Well, Superman is dead, so its kind of a reboot

Stop visiting redstate.

Sorry if I hit too close to a nerve there, Cookie. No offense intended.

Yeah, the interest deduction is another way the the deck is still stacked favorably towards ownership.

I was civil. You have no reason to be otherwise.

I'm simultaneously glad I had to look up what an "RHONJ" is, and sad that its common enough that google came up with the answer immediately.

I don't think the average person wants to commit a bunch of murders, but I do think there'd be a lot more of them than anyone wants to admit, especially after the first couple years when everyone realizes that, yes, in fact, the whole thing is for real and not some elaborate sting operation.

So do you get the same issue with 2001? Or even Mother in Alien? I'm not trying to be combative, because I totally see where you're coming from. I think what matters to me is if the film is internally consistent, and I think Aliens passes that test, even if I can trace exactly where the ideas are coming from.

From the creators of Gotham.

Oh, and one more huge advantage to mortgages, especially re: @disqus_Kt7f5fvc9w:disqus's comment:

That's only if you look at it through the pure dollars and cents. On the whole, its better to own in just about every respect (though I do call BS on anyone who says its stupid to rent.)

I understand what you're getting at, but looking at it that way is the same kind of fallacy as saying that renting your housing is throwing your money away— no, its not.

Jordan Peele has said he's got some interest in doing another thriller.

While I generally hate remakes, I'm very, very much ready for someone to start up a new Hammer Horror-style series that takes the classic stories and plays them 100% straight. We haven't had a good Dracula movie since the 60s for heaven's sake. There's no reason that film can't be made.

And then they wonder why everyone is watching on DVR instead of live.

I don't really disagree with that at all, other than I'm not sure its 100% fair to judge a movie by modern standards when it was written 30 years ago. (Though it trying to be a depiction of the future does cloud that somewhat).

Which, in turn, are cobbled together from stories that precede them by centuries. I mean, you can say the Odyssey is nothing by recycled oral tradition.

Its a tool like anything else. There's a lot of comedies (cough cough Judd Apatow) where the improving makes a story aimless and overlong.

A lot of Alien was improvised, which isn't a cure-all, but in this case I think it really gave the crew a real-world, grounded foundation. The characters had totally believable camraderie. That breakfast scene is, as you point out, a perfect example. Aliens does something similar, building our connection to the…

Cameron's plotting is actually his really strong suit. You can argue his characters are less than deep, especially in his later films, but the plots are all strong.