I'm currently reading Murray Shanahan's book "The Technological Singularity" (I still don't believe in its feasibility, but Shanahan is a real artificial intelligence expert as opposed to loons like Kurzweil who usually write about the subject), and he mentions that there is a real school of thought that claims that…

It might come back again. These days you can't really count on streaming services to have a movie today even if they had it last month. You aren't supposed to care about movies these days anyway but about the service's own content, like a reboot of Different Strokes or Punky Brewster or something.

Three seems to be the problem. Two bodies or four stigmata should be fine though.

I think possession movies in general only really work as horror to people who actually take the religious background seriously. Otherwise they just look like movies about mentally ill people.

As opposed to consigning even *more* generations of people who didn't sign up for living on an increasingly crowded and polluted planet? I'm pretty skeptical of the feasibility of space colonization myself, but the fact remains that things aren't looking good for future generations no matter *what* gets done.

Depends on the definition. The planets were originally defined by the classical Greeks, meaning things that wandered across the sky as opposed to looking fixed, hence the name. The classical planets were the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Science has a bad habit of taking ancient terms and…

A surprisingly long time actually. We know this because there were still Japanese unsurrendered soldiers in the 1970s!. Also, they weren't isolated to their islands. It is worth remembering that their Chinese colony, Manchukuo, didn't surrender until *after* Japan did.

They were created by artificial insemination?

Except WWI trench-warfare movies. Trench warfare was horrific, but also really boring.

Maybe, but it didn't *have* to give the kid even that.

The Indianapolis was carrying the parts for the Hiroshima bomb, which was arguably *the* most important event in WWII, and one which still has implications for the world today (even if nuclear weapons aren't the current trendy worry), so it was not entirely just a matter of Quint's dialog in Jaws.

It depends on what you mean by "the ending". If it had ended with him praying to the statue of the blue fairy in a sunken New York, then yeah, great dark ending. But it didn't *end* there. I suppose one could charitably argue that all the twee wish-fulfillment bullshit that followed were just delusions.

Don't forget True Stories!

Are we not really counting "Spinal Tap" in the running? It seems all the other mockumentaries are really just trying to capture the brilliance of Stonehenge and "it goes to eleven" and not quite getting there.

The kind of are — unless you are using "ignorant" merely metaphorically, people are ignorant in a literal sense through lack of education. And uneducated people tend to be poor people.

They didn't seem to have a problem with giving the medicine and physiology prize to Japanese twice in a row (although last year Omura was just one of the three, I suppose).

And George Bernard Shaw could sing, but likewise…

But those were the culture of pre-literate peoples, so their works are technically preliterature.

But thanks to the copyright extension act named in his honor, his works will be in perpetual copyright at least.

In all seriousness, having musicians in the competition reminds me a bit of how professional basketballers play in the Olympics now. It just seems to cheapen things a bit.