Weekly Open Thread: What Races Are You Interested In?

SSP’s Official Approved Movie List™:

2001: A Space Odyssey

Airplane!

Aliens

Back to the Future

Batman Begins

Dark Knight

Empire Strikes Back

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Ghostbusters

Goldfinger

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Dem

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Office Space

Pulp Fiction

Return of the Jedi

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Rahm

Star Wars

This Is Spinal Tap

Wayne’s World

What’s on your list?

55 thoughts on “Weekly Open Thread: What Races Are You Interested In?”

  1. James was awfully prescient…

    Tyler Oakley:

    James, if you had to pick 2 Dem incumbents most in danger of losing their seats this fall (not including Lampson who is all but gone), who would they be?

    James L.:

    Putting me in the hotseat, eh?

    Hm, well… I guess I would go with Cazayoux and… oh, let’s say Tim Mahoney today, just because he’s a bit of a weirdo.

  2. is my list. Maybe throw in some Lord of the Rings and Jurassic Park.

    Aw, what the heck, some Miyazaki films too: Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle

  3. Lord of the Rings

    Star Wars (original trilogy)

    Godfather (1 & 2 only)

    Silence of the Lambs

    Master and Commander

    Mystic River

    The Departed

    The Aviator

    Atonement

    No Country for Old Men

    There Will Be Blood

    Sweeney Todd

    All the President’s Men

    Three Kings

    Syriana

    The Dark Knight

    WALL-E (and any other Pixar film)

    Children of Men

    Shawshank Redemption

    LA Confidential

    Platoon

    Born on the Fourth of July

    JFK

    Salvador

    In the Name of the Father

    Into the Wild

    One upcoming movie I thought you all would be interested in: http://www.apple.com/trailers/

  4. 1. I am going to miss Tom Cole. 2 more years from him would have cut the Republican portion of the congress to its proper size.

    2. If Janet Napolitano goes to DC, how deep is our bench in AZ? What will the political landscape look like in AZ?

    3. I have a sinking feeling that we will lose GA, MN, CA-04 and OH (Kilroy). The CA-04 really hurts.

  5. Street Fight – Easily my favorite of the category.  A crash course in how ugly big city politics can be.  Documentary is based on Corey Booker’s first run for Newark, NJ Mayor against the incredibly corrupt establishment Mayor Sharpe James.

    The War Room

    The fog of War – Always hated McNamara, but this is a heck of a documentary.

  6. Pulp Fiction (most quotable movie ever; “aww man I shot Marvin in the face”), Ghostbusters yes, Slap Shot, Chopper, first 2/3s of Full Metal Jacket, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Dazed and Confused, Election, Spinal Tap yes (but also Best In Show is great), Holy Grail and Life of Brian, Rushmore, Trainspotting, Blade Runner, Clerks, High Fidelity (just as good as the book), Better Off Dead, Amelie, Lost Boys, Yojimbo, El Mariachi, too many man.

  7. Office Space

    Return of the Latest Dead

    The Evil Dead

    Evil Dead II

    Army of Darkness

    The Warriors

    Fight Club

    Pulp Fiction

    Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2

    The Big Lebowski

    George Romero’s Living Dead series (Night, Dawn, Day, Land)

    Ed Wood Films (Plan 9 From Outer Space!)

    Ed Wood (the movie about the director)

    Monty Python Films

    The Breakfast Club

    Fast Times at Ridgemont High

    Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (I know James L. likes this one)

    TV Series:

    Jericho – My second favotire series of all-time after Lost.  Why this amazing show never caught on I’ll never know.

    Firefly – Another series that died far too early

  8. Sorry, I’m not really a movie fan.  On the other hand…

    Games to play:

    Der Langrisser (SNES)

    Breath of Fire 2 (SNES)

    Zillion (SMS)

    Gradius (any Gradius)

    Wild ARMs (Wild ARMs 4 (PS2), in particular)

    Fire Emblem (any FE)

    Chantelise (Windows?)

