Finn... F I N N... 4 letters... 4 Washington Lane... The next clue is in the White House!

He isn’t great in Kimmy Schmidt, but other than that, yeah.

I love The Fountain, and the only change I’d make to it is giving Aronofsky a bigger budget for the Mayan scenes; those looked really cheap and sound-stagey. But all the other stuff his limited budget forced him to do, like hire Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz instead of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett, and the wild…

COMMISSIONER GORDON: You’re gonna have to give him a moment. Batman has to think about his entire life before he fights crime.

THE WRONG SUBGENRE DIED

I made the switch to Pink Lady apples a few years ago, and haven’t looked back.

Yes! I also liked setting off the alarm at the end of the level and doing some target practice with an endless supply of guards.

I used to challenge myself with playing the nighttime Severnaya level on 00 Agent mode and only using double Klobbs.

He probably thinks this comment is about him.

I enjoyed the Joel McHale Show well enough, but my god the celebrity cameos went on for way too long and were never as funny as everyone on the show seemed to think they were. Except for Lou Diamond Phillips, oddly enough. His segment was great.

How would you like to die today, motherfucker?

This is a good response. I love a good medium-rare steak, but sometimes what I really want is a well-seasoned, well done chopped steak covered with gravy and mushrooms. Different scratch for a different itch.

Does First Contact hold up well? I only saw it once, in the theater, when I was 11. I remember thinking Zephraim Cochrane was an interesting character, the shot of the Borg queen’s head being set onto her body was creepy, and the line “So you guys are on some kind of star trek?” was godawful, and that’s pretty much…

“Hey, that’s awful!”
“Sorry, Ms Laroche-Van der Hout.”

The scariest grade is the one in your imagination.

It happens. Hope your week gets better, friend.

His Hyperion 4-part and Ilium/Olympos 2-part series are great far-future speculative fiction (I’d just say “sci-fi” but Simmons himself hates that label). They have weaknesses, of course - he doesn’t do a great job writing female characters in Hyperion, and Olympos gets heavily Islamophobic in some weird ways. But…

Cynicism is a cheap and lazy approach to criticism, and I don’t think Dowd or Vishnevetsky are guilty of it. I think they acknowledge who the film is made for and judge it according to what it’s trying to do, while noting that its story beats have been done many times before.

So that’s it after twenty years? “So long, good luck?”