The OnTap guys are chatting about Greenpeace, nuclear energy, the works. Geraghty writes, in part:
“We can’t have nuclear energy, because Jane Fonda made a scary movie about it in the 1970s.”
Well, sort of. Again, to repeat the title…in fairness…it wasn’t just a movie that drove the panic. Most people don’t exactly remember what happened while that movie was at the box office. Rather pedestrian by itself when released on March 16, 1979 – the “message” (certainly the relatively far-fetched plot) of the China Syndrome got a whole heck of a lot of traction just 12 days later.
March 28, 1979.
Three Mile Island.
Then again, if life were the Simpsons and Mr. Burns was a movie producer – I’d *totally* buy that he rigged the whole thing.
He’s been:
- shot
- stabbed
- electrocuted
- chemically interrogated
- clubbed
- beat up
- had bones broken
- addicted to heroin
- freaking dead for a few minutes
And through all that, he’s been a rock. But threaten one of his wimmen….oh good grief.
Now that you’ve shown your complete moonbat, tinfoil hat, Thetan-believing-in, crazy side – I think you’ve just created the newest cult favorite South Park epsiode. Expect it to rise to the charts of Seedler and TorrentSpy.
Chuck Norris never killed anyone with a cell phone.
So 24 is back with a bang, or a series of bangs to be more precise.
Till Day 5. Remember What if Jack Bauer ran a Starbucks? Since Jack is incognito now, it’s even plausible. Maybe his going off at a delivery man is what gets him caught.
Ok. A downer of a movie if there ever was one – but worth watching nonetheless if only for Ben Kingsley and TerrorMom.