Wizard of Oz is a movie based on a book with several remakes and reimaginings. Star Wars has spawned 7 movies at least released to the theater, countless books and comics, countless video games and tv specials. Disney animated features pretty much are all are based on books or other previous mediums and most if not all at this point have some direct to video sequel. Pixar movies use the success of other pixar movies as part of the Pixar franchise.

Scarface on the other hand is one of the very few movies that is a pop culture entity by itself. It is an original screen play and a video game 20 years later is the only other place that this world exists. I have no idea what the top selling movie merchandise is but a quick glance around and I see more Scarface t-shirts than any other movie. This for a movie 25 years old. I can't think of another movie based on an original screen play that has that kind of following.

To the idiots that say no one wants to buy domestic. The number one selling car company in North America is GM by several percentage points. Ford outsells Honda by hundreds of thousands of units. Even Chrysler with the worst selection of vehicles outsells Nissan. During the sales implosion of the last 6 months, Ford has actually been the one of the few bright spots losing less sales than the Japanese companies. There are basically only one mainstream car company that is healthy, Toyota because of the war chest they have amassed and maybe Porsche/VW but the latter is a political bomb in Germany right now, so its anyones guess how that eventually turns out. The rest of the German companies are shedding jobs faster than Citigroup.

Also, if GM fails there will not be a car made in North America for 6 months. If Chrysler and Ford follow it will be at least a year before a car or truck is built in North America. Toyota even with their war chest can not bail out the supply chain and it is not like they can go from Home Depot to Lowes to get these parts, the parts have lead times measured in years and are not for the most part interchangeable.

And to the fire them all crowd, that is a great thought but screws Ford over. I could not agree more that Cerebus has damaged Chrysler but their president of Sales is the smartest marketing mind in the car business, granted there CEO is a hack. GM's management and board though should go as fast as possible. Ford on the other hand actually has the best plan for a turn around due mostly to there president that has been on the job only a couple years. He has not yet had time to implement the whole plan again because of the long lead times. Each company has its own set of problems though they share an overabundance of dealerships that they can not shed because of state franchise laws. GM for example has at least 5 brands too many and about 5000 dealerships too many. The are unable to finance sales anymore; last year half of their customers received GMAC loans this year 6 percent. Ford's problem is lead time, they are bringing over highly rated Euro models but again it takes time to tool up. Chrysler's problems are down to no R&D and a product philosophy of fashion instead of long term value.

These are not examples of special treatment, but simply common courtesy. (Holding the door open can be done for ANYBODY.) So I'm afraid your studious avoidance of them does not make you a knight of gender equality - just a rude asshole.

Umm, the example he gave where examples of special treatment that females expect and not common courtesy. What you did was set up a nice strawman about opening doors but even here holding a door open for a man will most likely get you a thanks while opening a door for a female will usually get you nothing in my many experiments on the subject which of course is common courtesy. So no he is not a rude asshole for not giving up a seat to a female that he would not give up to a male.