aliens imo is better than alien and better than the either esb or s and gave birth to the notion of "space marines" in pop culture (apart from literary sci fi nerds who never quite penetrated into pop consciousness) and probably directly gave birth to warhammer40k and through that starcraft .

seriously! that movie was complete shit and i have no idea why people have a fondness for it. they cut the tim burton brand waaaaay too much slack sometime.

they're trying to make space a commercial venture... so why not have hollywood invest in making an orbital sound stage for zero-G sequences for movies like this?

the enemy is down.

i'm definitely not religious but there are indeed a lot of aphorisms (especially in the wisdom books - ecclesiastes [which is actually shockingly dysmal for a religious text], proverbs, psalms) that are not only 'take it for granted' familiar to westerners but insightful and true as well.

can't recommend this enough... some of the action scenes (especially an escape from inside one of the AI ships) is so cinematic, you'll be able to see the whole thing in your head... really captures the epic scope of what things would really be like if technology advances beyond what we can imagine now.

" like Hal Jordan being zapped by yellow energy, to the point where he's almost crucified"

you won't regret it. srsly, read like 5 pages and it'll be on. also, he does something unusual that was tugging at me as i was reading and it took me like 20 pages to realize what it was... really really cool.

i commented in a previous post because it reminded me of snowcrash but your post reminds me of neil stephensol too... when stephenson takes off on anthropology and linguistics, it felt very "high bandwidth" and i loved and appreciated that he never lost me... and so much so that i had to stop several times and…

did you read snowcrash? "the memes as weapons" and the supposed defense of the ancients presented in the book is mindblowing... well for me.

i swear, i was thinking, "who could have come up with such a blatant attention whoring headline that is at the same time tremendously ill conceived and poorly thought out"...

yeah. seems like it. but i can imagine the general economy for hollywood would be far better if they just made more smaller and consistently profitable (with smaller profits) movies that just constantly kept everybody working.

thank fucking goodness.

but samsung doesn't have an extensive marketplace or a robust apps ecosystem. i would say that the notion that manufacturers don't care to advertise android is absolutely false.

totally. hilarious stuff.

colors are better and i'm so glad that the red boots are back. but the bottom seems a bit too unstructured... it almost looks like she's wearing sweat pants!

this is the disconnect with modern hollywood - a lot of "B-Movies" are getting made with A-Grade budgets... it's niche or geek or fanboy appeal but it's expecting a mass market breakout. sure, star wars was exactly that kind of movie but does it really make sense to gamble for that result time and time again?

right? i mean wtf?! i thought there were child labor laws in play.

basically scalping...

this is the same question that is asked of pro athletes and tv-sitcom actors but the thing is - SOMEBODY is making that money... whatever you're not making is making someone ELSE richer... so if that's the case, if you're an integral part of making the endeavor profitable, why NOT get more.