Agreed. CGI is all fine and good, as long as it serves to strengthen the story. As a young, pre-billionaire George Lucas once said, “A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.”

Hasn’t California been basically on fire for the last several summers? Due to the record breaking drought that’s lasted 3 years?

Oh... myyyyy.

Although it has NOTHING to do with the actual subject of the novel, I always loved this cover.

I’ve never heard it pronounced like “earl”. It’s always been You-Are-El. And GIF has a hard G, like grape or gonad.

Don’t mince words, Albert. Tell us how you really feel.

Omnipotence goes ping?

Have you really seen all of these?

Even if you were to set your fork down on the table instead of the plate, who puts their fork down upside down? This strikes me as a case of trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.

You know, a lot of people like to talk about the emphasis on practical effects vs. CGI. The truth is, it doesn't matter how an effect is created so long as it feels real. There have been many films over the last couple of decades where the CGI effects didn't feel real to people, and that was their big problem. It…

Well, most of what one might stream off of Amazon or Netflix is 720p, so I'm guessing that at best, it's 1080. 4k would be nice, but I doubt it.

It’s like a cross between this:

Star Wars: From the makers of Transformers: The Movie

That's what you get for hiring Devo.

When people start living for billions of years.

That's good. We've had enough of this:

I didn't even know they made spiral escalators.

No Shepherd Book? No Tams?

I love Tim Burton, but he does his best work when he's not adapting well-known works; Planet of the Apes, Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, etc. He can't help altering the material in ways that doesn't improve it in any way. Like the whole dentist-father subplot in…