I like your review of The Seventh Seal and the unorthodox quantity of truth in the breakdown of the Blair Witch scam. I just wanted to comment on the page with regard to the greatest athletes. Bobby Fischer is a better chess player than God, and he shtomped Kasparov with utter disregard for mercy. And I think the top slot on that list should go to Jim Thorpe...the King of Sweden concurs. Number two, in my humble opinion, should be Aldo Nadi...who likely did not make the list because the boneheads responsible for compiling said list were restricting themselves to american atheletes. Please let me know if you decide to write a review of Left Behind. heh heh

Joe M.

Are you sure Fischer played Kasparov? When Fischer won the world title in 1972, he defeated Boris Spassky. Recently (1992), the two had a rematch - perhaps this is what you're thinking of?

Ah yes, Aldo Nadi, the champion European fencer. Okay, I admit it, I had to look that one up. But it does prove the point that any valid list of the "athletes of the century" would require a much broader world view than the extremely myopic one taken by ESPN. It's like every year when People magazine comes out with its list of the top 50 sexiest men alive, and I'm not on it.

-- N-M

Simply put. Amen. I went from a 1991 Toyota 4Runner to a Subaru Impreza WRX. Unless the snow is 2 feet deep (when you shouldn't be out anyway), my Subaru goes through the white stuff just as good if not better. I have seen several single-vehicle accidents involving SUVs. One of them managed to roll over onto another innocent vehicle. The Blazers, 4Runners, Rav4s don't scare me. Its the jackass driving the Suburban while talking on the cellphone at 80 in the snow down the highway. I could go on too long. Thanks for the great article.

Brett

You know, I've been thinking. If George Dubya really wants to bomb a foreign country and destroy their weapons of mass destruction, couldn't he target all the SUV assembly plants in Mexico?

-- N-M

I refer to your review of Final Fantasy and wish to bring an issue to your attention. It is comments such as the one below that cause discrimination and misunderstanding about my religion; which happens to be Wicca.

"Not helping matters is the aforementioned storyline, which appears to have been written by a coven of Wiccans and leads you to expect the characters to strip nude and start dancing around a tree at any moment."

Firstly, not all Wiccans practice skyclad (in fact all I know do not, and my coven certainly doesn't!) and secondly, the context in which Wiccans are referred to makes it sound as though you're saying we're a bunch of freaks. I realise it is a seemingly insignificant comment and I hate to bust balls, but you have to realise that any comment about any religion should really not happen. We still suffer laughs, scrutiny and flack for our religion and apparent insignificant comments such as the one in your review portrays an "it's okay" attitude to get a laugh out of a serious religion.

I ask that you consider rewriting the conclusion to your review and sympathise with the unintentional damage you may inadvertently cause. From a journalistic point of view (I have had journalism training), I ask that you keep your personal views, no matter how harmless you may consider them, out of film reviews or any other form of reporting, as any good writer would do.

Thank you for your time and patience.

Blessings,
Aradia

I concede your point that my comments can be viewed as insensitive. But you have to think outside the box a little. Part of the intended humor on this site is not just in what is said, but in the fact there's this grumpy character who's saying it. In other words, you're laughing with him and at him at the same time, in a postmodern way. Either that, or you're completely bored.

-- N-M