A fair point, I must admit.

When there were a few hundred books written a year that was all fine and good. When there's 24 hours of programming on 1000 channels that apparently need to be filled with endless clones of shows like "Criminal Minds", 'tiring' is the operative word.

“I would say out of those 200 scripts, there were probably 30 or 40 of them that opened with a rape or had a pretty savage rape at some point".

The band is (was?) instrumentally great but I'll never understand how anyone gets past Axl's nails-on-a-chalkboard voice.

As far back as the first season I thought the show had a cycle where it would begin to verge on getting tedious but would then right itself by introducing a new and interesting variable into the equation (the new character introductions did the heavy lifting on this for quite a while early on). They really did an…

Depends what you mean by film nerds. If you mean the sort of genre geeks who tend to populate the internet then I think he's pretty firmly in their (our) top tier from Alien and Blade Runner alone.

I can't for the life of me think of anything that should make someone optimistic about Blomkamp at this point. Until proven otherwise, District 9 was a fluke.

My takeaway from 'Dune' was that I couldn't believe how normal and pleasant he seemed. He was nothing like the mad genius I was expecting.

Yeah it's not a knock on the movie at all. It just happened to be less interested in the part I happened to be more interested about. Or as you so aptly put it, I wanted more Martian and less Interstellar.

I liked the movie but it turned out they cared a lot more about their spoilery twist than about the nuts and bolts of how the characters figured out the language .

Somehow I don't trust your recommendations on anything I'm counting on to function.

Hey, well would you look at that - a story that isn't about Harley being a raging asshat for once.

Yeah, that was a rather odd choice on David's part since the lyrics (linked below by Triohead) are basically just "we're all fucked" nihilism. Hell, you could read them as progressive since they're positing AIDS as a universally threatening prospect on par with nuclear war.

Agreed it's a pretty great movie.

The original recipe is great but there's a Tiki Restaurant north of Boston called "The Kowloon" that made a bastardized version that was out of this world. I think it had Meyer's dark rum and some orange/pineapple juice but was otherwise pretty close to the original.

If only it was the good kind of shitty.

Great concept. Less than great execution.

Yeah, I'm just being snarky.

Eesh, that was such a disappointment. You're completely right about the film, and most of the effects weren't even that memorable taboot.

I completely agree, but I think D'Angelo does have a point about some of the effects in this particular scene. I've always found it the weakest of the big set pieces in terms of actual "thing" effects. The floppy flower-jaw-head-thing doesn't always look that great, and the dummy that's being whipped around in the…