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Good argument re: Ottomanness of Calormenes

Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

A Wrinkle In Time
I feel you, Rabin.
I got into an argument over A Wrinkle in Time as an adult, my position being that it really wasn't that Christian. My only defense is that I hadn't read it in a ages and not since I was fairly young.
Then I went back and reread the book, and I had to eat my words.

I almost forgot!
"The Dwarves are for the Dwarves!"

*The Horse and His Boy

A Horse and His Boy isn't really a whole lot better.
And book 7 WAS bullshit.

Best wiki quote ever
In the entry for the movie Breakin' (a film now mostly famous for spawning the sequel title of all sequel titles):
Ice-T has stated that he considers the film and his own performance in it to be "wack."

Ever watch the Venture Brothers?

Lambert was a way better Raiden. He was all dark and mysterious and yet with a sense of humor. The new Raiden was just a doofus.
God bless whatever genetic mutation created the Lambert Brow.

I'm in.

This is what I'm saying, alurin, though you put it much more succinctly.

The problem with breaking it down that far is trusting Paramount (again, the people who brought you The Last Airbender) to boil down a novel without boiling down the characters too far. If you take out the stuff about religion, ecology, politics, gender, war, etc. (some of it meh and some of it heavy-handed, but some…

Calvinism's logically fatalistic world view is pretty much the best path out of Christianity.

For voice and for looks and especially for brains, Sarah Vowell is on my list of 5.

Nobody did it better than Mary Martin.
nobody

I foresee a lot of bitching (and me being defensive) when "Fistful of Datas" finally comes up.

In Germany it's "Jesulhoff."

James Bond
How can you NOT include this Man?
From Casino Royale: "To Bond, the best drink of the day, was the drink he had in his head before the first drink of the day."

…good stories are hardly ever a matter of starting at point A and then showing all the steps that led to points B through Zed.
Zed?
Handlen, are you… Are you Canadian?

Love the Count of Monte Cristo. Pearce, and the whole cast really, do a fantastic job with a plot that calls for big performances. The script certainly has its flaws, but I actually like the major changes they made to the novel (spoilers for an 8 year old movie ahead). In the book, Villefort is the main villain, and…