The prequel parts of Godfather, Part II work pretty well, but that is in part because they are used to draw parallels between Vito & Michael.

Liked for " Peter Jackson's 12 Years a Hobbit"

There is really no argument about this. Lucas changed the game when it comes to effects. In that area, he is the most important figure in film history.

Just look at how long the Kings of England/Great Britain claimed to be King of France. They kept it up until the French Revolution, even though none of them had any kind of legit claim (outside of Henry VI). The last 200 years of that nonsense they didn't even own a spot of land on the continent.

Say what you will about "Skywalker", at their name wasn't a thinly veiled euphemism for masturbation. "Hand Solo", indeed.

When I read the title, I thought for a second this was an adaptation of Nick Harkaway's "The Gone Away World". I'm glad it is not, as I don't think Blomkamp could do justice to the material.

Yeah. When I finally watched the movie, they start talking about Carlotta Valdez and I'm like, "Wait, like from the song?"

And is no one going to mention that this song commits the cardinal sin of "rhyming a word with itself."

I just remember that it took me years to realize "Carlotta Valdez" was about the movie Vertigo, since I had never seen Vertigo.

Wareheim on MoN seems to be playing a character meant for Posehn.

I find it weird that Harry and the other denizens of the parallel Earth are all cool with referring to their home as "Earth 2". From their perspective, it is Earth 1, after all.

This is a fun, diverting show, but I am a bit surprised at how strong the appeal has been.

I'm not sure who should receive the blame, but there is no doubt a lot of this show is stilted. Ansari's parents are actually not that bad - his father is pretty natural and his mother has very few scenes. The rest of the cast, though….

Backwoods people might be intimidated by people from the city, or consider them immoral or foolish, but they do not, generally, think they are intellectually inferior. So if there is a new invention they might view it with distrust, but they won't dismiss it as the product of an idiot.

I always interpreted that this was because wizards are so arrogant and hopelessly closed off from the rest of humanity that they have fallen out of touch with progress - based on the magical train, I'd say sometime in the late 19th century.

Yeah, I don't think Rowling has a good grasp on American slang.

Every time someone says "Jeb Bush", they are really saying "John Ellis Bush Bush". It's a damn redundancy is what it is.

I'm not a big military guy, & even I know that there is no such thing as a "scholarship to West Point". No one pays tuition to West Point. You either get in (in which case you are in the military & they clothe & house & feed you) or you don't.

This is all brand new stuff. No poll, even one released today, could possibly take this stuff into account. Immediate reaction won't show up for another week or so.

Oh, well it does now. Cripes, "literal" now means "figurative" sometimes. We've actually managed to make a word into it's own antonym. All bets are off.