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You Can Count On Me (Laura Linney stars) Wixard of Oz Spirited Away Thelma and Louise (up until the cop-out ending) Dancer in the Dark It IS hard to think of many. But I'm a guy, so probably haven't seen too many films that, to me, looked too "chick-flickish".

You just admitted you thought Toy Story was "amazing". So we agree. And yes, I too would like to see Pixar make a film with a strong female lead. And I know they will. Just curious, what movies in history do you like for the reason that they had strong female leads? And have you ever seen great animated and/or kids movies that rely on a female lead character?

Bitter much? There's a busniness reason big U.S. movie studios don't try to make Kiki's Delivery Service. In my opinion, "Kiki" is a GREAT movie. I loved it. But I'd imagine that movie wouldn't crack 100 million if made and released by Pixar. Mabye movies like Coraline and "Brave" will be steps toward making kids movies that are focused on females. And I don't think it's always about identifying with a character. In the case of Mrs. Incredible, I LOVED how "all in" she was on her kids and her family. I respect the hell out of that. Mr. Incredilbe was going through a mid-life crisis a

You make valid points, but why did you gloss over the few times that Pixar DID get it right with females? I didn't even mention The Incredibles, which if I was female, I imagine I'd LOVE the gritty mom character, and feisty costume designer. And I thought the daughter had a John Hughes-type character vibe. I've read before that animated movies, to be really successful at the box office, must be able to hook young males. Beauty and the Beast might be an exception, but even that movie had lots of action and male characters. Coraline was a great movie, and did OKAY at the box office. The Frog

Probably so. But that shouldn't skew whether their movies are good or not. Darla Anderson has produced many Pixar films, including Toy Story 3. Toy Story 2 was produced by 2 females. Cars and Ratatouille gives writing credits to many, including females. If you read how Pixar was formed, you'll realize it was started by a bunch of computer geeks. It wasn't until they asked John Lassiter to join that the company started creating great stories. The core of the Pixar story-tellers were all buddies and all male. Considering all that, I think they've done a good job with female characters

You won't be waiting too long. June 15, 2010, Pixar will release "Brave". It's about a daughter born into Scottish royalty, but she wants to be an archer instead. Brenda Chapman, who gets writing credits, will be the first female to direct a Pixar film. I'll withhold judgement on comparing Toy Story to Star Wars. Star Wars 1 & 2 would get the edge over Toy Story 1 & 2. But Jedi was a decent-sized step back. Back to the Future 1 is a GREAT, GREAT movie. But "Future 2" was just good, and "Future 3" a huge disappointment, in my opinion. Lord of the Rings might top Toy Story, but L

Based on early reviews, Toy Story 3 is on par with the first 2 films, which is saying A LOT. Toy Story 1 may always be my favorite Pixar film because it was revolutionary...advanced graphics, great visuals, deep characters and a good story. Toy Story 2 added a likeable female character, more emotional depth and lots of fun. Toy Story 3 sounds to be loaded with goofiness, tense action and supposedly deals with mortality a bit. Perhaps the best trilogy of all time?

The Diary of Horace Wimp - E.L.O.

I'm not a super knowledgable soccer fan, but it's CLEAR that Lionel Messi is insanely talented. His foot and lower-body control is unreal. I've become an Aregentina fan just hoping I can watch Messi play as many games as possible.

Not trying to nitpick, but I don't know if it's fair to suggest Wilco made it just because Tweedy is super talented. Jeff is a great writer and artist, but Dean Wareham is pretty great also. I think Wilco's longevity is due mostly to Tweedy's restlessness. In Tupelo, he went from punk to folksy to pop. In early Wilco, he put out a great "alt-country" record, then found Jay Bennett, helping create texture to Being There and wonderful studio pop on Summerteeth. Tweedy really immersed himself into the Woody Guthrie songs, creating some of his best tunes with Bennett. He perhaps got bored with

Curious if anyone has heard this fairly new record by singer/songwriter Matthew Houck and a great backing band. I've been listening to it a lot. Definitely one of my faves of the year. If "Americana" can ever be used to describe a cd, "Here's To Taking it Easy" qualifies...the sounds on it remind me of Neil Young, Willie Nelson, The Jayhawks and Wilco. The opener "It's Hard To Be Humble" has a light, laid-back, breezy shuffle to it. Songs like "We'll Be Here Soon" and "Tell Me Baby Have Had Enough" are very country and very beautiful. The country rocker "I Don't Care If There's Cursing"

PBS will show a 90-minute special on July 28th of last night's Gershwin Award concert at the White House honoring Paul McCartney. Most of it sounds great: Jack White sang Mother Nature's Son, Emmylou Harris sang For No One, Elvis Costello sang Penny Lane, Stevie Wonder sang We Can Work It Out, Dave Grohl sang Band On The Run... Jerry Seinfeld had a monologue. He analyzed McCartney's lryics, and asked McCartney what he meant by the lyric "She was just 17, you know what I mean.".....ha! McCartney sang some of his greats: Let it Be, Eleanor Rigby, Hey Jude and others. Predicatbably,

