It's a great little film, it's sort of like Space Jam but actually pretty of funny.

Well I liked Cloud Atlas.

So is he getting to Aliens or the Terminator yet?

I still think that Avatar vs predator would be pretty cool.

Well in terms of the one question the Earth is still evidently divided as there are references to campaigns in Venezuela and the like.

SPLINTER WILL ALWAYS BE CANON!

Thank you oh annus horribilis for showing us mercy in this.

I read the trilogy, but as I recall they had something called 'Stardrives' which traveled FTL but not through folding space (and so were slower) given they were used extensively by the rebels I would have thought they weren't reliant upon thinking machines to do the calculations.

Thank you for the correction, after looking it up, Finnish is 'Uralic' or 'Finno-Ugric' which I assume is where I got the idea - apparently Hungarian is in the same language family - I had no idea.

I have got to get my hands on some of this wine.

I thought that once, but I don't think that's actually true.

That is one of the finest skits on the 'net!

IIRC correctly the survival of Pete was indicated in one of the other books, the Access Guide.

Well how did they travel FTL before the Navigators huh?

That's why I honestly prefer the House trilogy to any of Frank Herbert's books aside from perhaps the original.

I'm most interested in how precisely Budhislam is supposed to work.

I feel kind of bad for him, as someone who never bothered to sit through one of his movies, I always admired his scrappy determination to create.

I liked some Pern stories, but seriously, did they ever do more than fight mindless space beasts?

I kind of liked Children of Dune, when Alia goes kooky and gets possessed, that was fun.

I wonder how you would adapt that.