Yeah, the final CGI-laden fight and the fact that they just *had* to have sex both seemed like studio mandates that Jenkins kind of grudgingly caved to (seriously that scene could have just ended with them dancing in the snow and it could have either been left ambiguous or they could have had the Peggy Carter/Jarvis…

dl;dr bye-e!

As for your old lady: maybe she'll be offended. Maybe she'll think it's hilarious. Obviously you know you run the risk of offending her, but whether she is or is not actually offended is out of your hands. Note I am not saying that people have a right not to be offended (obviously this is impossible since people can…

Umm, no, we are not opposite sides of the same coin. I'm not suggesting who should be offended. Could be you are right. Maybe not one single person is bothered by this. The point is you don't get to say that they "shouldn't be offended".

"…not one black person should be offended…'

I've heard (and like) the song (even if the Dido part started to grate on me after repeated listens), but I'd never heard "Stan" used out of the context of the song (though to be fair I'm a 43 year old white man, so I'm hardly on the cutting edge of language development).

Eh, I think it's someone who he's known for a long time whose views may have evolved (or rather devolved) over time. The douchenozzle in question also lives far away so they don't interact much.

Hey, don't ask *me* to defend them. :P

The Mummy is the following Friday. Not sure if that counts as "big", but it's certainly heavily advertised and I'd expect it to be at least modestly successful.

That'd be nice. I also hope they can at least slowly push away from the unrelenting gray. I actually don't mind the slow motiony fighting when it's done well - feels comic booky and a good contrast with the Jason Bourne "what the hell is going on" style of fight shooting.

I don't think "below average" means what you think it means…

Sorry to break this to you, but that's not where babies come from.

Evidently. I'd look it up but…I don't want to.

No there's some MRA documentary called Red Pill or Take the Red Pill or whatever. I'd look it up, but I literally don't want it in my browser history. From the person's brief rant before our mutual friend wisely said "ok, let's not talk about this" I guess female reporters in men's locker rooms is supposed to be the…

Nah, that would be over the top.

Christ, I almost got into it with a friend-of-a-friend last weekend when he brought this up and I said "why on earth do you care?" and he started in about how I should watch Red Pill or whatever it is called.

My sister and her husband used to live like a block from that old railroad bridge. They could walk over it to get to the boardwalk. It was not, in fact, over a bottomless chasm…

Yeah, pretty much that. They did bother to do a misdirect with the "but you invited me in" thing. I remember it seemed really arbitrary that they just happened to be right ("hey that guy is only in his shop at night and he has a mean dog. He must be a vampire!").

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm…

Yep, I remember not having any idea who Mel Torme was but getting the idea though this (and, amuusingly, Top Secret - "how do we know you're *not* Mel Torme?"