Batman’s real super power is embezzlement.

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There are different types of nuclear plant, such as modern generation pebble bed reactors, which don’t have the downsides and meltdown risks of older designs. We’re also going to see fusion reactors come online in the next five years, which create no waste and cannot melt down. Renewables are nice, but nuclear will be…

“They guys who sang ‘Louie, Louie’?”

I. Want. More.

Man, the “angry atheist” thing is getting old fast...

That is my favorite line/scene in the history of cinema.

Thanks in turn, and related is one more thing I’d meant to mention in the original post but didn’t get to before it went permanent - I’d argue a big factor of the difference in rewatchability is the characters.

The commentariat around these parts does not seem to think much of Robert Zemeckis. If you think the Contact threads get rough, just try sticking up for Forrest Gump (which has somehow gotten a reputation as empty-headed boomer nostalgia despite its near-constant satire of same) or Polar Express (a movie that says…

Yeah, the movie couldn’t do justice to describe the revelations described in the book.

I did rethink the two after rereading both source materials and watching the movies, but definitely not in the way you did and have very different feelings.

Eighteen minutes? IIRC, it was only about five minutes, tops. Plus, she did ask at least two salient questions (“Who built the transportation system?” and “Are there others?”).

I need no external boosting to re-watch Contact. I’ve seen it ten times or more. I’ve shared it with my boys (10 & 12).
I accept that there’s a “simple message” about Science and Religion (or, Faith versus Reason), but it’s not simplistic.

Counter-point: a dude literally wandering from town to town in search of his son, fighting to stay alive in a shitty world not of his making, is actually not a bad use of the song at all.

2015/2016: Hollywood/Oscars so white!

I knew when I saw the article that this list would have Miles Morales at the top instead of Peter Parker. And I disagree.

I feel like you could have boiled this whole article down to:

Is he a daywalker? He doesn’t seem to have aged at a human pace! Bring Blade back Marvel!!!

At this point, I’m basically just waiting for Quentin Tarentino to jumpstart Snipes’ career.

Deep in the Amazon basin there are people who have lived for centuries, maybe millennia with almost no contact with the outside world. They have been born, lived, raised their children and died for generations without seeing anything beyond their forest home. Because of their remote location and the difficulty of…