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I'm looking forward to actually seeing this
http://www.sfx.co.uk/2013/07/21/comic-con-2013-doctor-who-50th-anniversary-hits-hall-h/
instead of simply reading somebody's write-up on it!

I can't remember who pointed it out, but wasn't the climax of Dark Knight returns essentially an homage to the 66 movie? - "some days, you just can't get rid of a bomb"

Charlie Brooker made the reference on his End of Year Wipe.

Just in case it hasn't already been mentioned on the forum, BBC red button ("Teletext" to my fellow old-skoolers) has stated The Daleks are returning for the 50th Anniversary special, as are the Zygons. Not so excited at the reveal of Gavin and Stacey's Joanne Page being in it but quite excited to see "...Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt as the Doctor" being written for all to see.

HUZZAH!

How much are 2000AD paying Phil Collins to promote their material then?

I like Nightmare before Christmas too but Burton had little to do with it other than character designs and plaster his name all over it.

and the fact that he wrote the entire plot.

Here's a challenge just for you, Silent_Bomber. It's an easy challenge, so don't worry about it too much.
Pick a film. Pick any film you can think of. Now make a mental note of the plot.
You've got what- 4, 5 sentences in your head now?
By all means, Burton would have given them character designs and the plot.  But the person behind the screenplay is what fleshed that rough, small plot out. Then the director would have done a lot. Acting as producer, Burton may have popped up here and there and said "Change that line, switch that scene to here" but saying somebody wrote "the entire plot" can prove to be a huge exaggeration on what they actually did towards the finished article.

I like Nightmare before Christmas too but Burton had little to do with it other than character designs and plaster his name all over it.

The sheer joy of seeing I'm not the only person that says this!
He's (Burton) fallen into something of a habit with making a bad film and following it with an animated followup as if to try and win back kudos by shouting "You like Nightmare Before Christmas- love this!"

Who advises against giving dogs bones? I was alway told it was fine by this old man. He played one, he played knick-knack on my thumb.

Somebody told me a few years back you're not supposed to do it even though we used to give the family dog bones from the butcher. Just Googled to for you, turns out the safety depends on what kind of bone it is and apparently they shouldn't have been in the oven.
http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2010/05/19/caution-bones-can-kill-your-dog-find-out-which-ones-are-safe.aspx

I've been dog-sitting my friends' chocolate labrador while they've been off on their honeymoon. It may interest some of you to know that its shite is white. I don't have any solid statistical data, but it seems to be quite a rare phenomenon these days.

Have you been giving the dog bones? I always put the disappearance of white mess down to people no longer giving dogs bones because you're advised against doing that nowadays.

Cheers for the link, pal, but I don't really watch anything longer than a music video online due to my limited internet allowance and I could also do with a better laptop when it even comes to watching those.

I stopped watching because I was temporarily without a TV; I've made a point of not looking into what's been going on and asked Mardroid in another thread to let me know if it's worth getting the boxset once the show finishes. If the two of you end up saying it fails come the end, I'll just read up online to see where the story went instead.

[James C]

Turns out James C and his mates had better imaginations and games than me and my mates. TordelBack- you have to remember this would have been late 80s to around 90/91 maybe; we'd only ever watched the ITV version of Aliens and Apone's best lines would have been cut because of it! Mister Pops has me wondering about Turtles. I remember playing with the toys at home but never pretending to be them in the playground, which is odd. More interested in your always being the villain though because I remember a short story we had to focus on years later (GCSE level) and the lad in this story that grew up to be quite a dangerous individual in later life had always wanted to be the villain in the games they played as kids. Just throwing that out there for you to think about...

If I could go back and be Hudson, I would. Nobody would get the director's cut "Pointy sticks" etc reference, but I'd know.

You wanted to be the baddie in the games you played growing up?!
No, everybody wanted to be Hicks and do the "Eat this!" line. I think we struggled with all the other names once Hicks had been taken.

Now you've got me wondering if only kids from Liverpool wanted to grow up with his physique! To those of you that didn't- come on! He picked up a car in Twins! A car! Seriously- when I was at a young age, Scwarzenegger was the only man you were willing to believe could come out of a fight with your dad the better man!

Arnie was the one who got the most off Terminator but 'my' generation had Beihn as Reese and Hicks to have as big screen heroes! Everybody wanted to be Hicks when you were playing Aliens. I think- when young- a lot of the love you have for Scwarzenegger isn't just because of the films but because you look at him and think "I want to be that muscley when I grow up."