I heard somebody on reddit say that you probably need to do a rah-rah, hollywood version of the story just to get it into the public consciousness so that a more historically accurate, morally ambiguous version can be made 10-20 years later. Think how much viking media had to be made before we got The Northman.

Yeah, people accused the profile of being mean-spirited, and it probably was a bit, but it seemed like the writer went to write a normal profile, talked to all Strong’s friends and coworkers, and just ended up taken aback at what an intense weirdo he turned out to be.

The manicure scene was good. They really milked the creepiness of cutting someone’s fingernails. The rest was a bit bleh.

Love a cool animatronic monster, but wow is it hard to have them not look a little cheesy. Between the limits of puppetry and the fact that humans are wired to look for human features and fixate on slight aberrations, it’s no surprise that successful horror movies have tended to go with uncanny-valley-looking humans…

As I recall, there was an offshoot of the elves that basically went off somewhere in the First Age and was never heard from again. The writers could easily have said that they went south to Harad or one of the other Africa/Asia analogues that Tolkien left as blank slates. In Tolkien’s mythology, the elves basically…

I’ve heard people say that adult Catholic converts should have just gotten into Warhammer instead and it would have filled the same void.

They’ll tell you once they finish being indignant that you called it the Dark Ages.

Oh, I thought you were talking about Bucky. 

He probably wasn’t a virgin before 1945. We did see him dating a girl who was in to him.

Maybe they took the Jim Caviezel Outlander movie and Cowboys and Aliens as cautionary tales.

They used to, but they sold that stuff off.

A lot of past associates have mentioned him having the same sort of reality distortion field as Steve Jobs. It would make sense that he has some sort of charisma one-on-one given how much money he’s convinced investors to give him over the years, and the women he meets in his circles are more likely than most to be…

I think its supposed to be like a laser designator for a guided bomb, but it’s just sort of dumb.

Yeah, if there’s one thing we’re good at, it’s murking macrofauna. The thing about the locusts being the global threat may be the only thing that’s sort of realistic.

I first heard about the song via the Placebo cover that was in the Daybreakers trailer.

I read an article about Glassdoor ratings that noted that the ratings for SpaceX consisted of a constant trickle of negative ratings with one or two massive pulses of positive ratings over a week, once or twice a year. Apparently periodically he’ll command everyone to post a positive rating.

The next Mission: Impossible is a two-parter, so I am kind of wondering if it’s supposed to be his big finish.

I think they did the sky backgrounds with rear-projection or a proto-AR wall or something rather than green screen, so it would have been pretty cool to just hang out in.

Right? After that movie I was trying to figure out if it would actually be possible to make a pylon that tall or if I’d have to do it with blimps or something...

I just want his sky house and helicopter thing.