47: Lost Weekend ** UPDATED WITH YouTube GRUDGEMATCH -- Wrath of Khan versus Silence of the Lambs!
Got away to L.A. — ditched, really — with Dr. Bob to see a coupla films in a double-feature of our own design: Iron Man (two thumbs up) and The Forbidden Kingdom (two thumbs up, if you have an affection for chop-socky movies from the 60's-80's).
The upshot? This "LITTLE SCENE"* from the wonderful RadioLab podcast — required listening for Cogito:
** UPDATE **
RATS! The link doesn't work; the audio is available at the very end of the "Pop Music" episode of RadioLab...
In the Meantime? We should have a YouTube GRUDGEMATCH!!!1!:
and then there's
* "You want a Little Scene?! Here's a LITTLE SCENE!" — Larry "Seymour" Vincent
Hee hee! Lecter has to win out over James T, though, which I am not comfortable with. But his clip is funnier.
Howevurr...I doubt Hanniball would have been taken seriously wearing Sixties Star-fleet shrunk-in-the-wash bootcuts. Kirk may not be edgy, but he has the edge.
I like the 'give yer pal yer last breath of air' scene. Am thinking Spock might have kept his, in the logical deduction that giving Kirk the oxygen would just have him suffocating all the longer. (Am remembering they both expected to die...but maybe one was to be freed. This is crucial to my argument, yet I have forgotten. Grrr.)
Anyway...fishermen in the north of Scotland have a tradition of not learning to swim, as it merely "plolongs the agony" (direct quote) if they are lost at sea.
(There is a thread of relevancy there. Somwhere.)
I am struck by the great remake potential of the air-box scene, starring Spongebob and Patrick.
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I would read through any comment of yours to get to the bit about Scottish fisherman. Me? I'd learn to swim anyhoo.
I, being a thorough-going Wrath of Khan fan, will remind you that the pivotal scene b/t Kirk and Spock has Spock trapped in a radioactive compartment, with Kirk outside, unable to reach him. Spock has been fatally dosed with radiation. The real-life application of the "Kobayashi Maru" solution by Spock is effective, and in my mind the series creators TOTALLY MAR THE IMPACT by doing a "take back" in Star Trek III. Another example of Hollywood killing any creative geese before they can produce any more golden eggs.
Wrath of Khan stands on its own, not merely the pinnacle of late-20th-century Star Trek, but as sci-fi adventure of high order.
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I meant, "prolongs the agony." It may have been a direct quote, but the fisherman didn't have a speech impediment.
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