A possible (though erroneous) interpretation is that they thought they'd do something nice in recognition of a well known cast member from the original series but leapt to an assumption about a member of a group that proved to be wrong (cardinal sin of many of us is assuming everyone in a group might think the same…

I thought a reasonable solution would have been to make two characters gay or non-heterosexually identifying. I'll leave it to others to suggest who.

I think the movie Free Enterprise had the right idea:

Look hypothetically speaking, Sulu could have been Kinsey 1. So in the original TOS timeline, just never met the right guy so to speak and maybe didn't even know/ consider it was a possibility,

How about this for a spectrum? There's straight people who'd never have a relationship with the same sex (Kinsey zero). There's straight people who just never met that right one or few people of the same sex who they would have had a relationship with so never knew that was a possibility (so basically we couldn't tell…

Well, I've mentioned it here earlier, 1408 started life as an example as to how to write a short story (as I guess you know) and I was hoping he'd complete it one day, which he did and it's my favourite short story of his. The way he builds dread just with the descriptions is exceptional. Once again, I don't know what…

His earlier short story collections (especially Night Shift and Skeleton Crew), the best stories in them are very good. Also , well, short stories, so short and you can read them very quickly. 1408 especially knocks the movie into a cocked hat. Probably the best place to start especially if you've only got so much…

"which is one of the few King works I really know!"

It was fascinating in the sense that they'd managed to suck anything compelling out of the comparative scenes in the book, which is to say not fascinating at all. I wouldn't say I was awestruck as to how bad it was (it was too bland for that) but it wasn't forgettable either in the sense that in those classic memory…

The only ground that the Cell movie was at the middle of was that used for nuclear testing. It's that shoddily put together. I get the whole subjective nature of reviews thing but this one was so badly put together from script to cinematography to everything that I'm just not seeing it, especially in light of the…

I don't have to get anything. I was just stating what's in the article, it's not a disputed fact that the role was originally written for someone else. I think I'll leave it at that.

But it was so cheap looking! By itself not the be all and end all but they stripped every last interesting thing out of the book. Then there's that ending. I thought the book had a clever idea as to how the man who made the bomb beat the all knowing hive mind (all knowing, not all understanding) and sacrificed himself…

No-one's going to mistake me for someone with just a tan.

The role was actually for McCarthy originally,

You don't happen to have any idea what the C for "Cell" from A. A. Dowd of all people was supposed to be? Stone Cold F, I would have thought.

*raises hand* If it helps at all, I'm on the Internet and I'm cross with Bill Murray, though that's first and foremost for all the grief he gave Ramis for actually trying to make Groundhog Day into a good film (which he succeeded at), the twenty years of alienation for trying to get Murray to do what he, the director…

Salt did OK, $293.5 million on a $110 million budget worldwide (>$118 million in the US). Other fun trivia, was a potential Tom Cruise vehicle at one point.

We had Michelle Yeoh in Tomorrow Never Dies, IMO, that was the best way to show how a woman could rival Bond while doing their own thing in the series I've seen. I especially loved the look Pierce Brosnan's Bond gave her when he saw here walking down that wall at right angles to reality.

James Marsters and Alexis Denisof have the fakest American accents ever for people who were born and grew up in the US, don't you think?

Lake Bell fooled the cast and crew on that film she did with Simon Pegg (Man Up) into thinking she was English.