The acting during the dialogue sequences actually has way, way more to do with successfully selling a sequence as "action-packed" to the audience than the effects during the action sequences.

A guy who murders drug dealers and takes their drug money isn't really a better person than the drug dealers themselves unless you have a really, really anti- attitude toward drug dealers. (Teddy is clearly no Omar from The Wire even so — he's motivated mostly by self-interest.)

A guy who murders drug dealers and takes their drug money isn't really a better person than the drug dealers themselves unless you have a really, really anti- attitude toward drug dealers. (Teddy is clearly no Omar from The Wire even so — he's motivated mostly by self-interest.)

Tell him that all the movies he like that go forwards are just ripoffs of the Epic of Gilgamesh, which did that first.

Tell him that all the movies he like that go forwards are just ripoffs of the Epic of Gilgamesh, which did that first.

What happens to Leonard in the movie is clearly a mixture of brain damage and post-traumatic psychogenic fugue — he has genuinely lost the physical ability to form new memories but he has *also* altered the episodic memories of the events before his accident due to psychological trauma causing him to want to…

What happens to Leonard in the movie is clearly a mixture of brain damage and post-traumatic psychogenic fugue — he has genuinely lost the physical ability to form new memories but he has *also* altered the episodic memories of the events before his accident due to psychological trauma causing him to want to…

The "Who am I?" cliche is much more likely to be purely psychologically caused than to be the genuine result of neurological damage, and is the result of the patient seeking to dissociate themselves from their past identity and past traumatic events.

The "Who am I?" cliche is much more likely to be purely psychologically caused than to be the genuine result of neurological damage, and is the result of the patient seeking to dissociate themselves from their past identity and past traumatic events.

Wow, you're seriously in the camp that thinks of women choosing to terminate their pregnancies as a failure for themselves and society. I know I need to subscribe to your newsletter.

Wow, you're seriously in the camp that thinks of women choosing to terminate their pregnancies as a failure for themselves and society. I know I need to subscribe to your newsletter.

Stephen Colbert isn't actually French; the way he pronounces his name is an affectation. The rest of the family pronounces it the English way, and his family origin is Irish-Catholic.

Stephen Colbert isn't actually French; the way he pronounces his name is an affectation. The rest of the family pronounces it the English way, and his family origin is Irish-Catholic.

Better to pull a reverse Pierce than pull a Pierce.

Better to pull a reverse Pierce than pull a Pierce.

Every day another reason to be depressed I'm an American.

Every day another reason to be depressed I'm an American.

All "card check" means is letting unions have an election without going through the rigmarole of a secret-ballot election, which in practice always does in fact lead to what I talked about — having a long campaigning period where management can threaten and manipulate employees, having the election as this big public…

Well, stuff like the Jedi Knight game series actually ended up pretty closely integrated — later EU books make lots of references to Kyle Katarn and his adventures, they shoehorned Mara Jade in there and were basically shipping her and Kyle for a while before the Mara/Luke romance became holy writ, etc.

Well, stuff like the Jedi Knight game series actually ended up pretty closely integrated — later EU books make lots of references to Kyle Katarn and his adventures, they shoehorned Mara Jade in there and were basically shipping her and Kyle for a while before the Mara/Luke romance became holy writ, etc.