Well, It wasn't that bad. It was solid if superficial entertainment. If you want something of literary worth, go read a book. Movies aren't really about that anymore. The only way to finance genre pics since the advent of visual effects and unhealthy movie stardom is to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

I agree. I never thought the Watchmen movie got its due.

Too much, too much.

I guess maybe I should give Mieville another chance, but I'm having trouble getting past how big a pile of nonsense Kraken was.

Just because something is difficult doesn't mean it's not worth doing. (Unless you're Homer Simpson).

Likely the moon will turn out to be a Transformer. Like everything else.

Michael Bay can give characters pathos? I'll believe it when I see it!

Yeah, giving renewable, clean energy a chance over the archaic polluting monstrosity that is the oil industry is crazy. Because large masses of people are never wrong and always care about the big picture.

I am Captain Chaos!

Wow. Blink and you miss it.

Researching ways to use solar energy for modern tasks like heating and fueling machinery was taking place 150 years ago. About the same time the first commercial oil well was drilled. History is full of scientists and engineers who lost funding or were forced into a different direction due to cheaper and more "readily…

a) Okay. Shame the energy it emits is so weak we wouldn't be able to take advantage of it without physically travelling all the way to the sun.

Gorgeous.

By all means, don't. Makes more a more entertaining mental image.

It will get canceled at some point. Either when people find out that most of the likable protagonists get killed off in the first season and the ratings take a dive for it, or when the series run out of books to adapt, which will happen after 4 or 5 seasons.

Yeah, my hardbacks have them too. They are a lot more detailed than this one is.

You had me at "Nic Cage".

Those were the days.

The Dark Knight Rises - starring Inception. Co-starring The Prestige.

By that rationale, you're acting immoral every time you use a single penny on anything that doesn't directly aid in the survival of the less fortunate in the world. There will always be someone in the world who'd survive another day if given the money you choose to spend on anything not life-essential, like an…