There are like 10-12 episodes worth of content from the second season that hold up with anything from the first- and it's not hard to imagine that, allowed to run for a few more seasons, it could have recovered from the proliferation of bad subplots and lack of drive that weakened the back half of season 2.

I've always wanted to see Nic Roeg adapt a Dick novel, and either this or Valis (which makes veiled references to The Man Who Fell to Earth) would be perfect- Roeg's dreamy unconcern for sequential plotting and sense of overwhelming nature affecting one's mind would be dead on here.

Total Recall actually works even better if you assume that there's a twist in it similar to the layered idea in the story (that everything keeps being made up, basically) and that the movie just doesn't bother to tell you.

What's in Blade Runner is largely based on the book: the whole central dichotomy of replicants who appear to be devoid of human empathy and humans who act that way, and the various complications of that dichotomy, are one of Dick's central themes in the book, and the worldbuilding is very much related to what he wrote…

Well, ok, but clearly you're in the minority about Blade Runner, which is a widely beloved classic. And part of why it's a classic, and a good adaptation, is that it has little interest in being a faithful adaptation- why should it be? The book's not cinematic, and being faithful means that the best possible result is…

Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Minority Report's pretty good…

You could make a fun action/adventure movie with some thriller elements out of Eye in the Sky

i just read this, so sorry for the late reply, but my understanding is that 'null gravity' as a term refers to when the effects of gravity are nullified- which would include both a theoretical place with no bodies exerting gravity and one of freefall, such as the one in question. apologies if that's incorrect…

There's a Mitch Hedberg bit about how alcoholism is the only disease you get yelled at for having that explains a complicated idea in ten seconds, standups are sometimes great for that

The Stewmaker sounds like someone who shits his pants all the time

Yeah, one of the odd things people seem to miss in talking about the relationship between the Indiana Jones trilogy and the pulp serials they're derived from is that Indy is very consciously made kind of a goofy dork throughout. Him being unnecessary for the plot construction doesn't affect that.

Yeah, it seems weird to assume that Run For Your Life isn't being sung in character- I always thought it exposed the underlying creepiness of a lot of other 'love songs' of the era (Baby, Let's Play House among them)

Yeah, the seemingly noncommittal bullshit of Revolution doesn't seem all that reflected in Lennon's politically committed, if fucked up and full of missteps, post-Beatles life. Plus, who doesn't like angry, bitter John Lennon? Even in the Beatles era it was always just beneath the surface, and when it crested, we got…

unlike gatsby, he intelligently picked something mediocre that had already been ruined that time. as with julie taymore and titus, it turns out that works super well

I'd heard that was someone different, though I can't recall now. Zefirelli is a confirmed anti semite and quasi fascist, though, if that helps

wow, you weren't kidding about that one getting racist as heck

that's not actually what code switching entails, but yes, obviously speaking in different registers has different effects. that doesn't actually lessen the degree to which correcting other people- vocally or under one's breath- for the register in which they're speaking is a dick thing to do, particularly when the…

i was worried because the first one seemed shockingly weak for a joint PFT-Andy Daly appearance, but the others have been gold. I think the first one just had my expectations too high, and needed more of a straight man to bounce off of.

if his complaints were mostly about physics, i'd be totally on board- the thing where objects released in microgravity shouldn't have pull beyond their momentum (with clooney) is a good and significant point, though i think there's actually an answer within the movie. complaints about fudging of how high various…

yeah, but the moon has meaningful gravity. in freefall rotation around the earth, one is in null gravity. that's what makes the environment of the movie surprising. thus, calling attention to that in the title is a good idea.