Holy moly, I just watched this and it's a knockout. Easily the best adaptation of a Dick story I've ever seen. Amazingly respectful of the source material, not only in terms of basic story elements, but also in terms of the atmosphere. I actually felt like the film was capturing my experience of the novel. And…

I'm sure that was the logic behind making the change. Really quite clever.

A friend of mine decided to start doing the reverse of the meaningless "How are you?" and started saying, very earnestly and with sustained eye contact, "How are you?"

Wonderful gallery of pics, as usual.

I'm totally in, and here's why:
Because the series is clearly faithful to what the books are about: the clash between the Belters and everyone else, the whole issue of what is really might mean for humanity to colonize the solar system.
Now, the execution can always go wrong, but still — the intention here is clearly…

TL;DR. But I'm always happy to watch a troll waste his energy on verbiage. Keeps him off the streets.

Part of the problem with 48fps in the "Hobbit" films in particular is that the whole look of those films, which Jackson established in "Lord of the Rings," is painterly — like an Alan Lee or John Howe painting come to life. Everything is tinted, stylized, displaced away from real life and toward illustration. The…

You should be very proud of this chapter of your autobiography you've just written. You silly clown.

Sounds like a Mythbusters episode, if Mythbusters had live animal experiments.
(Which in turn sounds like certain ill-conceived Discovery Channel shows.)

What a spectacularly stupid idea.

Godel, Escher, Bach was a life-saver for me back when I discovered it at 13. At that time I was already fascinated with the sciences and had a kind of unfocused interest in logic. GEB put everything I needed to know about logic between two covers, connected the topic to about a billion others, both scientific and…

Part of the difficulty here is that the accompanying image is of *two* cats, one in outline, one not, and it's not at all clear what these two images correspond to in the experiment.

"I can't see a thing in this helmet!"

Latecomer to long-dormant thread makes affable comment about humor of previous commenters. Ignored.

Just to counterpoint to the above comment, I think the Elric stories are dynamite. Well worth checking out.

The New Yorker profile is great; we should all be very pleased that a writer like Moorcock is getting coverage there.

This is great. Be interesting to see the title in a '70s-appropriate font. (Not sure if it's a flaw that we don't have a '70s font here, b/c using the actual film font supplies the recognition factor we need to get the joke.)

Well, in your original statement, you say that the Soviets "had a great art budget" in the same sentence in which you discuss purges, pogroms, starvation, etc., which implies that the space art in question came out of the very same moment and regime. Which it didn't. I took the "the Soviets had their problems"…

You're thinking of the Stalinist period, which ended in 1953. The vast majority of the Soviet space program was post-Stalin (Sputnik went up in '57). And, of course, the US used Nazi engineers in its early days.

Sex question aside, it just sounds like such a damned fun and wonderful friendship. They were lucky.