like to believe he can jump back in the saddle, but considering what he’s been up to for the past two and a half decades, I have my doubts. While the quality of Scott’s filmography is admittedly debatable, it’s safe to say he’s made some pretty terrible movies, Kingdom of Heaven and A Good Year come to mind. Even his films that have some potential end up falling short. American Gangster, while not a bad movie, felt like only like a sufficient execution of a script Scorsese would have passed over in the nineties.
Even if Scott can get his Blade Runner mojo working again for Brave New World, it could still be really bad. Blade Runner and Brave New World are very different stories, set in very different worlds. Blade Runner took cues from Neuromancer and the dystopian stories of Philip K. Dick to create a dingy future noir, complete with brutal violence and assassinations. Brave New World, on the other hand, takes place in a world where technological advances and a strict caste system have sanitized society. People are conditioned to desire nothing more than their predetermined station in life, dutifully ingesting a drug called soma to dull any inappropriate desires.
While Blade Runner used rich visuals to convey the bleak state of the world, Brave New World features nearly unfilmable social situations. Family structures have been abolished and children are grown in futuristic farms. Sex is nothing but a social activity for the sterile citizens, and they are encouraged to start young. Bernard, an agitator who has the courage to suspect that something is wrong with this way of life, begins to be slightly disturbed by constantly seeing groups of children having orgies. How are you going to film that, Ridley?
Brave New World also differs from Blade Runner in that there is much less violence. There’s a riot scene that could be pretty cool, but it’s safe to say that the action would look nothing like Black Hawk Down. In one scene a child is beaten senseless as part of a ritual. In another, a man flies into a rage and beats a woman he has unrequited feelings for, in front of a crowd of on-lookers. Having not been exposed to violence in their sanitized lives, this scene sends them into a frenzy, which of course results in a massive orgy.
The Brave New World film will either be the most ambitious porno in history, or it will be scrubbed of its controversial content. I’m not sure which would be worse.
Of course, on the page Brave New World reads nothing like porn –– on the contrary, it’s satire. Huxley, a Brit, was inspired to write it after seeing what he viewed as degenerate American youth culture and runaway industrialization on a trip to the States. It’s a dark comedy with no punch lines. In some ways it’s more similar to Terry Gilliam’s Brazil than to Blade Runner. Which raises another problem: Ridley Scott is an extremely serious filmmaker. While Nicolas Cage attempts to get some laughs in Matchstick Men, the heart of that film, and all Scott’s films, is undeniably earnest. In Brazil, on the other hand, we’re encouraged to laugh at the future, despite the fact that it’s soul-crushing and bleak. Huxley had a similar goal in mind.
I do have some hope for DiCaprio’s involvement, however. His acting skills have steadily improved over the years, and the fact that he’s taken the initiative to produce both Brave New World and Akira adaptations is a good sign. We haven’t seen a lot from Leo the Producer, but there are more interesting projects on the horizon. In Atari, set for a 2009 release, Leo will play Nolan Bushnell, godfather on the video game industry. He’s also producing The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Scorsese will direct, and Leo will play the budding young president. Sounds good. I wonder if it’s too late for Leo to offer Brave New World to Scorsese? Now that would be a dystopian science fiction movie. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog<br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:01:26 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SpoutBlog</spout:postby><spout:postto>SpoutBlog on spout.com</spout:postto><spout:postdate>10/7/2008 4:01:26 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>io9 has confirmed an earlier report that Ridley Scott will direct an adaptation of Brave New World, Aldous Huxley’s classic dystopian future novel. Scott says that Leonardo DiCaprio approached him about adapting the book, and it looks like he will star in the film as well. This is exciting news; not only does it herald the return to science fiction for the director of Blade Runner and Alien, it also means that Leo, who is working on a live action adaptation of Akira, has two dystopian future projects in progress.
