O Brother, Where Art Thou. Clooney's one of the most reliable entertainers for me, as I've actually liked him every time I've seen him onscreen, but it's hard to imagine O Brother with anyone else in the leading role.

There aren't many video game-based movies I'd be interested in seeing, but a Ghibli-made Zelda film would make the grade.

Yeah, part of what frustrates me is that we've actually already been through this at least once in comparatively recent memory. Does anyone look back on the actions of the government in the '40s and think, "whew, we really dodged a bullet on that one"? I suspect it rightly gives us all a sense of shame - why repeat…

I think the second paragraph is a valid question worth considering, and I don't think Sarcasm Detector is a heartless jerk or anything. You and I are on the same page with regard to the moral component of helping people in need, but there are alternative perspectives that might not see this moral component the same…

Gosh, I wish I'd just read this instead of typing out my response above. Thank you for distilling a deeply complex global situation into a straightforward explanation.

This is a worthwhile question, because simply advocating for allowing in as many people as possible "because it's the right thing to do" can be based as much on knee-jerk reactionism as Trump Jr.'s approach. Admittedly, I would make the case that there is a moral component to welcoming and supporting refugees, but I'm…

As an American, it's super-disappointing. I've even encountered it among otherwise reasonable people in my family and my spouse's family. We do what we can to talk through why it doesn't make sense.

Huh. I played Krusty's Fun House on Genesis as a kid and had evidently forgotten it almost completely in the intervening years. Watching the Youtube video, though, I'm struck by how fun it looks. Very few of the games from my Genesis years have any nostalgic value, and I'm weirdly drawn instead to much of the SNES…

Post deleted: It occurred to me upon re-reading that I was basically asking you to help me be the kind of speculator that you were declaiming. Sorry about that.

Ugh, that reminds me of District 9, which begins as found footage and then forgets its own premise roughly halfway through. That said, I think a movie could absolutely work using the method you described if it was presented more intentionally.

Don't know if you've already picked this up, but I'd encourage you to seek out a physical copy. I've made a pretty solid entertainment budget this past year by selling off old games, which (particularly on Nintendo consoles) hold their value spectacularly well over the years. Given that general trend, and the more…

I was quite fond of it, though I only saw it the once when it was out in theaters.

I'm out of touch enough to not know whether this is an actual quote.

I've gotta say, this is the first time I've seen Night of the Lepus appear anywhere besides the TV sets in my home growing up. My sister, my friends and I watched this movie with some regularity, and it's good to see that someone out there has also seen it. It is, unsurprisingly, terrible.

Never seen this before. Loved it!

This is one of the funniest, on-point comments I've read this week. Thanks!

I hesitate to say it, since it was mentioned earlier this week, but I'd probably have to nominate the original conversation with Sovereign on Virmire (?) in the original Mass Effect. Even though its words were comprehensible, the fact that the antagonist in this game represented a society working on an entirely…

Just noticed the hilarious hats on the characters in the image associated with Ultimate Angler above. If anyone had passed the image without looking closer, as I had, do yourself a favor and give it a second glance.

I'm of two minds on it. On the one hand, the monster (?) is one of the more intelligent explorations of some very troubling philosophical issues in genre fiction, but on the other hand, I love almost anything being chibi-fied.

Rymdkapsel is as beautiful a mobile game as I've yet seen. The gameplay's pleasant too, and it's a steal for $1.99 or whatever.