I don't think that's true. There isn't really any futuristic human technology in the film at all; it's all alien technology that deliberately makes little sense so that the audience understands just how foreign these things are to everything we understand. It takes a relatively grounded look at a first contact…

Yeah, holy SHIT the music. Ten outta ten, ten outta ten hundred outta hundred, best score, best score.

"Sense of wonder."
That's the phrase that gets bandied about when talking about science fiction. That's the key to everything about the genre; to its appeal, to why it has endured, to why it's great when it's great, to what it can offer to the reader or viewer. It's not found in other forms of speculative fiction,…

Eh, close enough. I was gonna hold out for a "You ain't seen Bad Boys Two?!", but that'll do.

That feels right.

Really? I always figured you got a poster for Bad Boys II or something.

I knew Tereglith was pretty young; I always pictured Narrator as being the oldest in the bunch, since he clearly has the most refined taste in cinema.

Damn, I really might have to shell out and see this thing. I got a trailer for it in front of The Monster and thought it looked like the most obvious Oscar bait I had ever seen, but apparently the entire CZ is enshrining it as movie of the year, so I'd better see it for myself.

Sweet! I'm seeing it tonight. I'll post my thoughts, but I'm guessing I will be living for that shit as well.

I see him get accused of being "Overly cute" a lot. I guess that's a side-effect of this new television age where stylization and heart are the cobwebs of conventionality which were supposed to have been swept away by the awesome earth-shattering power of Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.

I held off on the movie for years for exactly the same reason. You should see those last few though; "Objects In Space" might be the best episode.

How does the CZ feel about Firefly? Over on the "R.I.P. Ron Glass" page, the regular AV crowd seem to have mostly gravitated towards the "It was fine, but wildly overrated, much like everything else Whedon has ever touched" view, and it's getting a little demoralizing for me.

It's someone's answer in the article, but the prospect of revisiting Breaking Bad doesn't appeal to me. I was in it for the suspense and the twists; now that I know how everything goes down, I think it would just be an exercise in unpleasantness.

Whoa, did pop culture care about your existence during that time?

Oh, fuck.

One time I went to get lunch at a diner and "From Her To Eternity" by Nick Cave was playing. Which is far from my favorite song, but it's just about the last thing in the world I ever expected to hear in a diner. That was pretty math.

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There's a lot of "Don't even give them an inch" sentiment going around the left right now in regards to Trump and his cronies' ideas; maybe some people are taking that to heart and applying it to 2016 in general. "Oh, so now you'll take Castro and I'll be fine with it, but who will you take tomorrow? George Takei? Tom…

Over on Staff Picks Marah picked an album she described as something that "…manages to combine Bon Iver, Steely Dan, and yacht rock…". I'm not the only one to whom that doesn't sound very appealing, right?

"Somehow Van Occupanther manages to combine Bon Iver, Steely Dan, and yacht rock…"
I'm gonna stop you right there and say you're really not selling me on this thing.