Cocaine is a hell of a drug. Also, fuck, how the hell does a director go and land a gig like that? He must have been a smooooth talker.

Makes sense. I never understood why anyone thought 47 Ronin would be a success.

Shouldn't we be more upset about the ever cozzying up between Hollywood and Censorship happy China?

This is indeed a weird hill to die on, but probably also a good point.

Oh no, that was not meant as a slight against Costner, I meant that Costner has had a lot of starring roles lately in Mr. Brooks, Three Days to Kill and whatever else along those lines.

….wow. he is awesome.

I know people like to make fun of him as an actor, but I like his screen presence. I agree with hollywood ditching women something awful and they certainly do it much more terribly to women than men, I don't mean to minimize that in the least, however it seems like a lot of actors, Kevin Costner, Kurt Russell, Keanu,…

He kind of disappeared for a while but he seems to be popping up in a lot of things lately. Is it just because he's older so hollywood doesn't like him anymore?

I saw John Wick a couple of weeks after seeing The Raid. I wish John Wick was more a martial arts movie than a gun movie. Still a lot of stylish fun.

But wouldn't the computer that runs this simulation not be anything like the computers that you and I are communicating with right now? Wouldn't the computers operate on a level indistinguishable from our physics?

Nope.

Yeah, I mean, no reason to not find out. Maybe not exactly the most pressing need of investing resources but kind of a cool thought.

So here's the thing though right. All matter is basically a form of information, and a computer program is also all information. What is the difference between simulation and reality when they are both simply information? You need to write code to change the information in a program and you need to do chemistry in…

Very true. The human mind doesn't work like a computer. I am pretty sure there are a few books out there explaining the difference between the two.

Yes exactly and Mario wouldn't function very well in this reality…….oooorrr he would be a very good plumber.

Which never made any sense in the movie. They have that Matrix like training program. They could go into it whenever they wanted for some T-Bones.

I think I was 8 or 9 when I saw JP in theaters. She's old enough.

Do it buddy! Use the spacial reasoning and editing of this film as a template

She really destroys the trope of kick ass women who are basically sexy men with lady parts. I would love to read some modern day feminist interpretation of this film series.

Touché, I guess part of my complaint with that is that although both rely on dread, a haunted house can fill you with dread and fear of the unknown, Alien fills you with dread and wonder and fear of an unknown you didn't even know was possible. That could just be because I haven't seen enough horror films though.