Dune doesn’t glorify jihad. If anything, Paul was aware of how terrible its outcome would be, but he was helpless to prevent it knowing full well (through prescience) that it was ultimately futile to try. The way history had progressed up to that point, humanity’s future was imperiled and caught in a death spiral that…

People (including JRR Tolkien) said the same thing about the lotr series being unfilmable.

If it ever comes to pass, here’s hoping it stays true to the content of the original book and no new material is quietly inserted or facts twisted to justify the existence of all the revisionist bullshit introduced by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. For example, Paul in the original Dune had was born on Caladan…

I don’t care what anyone says: the SciFi miniseries was exceptional and remains the only Dune movie I’ll acknowledge, Patrick Stewart or no.

I agree. Dogmatic atheism is just as silly as dogmatic theism. Good thing I’m not an atheist.

Shark Bay is not appropriately named. It is really an inlet.

British sharks.

“No, no, my dear fellow, you were here first, please go ahead, I insist. Just so long as you wouldn’t mind giving me a bite at the old carcass when you’re done, that’d be most awfully kind of you.”

I liked the end with the Phoenix foreshadowing... until we got Last Stand.

Hey I laughed when Joss did it in Firefly... (I am a bad person)

If you remove Tilda Swinton from playing the ancient one, then you also have to remove Chiwetel ejiofor from playing baron mordo on the grounds of casting the wrong ethnicity. There’s no double standard about it, and never should be. Yes, someone Asian misses out, but someone white also misses out. If we believe in…

I would love Brad Bird to direct a live action Super movie. I don’t know that he would fit with the“Snyderverse” though. Looking forward more to to Incredibles 2 than anything DC is producing.

Eye of the World is one my favorite books of all time, so I guess I disagree.

Plus Eragon wasn’t even aping Fantasy tropes, it was a straight Fantasy translation of Star Wars. Clever kid, but that doesn’t make a good book/ series. Jordan knows his shit, and put his time in with Fantasy (check out his Conan books for proof).

Dumai Wells. Fuck. That would make anything on GoT look like a kid playing with lego.

Yes to this. Marvel has made 12 films, all of which are at worst entertaining and competent.

Its like bashing Pixar.

What was said in that interview and what you took away from it are entirely different things. The quote was that the movies followed a fairly traditional structure, not that they were the same. There is vast variation in the Marvel universe of movies, from the political thriller that was The Winter Soldier to the…

This is so dumb. You made me chuckle though!

Just trying something different doesn’t inherently make it good, or worth any praise. If Miley Cyrus decided to change things up and recorded a death metal record where the only instruments were kazoos, it doesn’t mean I should praise it in any way. The product has to be GOOD to begin with.

Actually, the best part is when Doomsday knocks her down and she flashes a little smile before gettin’ all up in his ass!

I thought he was Egyptian?