I've only read two Crichton books, I think. Timeline is the definition of "guilty pleasure" for me, and Eaters of the Dead is better written but not quite as fun (I also quite liked the Antonio Banderas movie when I saw it in a theater, and I still think it's kind of underrated).

Das!

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I shook it so hard I sprayed it all over my table.

I don't know about the vailidity of "people with multiple split personalities".

Even if they were obscure (which they are absolutely not, especially if you've been on the internet for longer than the past two years), onus is not on them to explain every single reference that can be easily googled. If you don't understand what somebody is saying, maybe don't start by attacking them?

Yeah, I thought Oculus was okay, but the ending made me as angry as one can get about these things. It was around that time that I decided to stop watching horror movies unless they get really good reviews. My horror movie watching has improved dramatically since then, as I've only seen Babadook, It Follows, The Witch…

He is starring in number 2, as evidenced by the Arthur movie trailer.

This absolutely looks like a flop. Guy Richie doesn't seem to get that his Sherlock Holmes movies were successful in large part due to Robert Downey Jr. It's not just about slapping a fresh coat of Richie on a public domain character and waiting for the cash to start pouring in.

Nothing blew me away yet this year, The Nice Guys and maybe Green Room coming closest. Of course, there's still time before the end of the year, Ouija 2, Ben-Hur remake and Max Steel have yet to come out.

I was complaining last week that there was not enough Goggins and his background, but I loved the reveal. His superficial charm and sycophancy make a lot of sense now.

I think Stone identifies with the cat: it's (apparently) a pretty ugly one, it stuck around the crime scene for a lot longer than it needed to, and it barely had a few days in the sun before they gassed it.

As someone who's never had it, why doesn't he just wear socks and shoes instead of sandals over the saran wrap if he's so concerned about how it looks? I'm sure you can find shoes that aren't too warm.

Jonah bursting into the focus group, insulting everyone and showing how he doesn't understand the point of focus groups was also gold. I loved the fact that we didn't see what he was doing on the other side of the mirror but we can imagine how his rage slowly came to a boil.

Ooh, great description. Every time I watch it, I enjoy it and think it's one of the best things on TV, but it doesn't really stick with me nearly as much as some other. "lesser" shows do.

Her performance grated on me, but that was a very true-to-life moment.

I'm only halfway through the season so maybe it gets better, but her performance has been pretty terrible so far. Even in the few minutes we see her before she finds out her kid is missing, she is like a parody of a shrill, disheveled mom. I'm sure it's at least partly the writers' fault. I don't know, maybe a…

I actually don't think he's consistently good and some of his catchphrases are pretty lame, but when he's at his best (i.e. funniest), he indeed kicks ass.

On the documentary/news front, Frontline has had a pretty good run this year, with stuff like Natanyahu at War and The Secret History of ISIS, Vice had a surprisingly decent Snowden interview, and John Oliver kicked ass with his Drumpf takedown.

I just hope they manage to maintain a balance between the two aspects, telling rounded hour-long stories in service of an overall plot. Otherwise they risk falling into the same hole that many modern serialized shows do: being so concerned with the overarching storyline that they forget to entertain on a basic single…