Brave New World is one of my favorite books, and Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies, for many of the same reasons, but I’m still having trouble getting excited about this news. Scott’s work on Blade Runner was amazing, but that was 26 years ago, and he hasn’t made a science fiction film since. I’d like to believe he can jump back in the saddle, but considering what he’s been up to for the past two and a half decades, I have my doubts. While the quality of Scott’s filmography is admittedly debatable, it’s safe to say he’s made some pretty terrible movies, Kingdom of Heaven and A Good Year come to mind. Even his films that have some potential end up falling short. American Gangster, while not a bad movie, felt like only like a sufficient execution of a script Scorsese would have passed over in the nineties.
Even if Scott can get his Blade Runner mojo working again for Brave New World, it could still be really bad. Blade Runner and Brave New World are very different stories, set in very different worlds. Blade Runner took cues from Neuromancer and the dystopian stories of Philip K. Dick to create a dingy future noir, complete with brutal violence and assassinations. Brave New World, on the other hand, takes place in a world where technological advances and a strict caste system have sanitized society. People are conditioned to desire nothing more than their predetermined station in life, dutifully ingesting a drug called soma to dull any inappropriate desires.
While Blade Runner used rich visuals to convey the bleak state of the world, Brave New World features nearly unfilmable social situations. Family structures have been abolished and children are grown in futuristic farms. Sex is nothing but a social activity for the sterile citizens, and they are encouraged to start young. Bernard, an agitator who has the courage to suspect that something is wrong with this way of life, begins to be slightly disturbed by constantly seeing groups of children having orgies. How are you going to film that, Ridley?
Brave New World also differs from Blade Runner in that there is much less violence. There’s a riot scene that could be pretty cool, but it’s safe to say that the action would look nothing like Black Hawk Down. In one scene a child is beaten senseless as part of a ritual. In another, a man flies into a rage and beats a woman he has unrequited feelings for, in front of a crowd of on-lookers. Having not been exposed to violence in their sanitized lives, this scene sends them into a frenzy, which of course results in a massive orgy.
The Brave New World film will either be the most ambitious porno in history, or it will be scrubbed of its controversial content. I’m not sure which would be worse.
Of course, on the page Brave New World reads nothing like porn –– on the contrary, it’s satire. Huxley, a Brit, was inspired to write it after seeing what he viewed as degenerate American youth culture and runaway industrialization on a trip to the States. It’s a dark comedy with no punch lines. In some ways it’s more similar to Terry Gilliam’s Brazil than to Blade Runner. Which raises another problem: Ridley Scott is an extremely serious filmmaker. While Nicolas Cage attempts to get some laughs in Matchstick Men, the heart of that film, and all Scott’s films, is undeniably earnest. In Brazil, on the other hand, we’re encouraged to laugh at the future, despite the fact that it’s soul-crushing and bleak. Huxley had a similar goal in mind.
I do have some hope for DiCaprio’s involvement, however. His acting skills have steadily improved over the years, and the fact that he’s taken the initiative to produce both Brave New World and Akira adaptations is a good sign. We haven’t seen a lot from Leo the Producer, but there are more interesting projects on the horizon. In Atari, set for a 2009 release, Leo will play Nolan Bushnell, godfather on the video game industry. He’s also producing The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Martin Scorsese will direct, and Leo will play the budding young president. Sounds good. I wonder if it’s too late for Leo to offer Brave New World to Scorsese? Now that would be a dystopian science fiction movie. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog</spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Post: The Eagle Eye Challenge: Rules and Winners</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmgaming/The_Eagle_Eye_Challenge_Rules_and_Winners/563/35388/1/ShowPost.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div><img align='left' src='http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/u34482qd3hs.jpg' hspace='10' style='height:80px;' />
<strong>Post By:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/members/2470/default.aspx'>SkyPilot</a><br/>
<strong>Post To:</strong> <a href='http://www.spout.com/groups/Filmgaming/563/discussions.aspx'>Filmgaming</a><br/>
<strong>Post Date:</strong> 9/22/2008 2:39:08 PM<br/>
<strong>Body:</strong> Eagle Eye Challenge &amp; Giveaway Spout's giving away one more Eagle Eye swag package on Monday morning. The winner will get a flash drive that's also a pen, like James Bond spygear!  (Sorry, Q screwed up -- the flash drive's still good, but no pen.) You'll also receive a zip-up sweatshirt and t-shirt (see pics at the bottom).   How do you play? Each day, Monday through Friday, we'll post a list of ten movies. You must figure out how the movies are connected. For example, you'll see the "FRIDAY Eagle Eye Challenge" thread in the Filmgaming group. The challenge post will look something like this: Eagle Eye (2008) (1)  Phone Booth (2003) (2) The Last King of Scotland (2006) (3) Braveheart (1995) (4) Signs (2002) (5) Alien (1979) (6)  Ghostbusters (1984) (7) Space Jam (1996) (8) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (9) Chinatown (1974)  Add your answers to the challenge post thread. Your list should look something like this:   1. Phones  2. Forest Whitaker 3. Scotland (or Scottish) 4. Mel Gibson 5. Aliens  6. Sigourney Weaver 7. Bill Murray 8. Cartoons (or people and cartoons) 9. Detective (or private detective)  Your submissions will be accepted until 9:00 am EST on Monday morning. We'll post the winner 10:00 am. Thanks to everyone for playing!  There will only be one winner, so if more than one person gets all the answers right, we decide the winner randomly.  