Actually, I kind of appreciated some of the winks and nods to the Arnie version—they were just little touches for fans of the original (and nowhere near the outright contempt the Clash of the Titans remake displayed for the original) but didn't overwhelm the story or anything. And I still say TR 2012 was one of the…

Unfortunately the North American television industry doesn't seem to be structured that way. There are some books that would work great as a 4 to 12 part TV miniseries. Not all of them would work as the basis of a continuing series, with 12-22 episodes a year. But North American TV hasn't been very friendly to the…

Because textbook publishing is big business. And the educational curricula in the biggest markets—i.e., California and Texas—will dictate the content of textbooks nationwide. If enough public school boards in one of these larger markets force creationism into their curricula, textbook publishers will include it for…

I can imagine a take where they set it in the early 80s, when the comics were published. Then it will take place in the future of X-Men: First Class, but the past of the other X-Men films, and thus literally be "future past".

I think when they talk to comic fans and journalists it's "dark and gritty" because "comic books are serious business you guys!" but when they talk to movie people it's "funny and lighthearted" because "Avengers made more money than Dark Knight Rises!"

Like the roads, utilities, mass transit, transport regulations, trade agreements, law enforcement, and military that allow materials, products, sellers, and customers to transact securely and predictably in markets?

Name of the Wind: I have never read such a well-written, page-turner of a book that I ended up not liking.

I have some almost every morning with breakfast anyway.

"The Borg is everywhere! We're one of the last ships left. Please... you've got to help us!"

The Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner!

So every genre film villain has to be the Heath Ledger Joker now, I guess? Like 90s films were full of cut-rate Hannibal Lecters?

Sorry. I saw Die Hard again last night.

Curses! 40 minutes too late!

And sometimes men will pay women to sleep with them, and guns kill people, and the P-90 is an extremely effective submachinegun, and cars might have to run off something other than petroleum in a couple of decades, and sometimes human beings regret their life choices, and sometimes a mother's love trumps common sense,…

Fair enough. But can you think of any films of 2012 with a better original screenplay? The Academy would like to think they recognize films that will stand the test of time, but really they have to work with what they get between a given January and December.

Maybe you don't think so, and maybe I don't think so (I did love Thank You for Smoking though), but the Academy gives him and his movie Oscar nominations. And one of his films did win an Oscar for Original Screenplay, so maybe the Academy actually cares what Reitman thinks about screenplays. That's who he's ultimately…

So some combination of #3 and #6 is basically Mass Effect.

We've already sent eight or nine probes through the Asteroid Belt, which is much denser than the Oort Cloud. The only ones that actually encountered asteroids were Galileo, Dawn, and New Horizons, and in all three cases the asteroid encounters were planned as part of the mission parameters. Dawn is currently moving…

Good point. Max should look like a raggedy man. Or at least half-jumped by Mr. Dead.

What's your definition of the difference though? Hitchcock is one of the most important figures in film-making history, and as soon as he had access to bigger budgets, he remade some of his own films. Some of which were adaptations of existing source material. So was he "remaking" the 39 Steps, or was he re-adapting…