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Excellent job, Mark! I especially like how you have spiced up what could have been a very dull green paint job.

Looks great, Carlos. I have an Academy Merkava sitting here ready to be started. I've probably been a little shy to deal with the balls and chains. I've heard they can be difficult. Any tips there? I know the thing I like most about Academy kits is that there is no seam line on their road wheels. Just a little whisk with a sanding stick on the attachment points is all that is needed.

I enjoyed the film a lot. But I'm pretty easy to please when it comes to sic-fi. My 15 year old son went with me and he liked it too. The audience was definitely split in it's reactions Listening to the reaction of most of the folks that panned the movie it really seems they were expecting another Alien flick along the lines of the others. This one was quite different. Enjoyable (for me), but different. While I liked the movie there is no question it is not even in the same ballpark when comparing to Alien and Aliens. One is one of the greatest horror films of all time and the other is one of the best action films of all time. The previews for Spider Man and Bat Man looked pretty good. Tony

In this order: Star Trek X-Files Outer Limits (Original) Tony

Great choices. I pretty much like Michelle Pfieffer in anything. What are your thoughts on the Halle Berry Cat Woman? Anne Hathaway will be the new Cat Woman in the upcoming Dark Knight Rises. I don't know how I could have left Emma Peel off my list. Plus Diana Riggs is my favorite Bond Girl (On Her Majesty's Secret Service). Tony

I realize this is an old thread but I am a recent visitor to these forums and loved this thread. This is a topic near and dear to my heart. I watch these things while modelling. I can't narrow it down to three films so I have to cheat. My top 3: A - Alien - I classify this as a Horror film that happens to be set in space. Hard to think of a more shocking scene in film than the alien "birth". Linda Blair with a crucifix? The Crying Game "revalation"? B - John Carpenter's The Thing - I don't feel this is a remake of the original Thing at all. Carpenter's Thing more closely follows the original novella written by John W. Campbell, Jr. in 1938 and recognized by The Science Fiction Writer's of America as one of the finest science fiction novellas ever written. C - Blade Runner - What a vision of LA! Rutger Hauer was great. Sean Young was beautiful and the soundtrack by Vangelis was extraordinary. My 3 Runner-ups: A - Aliens - When I first saw this on the big screen in THX I thought it was the most exhilarating movie I had ever seen. Flight Lt. E. Ripley - toughest character ever? B - Terminator 2 - I really agonized over this choice. Terminator or T2. In the end, I think I was swayed by a tougher Sarah Conner and a very unique and well-played villain. C - Star Trek II - Ricardo Montalban...nuff said. Honorable mention: A - Terminator - Best SF line ever. "You're terminated ..." B - Predator - No, I don't really like Arnold this much. These picks just worked out this way. C - Matrix 2 - Best freeway scene ever. Best latex ever. Golden Oldies: A - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Original) - but I did think the Donald Sutherland version was just as good. And with a cameo by the original dude, Kevin McCarthy. B - Forbidden Planet - The Id has bailed me out of many a Scrabble game. Best Toga ever. I'm glad I saw this years before the Airplane or Naked gun movies so I could take Leslie Nielson seriously. C - It! The Terror from Beyond Space - OK, maybe this should have been on my guilty pleasures but I like it and it was really the forerunner of Alien. Guilty Pleasures: A - The Blob - Scared me witless as a kid and I still don't eat Jell-o. B - Reptilicus - Back when there were only three channels on TV there was this thing called the Million Dollar Movie. They played the same movie every day for a week. You guessed it. I may be the world's only Reptilicus expert. Tony

I just recently started visiting these forums and really liked the favorite SF movie and TV show threads. Those were great threads and lots of fun to read through. I thought I would pose a similar SF/Fantasy related question that my family and I have a go at periodically. Who is the toughest and most dangerous lady (the character, not the actor) out there in the world of SF/Fantasy movies and TV (loosely interpreted)? Tell us why. Give us 3 if 1 is too tough. I'm throwing out a bunch of candidates that I can think of just to get the conversation going but bring in anybody else. I realize these are not all strictly SF or Fantasy: Sarah Conner Ellen Ripley Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV Series) La Femme Nikita Ice Queen from Narnia Reba from Tremors Linda Blair That Blue Girl in the X-Men Lara Croft Ursala - Little Mermaid Anna Torv-Fringe Princess Leah Alien Queen Elizabeth Swann Milla Jovovich in the Resident Evil flicks Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element Uma Thurman – Kill Bill Lucy Liu – Kill Bill Mrs. Smith Agent Dana Scully Assassin Anna Topov – Golden Eye (James Bond) Zoe Saldana – Avatar Trinity Terminator Gal from T3 Elektra Rachel Weisz in the Mummy Michelle Yeoh – Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Eve (Natasha Henstridge) – Species Snake Gal (Salma Hayek) from Dusk Till Dawn (I don't know how tough she is but I love a good snake dance) Tough to choose but I'm gonna pick: 1 - Flight Lt. E. Ripley 2 - Milla Jovovich in the Resident Evil series 3 - Terminator Gal Do your worst, Tony