So it boils down to: "Fuck you, I got mine."  That's actually refreshingly honest.

Haven't conservatives moved past that awkward, painful "thinking" activity?  I thought they just "believed" stuff… I understand that's much less effort.

The line "your basic human needs disgust me" got one of the biggest laughs at the show I saw.

That's right!  How could I forget Pumpkinhead… one of good ol' Lance Henriksen's finer genre outings…

I caught a glimpse of what looked like a multi-bladed robotic killing machine in one of the pods, and was sure it was a (very) brief shout-out to "Chopping Mall".

Is *that* what it said!  Thanks, skittledog; I wasn't able to read it at the showing I saw.

There's a good deal of comedy too, most of it pretty clever.  I found myself intermittently laughing out loud pretty much all the way through.

The moment the "force field" is revealed for the first time, you know you're in fantasyland.  Fortunately, it's a really, clever, dark, funny fantasy.

Not to mentioned pheromone-d out of her mind in the forest scene.

All I know is that I'd cheerfully spend an entire evening listening to Michelle Yeoh read the phone book.

"Congress to be voted into the White House"?  Man, the Oval Office must be awfully crowded!

You finally finish building that trebuchet?

Of course, the absence of the ring at the end could also indicate that in his dream of reunion with his children, he's laid his wife's memory to rest.  So no easy tipoff there, either.

Now you've done it.  SEAL Team Six is closing on your position even now.

It is?  Sweet!  Set up a statue of me in patriot's square!

In a white wine sauce?

HGL:  I'd explain to you what "loan fraud" means, but I suspect I'd be wasting my time.

Miller doesn't leave the house any more, for fear that he'll run into Allan Moore.

As a mid-40's professional, I am your financial - and therefore moral and intellectual - superior.  Your commentary is summarily rejected.  Now, till the soil for my benefit.  ;-D

I always took that as a sterling example of the utter contempt she had for anyone reading the book.  The authorial supposition seems to be that after over a thousand pages of being beaten in the head with her 'philosophy', you're STILL too stupid to get it.  So here it is, one more time!