I mean, southern planation owners already were pretentious wannabe aristocrats who thrived off the misery of others, so I guess the transition to vampire was easier for them? Plus, there’s the who romantic Lost Cause thing, if you’re into that.

Being the straight man doesn’t mean you don’t have to be funny. After all, Groucho was the straight man of the Marx Brothers.

Fury was a perfectly decent WW2 movie. Besides a somewhat silly final battle, it was a fun circa-1970 war flick, with Pitt in the Lee Marvin role.

I refuse to accept that the writer, whose most straightforwardly heroic character was a badass Palestinian supersoldier with a hot Jewish girlfriend, was, at the time of writing, bigoted against Muslims.

No, they’re laser bastard swords. Katanas are curved.

It’s the difference between a book from 1965 and a book from 1969. In ‘65 you could still do a Hero’s Journey story about a prince fighting a just war against evil, albeit with more introspection than was typical for the period; after four more years of war in Vietnam, it became impossible to be pro-war for any war.

Isn’t she like 7 feet tall? I can easily imagine Gaga fitting into a suitcase, but Swift?

You know, if I never see that CGI nanobot armor/suit/helmet special effect again, I will die a happy man. It’s so goddamn lazy.

I’ve read the books. I used to enjoy Asimov a long - and then I turned 10 years old and discovered Roger Zelazny. This series, while not perfect, has a strong New Wave vibe to it, which makes it inherently superior to Asimov’s moldy thought exercises.

What, you’ve never known one of those “somebody stop me” guys? You know, those tough guys who are always threatening people, but only when their friends are around to “restrain” them.

That sticker was not a metaphor.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is the quintessential “Wait, is he the same guy from...” actor.

Because in 1999, it was still unusual for a Movie Star to demean himself by doing television. 

It’s weird - the first time I read your post, I read “Content Generation” as the name of a the writer’s generation, like Millenials or Gen-X. And then I thought, maybe we really can call Gen-Z (which is clearly a placeholder name) the Content Generation. Work for you?

Yarp.

RT audience ratings are the very definition of selection bias.

Was that a ringworld?

Some people just aren’t worth it. 

Wait - Michael Emerson has a TV show!?

It reminds me of Dark City (1998) that way - both movies are better if you skip the intro and figure things out yourself.