Counterpoint: The point of being a billionaire is that time has no meaning and every day can be made extraordinary through your wealth.

I refuse to surrender the lesbian gaze to a straight man just because he likes girls that can beat him up. 

I dunno, that thing would have been pretty scary even without the pop up humanoid.

The Shining is an amazing, classic horror film. It’s also an adaptation that *entirely* misses the point of the source material.

I would argue that The Thing is exceptionally faithful. Remember that being faithful doesn’t mean filming exactly what is on the page, you have to make changes for the medium, runtime, etc. What makes it faithful is whether it successfully preserves the themes, messages, and characterizations that make a story…

I had to explain to my kids that no, I was not born in the 19th century because I'm not the oldest human alive. That led to a boring discussion on calendars and, eventually, why 2001 was the millennium and not 2000. No Year Zero, no Zeroth Century.

Honestly I’ll take bloomers and parasols over more fucking mom jeans thank you very much.

This just makes my back and knees ache. 

Yeah, but that always rang hollow to me: he didn’t do it out of a sense of justice, it just came across as like a tearful instagram “apology” and promises of rehab of some starlet who ploughed into a pedestrian after her five breakfast mimosas.

They’re also eh in terms of further cementing the highly sophisticated behavioral science unit which like, sure, okay, I guess, but I find it kind of interesting that we really like to establish serial killers as geniuses able to confound us at every turn when these guys are bumbling-ass losers who get away with it…

Dracula Untold?

It’s not an amphibious exploration vehicle. 

They’re going to try to brute force engineer these robots using forward planning and machine learning, and they will be failing horribly at even the most basic tasks assigned to a factory room floor worker.

A while back there was a video posted on here of the assembly of the 911 and there were marvelously giant robots…

Yeah, he’s mostly in the Silmarillion, and he’s portrayed very differently. He’s a prideful, but ridiculously powerful warrior who bops around Middle Earth kicking ass before he sees his chance at the throne and takes it.

I finally saw the Northman a couple of weeks ago and jesus is that a time and place I’m glad I didn’t live. The palace intrigue probably saved the story because otherwise it’s just a pure revenge film involving the most stoic people you’ll ever see.

Now I’m wondering if, like Steve Jobs, Musk also has hygiene issues.  I doubt he eats an all fruit diet though, Musk looks like a man who loves a cheeseburger 

Yeah, the Placebo cover is amazing. I played the original and that cover back-to-back for my 16-year-old daughter and she declared that she preferred Bush’s vocals and Placebo’s music and I couldn’t disagree.

The Meg Meyers cover is pretty great, too. 

there’s a blue pseudo-monkey with bifurcated arms to establish an evolutionary connection between the humanoid blue cat-people and the hexapodal fauna

This all sounds right to me. Don’t get me wrong: I like Aliens a lot more than Alien. But Ridley Scott’s imagery is much more original and suggestive, even if it’s there more to cultivate an atmosphere than to deliver a world with the practical coherence of harder SF directors.