Ugh. This flick is looking worse and worse. And I say this as a defender of two of the sequels.

Aliens was wildly different in tone than Alien, yet both were masterpieces. So I'm inclined to give Blade Runner 2049 the benefit of the doubt despite the trailer's emphasis on action. (But Jared Leto's presence is certainly worrying…)

The battery is mounted at the front of the saucer section, balancing the secondary hull and warp nacelles. It actually flies really well, and looks great lit up. I've had a lot of fun with mine.

Goddamn right. That band made some SOLID fucking power-pop. The follow-up album was great, too.

Showing my ignorance, here: what exactly does a "goose attack" entail? They don't have claws or teeth, so what can they do other than bill-butt?

My Dad used to work the Climax molybdenum mine during summers when he was in high school, and I still have cousins who live there. Did a "let's visit the old stomping grounds" trip with him and my brother a few years ago — I love that town.

Ha! A double-duty literary reference. This 'Kong' film has unplumbed depths.

Also, Reilly's character is named "Marlow."

Ok then, I'll take up the slack: I wish vengeance enough for both of us.

I'm constantly arguing this point with liberals who think that we should somehow reach out, meet Trumpers halfway, understand their point of view… fuck that. I'm from Alabama. Based on hard-won experience I can tell you that there is simply no penetrating that fog of ignorance and bigotry for the vast majority of…

This is the game about capturing small animals and forcing them to fight each other, right? Like cockfighting or dogfighting?

Sure, but I'd draw a distinction between fictionalizing certain aspects of a story to streamline it for the big screen while maintaining its larger historicity, and fundamentally altering the story by manufacturing events such as battles between the whale and the whaleboats long after the Essex has been sunk, which is…

You're right, there wasn't much. The whale made two passes on the Essex, pounding the hull hard enough that it filled with water, but with none of the carnage we see in the trailer. The whale wasn't seen after that. The sinking of the ship was a slow, protracted affair, nothing like what's being depicted here. Howard…