Jolly Rogers

Is that a Man Ishitar I see?

Fell in love with the F-14 Tomcat ever since I saw them in The Final Countdown as a kid. Obviously Shoji Kawamori was inspired by these beauties as well. No F-14s, no Valks

What? How can you forget what she had to do in order to obtain the ID?! Best Mile High Club scene on TV. The actress that plays Dessler is half Japanese... yum.

At least it's legible. Most celebrities' autographs are utterly indecipherable. For example... can you even make out what is written here?!

Heads up, Warner did a screening and all 3 reviewers (who all hated Reloaded) had nothing but praise for Revolution. Matrix Revolution reactions Good to hear that the "matrix within matrix" concept was not used after all.

You must have seen a totally different version of Kill Bill than the rest of us did.

Why was there a piece of "shoulder armor" sticking out in front of the Eva-01's face? To prevent it from enjoying some snack during a fight?

I haven't seen the anime adaptation but the manga is very good adult fare - adult not in the sense of cheap violence and sex scenes but the story being mature and interesting on the intellectual side. If I recall correctly, the main character had SAS training and has a lot of mercenary types of friends all around the world, so he gets helps no matter where he goes. The basic premise is kind of like a mix between The Equalizer and The A Team. The manga's creator also has a very good series called Monster. Unlike Master Keaton, it is not episodic but a long, epic tale of an evil child spawned from a buried secret experiment that took place during WWII. Great story. Would make one hella movie (or three).

AICN posted the poster seen above and a press release. It's a first time director, but he wrote the screenplay for The Rock. Things are looking up.

From Today's news report

Since many of us will be getting the new PS2 Macross game, you might want to get more memory for the save files. Toys R Us currently has the Intec PS2 16MB expansion pack on sale at 50% off. For $12.49, you get 16MB (compared to Sony's $24.99 for only 8MB). The pack has another slot for you to plug a conventional memory card in, giving you access to 24MBs via a single memory card slot. Go grab one while they last! I'm picking up a 2nd one today. There are 2 versions, one that requires a boot disc and one that is plug-and-play. Make sure you get the version that doesn't come with a boot disc.

Wrong! Her ass did.

The amount and level of violence in this film is pretty much a well known fact before it came out, but I am pretty sure many reviews have made a point to state the obvious. It's called cartoon violence. Like you said, when the violence was so outrageous and obviously fake, a la Asian kung fu and crime flicks, laughing at and with it is only natural. It's the same reason everyone laughs when Wile E. Coyote meets a violent fate and why Itchy and Scratchy is popular. People raised in the old country probably won't get it, since they were taught to react with horror towards any kind of violence. Actually that was the whole point. I am pretty sure most of the audience jolted when Bill put that bullet into The Bride's head, or when Vivica's character tried to shoot Uma through the KABOOM cereal box, even if they knew it was coming. Having a few select shots in the main action setpiece instead would make them feel more violent or simply as sight gags. I think the sustained carnage was meant to give resonance to volume 1's final thoughts on revenge, and it also helps the audience feel how draining it must be by the time The Bride gets her showdown with Oren Ishii.

Totally agree. The Sentinel designs were really scratch build models Frankensteined from a bunch of different, unrelated parts without much rhythm or reason except to "look cool".

The "epilogue" seen in the critics screening was re-edited prior to wide release so it was shown before the credits rolled. The scene in question is where Bill reveals the fate of The Bride's child, so you did not miss it. Because she wasn't in the movie. Sofie Fatale is played by Julie Dreyfus, a French who's actually fluent in Japanese. He's the bald guy wearing the Kato mask, leader of the Crazy 88s. He'll return as a different character in Vol. 2. Hattori Hanzo, who appears in all the Samurai Shodown games, is named after a legendary ninja.

The High Mobility Zaku series - these are just the tip of this rocking iceberg: RP Elliot Lem's prototype standard R-1 production type Shin Matsunaga R-1 custom Black Tri-Stars R-1A custom Eric Mansfield R-1A custom Masaya Nakagawa R-1A custom Johnny Ridden R-2 custom Robert Gilliam R-2 custom Elliot Lem R-2P custom

Oops, she slipped my mind when I was listing the poll options. Definitely an icon that deserves her spot up there.

I was not the one that put the "cus she's hot" after "Selene from Underworld". Others did. When I started this poll, I was struggling to come up with 10 choices, or 9 + "other". You can see my half-assed attempt to fill the slots by using actual actress names instead of well recognized characters like the first section of the list. I try to steer away from the "damsel in distress" type of female leads and stick with the ones who can actually take care of themselves and take charge while they're at it (thus my reason for not including Princess Leia in the list - she's got the right attitude but not the goods to back it up). As you can see, even Trinity doesn't technically fit the bill, as she needs Neo to bail her out on at least one occassion. While there are strong women in cinema, by restricting the genre to action films, I think women have a long way to go. For every Ripley, we have at least a dozen male equivalent out there blowing stuff up and having all the asskicking fun.

Yup. I'm interested to see where there going with it. It's no Star Wars prequel or anything, tho. You made it sound like it's a bad thing.

He starts his day by working out for a full hour, even on the day after the recall election and the ensuing celebration. Now that's dedication and discipline.

I thought about putting Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling in the list, but decided not to since The Silence of the Lambs wasn't exactly an action movie, even though she did carry the movie. Foxy Cleopatra... what did she do action-wise other than posing with a gun? I think Sistah Girl and White She Devil from Undercover Brother did more action scenes than she did.

Overrated anime. Saw it in a THX theater, was still unimpressed. One of those rare anime that's more well-received in the west than in the east.

Here's an interesting tidbit on one of those famous lines from Aliens: Link

I know this list is far from complete, but since they only allow 10 choices, what came to mind got up first...

Maiden was huge in the mid-1980s, same time Macross was popular. Start a Maiden thread... I'll be there. UP THE IRONS!