This will no doubt get me death threats on this site, but while I love The Hobbit and think LOTR is pretty good, the rest of Tolkien's work I found to be unreadable self-indulgent blathering.

"guns are better when used sparingly in stories"

That scene always horrified me. A rare moment when Hollywood shows the truth about violence, that it's not cool stylish cartoonish fun, it's sickening. Platoon had a similar effect on me.

Ha! I might be a dope but saying QT sucks doesn't make one pretentious. Taking him seriously makes one pretentious.

My comment, or basattak's?

Or self-indulgent hackwork.

That's real weird.

Hmm…so how did he teach evolution then? Biology's kinda built on that framework, isn't it?

Plus you're all so irritating. What if it rubs off?

Yeah, it's odd. I grew up in the Midwest in the 80s and even there and then the handful of evangelical families in town were considered weirdos.

That's why you should never go to church. If you picked the wrong religion, you'll just be making God madder and madder.

That sounds like a viable career path for sure.

Yeah, people are dumb.

It's true. We're so lame.

I'm sure we have lots of them.

I thought Satan did that.

Told you they weren't as backward. Here in the US you didn't even need a permit to murder minorities.

And driving souped-up vehicles across a post-apocalyptic landscape searching for fuel, don't forget.

So, Christians deserve special privileges, that's what "and". This is 'Murca after all..

Nah. They're slightly less backward than us, but even slightly less of America's backwardness is still a hell of a lot.