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"What, you were scared of nuclear war? Seriously dad? That kept you awake at night? HAHAAHAHAAAAA! ... you're old."

There's always Stand By Me, It and Threads to fall back on at least. Never did me any harm.

Stand by Me is a fucking good call. Threads... be interesting to see their reaction to it - I doubt they'd be as terrified by it as our generation was.

But is it a strong enough film without the added appeal of nostalgia for those very films?

Very good question, and one I cannot answer, as the nostalgia was good enough for me.

If you ask me it'd be better to cut out the middle man and go straight to ET. Do kids really distinguish between old films and period films anyway?

My two do. It's a struggle to get them to watch anything they would call 'old'! Of course, when they do, they usually love it, but getting them to watch it is a task.

I really didn't like Super 8 for precisely that reason. Felt like a very deliberate, calculated, and as a result charmless pastiche of 1980s Amblin movies.

Heh. Fair dos.
I can't wait to make my boys sit down and watch it - I'm hoping it'll be a gateway drug into E.T., Flight of the Navigator and The Goonies.

[Super 8]

Super 8. Not so much a movie as a love letter to the late '70s/early '80s. Loved it.

He ain't dead yet, but this is pure fucking class:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21082519

The Up Goer Five:

An explanation of the Saturn V moon rocket that only uses the 1000 most commonly used English words.

Seriously though, that is the most beautiful man made object ever. It makes me proud to be a human.

The wonderful Mrs Mikey passed her Phd viva yesterday with no corrections and has been advised to contact some publishers about getting it, er, published as a book. She completed it not only on time, but also while managing to organise and look after her da who had a massive stroke and became wheelchair bound two months after she started it. Arsom. I'm so happy for her and proud too! Plus on Thursday it was five years since she was diagnosed with cancer, plus I  finally got the revisions on a paper from my project done and resubmitted to the journal.

We celebrated with cocktails 

It's been a great week!

M.

Not bad for a girl! ;-)

Where is that?

You may regret asking...
https://forums.2000adonline.com/index.php/topic,34474.0.html

A broken light? Boring. I assumed, from the title of the thread, that you'd run into unspecified difficulties whilst indulging in sexual intercourse with an extinct bird endowed with an especially voluminous cloaca.

Naturally enough.

Well *I* have missed you, Lee!

Prometheus was going for 9 quid in HMV recently.

I woulda bought it, but my 100 Euro worth of HMV vouchers werent accepted for some villainous reason.
And its closed down.

You dodged a bullet there.

Tru dat.

Hilarious to see the news 'warning' of 5cm of snow in Englandshire... Ohhhh! A whole 5cm!? Scary..!

Cheese.

I had to make an effort to suspend my disbelief about why they couldn't just fly the vaccine to mega city 2 instead of rolling across the curst[you heard] earth in a killdozer odyssey...still made a great yarn.

The Death Belt, apparently... Although why they could not fly over or around it is not explained...

Fancy the Wagner session.

Anyone know if the man himself signs afterwards as I'd love to get my CF1 signed

I'm sure he will. John's a lovely guy.