I think this is a truth some people could stand to realize: just because a movie comes out of Europe does not automatically mean it is worth a shit.

He revised his Brown Bunny review when he saw a different cut.

I'll always like Ebert for being one of the few mainstream critics who appreciated and understood exactly what Punisher: War Zone was doing, and only gave it two stars "because it's simply so disgusting".

Probably because he judged it Watchmen as the movie it was instead of the adaptation people wished it was.

I really hated how they cut zombie Stephen out of the story. Hanging Pharisees with his outlaw disciple brothers, boo-yah!

Probably not. Why in the world would you trust them?

Only if their ratings go down because of it. Which they probably won't, because the fanbase that started out with the show has altered significantly. Book readers are now only a small percentage.

What, you think Locke's story arc wasn't a stroke of genius?

How did she disappear? She's basically the ending of AFFC, and then Brienne is leading Jaime to her in ADWD.

I don't think there's any kind of happy ending for that character, but I do think she'll have an important impact on at least two characters, obviously.

That is faulty logic. Martin has said the show is a separate entity and he was very concerned about the "butterfly effect" of the removal/deaths of supposedly minor characters and how the show writers were going to handle the rewriting to make it work out towards where his plot was heading. And the answer is, they…

Wouldn't this make her less important? Unless they've come up with an interesting alternate plot for her.

The longest two weeks of our lives! Think of the next 8 months!

Probably didn't want to outright say no. Depends on how much she got paid for 24: Live Another Day. It may be hard to believe but I think as a working actor you get paid more to be on some shitty network show than you do on these HBO dramas.

I think you would see more scenes that take place in an interior room instead of in the Irish countryside. Which, I mean, okay. Why not? Well, at this point, the show's plot is moving towards having to have more exterior scenes, so…I don't think it's in the cards.

GRRM, cutting things? You jest.

Well, you do have to wonder who is going to eat those honeyed locusts.

Folderol. Balderdash. Bally-hoo.

No we wouldn't.

That factor is kind of the point of the thing, though. You lose all the texture and flavor with all these cuts and revisions. It's like a bad, dry steak versus a good, juicy steak. They both fill you up. But wouldn't you rather have the juicy steak?