Nothing will ever top that In Living Color special that stole virtually the entire viewing audience away from the actual halftime show.

Post-covid what now? How far in the future is he from?

So, nobody’s going to admit they actually kind of liked Alien Resurrection?

Planet of the Apes is based on a French novel though. Although the French also have racism stemming from their time as a colonial power, it’s important to not be like Whoopi Goldberg and view everything from the narrow American view of race relations.

Vonnegut did a good job describing the devolution of humans in Galpagos...

Always frustrating when an article misquotes its own source.

Considering the not-so-very-subtle metaphor behind Planet of the Apes is race, that would mean the sequel would be about oppressed white people rising out of their shackles to free themselves from the oppression of minorities which seems both INCREDIBLY racist and massively guaranteed to be a major box office hit in…

I am super intrigued in a way...but ummm...I don’t know quite how to say this.

“... and The Bridge Over The River Kwai, but that’s not super relevant.”

Nor as much as the 74 version of Orient Express, which had Bacall, Bergman, Connery, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, and, um, Michael York. But I digress.

lol are you high?

The first movie’s cast had Depp, Judi Dench, Penelope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Josh Gad, and Daisy Ridley (then fresh off a lead role in The Force Awakens). What you define as a “star” is somewhat subjective, but I suspect the average person would recognize most of those names.

I was thinking of Snow Crash, with it’s weird diversion into Babylonian history in the middle, or Anathem with the 600 PAGE SCENE set in a large conference room...

My interest in this moon film is waning.

In this case ‘the reason’ will be that they can’t help but try and stack the deck which then just makes it all a bit contrived. Go look at who the guests are on each version. The vast majority in the British version are just people in the public eye in some way: singers, athletes, presenters, reality TV stars. For the…

Troy is my guess as well, though it’s one of my guilty pleasures. It’s like 300 but for people who don’t drink Monster energy drinks.

I found a list of 350,000 most common english words then ran my own frequency analysis on just the five-letter words (~16,000). This is a list of letters by % of 5-letter words that contain them:

Don’t be a...(today’s word).

I seriously don’t get it. Is this what being sober when everyone else is drunk feels like?

So shitty! I’ve been hanging out here a long time, and amidst all the upheaval of the past several years, Dowd has remained one of the reasons to keep coming back. What an underhanded, slimy way to treat - not just a valued and valuable employee - but just a human being generally. Fucking cretins.