Master of Orion reboot, which, just last night I discovered that the new patch wiped my savegames, hooray! And here my Psilons had such terrible plans for the galaxy, what with all their flying saucers and (I can only assume) Very Personal Probes… Oh well, the patch added good stuff so Meklar time. The eggheads…

Given that she quit being governor for a career in reality TV, I'd guess that she considers the fact that any of us have heard of her to be a success on her part.

It's so hard to discuss in a nuanced manner. Like, I share his revulsion for people delighting in the kill, but I've hunted too—only I took no joy in it; it was more of me connecting personally with the process that brought meat to my plate every day I wasn't thinking about it. People who whoop it up for killing…

Two things.

Don't forget this: http://www.somethingawful.c…

How was her resigning the governorship taken? It seemed like such a bizarre move at the time that there just had to be a larger plan behind it. And then she went into reality TV…

He's like my go-to definition for the phrase "talented idiot."

Now we're in the closet
Now we're in the closet too…

Any time a celebrity is hospitalized for "exhaustion," I mentally replace that word with the phrase "drug-related issues."

I don't know if it's the same scene or not, but I definitely saw a scene set up like a tableau where she's very carefully posed against some fever-dream backdrop, and I only ever saw it on DVD.

I call that the Dave Matthews Band Effect. It's not that it's bad music, it's just that I can't… I just can't… ever again… not ever.

Or maybe this guy showed up again: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

When a movie has a cut from Monica Belucci's "snowy peaks" to actual literal snowy peaks, a Native American shaman kickboxer played by Mark Dacascos and a sword taken straight from the Soul Caliber games, and yet it's still somehow more ludicrous than it sounds, you know you've found something special.

I dunno, I'd expect I.V. to be more familiar with the tropes, cliches and underlying themes of current Russian cinema than some.

Well and that quote about Lucas wanting to make movies entirely without actors: that could be a compliment, if you're way into a highly abstract, formal style…or maybe it isn't a compliment after all.

I'd go a step further and say he was amazing in Shattered Glass, good enough that I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt on Anakin. Maybe he played a petulant, awkward, self-impressed thirteen-year-old a little too well? Besides, like the OP said, the dialogue wasn't exactly flying off the page there.

I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek here, although I really did hate that ending (and much of what led to that ending.) But you're right, Schreiber's feral, relentless take on Sabertooth was very good.

I don't care about John Wick, I care about them going for the guy who did the definitively suckiest version of Deadpool ever to do a Deadpool movie. They have a whole world full of directors who didn't make X-Men: Origins, and they chose wrong. How do you choose that one wrong?!?

It's so awkward. It sounds like something an amateur writerly type thinks is "good enough," and if I didn't already think quite highly of Rowling as a writer, it probably would've lowered my opinion of her a peg on its own. When I first heard it, I thought, "Okay, there are no Americans in Harry Potter because she…

Yeah, but I seriously thought he was from Boston, too. I actually assumed this was titled sarcastically until I read the review.