Huh, about what ratio?

Yeah, it's a fair cop: any movie starring Tim Goddamn Curry as the literal devil should really be a lot more awesome than "Legend" actually was.

I'm 8 episodes into Westworld so far and while it's obviously stuffed to the gills with ringers in the cast and is beautifully shot, it's… also kinda dumb, especially in comparison to The Expanse?

Given that she was one of the people gleefully making the coke jokes (and making them all the way to the bank in several cases), I think she did okay.

I'll make a case for "Thelma & Louise" as well as… let's say generously 2/3rds of "Legend" and a good chunk of "Black Hawk Down". But otherwise… god, his IMDB page looks like a crime scene of squandered talent.

So is Ridley Scott short of money, behind on his taxes, or paying off some extremely expensive divorce? Or does he have some sort of personal grudge against James Cameron and has decided to spend an astonishing amount of the latter stages of his career attempting to retroactively make the script for "Aliens" make…

On the plus side, Andrew Breitbart died of a massive (rumored to be cocaine-involved) heart attack while sitting on the toilet, so there's that.

NOT TODAY SATAN

Oh god, I'm going to be that guy. Everyone who's not a huge nerd, you can just scroll past. Here we go:

The cruddiness of a lot of kosher food (especially in the USA) is, I think, mostly a side effect of the crushing poverty and locations of most of the ashkenazi diaspora: prewar eastern european and russian food wasn't exactly known for its bright flavors even for the people who weren't being regularly massacred by…

Seconded on Ha-Gafen. Ran across them while wine tasting in Sonoma about a decade back and was shocked that it was actually kinda good, and not just as a novelty wine.

[wheeze jingle rumble] we have ALWAYS been drunk

The William Hurt miniseries was…almost there? It got the story more or less right, but the budget just wasn't there for either the visuals or the actors.

I feel like I am really not lacking in awareness of who and where these assholes are — it's not like they don't announce themselves to me (and everyone else) on the regular on twitter and reddit. I don't need my media/entertainment sites letting me know the minutiae of their musical taste.

Was about to say. He's got a certain appeal, but it's way more in the vein of Jeff Goldblum and Adrien Brody than DiCaprio or Garfield.

Also, I don't think any amount of editing could fix Cameron or Leo's performances in that film.

Spaihts' draft for "Alien: Engineers" leaked to the internet some time ago and is available for perusing in multiple places that Google has indexed.

So on the one hand, Arrival really was all that and a bag of chips, and after the one-two punch of that and Sicario, I'm tentatively down for seeing literally anything that Villeneuve makes. And a moody, post-apocalyptic Philip K Dick mindfuck seems like it should be 100% up his alley…

Belatedly, having finally gotten around to seeing this: the visual presentation of the aliens in Arrival really does seem to call back to the 456 in CoE. Most likely a complete coincidence, but given some of Arrival's other thematic concerns I do actually wonder if Villeneuve had seen it.

If they can afford it, we're not charging enough. :)