The Lost World opens with a scene where two rich parents stumble onto the sight of their little girl getting devoured alive by tiny lizard imps, and it closes with a T-rex rampaging through San Diego and sending one of those 76 balls rolling down the street. It’s pretty solid in between too.

There seems to be a consensus that The Lost World was a misfire, and I do not understand it at all. 

I think he might actually be open to directing an animated Guardians of the Galaxy. He could make Groot some kind of ecological metaphor. And he could give a fresh interpretation to Rocket Raccoon:

They’ll probably just screw it up by depicting feather boas as being venomous rather than constrictors.

I think it’s premature to say that Eberhardt was “fine” because he could get up and walk. Concussions take some time to diagnose, and their effects are not always immediately apparent.

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Why? What point do you think you’re making with this demand for precise quantitative categorization? I ask because it seems like a totally arbitrary and irrelevant objection to an argument that you can’t actually refute on the merits. I gather you expect no one to question the premise of your counterargument because…

Whenever I read a story about a person who goes by plural pronouns, I can’t help but be reminded of that story in the Bible about the guy who has become possessed by Legion, a collective being composed of multiple disembodied spirits. I wouldn’t normally mention this because it does not reflect any feelings I have…

The haunted house should be a former halfway home for juvenile delinquents. Then Dave Grohl could be like, “Pee yoo! It smells like teen spirits in here!”

The hardcore dogmatists are a minority. The danger they pose (aside from the occasional act of murder/terrorism) is their influence over intellectually passive people whose opinions could tip either way but ultimately incline toward conforming to the attitudes of family, friends, and neighbors who generally have their…

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Even if an embiggened real dog looked “bad” in a technical sense, it might at least have more character, which would make it a relatively cromulent solution.

Scarface. (Starring every Star Wars villain.)

I’m not assuming anything. I’m making a tentative guess. And I have no personal need for anyone to be a “bad guy.” (This wouldn’t make him bad anyway, just foolish.)

I just re-read my first post and realized it was poorly worded and conveys a meaning different from what I intended. I want to clarify: the reason why I think the prank scenario would explain the gun’s being loaded with live ammo is not because someone would desire to deliberately play a prank with live ammo. As I…

The punchline would be him firing what he assumes to be harmless blanks at his co-workers.

Probably a dealer of antique firearms, possibly one whom they found locally in New Mexico and who had no experience selling to film productions. Whoever delivered it likely didn’t bother to make sure it was empty and just assumed the prop master would take care of it.

My guess is that Baldwin was feeling cheeky and decided to attempt a prank. Why else would anyone other than an actor have a prop gun pointed at them? It would also explain why the gun contained real ammunition (if indeed that’s the case). Since it was not yet time to film the scene, the prop master hadn’t yet gotten…

So what did they get wrong?

Have you been in a news blackout for the past ten years, or are you just a piece of shit?