I just watched the Ethan Hawke film Daybreakers because I was killing some time and it looked like a decent way to do that, and I was quite impressed by how good it was. Production values and directing, much better than expected. Solid vampire spin. It’s one of those cases in which I wonder why I wasn’t aware of the…

That sounds great.

There was part of one book I read decades ago in which some guy tells of a wampa-hunting expedition to Hoth. Long story short, it goes horribly wrong as the wampas begin acting as a group.

2019 will be the ultimate showdown, for now.

What possible subject matter could this money be spent on putting to screen? I guess that I’m operating under the impression that it won’t be the Silmarillion, if only because I read something about it allegedly setting up the existing films. Is there anything obvious within a century prior to the Hobbit or LotR?

Yeah, that’s my understanding as well. I can understand lack of desire for that, but the existence of the films themselves doesn’t affect my perspective towards the show, since they apparently won’t be covering the same material.

Shawn Colvin, A Few Small Repairs: “Wichita Skyline” > “84,000 Different Delusions” > “Suicide Alley”

War’s first three tracks, seconded.

Regarding Alaska, when I last lived there less than a decade ago, my internet connection was effectively incompatible with streaming video. High-speed but with a data limit that was only worth about an hour or two of Netflix a month. Certainly it was possible to have internet without the limit, but I was trying to…

I also have (non-incestuous) relatives in Bend, and have been there many times. I guess that I don’t know just how separatist or weird the community is as a whole, but Bend never struck me as a place unlike the rest of America. I think of beer, and population growth, and a lot of affluent people into the outdoors…

I loved Borders. Somehow I’ve never particularly ‘liked’ Barnes & Noble, but in the days before the Internet dominated content delivery, walking into a Borders and seeing so many books, magazines, movies and music in one place, and being able to browse it, was an utterly blissful experience for me.

The question of setting is an interesting one. Although Crystal Skull didn’t work out too well overall, I’m intrigued by the prospect of moving a bit forward in time. Nazis are great villains, but I wouldn’t want them to be the bad guys every time out, so something not set in the 30s/40s could be good.

Josh Gad for Willy Scott, the excitable crooner in the sequel.

But the original Indy seemed to revert more to affable klutz when in the classroom. More suave and confident in the field.

She could totally make “sit down before you fall down” work. Sign me up.

It should’ve been Lara Craft, but the people who created Tomb Raider apparently didn’t understand how last names work.

It depends on who you are. That strategy works for Spielberg.

The best thing about Wonder Woman is (arguably) Lucy Davis.

So, The Iron Giant. I know that it’s a beloved film with a certain audience, but it seems like the odd reference out as a relatively niche thing, or at least an odd choice to be getting so much still-frame burn.

“Analysts are blaming the underperformance of Episode IX at the Saudi box office on the fact that the Star Wars saga doesn’t have the same sort of long-entrenched cultural familiarity there as something like The Emoji Movie.”