yes, THOR is a great example of a big budget release in which 3D, while not distracting, adds nothing memorable to the film.

and I in turn commend your ability, trilobiter, to ignore the substance of my argument in its entirety.

His Hamlet might seem like a bigger production, until you break it down in terms of dollars per screen minute, in which case it becomes one of the cheapest films ever made.

and that was just in Robert De Niro's trailer.

blah blah budgets blah blah.

"When life gives you razor blades, make a baseball bat covered in razor blades"
that would make a great t-shirt.

"Directed by Kenneth Branagh, who's never managed a film this big before"
Well, no, but he did direct Frankenstein back in the mid-90s, when a budget of $40 million was no small beans.

as i pointed out above, there's simply no comparison between the kinds of fees that speakers charge in a commercial context and what can reasonably be expected a public library to pay (unless of course the comparison is that the latter is waaaay smaller than the former).

again, some folk seem to fail to grasp that just because George Bush charges $1 million per lecture or whatever, that doesn't make it okay for the Minnesota public library system to pay its visiting authors $45,000.

@necrobutchers:

or you could vote for your public money to be spent wisely in the first place, not blown on visiting authors who may or may not distribute it wisely.

as a londoner, let me also add that if Neil Gaiman ever tried this fucking nonsense back in the UK, he'd be fucking crucified.

i'd bet my left nut that he's the only best-selling author to be paid the equivalent of a teacher's yearly salary to speak at a public library anywhere.

a good bargain?

i like Neil Gaiman as a writer, and the senator is obviously a douche but:

She is five different kinds of hot.

"the ambitious, troubled, largely ignored Cradle Will Rock"
aka "the deservedly ignored because it was teeth-grindingly awful" Cradle Will Rock.

Grant Morrison's run on the X-Men was not very good?

You know, Emma Frost didn't start out with her secondary mutation
it was deliberately induced much later by the psychic ghost of Professor X's dead twin.

so Famke Janssen basically plays every hetrosexual male Trek fans' dream girl and all Handlen can give this ep is a B+?