Reality may have changed, but I’m not sure stereotypes have. It’s not like Green Acres was some sort of gritty and nuanced look at rural American life.

Well, it’s not like like the movie invites you to sympathize with Noah Cross... He’s a pretty satanic figure, all in all, which makes Polanski’s thought processes even more interesting to consider.

Pity this is “no parodies”. I’d love to see him perform “Amish Paradise” there.

And if the jughandle is at a four-way intersection, you have to cross a lane of traffic to make your left anyway. I agree they have benefits in a lot of cases, but if the cross street is busy enough, they’re just trading one back-up for another.

In fairness, most of us aren’t careful enough about consent when it comes to masturbation, and too often I just go along with it out of pity, or not wanting to seem like an ingrate, or a prude. Nevertheless, it’s inappropriate to just assume that I really want it and am just playing hard to get. We all need to show…

Did the movie incorporate her apparent head trauma-induced narcolepsy? It seems like a good dramatic/humorous vulnerability for an action hero (akin to Indiana Jones’ fear of snakes) but potentially a difficult directorial line to walk as far as seeming too absurd.

Whatever the background marketing considerations might have been, and the heavy use of then-familiar brands in the original, it doesn’t seem that odd to me to go with Peugeot as a directorial choice specifically because of its unfamiliarity. “Brand dissonance” is a pretty common SF trope — and sometimes its own gag,…

Well, Voyager’s is a Jerry Goldsmith theme, so its awesomeness shouldn’t be terribly surprising.

I’ve done what I can.

I’m afraid that mocking chuckling you’re hearing is Kinja itself.

unblockable advertisements for backup batteries...

Telescoping legs. Like Inspector Gadget.

Years ago, in a 1E AD&D game, I played an evil fighter who pretended to be a Paladin. Before the issue of my not having actual Paladin powers came up, I “confessed” to having been defrocked for some technical infraction, such that I had to work really hard toward getting reinstated.

It’s not that radioactive dirt/dust is especially harmful to your hands, it’s that you’re at risk of tracking it home and having it sit around your house, irradiating you, or potentially inhaling some if it, which is even worse for long term exposure.

Be careful what you wish for...

I had to watch that carefully to catch the move, but it looked to me like he emulated my style. I guess I was a yob before we Yanks even knew what they were.

I could’ve sworn it was a Tim Burton-directed Johnny Depp...

Also, one ideally strikes foreward with the very top of one’s forehead, which has the top of the cranium backing it up and is probably the strongest angle for the skull. A blow from there to any part of an opponent’s face, or even the broad part of their forehead, will hurt them more than it does you.

‘cause the Gorn are a highly evolved, star-faring civilization, and this one’s vegan.

Or somebody wants anchovies or something else nobody else can stand, and nobody wants them skipping off without their leftovers.