Thanks!

Hi Pat,

Bogey uses it in The Big Sleep! (Can’t remember if it was in the book.)

But longbowmen tire much more quickly than crossbowmen. Longbow archers are putting most of their upper body strength into pulling back the string and loosing arrows, and over time their shooting rate and the power behind their shots decreases as their muscles get fatigued.

And your other advantage is, once you’ve loaded the crossbow, you have almost all the time in the world to pick a target, aim, and shoot. Whereas contrary to films that have characters draw back their weak prop bows and threaten other characters with them like they’re loaded pistols, you can’t just pull back a warbow…

By the time of the Hundred Years’ War, crossbowmen used a spanning belt to load their crossbows. Crouch behind your pavis (shield), put your foot in the stirrup, hook the belt’s hook to the string, and stand up. Using your larger hip and lower back muscles meant you could reload faster and with less fatigue than your…

I do too. It was because 90% of adult science fiction was juvenile.

Helping my friend move this weekend. May a higher power help me.

My man Boyega has upgraded from space gorillas to Sith wannabes

I might consider it. Thanks for all the info, I really appreciate it!

I can get to Toronto for that “IMAX 3D with Laser” screening. Do you know if that tech’s any good, or is it just a fancier liemax?

Ah, but in the 21st century, all of our heroes are now on The Establishment’s payroll, and The Establishment itself can’t be trusted, so often their biggest enemies end up being their own bosses.

Wait, there’s a 70mm print? Why have I not heard of this!?

SPOILERS:

It’s a terrible film, but I still think Attack of the Clones is worse. I can gloss over a lot of the bad stuff in TPM, but AOTC thrusts too much of it right in my face.

At the time, my friend joked that they wanted to control the market for Gungan leather jackets. I was never sure if he meant jackets made by Gungans, or jackets made from Gungans.

Maybe if any of the other Gungans we saw had taken his role. The rest of them were all brave and capable, and smart enough to recognize Jar Jar wasn’t, which is why they kicked him out!

I’m okay with that though. Khan’s a man out of time, denied his chance at true conquest, relegated to exile on this harsh planet—only to see people he loved and who trusted him die horribly a few months later, and having to struggle just to live after that. Then 20 years later, some guys show up who immediately recall…

Even though the Karen/Foggy/Ben subplot about Fisk’s background makes no sense. It’s a credit to D’Onofrio’s acting.

They didn’t know who he was in “Space Seed” right away either (if you found a guy who’d been frozen for over 200 years, woke him up, and he told you his name was George, you might not put it together without more details), but they immediately look him up in the ship’s computer once he gives them his full name so they…