How do you know if you've won? The winner will be posted in this thread, so check back here to see if you've won. Just a friendly reminder that the contest isn't happening in this thread-- respond to the Friday thread with your Friday answers.  Links  FRIDAY Eagle Eye Challenge  THURSDAY Eagle Eye Challenge  WEDNESDAY Eagle Eye Challenge  TUESDAY Eagle Eye Challenge  MONDAY Eagle Eye Challenge   All ages are welcome to play. An individual can only win once during the week. All residents of US and Canada are eligible. Our contest rules (see fine print below) apply unless otherwise noted in this post.  Have fun, and good luck!         1. DESCRIPTION OF PARTICIPATION The Promotion will begin on a set date. Spout LLC ("Company") reserves the right to end the Promotion at any time.  The Company will post notice at Spout.com when the Promotion has ended. HOW TO PARTICIPATE: If you are an existing member or become a new member, you are eligible to earn the Reward by following the rules of the contest or promotion. 2. REWARD Participant will receive a reward as was outlined in the contest or promotion instructions and rules.   In order for participant to be eligible to receive the Reward, the participant must follow the rules and instructions of the contest or promotion. The participants receiving the Reward will be notified by the email address through which they are subscribed to Spout.com. Participants may waive their right to receive the Reward. 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</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:39:08 GMT</pubDate><spout:postby>SkyPilot</spout:postby><spout:postto>Filmgaming</spout:postto><spout:postdate>9/22/2008 2:39:08 PM</spout:postdate><spout:body>Eagle Eye Challenge &amp;amp; Giveaway Spout's giving away one more Eagle Eye swag package on Monday morning. The winner will get a flash drive that's also a pen, like James Bond spygear!  (Sorry, Q screwed up -- the flash drive's still good, but no pen.) You'll also receive a zip-up sweatshirt and t-shirt (see pics at the bottom).   How do you play? Each day, Monday through Friday, we'll post a list of ten movies. You must figure out how the movies are connected. For example, you'll see the "FRIDAY Eagle Eye Challenge" thread in the Filmgaming group. The challenge post will look something like this: Eagle Eye (2008) (1)  Phone Booth (2003) (2) The Last King of Scotland (2006) (3) Braveheart (1995) (4) Signs (2002) (5) Alien (1979) (6)  Ghostbusters (1984) (7) Space Jam (1996) (8) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (9) Chinatown (1974)  Add your answers to the challenge post thread. Your list should look something like this:   1. Phones  2. Forest Whitaker 3. Scotland (or Scottish) 4. Mel Gibson 5. Aliens  6. Sigourney Weaver 7. Bill Murray 8. Cartoons (or people and cartoons) 9. Detective (or private detective)  Your submissions will be accepted until 9:00 am EST on Monday morning. We'll post the winner 10:00 am. Thanks to everyone for playing!  There will only be one winner, so if more than one person gets all the answers right, we decide the winner randomly.  How do you know if you've won? The winner will be posted in this thread, so check back here to see if you've won. Just a friendly reminder that the contest isn't happening in this thread-- respond to the Friday thread with your Friday answers.  Links  FRIDAY Eagle Eye Challenge  THURSDAY Eagle Eye Challenge  WEDNESDAY Eagle Eye Challenge  TUESDAY Eagle Eye Challenge  MONDAY Eagle Eye Challenge   All ages are welcome to play. An individual can only win once during the week. All residents of US and Canada are eligible. Our contest rules (see fine print below) apply unless otherwise noted in this post.  Have fun, and good luck!         1. DESCRIPTION OF PARTICIPATION The Promotion will begin on a set date. Spout LLC ("Company") reserves the right to end the Promotion at any time.  The Company will post notice at Spout.com when the Promotion has ended. HOW TO PARTICIPATE: If you are an existing member or become a new member, you are eligible to earn the Reward by following the rules of the contest or promotion. 2. REWARD Participant will receive a reward as was outlined in the contest or promotion instructions and rules.   In order for participant to be eligible to receive the Reward, the participant must follow the rules and instructions of the contest or promotion. The participants receiving the Reward will be notified by the email address through which they are subscribed to Spout.com. Participants may waive their right to receive the Reward. In the event of such waiver or the disqualification of a participant, such participant will not be entitled to the Reward. Reward has no cash value. If multiple entries for the contest or promotion are received, only the first entry, as determined by Spout.com in its sole discretion, will receive evaluation or reward. 3. ELIGIBILITY AND LIMITATIONS Participants must be at least 18 years old, legal residents of one of the 50 United States or Washington D.C. and members of the Spout.com community. Individuals who use the contest or promotion webpage to enroll themselves in the contest or promotion multiple times using different email addresses will be disqualified. In case of dispute, the authorized account holder of the email address submitted to Spout.com will be considered the participant.  The authorized email account subscriber is deemed to be the natural person who is assigned an email address by an Internet-access provider, an online-service provider or another organization that is responsible for assigning email addresses or the domain associated with the submitted email address. Employees of Company and members of the immediate family of any such persons are not eligible to participate and win. The term "immediate family" includes spouses, siblings, parents, children, grandparents, and grandchildren, whether as "in-laws," or by current or past marriage(s), remarriage(s), adoption, co-habitation or other family extension, and any other persons residing at the same household whether or not related.  Eligibility regarding the satisfaction of meeting the Reward requirements shall be at the sole discretion of Spout.com.  Management reserves the right to refuse a Reward to anyone at anytime.  If you have questions regarding your eligibility, please contact us.  