pogo wrote:
....The exception is the same idiot who has been yelling "Jump her" at every appearance of a nubile female for the past 25 years. And yes. His physical safety has been threatened on more than one occasion if he did not shut up. On one occasion by me, at a distance of approximately two inches from his nose.
A group of very intimidating looking
women (perhaps football players) should surround him next year and dare him to repeat those lines to their faces. Seriously.
Joe Neff wrote:
One thing I'll add to the mix: the weather on Saturday was obscenely nice. I took a ten minute walk to grab coffee and almost felt guilty for sitting inside all day....For me, one of the attractions of the CWRU Marathon has always been the fairly rotten weather that descends upon Cleveland the weekend of, which usually lends to a hibernation mentality and serves as a great motivation to camp out inside. When it's sunny and 40+ outside, those factors are greatly reduced... And one final piece of gratuitous red meat: I love the 2002 SOLARIS remake. For me, it's one of the more intelligent and mature stabds at science fiction of the last decade. I still love the original even more, but Soderbergh's version is an admirable and engaging film.
I guess this is one of the reasons that Boston was never able to get their summertime Horror marathons to work.
I like Soderbergh's SOLARIS a bit, myself. (His indie contemporary, Q.Tarantino deserves 1/100th the praise Soderbergh is warranted). Still, I can understand why most SF and general audiences hate/loathe the movie. Without having seen Tarkovsky's masterpiece, I don't know how anybody could even figure out WTF it's about! I saw it on opening weekend and I've rarely seen as many walkouts. And, as has become legendary, it is one of the few major films to ever get an "F" grade from Cinemascore. (they are a polling firm that surveys audiences nationwide opening weekend)