Yeah, the studio's title is no better, is it? Sounds like a documentary about the collapse of the US manufacturing sector.

Agreed. 6 was terrible. Haven't been able to muster the enthusiasm to watch 7.

This movie looks like a fanfic Morticia Addams/Charles Manson ship.

Classicist??

Yeah, it does look like Schrader decided to remake Taxi Driver as a comedy.

I like McConaughey in a lot of things, but he does tend to rely on stone-faced vocal-fry mumbling whenever he's trying to be a Serious Act-or.

Wild Cards isn't a single story, it's an anthology of short stories by numerous sf/fantasy/horror writers set in a shared universe. Some of the stories are incredibly good (Howard Waldrop's "Thirty Minutes Over Broadway" is magnificent). How well these stories would adapt to a long-form TV series is another matter,…

It is, of course, the Party of Other People's Personal Responsibility.

Well, it would make the movie ticket deductible, wouldn't it?

No, I think it was the perfect choice. The point is not just that Dylan's song was an iconic piece of history, but it carries a double meaning about this being an alternative reality. Pity about the rest of the film.

Yes, but in the comics it's a small bit of text in the background that helps set the scene. In movies, it can overwhelm the narrative.

Ozymandias was undoubtedly the hardest part to cast, but that still doesn't make Matthew Goodes any better as a choice.

Not just famous people.

Well, I for one hated the way Bieber's most inane songs became so embedded in pop culture that you couldn't escape them. But I don't blame Bieber for that. The planet is full of teenagers writing bad songs. I blame the music industry.

Yep. Tons of young pop stars have wealth thrown at them too early. All of them struggle with it. But only a few of them keep up their dickishness indefinitely.

And Ellison ripped off H.G. Wells!

Trump is running on an anti-establishment agenda, so he could very well get a lot of votes from conservative voters who hate what happened in Flint and would normally punish the Republicans for it but now can justify voting once again for the party that caused the disaster. It allows them to have their cake and eat it…

But Trump has already encouraged the Russian secret service to hack Clinton's emails — if that hasn't put off the nationalists, what would?

I understand that's the contemporary model for getting rich, but creating endless lines of shell companies that collapse, leaving you with your compensation and the investors with nothing is NOT being a good businessman. Good business operators meet a market need, build their brand, and run profits or build assets…

You know, a $20 billion money pile should be good for an awful lot of extravagant spending without noticeably shrinking.