Promotion is void where prohibited by law.  4. DISCLAIMER Company disclaims all liability for the inability of a participant to complete any information or to deliver the information due to equipment malfunction, busy lines, inadvertent disconnections, acts beyond Company's control, or otherwise. Company disclaims all liability for any delays, misdelivery, loss, or failure in the delivery of any item sent by mail, courier, express, electronic transmission, or other delivery method. 5. PUBLICITY By participating, all participants grant Company exclusive permission to use their names, characters, photographs, voices, and likenesses in connection with this Promotion, including without limitation publishing such information in the Spout.com newsletter, and waive any claims to royalty, right, or remuneration for such use. 6. GENERAL RELEASE By participating in the Promotion participants release Company and each of its respective affiliated companies, directors, officers, employees, representatives, partners and agents from any liability whatsoever for any claims, costs, injuries, losses or damages of any kind arising out of or in connection with the Promotion or with the acceptance or use of any Reward (including, without limitation, claims, costs, injuries, losses or damages related to personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction of property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation or portrayal in a false light). COMPANY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO CANCEL THE PROMOTION AT ANY TIME IF THE WEBSITE IS INFECTED BY A VIRUS, THE WEBSITE IS HACKED OR THE INTEGRITY OF THE PROMOTION IS COMPROMISED IN ANY WAY. 7. DECISIONS Company reserves the right to disqualify any participant and may refuse to give or revoke the Rewards to anyone who is ineligible, has violated any of these terms or conditions, gained or sought to gain unfair advantage in participating in the Promotion, or used fraudulent means to earn the Reward. Return of Reward notification as undeliverable may result in disqualification of the participant. Further, Company will resolve any disputes or ambiguities concerning these terms and conditions and Company's decisions concerning such disputes shall be final. All decisions will be made by Company and are final. Company reserves the right in its sole discretion to suspend, modify, or terminate the Promotion. 9. COMPLIANCE WITH LAW AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.  As a condition to participating in this Promotion, each participant agrees that any and all disputes that cannot be resolved between the parties, and all causes of action arising out of or in connection with this Promotion shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action, exclusively before a court located in the State of Michigan having competent jurisdiction, which court shall apply the laws of the State of Michigan, without regard to the conflicts of laws principles thereof. By entering the Promotion both parties hereby waive any and all right to trial by jury. </spout:body></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Classic</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Classic/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/Classic/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>Classic</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 816</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 312</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 1453</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:action</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/action/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/action/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>action</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 319</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 111</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 460</br><br/>
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      <title>Spout Tag:horror</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/horror/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/horror/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>horror</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 261</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 110</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 347</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:01:29 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>261</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>110</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>347</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:scary</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/scary/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/scary/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>scary</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 155</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 104</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 197</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:30:07 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>155</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>104</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>197</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:sci-fi</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/sci-fi/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/sci-fi/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>sci-fi</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 217</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 102</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 375</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:33:53 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>217</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>102</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>375</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:masterpiece</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/masterpiece/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/masterpiece/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>masterpiece</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 226</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 101</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 215</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:28:28 