Ellen McLain is the voice actress credited with GlaDOS.  She's the most popular character of the Portal franchise.  I'm glad to see her get work on a big-budget film like this.

Ellen McLain is the voice actress credited with GlaDOS.  She's the most popular character of the Portal franchise.  I'm glad to see her get work on a big-budget film like this.

So this is GlaDOS vs Cthulhu?  OK, I can be down with that.

So this is GlaDOS vs Cthulhu?  OK, I can be down with that.

Sweet.  Loan a guy a hundo, bro.

Sweet.  Loan a guy a hundo, bro.

Just because your band is popular, with many tens of thousands of fans across the world does not mean you are a millionaire. 

Just because your band is popular, with many tens of thousands of fans across the world does not mean you are a millionaire. 

Yes, yes he is.

Yes, yes he is.

I got the impression that Mel is drawing a distinction between books and movies.  If a book is good, but is 300 pages of talking, inner monologue and debates about, say, a war or a battle or other "action", rather than the action itself, it's not going to adapt to film well without ramping up the action, and going to…

I got the impression that Mel is drawing a distinction between books and movies.  If a book is good, but is 300 pages of talking, inner monologue and debates about, say, a war or a battle or other "action", rather than the action itself, it's not going to adapt to film well without ramping up the action, and going to…

What about Pigs in Spaaaaace?

What about Pigs in Spaaaaace?

Other than the fact that the main, top-dog general/leader/commander of the entire Rebel Alliance (in Ep4) is a woman, General Mon Mothma, they might have a point. Though I think an absence of black characters and more equitable distribution of female characters is more a cause of Hollywood, in general as there is a…

Other than the fact that the main, top-dog general/leader/commander of the entire Rebel Alliance (in Ep4) is a woman, General Mon Mothma, they might have a point. Though I think an absence of black characters and more equitable distribution of female characters is more a cause of Hollywood, in general as there is a…

That adaptation has no disrespect.  It's a word-for-word presentation, doing nothing but setting it in the 20th century, though everyone speaks Shakespearean English.

That adaptation has no disrespect.  It's a word-for-word presentation, doing nothing but setting it in the 20th century, though everyone speaks Shakespearean English.

Only very small towns in the western part of the state.. the mountains between Virginia proper and West Virginia.  Some of those communities are so…. landed… that the Southern accent of the region has not deviated much, if at all, from the Queen's English.

Only very small towns in the western part of the state.. the mountains between Virginia proper and West Virginia.  Some of those communities are so…. landed… that the Southern accent of the region has not deviated much, if at all, from the Queen's English.