That's what bugs me about Nicholson - he's much like Mister T, plays one character regardless of if he's doing hamlet at the RSC or acting in an Ed Wood film. Pissed me off for years, everyone saying he was the perfect Joker. Hell and no - he played it per his usual slow boil insanity, while The Joker would - given…

That's basically what I meant. Thanks. =P

Easy.

In Hartlepool (England) during the Napoleonic wars a French ship sunk near the coast. A chimpanzee was found, the locals thoughts it was a French survivor, they questioned it (the locals couldn't speak French anyway) and then hung it. Apparently they didn't know what a French person looked like. Maybe Hitler or a high…

Why not? Williams can play scary crazy characters very well. In fact his nasty characters have always been an interesting counterpoint to his 78 rpm Mork persona.

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Arab Spring runneth over.

Surely this was posted and I just scrolled too fast, right?

"Had Kubrick's movie came first and King penned a novelization, I doubt anyone would suggest that the film should have been more like the book."

Control freak my ass, The Green Mile, The Mist, Shaswank Redemption, all movies adapted from his work with beautiful results, Darabont cares about the people and it's inner demons, Kubrick did not cared at all at that time in that movie. From the get go we get a crazy as fuck Jack Torrance I mean the whole family trip…

Apart from the fact that most of those listed were owned by municipal galleries. While a lot of art is in private hands you might be surprised what is owned by public galleries (and churches) around the world - especially when you're looking at pre-eighteenth century art.

King can't let it go because The Shining is one of his most personal works. It's a very in depth examination of his own substance abuse problems and how, like the hornets nest, harm the ones you love even when you are trying to do right by them. Jack Torrence takes action to remove himself from temptation - but the…

I like both, but, good as the film is, it's a lousy adaptation - Kubrick intentionally inverted a lot of the characterization and ideas, and Nicholson was horribly miscast, as King has always said.

You can't make a movie about a regular guy going crazy from cabin fever (among other things) and cast someone who just…

Come on, because space. Don't be that guy. If you really have to break it down, it's fiction, because it's a story and didn't happen, and it's science because it takes place in space aboard an exploding space station.

The SUV driver ran over a member of a mob, that was threatening his family after trying to illegally shut down a highway, in an attempt to escape said violent mob. Make sense now?

Why do pro-gun people always assume they have the only gun in a situation like this?

Not dying would be nice.

The ole Funda Gap. Still, using them would quickly lead to an exchange of nuclear weapons with the USSR, so as a last resort weapon it was not good. Still they made a bunch of these and they were in service for a decade.

I've never really understood the hypothesis that an extremely intelligent computer would essentially be able to bootstrap itself into godhood by recursively improving its own intelligence. Even setting aside the material requirements (since unless all the improvements are based on increased efficiency the AGI would…