Dumas the writer wuìould have been a great example. In fact, the "Moors" weren't balck. The Moors were Arabic, North Africans and berber, none of which are black skinned.

Well, Catherine had red hair and blue eyes, but it's a good quip.

Astronauts who actually act like intelligent scientists? And aside from essentially ignoring the radiation problem of inter-solar travel, all of the technology is presented very believably at 15 minutes into the future, which is to be expected from a movie where the writers had NASA on speed-dial for consulting.

Primer.

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I dislike novels in which the main character is a novelist; it makes me think the author is unimaginative or lazy or just didn't understand what the guideline "write what you know" means.

Then how do you explain that lab mice are also getting fatter, despite no change in diet? Not saying we should suddenly start eating just fat and sugar, but clearly it's more complicated than you want it to be.

There is no such thing as a reviewer (or person generally) who goes into a movie without any expectations. You would have to seal someone in a sensory deprivation chamber for a few months before the film comes out, to achieve that. I'm being honest about what my expectations were going into this film, and what I…