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Why wouldn't Children of Men be sci-fi? Also along the lines of City of Lost Children mentioned above I'll throw out Delicatessen as another gem from the decade.

Did you take the Grey Poupon from the French when you defended us?

I'd be worried if it didn't outsell FO3 what it'd mean for Obsidian given the high expectations.

But really, what would the moment have learned from the administrator's teaching? Ba-dum-tish

I didn't like The Matrix - or I should say I thought it was okay and entertaining but frustrating watching at the same time.

I have no love for anything with the title "Ghost in the Shell". That said the original film was in 1995, so outside of the decade in question in the original post.

Regardless of what one of the kids sent home says about why the administration told them to take it off, the only reasonable reason why any administrator would have asked them to take the clothes off was if they feared violence. And there are better ways they could have dealt with that.

So was the Tarkovsky original (and it was an hour longer!) Its still worth the slog through, IMO.

How do you "inconvenience" the unreasonable group unless you wait for them to act on their unreasonable position? Answer this question understanding that allowing the students to act (ie fighting) when there could have been a way to prevent the situation escalating is pretty much asking for the school board to fire you (or at least reassign you to a lower position). There were a lot better ways to deal with this situation than the administration did but allowing the groups to fight so you could suspend the fighters isn't really one of them, IMO.

Even though I didn't think it was as good as others did, I'm surprised that District 9 is missing from the proposed list. I, Robot was actually pretty good if you can get past the fact it isn't actually based on the Asimov story. I've always been fond of Signs While not as good at the Tarkovsky version, Solaris isn't a bad sci-fi film. Frequency is a good underrated sci-fi film. I thought The Final Cut was actually a pretty good film (even if it goes pearshaped in the end). Uneven The Signal was worth a viewing (the middle segment having some really great moments). Those are a few strong sci-fi films I can think of from 2000-2009.

If the Mexican students started a fight, the Mexican students should have been punished. People need to learn that you need to rise above such petty nonsense. If the school has reason to believe that a fight is going to start over object "A" and the school doesn't attempt to diffuse the tension over object "A" and a fight starts, then the school, arguably, has not done its part to provide a safe place for its students. Agreed it is petty nonsense, but dealing with kids and parents makes you realize that the modern kid and parent seem to THRIVE on petty nonsense.

I liked it as well but most people seemed to hate it. I liked Pandorum and Serenity as well. Didn't really like the Will Smith I Am Legend though

Yeah I think its sci-fi even if its dealing in a generic theme of Vampirism (albeit the film adaption called The Omega Man drops the vampirism angle in its infected).

Its as much sci-fi as the novel Day of the Triffids which 28 Days Later... resembles greatly...

Curiously enough that could be one the reasons why neanderthals lost to sapiens. It was really painful and potentially lethal for neanderthal women to give birth. They polled a lot of Neanderthal's in the maternity ward, did they? (Isn't normal homo sapian birth considered really painful and potentially lethal (if complications arise)?)

Forbidden Planet is awesome. I'd take Children of Men over AI, Wall-E, K-Pax or 28 Days Later.

1. I think this can only ever be decided by the situation and context. That's why most rules in schools about disruption don't spell out what can and can't be disruptive in totality so as to allow consideration of what is happening at that time. I think that logically we all agree that everyone should have been more than happy to express their pride in Mexican heritage and their pride as US citizens (or either one seperately) and that Flag shouldn't be seen as disruptive. But the reality of the situation is that (a) teens aren't always logical (nor are adults) (b) teens are often looking to provoke confrontations with adults and peers and © we don't know the context of incidents that may have preceeded this (ie there may have been other conflicts between students in the two groups that administrators was trying to prevent returning). There were many subtler ways to have dealt with the issue, and had they been used it'd have been a non issue. 2. Really shouldn't be; I think anyone angry enough about the flag being disrespected by the administrators who didn't allow the students to wear it should be upset over the fact the flag wasn't given its proper respect by being worn as a bandana and a t-shirt in the first place.

So you say they were making a statement. Even if they were, was it not fully within the bounds of the law, and apart from the bandannas within the rules of the school? If it was, there is no justification whatsoever for this kind of treatment. Arguably any non-disruptive clothing can be asked to be removed in a school setting if its deemed to be disruptive. This can be truely offensive shirts, shirts with bands that the school feel is disruptive or even a shirt with Sponge Bob Squarepants if there is a situation created deemed disruptive. Arguably a flag on a T-Shirt doesn't actually fit the rules for proper display of the US flag anyhow (although there's no specific law against it besides the Flag Code suggesting that its inappropriate to use the flag in such a way).

Ah, yeah. I remember now. Thanks. I kinda agree with Gromnir on this, myself. While there should be theoretically no problem with wearing the American flag, I think the realities of the situation have to be recognized and there were better and subtler approaches to defusing the potential problems in the situation - particularly given that there are plenty of teen boys and girls who are just one excuse away from a fight anyhow.

Isn't that what Killian was saying a few months ago...?

But will IE finally implement HTML standards right...?

*searches* Nope.

I never saw the appeal for Dogmeat. I suppose he was less inclined to shoot me in the back with a minigun like a certain FO2 companion I could name... But then I don't think there was any of the companions I really wanted to take along (although there's a certain perverse appeal trying to see if you can keep your S.O. in FO2 alive).

"It's all right. It's quite all right, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world."

I guess now we can combine "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" for science says it is okay!