h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

For some odd reason I decided to look at your page.
You rock! I wish I'd thought of that instead of some lame poem.
Fight Club is on my All Time Favorite Top Ten List.
Is amazes me how many people haven't seen it.

It is a rare a movie speaks to me.

Thanks. You must have looked at my page right after I put it on there. Have you read the book?

Fight Club was the best film of last year. Although most of America missed the point of it entirely. It's my second favorite next to "BRAZIL".

The reason so many people don't want to see it is because they don't want to be challenged. They would rather watch Austin Powers over and over and over and over and over. And they think that's comedy

The same people that hated Fight Club loved American Beauty. That is something that I just don't understand. David Fincher is the best director in hollywood....and Ed Norton rules.

I just told my fiancee to rent Brazil, and we're gonna try to watch it tonight.

I hope it's the widescreen version. With the standard version you miss out on a lot of beautiful camerawork.Ther are also 3 different "cuts" of it.

Actually, we rented American Beauty and Brazil.
We didn't get a chance to watch them, though.
I know Brazil is not the widescreen version. They only had one copy at the movie store, and well, that's the one we got!
Comments forthcoming soon!

oh-kee-doh-kee.

Well, another night we couldn't watch them. We are driving up to see my new niece.
Maybe tommorow!

Well, we had a chance to watch American Beauty. We started watching Brazil, and I looked at my fiancee and told him I wasn't drunk enough yet. Then, I got drunk, and like most women wanted to go to sleep. Ahhhh....
What to say? That movie was painful. It hurt me inside to watch it. Why does it seem that all discoveries of self (in movies) end up with terrifying clashes of will and society? Is it amplified in the movies? Or are those so bold you read about in headlines who tell you about the insane person that did this or that?
I think when I watched that movie, I could identify someone in my life for every character. I think I could identify a little of myself in every character.
Ah well, what did you think?

American Beauty is one of those films that I realy cant say that I "like". Its like saying that you "enjoyed" Schindlers list. Sure, it was an excellent movie,but I didn't like it. (I think that makes sense). It was painfull....but that's what made it so good. I can't feally say too much about it since I haven't seen it since December.

I understand about Brazil.....It's difficult to get into. excuse the language but that movie is pretty f****d up. What else would you expect from the guy who made all of the animations for Monty Python?

I've gotta watch it. It's due back tomorrow.
I assume you are not British.....
Yes, no, half-n-half?

Nope. U.S.A. Massachussetts actually. You?

Tennessee...
Yep. I know! Don't say it!

Iknow nothing about Tennessee.

book reccomendations (from the other thread....)

My taste tends to run towards sci-fi more than anything else.

If you are looking to invest a good deal of effort in a book I would say to read Tolkiens "The Lord of the Rings". That's what I'm trying to finish right now. It's a slow read.

The "Dune books by Frank Herbert are incredible.

My favorite book is called "The Sun, the Moon and the Stars" by Steven Brust. Its in the science fiction section though there is no SF to be found in it.

Umberto Eco is another of my favorites. "The Name of the Rose"..."Fouccault's Pendulum"..."The Island of the Day Before". You need to use your brain with his stuff.

Anything by Terry Pratchett......"Good Omens"....."Reaper Man"...Jingo"...etc. If you need a good belly laugh.

"Fight Club"(Of course) by Chuck Pahlaniuk.

"Hemmingways Chair" by Michael Palin...Just started it and it seems pretty good.

"Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stevenson .......EXCELLENT!

Can't think of any more right now.....

If you want a good short-story pich up Harlan Ellison's "'Repent Harlequin', Said the Tick-Tock Man"........It costs about ten dollars and it has some ineresting illustrations by a local boy named Rick Berry. Definitely worth the money.

You know, it is amazing. Whenever I read a book, I try to give it away to someone who I think will like it. Then, when it comes time for me to suggest, my mind goes blank.
Dune was my favorite movie when I was in my early teens. I thought the books were great, too. (Although I haven't read all of them.)
Oddly enough, I did not like Tolkien. My fiancee is a big Tolkien fan, and insisted I read the Hobbit.
Which, leads me to Terry Pratchett, who reminds me of Tolkien. James gave me the first in his series about Discworld because I read so much about him here on h2g2. I really did not like it all that much. But, I told James he would love it.
I loved Anne McCaffrey growing up. Her Pern series was the greatest.
I also love Issac Asimov.
For a while, I followed the Star Wars series. They are by many diffent authors. But, they were mostly candy fininshed in one afternoon.
I am a big fan of the classics. I love Bram Stoker's Dracula, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, etc....
Although, I'd have to say the movies (in this case) were more exciting than the books. Which is odd, I don't usually feel that way.
I'll have to go to James's and check out the books I have left at his home. I give him stuff all the time, and he never finishes it. He just bought the new Diablo, and is glued to the screen for hours on end. Whenever I go over, he gets really annoyed when I don't feign enough interest. Which is fine, I get really annoyed and don't understand how he can put down a book in the middle and never think another thought about it! I play a few games, also. Quake III:Arena would have to be my favorite. It is really good for stress relief.
I like Anne Rice. Although, she has a lot of candy in her books, and can move slow at times.
I just read X-Men last week before I saw the movie. I should stop doing that. It made the movie suck. There is always so much you miss by not getting the inner monologue.
I can't find where I put it to tell you the author, but this week I read Mr, X by somebody. I know he was a collaborator with Steven King in a book called "The Talisman" a few years ago. They had a lot of striking similarities in my opinion. Kate Chopin's The Awakening is one of my favorites. I felt that book expresses how I feel at times in words I don't have myself.

Gotta run. Duty calls! Her name is Mother, and she demands I do her bidding!

You'd think once you reach my ripe old age this would change.......

Tolkein is a tough read. His style is something I can't get accustomed to.

Don't read pratchetts early stuff it's weak.

saw x-men yesterday. They evidently cut 45 minutes out on prmier night. At least they got wolverine right.

I'm trying to figure out how long I have been walking around with my fly down.

I have the strange feeling I am being watched.............

You just might be.

It's funny. Now I feel weird about reading other people's forums in which they have one on one conversations. Well, actually, I think I am just lazy.
Why the name change, and who is MARV?