I think you're all wrong, but entitled to your opinions...:-) No, really, my ha'pnee's worth.

I've seen some movies I really really liked and think they're great: To Kill a Mockingbird Harvey Public Enemy Treasure of the Sierra Madre Day the Earth Stood Still Killer Klownz From Outer Space (Yeah, I know, but try seeing it with a Russian girl who's just gotten off the plane and it's her FIRST AMerican movie!) I think Citizen Kane is every bit as great as the highest flutin' critic who ever gave it his upper crust upper thumb.

On the other hand:

I was bored and disappointed by Moulin Rouge. I hated Independence Day not so much because it was an over-effected, jingoistic plotless piece of crap, which it was, but mostly because it blatantly stole just about every sci-fi idea and plot device from something much better if more obscure. I enjoyed most of Saving Private Ryan but felt the old guy weeping at the grave at the end was a bit over the top. I really liked American Beauty (and the dancing bag, to me a symbol of the vagaries of a life, like Forrest Gump's little feather. I like Forrest Gump - okay I'm a sucker!)

Good recently vintaged Yank movies, not made purely for the dollar and incorporating real ideas:

Say Anything What's Eating Gilbert Grape Fight Club Gattacca <= possibly English ?

I've come to the conclusion that few directors are speaking to me personally, that none of 'em have a hang on the isness of life any better'n me, they are just a bit better in expressing it or something like it. I take my movies scene by scene and much of the time Ebert and Roeper (popular yank critics) can help me avoid wasting two hours of my life at a time, leaving me free to blow an entire contiguous eight hours at a go.

I think poo-pooing American flicks is simply not being open to the great range of films that are out there, even in Ameridom. Most people make films because they want people to watch 'em, and yanks and indians seem to be supremely gifted in that regard. After all, the greatest instrument of propaganda yet devised has been The Western.

As for jiggles, I'm pretty open minded. I think it's nice if a woman starts with a couple of jiggles, but if she's got a personality, ultimately that's what matters. I suspect a woman would like a man to start out with something that's not at all jiggly, and tolerance makes life endurable. After all, we all ultimately lose everything we start out with.

Thanks for the opportunity to vent.