“These are my disposables – Exposition and Comic Relief.”
“We’re not functions.”
“Darling, those were genders.”

Don't you need four dicks for that?

Also: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Temporarily dampening the emotions is a pretty good idea when they are literally a large part of the trauma that has long term consequences. You don't want to spend the entire recovery process holding ice against a burn, but you absolutely want to do it at the beginning.

From what I've seen of doctors a lot of them treat benzos about the same way they treat SSRIs, which is to say, they have a favorite one that they generally go to first and it's usually whichever one was newest/most fashionable around the time they graduated from medical school. They don't always prescribe that one,…

Also why doesn't Kevin, the largest Copelands, not simply eat the other three?

Stephen King adaptations are almost as good of an example as Phillip K Dick adaptions of why movies and novels are mismatched: movies are short stories put on film. Even the best/most successful novel adaptations are pretty clearly ones where someone said "Ok, if we made The Shining into a short story…".

I think the problem more than anything is that naval combat (at that time) is the sort of thing that can make for thrilling novels, but which is very, very difficult to make into thrilling movies (unless you're willing to just go straight to fantasy-combat and ignore everything about how it worked).
In the Patrick…

I love Walk Hard, not because I've seen it (I haven't) but because I saw what happened to my friends after they tried to play a drinking game where they would take a drink every time the Rock hit someone with a two-by-four. This was a poor choice on their part because it meant they sat there getting increasingly…

And also they're your friends.

I'm pretty sure the context here is the entire history of race in the United States which, interestingly enough, stays remarkably consistent even when entirely different discussions are involved. So, yes, obviously context is important. And that context is broad enough that it pretty much encompasses all the…

I sometimes wonder if it would actually be the same as a single movie: as two movies the different tones play off against each other really well, but I suspect that cutting it into two movies also involved editing it to work that way rather than one movie.
I mean, maybe he made the completed movie and then just sort…

It makes a great double billing with Ong Bak, because after about ten minutes it becomes clear that they just made the same movie a second time with different stunts and instead of of Tony Jaa having to go to a big foreign city after bad guys steal his statue of the Buddha it has Tony Jaa having to to a big foreign…

This is a pretty human thing to do, really, especially when people feel like their particular culture might be overlooked.

Sort of, but he does seem to learn the error of his ways within about ten minutes so it's not too impressive as far as that goes. If they'd spent more time on that, and less time presenting him as some kind of super hero, it probably would have come off better.

One of the things you learn living abroad is just how culturally dominant America is in certain (but not all) things. Movies are probably the single biggest one, too. Even in places with seriously great movie studios and a long history of great movies, like China, there's a weird dominance to it.*
An American movie…

I'm going to miss the star system, but to be honest that's only because of the time my friend wandered off to the kitchen with his computer signed into it and I immediately rated every single Mary Kate and Ashley Olson movie five stars. This was years ago and Netflix still recommends things to him based on that.

I can't imagine that it would be worth shipping them over - they're not that interesting, and there's nothing that actually requires them that would make it worth doing that.

You sort of answered your own question there, really.

That's one of the (several hundred, probably) additional cases that show up in the literature. There's a huge set of them as people set up and then knock down the kinds of suggestions that are showing up in the comments - doing/allowing; creating a harm versus diverting a harm; etc. I can't remember which suggestion…