You use the phrase 'hate on,' for starters....

Gene Rodenberry and the writers of the original Star Trek saw the Great Depression expose great inequalities in their own society, many fought in World War II, knowing first hand the price of killing another person, and most were among the earliest supporters of the Civil Rights movement in the '50s and '60s. They…

No one ever mentions that among some of the sucky things about being middle aged is that you get to see the actors and creative people who influenced your childhood die off. Jack Klugman, Charles Durning and now Gerry Anderson?

If nothing else, the experiment shows what types of personalities can handle being in a can with others for a few weeks at at time.

I think maybe because we've made so much progress against other diseases, I've had so many people I know or people on the internet talking about cancer diagnoses the last couple of years. Good luck to him and hopefully it was a diagnosis trying to be on the pessimistic side to lower expectations.

Apparently, when Peter Jackson reboots "The Lord of the Rings" in 2015, he's going to film it at a thousand frames per second.

Seeing Tyler Perry as a Star Fleet officer in the first "Abrams Trek" totally shattered the illusion for me.

I'm guessing the Star Trek movie with end with a blend of lense flare, pseudoscientific technobabble, unanswered questions, and Tyler Perry in a Star Fleet uniform.

Unlike ritualized celibacy in order to do stuff for your invisible friend.

Think of our relationship to potentially dangerous and intelligent animals like grizzly bears. Most sane people find it fascinating to observe them at a distance. Some people want to kill them for the thrill of taking out such a powerful animal. And some dolts want to frolic with them until one eats them alive…

I thought the scenes were done more to excuse 3-D 48fps than anything else, and they look like video game play, that's all. The book conveyed a much more claustrophobic feel to me- that the Dwarves were on Goblin turf in the dark and had to find their way out of a maze of tunnels to survive.

I just used the term writing the comment. OK, maybe I'm inserting excess in a conversation on bloat. I really enjoyed the "Ring" trilogy and so far, really enjoyed the first third of the "Hobbit" one. I just think that Peter Jackson has a tendency to say, "let's go way over the top" on certain design elements, such…

I read that the stone giants was left over from Del Toro's version of the screenplay.

I found the whole section from the stone giants through Goblin town to suffer from Jacksonian bloat. Plus, instead of watching a film about the Hobbit, I felt like I was watching someone play World of Warcraft.

Exactly- and I'd add to it costume, make up and weapon design (excepting cases of obvious Peter Jackson excess, like the ballchinian Great Goblin or Radagast's bird poop highlights).

You know what attackes the traditional family structure? Intentional celibacy in order to dedicate one's life to an imaginary friend.

Yeah, 'poisoning' is a bit ambiguous, in that it doesn't say if this means suicide by poison, homicide by poison, or I guess even eating tainted spinach.

Several years ago, I ordered a sword online and asked to have it delivered to my work address. The site messaged that they could only deliver to the address of the credit card. I called customer service and they stood firm. I replied, "Look at my residential address- it's in Detroit. If you can only mail to my…

Hadn't thought of it from that angle- yeah, just the improvement in computing power and its lowering cost should have made a large impact in the ability to analyze things.