God forbid Abrams be original when it comes to Star Trek. Time travel and Khan, bravo.

It's all the mother's fault. That final scene when the sisters watch her drive away says it all.

No love for Frank Zappa?

Is Mockingjay worth reading? I read the first two as part of my tutoring gig. We didn't get to the third one. As a libertarian, I tried to emphasize the book as an allegory to statism and economic oppression. But she was 12.

These Hollywood adaptations of Shakespeare plays get crazier and crazier.

Plutarch Heavensbee, which might be the worst fucking name in the history of life, doesn't have a huge role in the book, so it's odd Hoffman is playing him. Whenever Hoffman talks it's like nails on a chalkboard for me, and I'd like to see Katniss shoot an arrow into his throat, but I've read the book, so no luck…

I wish Idris Elba would protect me from terrorists or something…sigh…

I don't buy the criticism of Winston not being a fully realized character. Jess is a nerdy goofball, Nick is neurotic, Schmidt has body issues, and Winston is black. What's the problem here?

Fuck this fucking shit.

If you want to make a convincing movie about people way, way down on their luck, don't cast really handsome and beautiful actors. You'd never find anyone as good looking as Watts and Dillon working minimum wage or repairing VCRs while confined to a wheelchair.

I'm just going to imagine that every time Tyson introduces a new male character to his story, he adds "I didn't know if I was going to fuck him!"

If Teenage Riot and Schizophrenia don't make you want to devour SY's catalog, nothing will. Dirty was their poppiest album, but those two songs are essential to 80s alternative.

I'll scope that shit. Thanks!

I don't know from Dragon Lance, but I was thinking about the river analogy. I think that's the most accurate analogy to showing how historical events and human advancement are inevitable. Maybe you can shift who did something and when and where, but not the actual what too much.

Is it a sign of higher intelligence if Skynet sent the Terminator back in time to kill Sarah Connor if it turns out some other person could galvanize the human resistance? It wouldn't be too smart of Skynet to just assume "I have ensured I will win." What was so special about Sarah Connor? Would she have been able to…

Would the Baby Boom happen if WW2 didn't happen? Jews purposely have large amounts of kids to repopulate their nation because of the Holocaust. Who knows what population growth we'd have if WW2 didn't occur.

Example: Assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand. This did not directly cause WW1, but was the first event that lead to it. He was the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian throne. But the war would not have occurred but for all the underlying tensions of nationalism, colonialism, imperialism, military alliances, etc.,…

"…featuring protagonists who stumble onto something world-changing only to employ it for petty, ultimately ludicrous ends…" Isn't this as it should be? If making money is so petty, why do we go to our jobs in the first place? The astounding technological advance in accidentally inventing a time machine far outweighs…

Who in Hollywood did McGinley piss off so that he has to work on a TBS sitcom?

Wow, what a brave choice for Shia, and/or Rupert!