Like Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China? Because that would be awesome but then again, most actors couldn't play a Jack Burton type effectively.

The thugee were a criminal cult/underclass that did exist though in India. Strangulation was one of their preferred murder techniques. They were eventually eradicated by the British.

Silliness.

That or Master and Commander.

I saw the Val Kilmer interview on the making of Heat where that story is described. I seem to remember it being kind of a challenge to cadets and that the takeaway was that Kilmer was actually loading and firing faster accurately than most soldiers could.

The trailer is like something out of the beginning of Tropic Thunder. And Dinklage is in it: http://www.imdb.com/video/s…

"The point being that Ridley Scott no longer knows, or, cares how to craft realized human characters for this franchise." I don't know how much of Scott's previous work he has written or co-written, but the people he created for Prometheus were in a dumb-as-pig -shit class all of their own. The only thing I can…

How about a show where Sam gains Westeros-wide fame for beginning a series of fantastical books about a futuristic land? At first the fame gets to his head as he travels the Realm giving speeches, signing autographs and participating in Maester-Cons. But then, just as he seems most distracted, he heroically buckles…

I lived in Russia and can confirm that strangers almost never smile at each other. The standard non-smiling Russian face alarmed me so much that for the first month I was there I had nightmares every night. It also didn't help that everyone dressed in browns and blacks; the combined effect was unnerving. Eventually I…

Thank you. And it's a Stark tradition to uphold the bloody letter of the law.

True. But they could move that scene and character elsewhere. I'm having trouble remembering why she was upset enough at Daeron to kill him though…I know he abandoned Sam and Maester Aemon…was that it or just that she knew her brother was up there? To the Google to remember!

Secret is you gotta cut 'em off way high.

That humpback was probably thrown into a river and then floated up on the Gulf stream from southern waters.

People like Glenn Greenwald (yeah I know he can be a humorless scold) have been warning about this since 9-11; to wit, the most important thing about the President is not whether you trust him, it's that with his dictatorial war making powers (bequeathed through Congressional malfeasance and neglect), you have to…

That does sound awesome. I'm at a Cornwell burnout phase right now just having finished the Saxon stories but I'm sure I'll be picking up those books within the year.

I just finished the Saxon stories (Alfred Stories) at least as far as he has taken them. They are great, but yeah they take place in the not too distant future from his Arthur stories. Just swap out the invading Saxons for invading Danes and defending Celts for defending Saxons.

Understood. My country. I should have known.

"PUNCH THOSE KEEESH!

Jesus. What country and what college?

Bernard Cornwell wrote a trilogy of historical fiction in that vein with Arthur as a British (Celtic) warlord resisting the Saxon invasion a generation after the Romans left. I haven't got around to reading them yet, but I really like his other stuff I've read. And Cornwell has a history of having his other stories…