As per some of the comments — yes, for movies I really like. In fact, what I'll do when I get the DVD/BR is sit and watch the film once sans commentary, then go through the deleted scenes and (some of) the special features, and then re-watch the film with the commentary on.

Being a Navy brat (with a ret. Navy pilot brother-in-law), I went into the movie with low expectations. With that mindset, I enjoyed it more than I might have otherwise. I'm not sure I find the actions of the captain and crew credible, but, hey, it's a network TV show — what else is new? Overall, the show somehow…

Sort of a post-universe Mayan calendar, then. :-) Great post; I did actually LOL.

I thought that "Last Resort" was going to be pretty stupid, watched it anyway, and was somewhat surprised, pleasantly. It did have at least one massive violation of physics in it (regarding how long it would take a certain object to travel from point A to point B), and I suspect that active duty and retired Navy…

Saw it today with my wife and adult daughter. There was a bit of blurriness in a few of the scenes — couldn't tell if that was a problem with the IMAX projector or with the film itself. But otherwise, it was great and held up very well. I was also struck by how young and good looking both Harrison Ford and Karen Allen…

HP-67 calculator. It sits on my desk and is plugged in; I use it once ever week or two to do some simple calculations.

The trailers I've seen left me wondering what the actual story arc was beyond, "A magical boy appears and solves everyone's problems." Your review seems to indicate that is, in fact, all the movie is about.

Yeah, that was my thought — his voice sounds too young. :-)

Tim Powers. Ignore Pirates #4 (which would have been a vastly better movie if they had simply done a decent adaptation of "On Stranger Tides"). Powers has great stuff to adapt: The Anubis Gates; the Last Call series; The Stress of Her Regard; and most of all, Declare.

I see a number of problems with confusing this counting of English phrases from published books with the actual evolution of the English language itself, particularly with regards to the "most common" phrases of a certain length. For starters, the (male) literacy rate in England in 1500 was on the order of 10% or so,…

OK, the Perlman/Jane"Punisher" short was better in 10 minutes that the vast majority of full-length action/revenge films ever released commercially.

"Part of it is its immense age - when this asteroid hit, Earth was only a third its current size."

Jack Vance — a horribly under-appreciated writer — traveled heavily and lived abroad through much of his writing career, which I believe is one reason why his invented cultures manage to be at once outre and yet believable.

I started reading science fiction and fantasy at age 8 (1961 or so) and over the next several years read everything I could find by Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, and Norton (not to mention the Tom Swift Jr series). Bradbury kept popping up in there as well. Now, 50 years later, I find it's Bradbury's words and images that…