I'm not sure which is worse, being spavined or being stringhalt.

Don't knock eternity in stereo until you've tried it.

But you were disparaging the property! I won't have you disparage the property!

I would ditto those sentiments, and also I really dug the look of the computer interfaces in Doom 3. I felt like that was the first time those were really done well.

They did a decent job rebooting the video game franchise without those elements. The new games have a lot more to do with Lara's independence and emotional journey than they do with her boobs. Besides, there are no truly garbage properties — only garbage execution of them.

He's also in John Carter! As "Sab Than". As in, he's way more Sab Than you.

Except the U.S., which doesn't get it until March 17.

We know the field of anthropology is systematically screwed up, but Lord Croft should have never taken his fake serial killer hoax as far as he did.

Out of all the design elements of TNG, this may have been the coolest. The name of this once-fictitious OS is, as the article notes, "LCARS" (which stands for Library Computer Access/Retrieval System) and was designed by Michael and Denise Okuda (hence also the sobriquet "okudagrams"). Pixel resolution of that kind…

As a recent convert to the works of John Ford, I was hoping to suggest the old man's great 1939-1940 cycle here (Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, Grapes of Wrath) but it's a little marred by the boring Drums Along The Mohawk.

Apt Pupil! The Usual Suspects! Sigh…

Idiocracy 2: Origins

Apologies, you are right. LOAD skewed the thread a bit there with "Simon and Schuster possibly refusing to publish something because it hurts their business interest" — which has NOT happened in this case.

Nothing in Roxane Gay's move entails the verbs "ensure" or "scare". Milo still has his book contract, Gay is the one who has to find a different publisher.

(anguished) Meow!

To be fair, Brownstein covers that material in her 2015 memoir pretty well. The brief band-namedropping she did here was basically an encapsulation of that (although she could have offered some fresh insights like Fred did).

Nah. Mancini's work was great, but it was a solution in search of a problem. I'm with Walter Murch — including only the ambient sounds gives the opening scene much more suspense.

Yup, agreed, especially on the scale point. I think I was mainly just intrigued by the notion that the Resistance might actually collapse in the next episode which would be both pleasantly counter to the ra-rah ending of Ep. VII and also pleasantly gloomy a la Empire. If not, c'est la vie, viva la resistance, and…

Exactly.

As a fan who had no problem with most of Ep. VII's "fan service", I can personally state that this particular point has little bearing on my opinions of the actual movie.