Mmm. Great with toast!

Rutina is a spectacular babe — just spectacular. The problem with the pole-dancing scene is that, although Rutina is a spectacular babe in a leather bikini, she cannot dance for shit. Not a whit. That may be what you picked up on.

The first glimpse is absolutely brilliant. Let's hope the movie lives up to it.

This sort of thing is precisely why I don't like reboots.

You'll have to talk to Fox about that, at least until Disney/Marvel is able to finagle the rights back.

Yes.

Do men really struggle with being objectified? I mean, it's never been an issue with me (except for maybe a week after I got out of basic training), so I have no idea.

I love this idea. I haven't read a lot of King, but I've always enjoyed the way his stories interact in minor ways. Unfortunately, this particular chart needs rather a bit of work. I'm afraid it's difficult to impossible to follow a lot of the connections.

Slightly related. A while back, a woman came into my office to speak with my boss. At first, her accent sounded British, but not. I then guessed that it was Australian, but that still didn't sound right. I then surmised that she was from New Zealand, and a bit later she confirmed that she was indeed from New Zealand.

"For-profit healthcare doesn’t necessarily take better care of patients"

What he said.

I think Scott and company deserve a lot of credit for attempting to create an intelligent SF film that at least tries to ask important questions. It wasn't just an action movie, it wasn't just a horror movie. They wanted it to be a Film About Something. In today's market, that's practically revolutionary.

Yes, magic has to have rules. That being said, there is no reason that a story has to explain what those rules are. It would be perfectly acceptable for it to hint and imply. In fact, I think magic works better when the rules aren't explicitly understood by the reader. It becomes much more, well, magical.

I've always thought the Black Knight scene from Holy Grail was much more historically accurate than most movies.

That makes all the difference, I'm sure.

So, Batman won't carry a handgun, but he doesn't have an issue with mounting guns on his vehicles?

To be fair, all photos from that era look creepy.

I think Lawrence Sanders posited other nations joining the United States in his novel The Tomorrow File. Of course, that was the '70s.

That's what I'm asking. Yes, I'm sure that there is more stuff in the book that didn't make it into the miniseries — there has to be with a book that size. The question is whether there is enough core story to justify two movies, or if both movies are just going to get padded with the extras that the core story…

I haven't read the novel, but I saw the miniseries way back when. The miniseries felt awfully padded to me, and I remember it as, honestly, pretty silly. (And now for the thrilling group dinner scene!) Is there actually enough story in the book to justify two movies?