That actually seems to have worked a lot better than the original:

The "rocket-driven wheels" concept was tested, and rather spectacularly failed, in the "Great Panjandrum" built by the British as a demolition charge deployment system in WWII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandru…

I never really got the point of the Gas Spore, because the last thing any player I ever saw wanted to do on encountering a Beholder was to run up and stab it. It might as well be disguised as a Tiger tank.

I just recently re-watched They Live with my wife and a friend, who had never seen it, and again found myself explaining.

My friends and I were quite amused by these when we originally saw the movie. One of them, unbeknownst to the rest of us, grabbed a bunch of them (I recall Dune playing to sparse audiences, so theaters didn't run out quickly) and several years later used them as Christmas gift wrap. Great holiday memories...

And conversely, the burning of York, Ontario by US forces is well-remembered by Canadians, but pretty well unknown in the US.

Another thumbs up for this. All the cast was pretty excellent, though Lundgren was kind of underutilized.

Given that Lundgren is upstaged by most of the cast, Langella and Cypher in particular, I guess it makes sense that he wouldn't care for it, however good it was.

I thought one of the charms of the original was the surprise value of the overarching plot. I had no idea going in that it was going to turn into a Lovecraft parody, and such a thing was barely even part of popular culture back then. Any reboot will be hard pressed to better that twist.

Looking at the Box Office Mojo page, it appears they made a <i>negative</i> 2% inflation adjustment to the TASM2 gross, which does seem odd to me. Have ticket prices really <i>decreased</i> on average since May? I certainly don't think the CPI has dropped an annualized 12%, or there'd be panic on Wall Street.

Not just one's own intelligence. I think a lot of this applies to all assessments of intelligence, human and otherwise. It also probably has something to do with the popularity of conspiracy theories.

I think that, to a dog, flipping the corner of the rug counts as burying. We used to give soup bones and big rawhide chews to our dog, and she'd wander the house wracked with anxiety that she couldn't bury them until we provided an old beach towel that did the trick.

What keeps me from getting over the threshold of disbelief for the show is the idea that the whole world would be so lastingly affected by such an event. In reality I think something like this would play out more like major catastrophes do — those directly impacted may obsess over it for a while, some of the rest will…

People were aware of disturbingly large prehistoric insect fossils back in the '40s, but were there yet any theories as to why such sizes were unlikely in the modern world?

There've been many comedy sketches, and a number of films (including <i>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</i>), that end in a fourth wall-breaking, "out of ideas, let's go home" fashion. But <i>Blazing Saddles</i> is the only one that doesn't leave a kind of disappointing aftertaste — it's everything you say, and truly…

I question whether anything involving a film's narrator should qualify as "breaking the fourth wall". A narrator is, by its nature, addressing the audience directly — though they often do it more formally than conversationally.

To my mind the issue is muddied by Solitary Confinement as it's practiced usually including a dearth of other mental stimulus. I'm not sure how much research has been done on scenarios where subjects have a good supply of books, computer games, music, web browsing, written correspondence, etc. I personally don't…

And they fired the W19 280mm nuclear round mentioned in the article as having been the basis for the 16" nuclear round. So that is indeed what the battleship would have delivered.

Depends where you're standing. As <b>Seneca the Younger(er)</b> notes, above, the guys in the picture are standing outside of where the other firing photos show the shockwave spreading. I recall that the Japanese Yamato-class battleships had fully enclosed anti-aircraft gun turrets, because experiments with caged…

Only barely too small — there were 155mm and 203mm tactical nuclear rounds in the US arsenal, and 6" and 8" armed cruisers served in the '50s and '60s that might theoretically have been able to fire them, though I don't think the Navy ever made the effort to adapt them.