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The Soapbox II: What is a Scalper? ()

That's actually dropped down the pecking order in light of the recent thread we had going. It'll be done in due course but I have a few other ideas. Next week is more pic/toy intensive that this one.

That way, the resulting discussion will be compartmentalized and future columns won't be drowned out in page 9 of a never-ending thread.

Good idea. I actually intended to do it as one never-ending thread but what u said makes sense. Hey mods, could we change the title of this thread to what Jaydisc suggested?

Now, the meat.

Steak? Or pitiful flesh creatures?

The music is so dated, so cheesy, so cheap.

Hey! I'm cheesy! But I believe Demonac's response below is the most apt response.

A few musical scores that I can think of off of the top of my head that are vital contributors to the films that contain them, are Aliens, Gladiator and Batman Begins.

I would really like a copy of that. I'll have a listen next time I'm at ur place.

as it is just Hollywood smut.

...but a bit of cheese here and there is fun (except that horrid title track).

What de man said.

But, hey...whatever people enjoy is fine by me...I'll be a closet elitist. :P

I'm just glad I got u out of that closet.

So for me, both are successful, in different ways. The "popcorn" movie fan in me likes TFM and the Transfan in me likes TFTM,

I don't disagree w/ you Dirge at all. That's why I approached this article from a fan's perspective, focusing on what we as TF fans would consider to be the better movie. And I openly ackowledge (as I did above) that TFM is tailored to a different segment of the population. I'm more concerned here whether if, for us, the TF fandom, the movies stand up. I managed to see TFM a total of 6 or 7 times IIRC. I probably shouldn't have but the popcorn flick nature of it certainly made the experience fun. Combined w/ the underlying TFs, that's what got me coming back that many times. If it'd had been Go-Bots, say, I'd have liked it but I doubt I'd have gone back 6 or 7 times.

Cy-Kill and Leader-One don't exactly fill me w/ glee, if you know what I mean.