Ok, non-payment of writers is kind of a deal-breaker for me.

At least Diamonds Are Forever has Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint, a couplea real fuckin' weirdos. Thunderball just has all the action of a regular Bond at 1/5th the speed.

I don't think so- I think he's just aware of Bond as a dangerous and capable agent and wants to kill him just as a test of his own skill. If you ask me, what's weirder in that one is that nobody knows what Scaramanga looks like, but for some reason everybody knows he has a third nipple.

I rewatched Live and Let Die just a few months ago and it was definitely not as bad as I was expecting it to be. It was neat to see so many black actors in a James Bond film, and it came off about as well as a blaxploitation/Bond flick possibly could have. JW Pepper was really the worst part, and Yaphet Kotto as…

Kenny G is like if you put Weird Al in that life-stealing machine from The Princess Bride.

Just like the time I could have met Mr. T at the mall. The entire day, I kept saying, "I'll go a little later, I'll go a little later…" And when I got there, they told me he just left. And when I asked the mall guy if he'll ever come back again, he said he didn't know. Well, I'm never going to let something like that…

Have you considered a Tiny Home? They're awful and compact and almost certainly everyone who purchases one will die in a gruesome murder-suicide after being trapped within its tiny bowels, but at least it's something!

I think it's crucial to helping the audience understand the power and allure of the Ring, as well- Boromir wants it for all the right reasons! He just wants the power to save his family and his people, but the Ring corrupts even that noble desire within him, and he only realizes that at the end.

FRODO: Well, here we are at the Black Gates of Mordor! [points off-screen. A car horn sounds in the distance.]

Side-note: "The Witch-King of Angmar" is a strong contender for all-time coolest fantasy title.

I think your comparison of Moby-Dick and the LotR books is pretty apt in this sense- I wouldn't like it at all if every book tried to do what they do (and of course that was a curse the fantasy genre grappled with for decades after the LotR books came out), but I appreciate the unique voice and perspective of both…

Nah, it's not bitching, I guess. It's just…it is what it is, at this point. I can understand not liking it (I tend to skim the songs and shit myself), but I like how deeply he thought about the world, how personal it feels to him. It feels like such a wonderfully weird, different, formal world.

See, I actually like all the weird side shit in Moby-Dick. For me, it all builds the power of the whale as metaphor- the animal itself comes to contain all meaning. Plus I just find it interesting from a historical perspective. I can't really argue with anyone who finds it boring, but personally I wouldn't change…

No writer is flawless. Tolkien's writing is lovely and lyrical and rightfully made an almost unparalleled impact on the history of popular culture, and no amount of bitching about how dumb all the songs are will ever change that.

I've been meaning to do a reread too, actually. It's funny, I remember the first time I read it, I was maybe 10 or 11, and I fucking loved Boromir, I just thought he was the coolest. I liked him so much that, after I finished Fellowship for the first time, I named my first Dungeons and Dragons character after him.…

I mean, not for nothing, but he's absolutely correct. Boromir's death gets me every single time. It's fucking perfect, one of the best parts of the entire trilogy. The way he keeps fighting, even with all the arrows sticking out of him, the emotional last moments between him and Aragorn…it's high fantasy at its best,…

Had to look that one up- I haven't played a CoD game since the first Black Ops, which left such a bad taste in my mouth that I haven't wanted to return.

*ahem* not to brag but I was a tester on Arkham City and one of the achievements was my idea.

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