I really fucking hated "They Came Together"; a tedious collection of jokes whose points were hammered home so remorselessly that the only image evoked is some idiot mindlessly flagellating moribund horseflesh.
Also, and this is profoundly shallow, I realise, who the fuck would ever envisage Amy Poehler as some fantasy…

I also just watched Lucy. I also just read Ted Chiang's, "Understand", a short story that explores the same premise, but with less gunfire or fake blood .
You might enjoy it more; I certainly did.

"…Topsy-Turvy was incredibly inaccurate"

Is a "birder" the same as a twitcher? Twitchers are insane. I knew one who hitch-hiked from Sweden back to England to see some "rara avis in terris", as they say.

He's over at Marvel comics, fighting Iron Man and resurrecting Fin Fang Foom (who so needs to be in one of those movies, by the way.)

"…the white wizard Gandalf"

Huh. I thought the Stanley Cup was something to do with yachting.

One of her eyes is narrower than the other.

So, are we hoping for, "a miracle of rare device", or what?

Does anyone else hear the echoes of impending doom?

No love for Black Rain?
I haven't seen it in a while, but I remember a review which claimed that in that movie (and by implication the rest of Scott's, uh, oeuvre) the real pleasure is not found in the narrative; which often eschews conventional (and coherent) forms, but in the textural depth, the immersion into a…

No; as a bonus side effect of "dwarf star density" (it says here), he is also much stronger than a man of his regular human size would be. He's also extremely smart, although his love life in the comics suggests his "E.Q." may be closer to Sheldon Cooper levels.

Okay, what I really want to see is Ray Palmer don his ATOM suit, shrink down and heal Ollie from the inside, like Ant Man did with The Vision. A bottle show where most of the story takes place inside Ollie would be awesome!

"…Ray Palmer… reveals he plans to retrofit Queen Consolidated’s OMAC
plans as something he instead calls ATOM, the plan in both cases being
to help law enforcement better protect the people of Starling City. Also, Ray mentions making things smaller, which I take as an encouraging sign."

Phil has a couch fork! I thought I was the only one.
He'd totally get me ; if he was, y'know, real.

But even running in my local park I have swallowed the odd bug, or gotten one in my eye. At six, maybe seven, miles an hour, no problem, but at several times the speed of sound? They are going to hurt, at the very least. And those little fuckers are everywhere in the summer. Who can manoeuvre that fast?
I'll bet if…

Once I'd looked up "synecdoche", I totally agreed with your post.

I read this before I watched the episode, and, upon viewing, immediately felt I detected a frisson between the two. Of course, I'd been primed by the post and was probably noodling myself ; all you see is what they want you to see. Anything else you bring with you.

I read an episode of Flash, where he was able to integrate the, uh, "speed force "(or whatever) into the way he perceived his environment. It ended up being awfully like the dude in that episode of Fringe, who could drop a pencil at exactly the right moment and precipitate a cascade of events that would end in a fatal…

Chafed.
Chaff is the crap gets left behind when you winnow grain.