I just saw the art, and my first thought was did Judge Death become a Power Ranger? Is this being set in the Dredd universe?

That really is a lot of thirst for what (macabre grin aside) looks like a fairly standard Power Rangers costume.

Yeah. You only open with that if ultimately it’s not what it looks like. And we don’t see any of it happen; all we actually know is there was a lot of screaming, a bunch of people died, and Eleven used her powers at some point.

I agree with all of this. Milius definitely created a culture that felt pre-modern in a way that a lot of other ‘80s and subsequent sword and sorcery films really didn’t, just by leaving out all the quippy dialogue and letting Conan and his friends express themselves with their physicality.

It was a money making venture. It’s a grain mill. Spinning the wheel grinds grain into flour.

Wait, is that little girl a white male? Damn, he’s one fine actor! I really believed that he was a little girl. 

Part of it is an accident of timing. If he was as big today as he was in the ‘80s, he’d have the kind of contract JK Rowling and other big authors tend to get, with script and director approval. Back in the ‘80s Hollywood wasn’t at all concerned with faithful adaptations, and a lot of the time, they just wanted to be…

Yeah, Road Warrior is a good comp. Conan isn’t looking for trouble, but trouble keeps coming his way. There are a hundred classic Westerns with the same basic premise. And I would add that the crypto-fascism interpretation doesn’t really work for a character whose preferred mode is solitude - group identity and…

The big question that nobody is asking is, what are the Na’avi really? It’s obvious that Cameron put a lot of thought into how his world worlds, and all the animals we see on Pandora are based on a common body plan, with four eyes and six limbs. All except for the Na’avi, who have two eyes and four limbs like us. So…

It can be that due to the physical and emotional connection the que provides - it is necessary for sex but ... man, so what? We use our mouths for eating and sex, some folks use there butt’s for sex and pooping and folks with d*icks use them for sex and peeing. The vast majority of external appendages have multiple…

You’ve spent way too much time thinking about a movie that does not deserve that much thought. 

Sigh.

Well, if the definition of “rogue nation” is ignoring international law, I’d say the U.S. fits. How else would you describe a country that passed a law compelling the president to authorize an invasion of the Hague should any of its servicemen (let alone the leaders ultimately responsible) be arrested for war crimes?

Never bet anything you can’t afford to lose.

I’m sick of prequels. I blame George Lucas.  I’m an old man who yells at clouds.

Hey Marvel. Make the Fantastic Four movie your first proper MCU musical movie.

That Dune: Sisterhood description sounds nothing like how it went down in the Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson books and that’s a good thing.

What, you aren’t just fascinated by “...and then there was King Aelon III, who married his sister and was killed by a dragon, and he was succeeded by King Jaemaerys VIII, who married his niece, went mad, and threw himself off a cliff, so he was succeeded by King Rhaeghoyl II, who was married to his second cousin but…

What I find sort of annoying is that he routinely HIMSELF mentions the damn book in these missives he releases. And then acts oh so put upon. Dude, if you stfu about it you would get SO much less shit.

It’s the literary equivalent of Zeno’s “Dichotomy Paradox” - every book only gets you half-way closer to the end, so there’s always another one needing to be written, even as the ending never seems to get any closer.