There was also the soft-core-ier Cleo/Leo.

For me, Reed helps define Hank Pym. Because Hank is the guy who OUGHT to be the smartest guy in the room, except he always ends up in a room with Reed and Tony.

Plus, it's not like he said, "SHould have let them drown."

The main thing with ASM2, for me, is it's clearly an assembled-in-editing patchwork of a rather different shooting script. The bizarre up-and-down of Peter and Gwen, for example; or the whole business with Peter's father which just sort of vanishes, rears its head for no reason, and then goes away again completely. …

It was at the time it was made.

Yeah, but you've made "I openly hate myself" into your thing. It's your allure, man.

There's got to be a specific term for that out there. Like "feeding the dog" or something.

Though some of that comes from things like The Rules and similar mindsets: that women are supposed to wait X amount of time or until certain criteria have been met. With that sort of thing floating around, it's not hard to see why some guys get this sort of Game The System mindset— they're thinking that it's not that…

But they're in the 40s and 50s, right?

Well, there can be something alluring in the enigma of a new person, and sometimes there is that immediate spark of chemistry that comes from that mystery. And once you've met someone new, the window of opportunity for it to be something like THAT will close in short order, and no matter what it becomes later, it…

I think there are a lot of guys who view "sex with someone I'm not really into" as an option that beats masturbation, and they're going to put as much emotional investment into it. Which is kind of sociopathic, but there you go.

I wouldn't want to defend the "nice guys" too much, but as a former single guy, it can be easy to fall into a situation where you think you're doing the traditional dating thing where because of "rules" your partner is waiting a certain number of dates before getting physical, or something like that, and it takes a…

Honestly, how many actually GREAT Ridley Scott movies are there? Alien? Blade Runner? (I don't care for it, but I'll allow it) Thelma & Louise? Black Hawk Down? What else? Gladiator, I suppose, but despite winning Best Picture, no one still talks about it.

I think Cline threw in "lesbian" to make it explicit that she wasn't, like, secretly pining over the protagonist, which would complicate the OTP thing he was setting up.

It's a YA book for 40-year-olds.

It essentially IS DVC, but the mysteries are all 80s movies and game references.

Which, despite not liking RP1, I agree with that. The book annoyed me while reading it, but I kept reading it, and pretty quickly at that.

Literally.

A book whose first four chapters are pure infodump to tell a story that boils down to, "Remember this? And this? And this?" that gets a half-million dollar advance and a Spielberg movie deal? This book isn't terrible, but it gets a LOT more love than it deserves.

See, I found the scavenger hunt part pretty weak. The idea that with a puzzle that blantantly nods to Tomb of Horrors and says "you still have a lot to learn", and only two people in five years go, "Hey, let's check the SCHOOL PLANET for anything that matches the Tomb of Horrors map" is absurd.