Hannibal Hamlin still has the best VP name.

Playing here in several theaters in Seattle for some reason. Their problem is that they need to show it in places where people are both familiar with reading at least some of a 1000+ page book and are quasi-libertarian but aren't aggressively religious. So right-wing large-college towns and… yeah.

I rather doubt anyone will bother. Tea Partiers are VERY busy people and likely don't watch a lot of sci-fi anyway (sometimes they try to sneak ideas into those you know) and while there are specific areas where people take Ayn Rand very, very seriously she's no Donald Trump.

Hey, as long as she gets used to responding to 'Say-orr-eese', she'll do fine. As someone with a (not that rare, I mean really) "odd' name, you just learn to stop complaining about it early on, and eventually even stop being impressed when people do pronounce it like you do. You're hardly dooming a kid to stripping…

That you can find 60 werewolf movies that're above "dreg" level is pretty damned impressive.

Dennis Franz as Homer S. - Portrait of an Ass-Grabber.

Even the most ridiculous ideologies have some kind of logical planks, if only due to incompetence. Even Rand's (the idea, say, that commerce is more central to our social interactions than we are trained to admit, and being more honest about them is better) or, hell, Nazism (elements of economy of scale can provide…

I'm sticking with D+ being the least-compelling grade. D-? Eh. F? Well, there has to be something there. But D+ just comes across as sitting in a theatre trying to figure out how much per minute you're paying for this.

The railroad part is the key to the fundamental failure; they want reality to adapt to the ideology, rather than find a way to adapt the ideology to fit a world that isn't 1957 any more. So instead of taking the old-as-ages standard revenge plot (hero is heroic but oppressed by numerous, morally weaker people, hero…

If your ideology doesn't have a built-in excuse for every failure to adapt to reality, you really need to find a new ideology. Aside from "people like me are what the world needs to be more like" and "people I already hate are not just stupid but immoral", bullshit boilerplate rationalizations are the very core of any…

Breaking Real Bad (hell, it's already a grammatical failure - why not go all the way?). But Really Mad Men sounds good.

Points for not pandering to the widest demographic.
Or any demographic, really. But purity of vision is important!

In my experience, "play hard" means do the same things everyone else does, but always be a raging asshole about every last detail. Golf, tennis, poker, dungeons & dragons, whatever - just so long as everyone is always acutely aware of how aggressively unpleasant you are and how awesome it'll be when you finally suffer…

Oh yes, the qualified apology.
Is there anything less sincere? If you can't even say "Whoops - my bad, didn't mean it" without saying "But you know I'm still mostly right", what you mean is "Fuck you, why should I have to apologize for the truth?!"

Explosions and lasers and metal things crashing and being reduced a many pieces of metal work ons, better on the big screen. As do dragons, dinosaurs and a group of men walking side-by-side in slo-mo down a desert highway or runway. PG-13 nudity? Not so much.

Well, except that whole "being dead" part. Not everyone can recover fully from rape, but most recover at least a little bit - murder, not so much.

Is there a worse grade than D+?
I mean F is reserved for when people don't even try (or fail on purpose), D- is the gentlemen's F for just flat-out incompetence, and D is just kind of generic badness that usually isn't worth anyone's time or interest. But D+ always seems like it's bad, unambiguously bad, but you can…

Chia Mr T
Always the highlight of these.

Yeah, at first I was wondering who, but who else could it be? I even did a text search for "Fisher", 'cause I'm just that lazy.

He strikes me as likable, but when I actually see him in action yeah, it's kinda "meh". It's like reading poorly-translated poetry - you can see what he's going for, and admire the effort, but I keep hoping I'm just seeing off material and the rest is aces that I've just managed to miss. But eventually, I'm going to…