Very nice. Being There, Mermaid Ave., Summerteeth, YHF, the songs Cars Can't Escape, Shakin Sugar, Venus Stop the Train, Magazine Called Sunset, the gorgeous Instrumental on the YHF demos, Not For The Season... To me, that stretch of Wilco was just MAGICAL. I happen to think Jay was a big reason the band was SO great for so long. I don't think the Mermaid songs would be half as good without Jay's contribution. Many regard YHF as Wilco's pinnacle. I wonder how that record might have sounded without Jay trying to wring every sound possible out of the studio. How much contribution did Jay mak

This. I tuned in last week to see Zach Galifianakis....the dude's pretty funny, right? The show's gonna be good, right? SNL is gonna make good use of his physical, zany abilities, right? Uh, no. Saying that, it would be hard for SNL mess this up. That list of former of SNL ladies is a talented, funny group. I'll be watching.

Great album. My least favorite cuts are the radio hits. I prefer the songs after them...'Your Latest Trick', 'Why Worry', 'Ride Across The River', 'The Man's Too Strong' and the title cut.....wow! Think I need to listen to this again.

The Wilcobook Hummingbird is just VERY cool. I prfer it over the album version. High Heat and This Is New would have been OK by me to be on AGIB.

I had this on, but was in and out of watching it. The John Hughes tribute was the highlight for me. Tina Fey and Robert Downey Jr. arguing the merits of writer vs. actor was genius...very funny. The animated intros to animated movies were good...especially Up's intro with Dug the dog licking the camera. Martin and Baldwin weren't very good. Occassionally funny lines, but Martin seemed old and Baldwin seemed tight.

Message boards are for opinions, so I'll offer mine... Let's Not Carried Away is a cluttered mess. Starts off promising. Jeff's vocals are annyoingly unnatural sounding and forced in parts. I don't care for the lyrics much. The piano bit sucks. The electric guitars ARE nice...I do like that about the song. And the drum solo proves that Glenn is a talented guy, but I already know that. The Raspberries "Let's Pretend" is alphabetically the next song on my itune, and I'd much rather listen to that corny 70's pop nugget. Let's Fight has a very cool vibe. I like the string sounds, no matter how

Kinda off-topic, but it's always fascinated me that most of us are concerned about recycling and pollution and saving nature, yet Earth is just one major earthquake or volcanic eruption or meteor strike away from being altered considerably. I respect people like Al Gore for their goal or making Earth a better place to live, but throwing empty 2-liters into a recycle bin and saving trees seems silly after events like the recent earthquakes or the forest fires last year. I'm not suggesting we stop helping make our environment cleaner and better. But Earth can pollute and ruin itself MUCH bet

I like a lot of SBS. It's quite a bit better than Wilco (The Album) for me, but quite a bit behind all else they've done. In my humble, meaningless opinion, SBS would be on the level of Wilco's great records (Being There, Summerteeth, YHF, AGIB), with this set list: 1. Either Way 2. You Are My Face 3. Impossible Germany 4. Sky Blue Sky 5. Side with the Seeds 6. One True Vine (this song is simple and beautiful. An absolute crime it didn't make the cut.) 7. Let's Fight (never released...but love the live versions pre-SBS. Beautiful start, then rocks out.) 8. Please Be Patient with Me 9. Le

Beatles & Stones aside, I'd rank these ahead of Wilco: - R.E.M. - Replacements (I'm ASTONISHED there's no mention of this amazing band on this thread) - Radiohead - Dino Jr. - Flaming Lips - U2 - White Stripes

Aintitcoolnews has some early reaction to an early screening of Stallone's 'Expendables' movie and I found this quote pretty funny... After seeing The Expendables, I couldn't give a shit about Avatar and James Cameron's smurfs fighting over a mineral.

Kudos to Jay, Oprah and Letterman for the short commercial. Nicely done. Jay went to Dave's studio with Oprah to tape it. The idea was apperently from one of Dave's writers. The Simpson's Coca-Cola ad was great.

I preferred Up, but Fantastic Mr. Fox was very worth seeing. I love how the movie was made and designed. I'm very curious to see the nominated "The Secret of Kells". Supposedly it won't be released in the States until Spring. It's an Irish film and sounds interesting. "Ponyo on a Cliff By the Sea" was also very good and it would have been on my Top 5 list.

If the Academy's goal was to nominate a good, well-attended, crowd-pleasing popcorn film (which is how I'd classify Avatar), Star Trek should have been the one....by a long shot. Not only was Star Trek good entertainment, but it was fun and funny in parts....something James Cameron doesn't seem to understand. And if they nominated 10 movies last year, there WAS a deserving super-hero movie....it was called Iron Man.