As mentioned last week, I've had A Most Violent Year sitting in my living room for about 2 months now.

Yeah, I loved this book, and feel defensive of how it's adapted in the way others felt about the Tolkien adaptations. This movie does look pretty good, and has a great pedigree (ignoring the last decade of Ridley Scott, anyway). But I don't see how they can translate what made the book so great to the screen.

Finally, the superhero movie that die-hard Kevin Smith fans have been waiting for.

Or Jack read it and repeated it ironically.

He’s the one who tells Freddie Lounds (welcome back, Lara Jean Chorostecki!) about Will’s reconnection with Hannibal (“It takes a killer to catch a killer,” he tells her).

Pretty sure he actually exhumed the corpse, and that was some sort of embalming fluid streaming from his slit throat.

*mawp*

It at least seemed to imply that there was still some connection there. So just abandoning that completely to bring in a new girl seems, well, weird for any non-Mission: Impossible movie, anyway.

Heh, I recently started playing KOTOR 1 on iPad, and since I always play the Jedi/good guy type decided to instead be a real blaster-shooting asshole. Listening to my whiny companion constantly admonishing me for being an asshole was pretty fun.

The reason I got Netflix discs again was cuz I couldn't find The Guest to rent anywhere. Then of course it shows up on Instant a few months later.

I've had A Most Violent Year on Blu-ray from Netflix sitting on my side table for about 6 weeks now, with no time to watch it. Then I find out it's coming to Netflix Instant in a few weeks. God dammit.

Ah, that sweet Laurel Canyon prose.

Heh, this reminds me I got a copy of Origins free from, uh, Origin a year or two ago and never played it.

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Master and Commander - Love the movie, and the book makes me appreciate it even more while being really entertaining in its own right. All the old-timey nautical jargon can be frankly overwhelming, and I'm never quite sure whether the author expects us to understand it. But I'm still really digging it.

I actually thought this was a fairly obvious reading of the movie, how it's about man's attempt to use religion to control the base animal instincts. Like, there's that whole scene in the movie where PSH gets out of jail and Phoenix tackles him like a dog whose master just got home. I mean, the movie's even CALLED…

Maybe I'm still in the afterglow of having just seen Inside Out, but I guess I'll be the only one who says this looks great.

I was glad I finished the main storyline (still only like 55% completion) just cuz I enjoyed the gameplay. The branding/dominate stuff you've gotta do to get to the ending makes it worthwhile.

Supposedly you have to get 100% to get the "best" ending, too? That'll be a chore, since I usually get tired of the Riddler stuff pretty quickly.

The difference, though, is that Watchman is being largely presented as something that Lee wrote and released as a sequel to Mockingbird, which is almost certainly not the case. If it had been released as what it is — an earlier draft of what eventually morphed into Mockingbird — I feel like it would have more value…