    E.V.O. (SNES)

    Metroid Prime (NGC) (I’m halfway done with this, but I need to find myself a system to play on now that I’ve left college)

    Energy Breaker (SNES) (once it becomes translated)

    Rockman Battle & Chase (Saturn)

    Also, the folks over at TV Tropes recently caused me to put up a list of animé to watch (or that I’ve watched), which is this list:

    Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (LOL @ title) (a.k.a. Eagle Riders) (seen 1 episode)

    Voltron (GoLion) (seen most episodes of The New Adventures of Voltron)

    Pokémon (seen most of the Kanto subseries, and parts of the Orange Islands and Johto subseries; not interested anymore)

    Naruto (seen a bunch of episodes when my dorm neighbor watched them, and am not interested in seeing any more)

    Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (still haven’t seen this)

    Neon Genesis Evangelion (seen all of the main series, which I did like, and the movie End of Evangelion, which I didn’t like)

    Magic Knight Rayearth (seen episodes 1, 20, and 26)

    Noir (seen episode 1, interested in seeing more)

    Detective Conan (recommended by a friend)

    Nadia: the Secret of Blue Water (maybe just passing interest)

    Mai-HiME (recommended by TV Tropers)

    Additionally, some crazy people there think that I’d like The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.  I disagree.  I think I’m more of a fan of subtlety and depth of meaning, and from what I’ve heard of Haruhi, the characters will likely rub me the wrong way.

    I really need to make myself a list of books to read.  Fiction AND non-ficiton.  I’m currently starting to become interested in behavioral economics, for some reason, so I might stop by my local bookstore/library and check out some books on it.

  9. Brokeback Mountain

    Crash

    Transamerica

    Truman (sorry, but 2005 was a REALLY AWESOME year for movies!)

    Ray

    Kill Bill I & II

    Matchpoint

    Vicky Christina Barcelona (I still haven’t forgiven Woody Allen for eloping with his adopted daughter, but at least he’s making good movies again.)

    Monster

    Million Dollar Baby

    Sound good?

    1. That was the first movie I’ve EVER walked out of the theatre early in disgust.  That’s saying something considering I’ve seen several hundred movies at the theatre in my lifetime, maybe even a thousand.  It stunk THAT bad.  If someone gave me the DVD of Sweeney Todd for free I’d burn it rather than give it to someone and subject them to the horrors I had to endure.

    2. Baghdad Cafe

      Mumford

      Shane

      Rocky (the original)

      Thirteen Days

      High Noon

      Young Abe Lincoln

      Warm Springs

      Fort Apache

      It’s A Wonderful Life

      Dr. Strangelove

    3. And I would add Rain Man, The Shining, As Good As It Gets, Chinatown, Pulp Fiction, The Manchurian Candidate (original), Terminator 2, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, The Usual Suspects, V For Vendetta, Toy Story 2, Apocolypse Now, American Beauty, Forrest Gump, Some Like It Hot and Casino Royale (2006).

  10. AZ-Gov: Sorry, but President-Elect Obama let me down here. Why allow wacko fundie wingnut Jan Brewer to become Governor??!! Will this hurt Terry Goddard’s chances of winning?

    AZ-Sen: See above. Do we have anyone else to run against Johnny Mac?

    CA-Supreme Court: OK, it’s official now. The wacko fundie wingnuts are threatening recall against the judges should they do their job as independent interpreters of the law & overturn Prop H8 as unconstitutional. Get ready for a bloodmatch!

    CA-Gov: OK, so when will DiFi announce? Anyone want to bet on when she’ll finally say it?

    CA-Sen: I’m still waiting to see which GOPers will run against my favorite fundie wingnut State Ass., “Attention Whore” Chuck DeVore, in their primary. I can hardly wait to see which one will lose to Barbara Boxer!

    NV-Gov: Oscar Goodman’s a sleazebag. Rory Reid’s not that exciting. I seriously hope Barbara Buckley rides in to save the day. Otherwise, I don’t know what to do.

    NV-Sen: So what’s Krolicki doing? Is he running against Papa Reid or is he staying put as Lt. Gov.? So who else wants to lose to our dear Majority Leader? 😉

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