Some notes on the near-Japanese used in Sabine’s training:

It’s actually one of the better 3D films I’ve ever seen, was very impressed with it. 

As someone who saw it in a theater back in 1993, I still remember it vividly. You had to be there. It was a cinematic moment for everyone because no one had seen anything like it. Dinosaurs actually looking like it was real.

Oh man, Jurassic Park’s original run in theaters is still the best movie experience I’ve had ever. No other title has beat the perfect storm of incredible (breakthrough) filmmaking and great audience reactions. Endgame is a slightly distant second, I think.

I mean, that’s pretty much inevitable unless we abandon ai entirely

That said, if 3D is the only option available, I’d still recommend it -- it’s the most incredible post conversion Ive seen to the point it almost feels like it was shot natively for it. I’d still take a 2D screening and all the color popping that comes with it, but for anyone who has not seen it on a big screen ever,…

Agreed. I saw the 20th anniversary 10 years ago (fuck how has it been 10 years) in an IMAX without 3D and it was phenomenal. I was much too young to see it in theaters originally, so this was a treat. The movie holds up so well, and the sound in particular just sticks with you. I still remember that t-rex roar to this…

Yep. The legal strategy really seems to be, “Delay in the hopes that he can pardon himself before a judgment is made.”

I would guess this is a simple disconnect between the legal department and the engineering department that does job interviews and trade shows. I was also under the impression that because of ITAR/EAR, employment was contingent on US Citizenship. The definitions of what’s allows are buried quite far down in the…

The religion was literally created to be co-opted, just by and for the Bene Gesserit. That’s literally the job of the Missionaria Protectiva. That probably makes it worse, not better. It’s really just another thing that they created specifically to gain power and control that backfires on them, like the Kwisatz…

in fairness, “just an expository device to have [Thrawn] explain things to the reader” IS Watson to a tee

Eh, I kinda felt like Pellaeon was just an expository device to have Thrawn explain things to the reader, with little personality or agency of his own. Obviously a necessary thing with a character like Thrawn but really anybody could stand in.

I’d like to see GdT do God Emperor. He’s one of the few out there I really think would do the concept justice.

They already did that. Shouting & commenting that the voice of Rick was off on the last promotion.

I finally got around to reading that book a couple of years back, and I think it’s probably adaptation-proof.

Villeneuve has said that Messiah would be his last Dune, since that’s essentially the end of Paul’s story. I don’t think he’s as interested in Leto II.

Really, because I thought he nailed the book character pretty well.

i think, assuming the strike gets resolved in time and allows the mega-stars to promote it, dune 2 could be huge. more than 1.4 billion huge? i doubt it, but i think it’ll be the last big hit.

Canada seems too much more the same in a world where borders are not really a thing.

Easiest would be just following that Native American couple around all “slice of life.” Graham Greene talking about how he wishes they still made pop tarts and Elaine Miles making fun of him. “What’d you do today?” “Watched one of those infected chase a rabbit around the back yard for a while until it got tangled in…