Watchmen's true super power is to bring time to almost a total standstill. I was so bored I got up and wandered out of the theater in an almost absent minded way.

On Tuxedo road in Atlanta, there's a pair of identical mansions across the street from each other. The story on that one is that when the seller of the first mansion reneged on the deal, the buyer was so upset that he purchased the land across the street and built the same one.

In one of the final scenes (still in the movie), Michael Douglas picks up a knife to threaten Glenn Close. In the original ending, she takes the knife with his finger prints and slits her throat.

Dear lord, I found that movie soooo boring. It was visually appealing and all but for me was the emotional equivalent of flipping through Architectural Digest while waiting for the dentist.

Beats me. My guess is that the mom just wanted us out of the house so she could hit the bourbon.

How about a misinformed mom representation? When I was a tweener, my friend's mother dropped us off at the mall to see a movie about horses. ("You'll LOVE it…") Name of that film? Thunderball*. I was halfway through the film when I turned to my friend and said, "where are the horses?"

The link explains a lot of the meta in the show. It's a fun read.

Sorry kiddo, but just cuz it worked in the 20th century, doesn't mean that it's good for the 21st. Mostly because back in the day advances in technology still needed humans to create the things…light bulbs, cars, etc. With A.I. and robotics, that need will be mostly eliminated.

If you want to read a bit further, here's an interesting bit from a survey done by PEW.

Ordinarily, I would say that you are right about new jobs, etc. In the past, new technology had a way of creating more jobs, not fewer. But A.I. and robotics is something different where there's little room for human…insertion if you will. Meaning I suppose that it's going to be robots, robots, robots all the way…

Yeah, the robots are coming…but every single CEO should also consider this: If everyone is out of work, then who's going to buy the products that they are so efficiently producing?