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>226</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>101</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>215</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:adventure</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/adventure/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/adventure/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>adventure</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 228</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 95</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 368</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:49:03 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>228</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>95</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>368</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:Best</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/Best/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/Best/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>Best</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 78</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 91</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 122</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:01:38 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>78</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>91</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>122</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:film</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/film/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/film/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>film</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 657</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 82</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 190</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:35:41 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>657</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>82</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>190</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:intense</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/intense/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/intense/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>intense</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 162</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 81</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 249</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:07:45 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>162</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>81</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>249</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:escape</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/escape/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/escape/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>escape</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 2868</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 76</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 279</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:51:44 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>2868</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>76</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>279</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:thriller</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/thriller/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/thriller/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>thriller</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 201</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 74</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 247</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:01:30 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>201</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>74</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>247</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:cult</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/cult/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/cult/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>cult</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 449</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 71</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 162</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:20:54 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>449</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>71</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>162</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:personal-classic</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/personal-classic/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/personal-classic/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>personal-classic</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 180</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 64</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 274</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:21:00 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>180</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>64</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>274</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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      <title>Spout Tag:favorite</title>
      <link>http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/favorite/MemberTagFilms.aspx</link><description><![CDATA[<div style='display:block;height:120px;width:400px;font:10px/10px Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;'><a href='/members/0/tags/favorite/MemberTagFilms.aspx'>favorite</a>
<strong><br/> Number of films tagged:</strong> 85</br><br/>
<strong>Number of people who tagged:</strong> 62</br><br/>
<strong>Number of times used:</strong> 127</br><br/>
</div>]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:22:58 GMT</pubDate><spout:numFilms>85</spout:numFilms><spout:numPeople>62</spout:numPeople><spout:timesUsed>127</spout:timesUsed><spout:type>Tag</spout:type></item>
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