Gore is passe.   You want box office dynamite, The Secret Sex Lives of the Nazgul is your ticket.

Smeagol/Gollum spent 500 years in a cave under the Misty mountains.   You could make like 20 movies out of that alone.

Smeagol/Gollum spent 500 years in a cave under the Misty mountains.   You could make like 20 movies out of that alone.

Let the snobs win just once.  It would be a breath of fresh air.  The slobs have won so many times that they aren't even underdogs anymore.   The snobs are the underdogs.

Let the snobs win just once.  It would be a breath of fresh air.  The slobs have won so many times that they aren't even underdogs anymore.   The snobs are the underdogs.

Thumbs down on Paloma Faith.  Linked song is thoroughly uninteresting, as is her singing.   And that fucking hair is enough to make Vidal Sassoon rise from his grave and punch her in the face.

Thumbs down on Paloma Faith.  Linked song is thoroughly uninteresting, as is her singing.   And that fucking hair is enough to make Vidal Sassoon rise from his grave and punch her in the face.

Funny, I feel that way about the Ramones.   I can't imagine anyone will ever challenge them for the title of most overrated band.  Doors are overrated too, but their overratedness is overrated.

Funny, I feel that way about the Ramones.   I can't imagine anyone will ever challenge them for the title of most overrated band.  Doors are overrated too, but their overratedness is overrated.

@ tibber:

@ tibber:

How do you think he does it?

How do you think he does it?

He any good at pinball?

He any good at pinball?

Perhaps she reconsidered the merits of the pod people, and decided they were the superior race.   So she wasn't actually a pod person herself, just a human who changed her mind.  Women do that sometimes.

Perhaps she reconsidered the merits of the pod people, and decided they were the superior race.   So she wasn't actually a pod person herself, just a human who changed her mind.  Women do that sometimes.

Not really the same.   IOTBS is essentially a story of genocide.   I like the idea of emotional pod people being the ones who commit genocide against an emotionless race.  Maybe that's how we were created back in the day.  We could be pod people.

Not really the same.   IOTBS is essentially a story of genocide.   I like the idea of emotional pod people being the ones who commit genocide against an emotionless race.  Maybe that's how we were created back in the day.  We could be pod people.

I've always thought it would be cool to do this movie in reverse:  the humans start as soulless, emotionless automatons, and the pod people are emotional creatures who feel love and joy and have an affinity for art, philosophy, and spirituality.    The non-emotional humans defend themselves and their non-emotional…