So what's more insufferable? Novels about struggling schlubby writers who need sex from really hot sexy women to get back their mojo, or movies about people losing their enchantment with the world of cinema by working in it, and slowly losing the ability to tell the reel (hehe) from the real? My vote: musicians…

"Imagine you aren't you. Write something that such a person would care about, but is close enough to you to know about to write well. But Jesus Fucking Christ, mix it up a little."

Tuna salad won't change your life, but it's worth trying.

The review reads like "the sort of thing you would like if you like this sort of thing", which is always code for "I'm not sure why this was made".

Two more than me (though I actually did see the first hour of Zodiac before I got distracted and never finished)!

In college I read multiple reports that said that (this was pre-Chernobyl, fwiw) that more people die every year just transporting coal than have ever been killed by non-weapon nuclear power. Throw in greenhouse gases, mining non-safety and the like and even with the famous plant accidents, it's not even in the same…

Uh, dude. If some solar storm knocks worldwide power out for two months, nuclear reactors are so far down the list of concerns they might as well be on the CW. I mean, hey, if a comet slams into North America, our nuclear reactors might have trouble shutting down correctly, too! We'd all be dead and not care, but…

I always did like how they were this big deal people kept tearing out their hair over, but as soon as actual enemies showed up they are reduced to barely an afterthought. Like worrying all week about your fantasy football team only to find out on Friday that all your kids have cancer.

One sci-fi trope that always bugs me is the constant idea that the super-soldier will be a rage-filled, hate-driven killing machine, unstable and largely-uncontrollable in combat. It makes so little sense - once repeating firearms came into use, that's not a "super-soldier", but a friendly-fire disaster waiting to…

Yeah."When".

If he can fly, why does he need to leap over buildings?

It's easier to write a good story about, say, time-travelling unicorns than it is one about a block of granite that somehow solves crimes. It can be done, but when you're talking about a character that's been in continuous use for 80 years, a hard-to-write character going to have a much higher rate of shitty stories…

Hey, where's Tommy? Someone find Tommy
We're out on the road
Moving equipment, where's the equipment
Soon we're going home

We all agree that "fan service" is pretty much an insult now, right? I mean, it used to be you'd put in some easter eggs as a clever bit, but now, in the post-ironic age, it just means "please someone watch, we'll give you a virtual handie, we promise!" Hey, you've managed to identify some superficial aspect of you…

So, once again, just because you have a good subject doesn't automatically mean you have a good documentary. hell, in some cases, it might be harder. Showing the plight of minorities being harassed, attacked and murdered by self-assured bigots is instantly compelling in a way that, say, trying to score the highest at…

Yeah. Between governments elected off of 15-second attack ads and corporate bosses unclear what product they're making and utterly disinterested in anything beyond next quarter's results anyway, it's hard to feel safe with anyone operating these things. We're just not that good at running organizations and that's why…

Oh noes! The complaint isn't that she directs what she knows, but that she proceeds as if those things are intrinsically interesting without actually demonstrating why. It's like listening to someone describe their dreams, only with her, you have to pay money.

On the surface this sounds terrible, and the review still gives me the feeling that I'd have to buy in to a lot to actually enjoy it, which I have no intention of doing. So maybe it's not terrible at all, but I'm not going to bother to find out. Just thought it was important for everyone to know.

Bunmi?

Wow. That sounds much worse.