I read that scene as her having an "oh shit AM I overly attached to this stuff? Oh fuck, I am! I'm betraying the cause! Shit!" little crisis to go with Phillip's "I am the biggest dirtbag in the world" crisis.

Phillip now firmly knows about HIMSELF what we have known about him.

Here late: Pasha was the line for Phillip. It's finally too fucking much. Killing Sven or whatever that kid's name was and finding out the Center has straight up been lying to them (about the wheat, about the virus) and now Tuan the True Believer nearly killed an innocent kid for what? To blackmail some guy in Russia?

It's almost enough to make me want to learn how to do all that shit, even though I haven't skinned a game model since… whenever "Freedom Force" dropped for the PC.

If nothing else, we got that delightful Cartoon Network short with the band Pain.

Cheat mod, I imagine.

This ALMOST makes up for the Fallout modding community producing an equal number of foot fetish mods and black hairstyle mods.

It's a Western, in exactly the same ways Aliens is a Western.

I sort of mentally associate the apex of that with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, myself.

Oh shit, what's up fellow early-internet person. I never got a green-zoned DFC, but was a busy guy over at IADL.

I'm mostly being obstinate about how we're all constructing genres here. ROCKY isn't a action movie, but BLOODSPORT totally is, and ROBOT JOX might be!

Nah, they gotta do time travel. Lots of looking right at the camera and making "jokes" about "What, no Delorean" and "88 miles per hour" and "you know, like in that Michael J. Fox movie."

So ROCKY is an action movie? (or do sports dramas count as their own thing?)

Outside choice for 2004: Team America: World Police. The only other successful attempt at an action/comedy/musical hybrid was The Blues Brothers, it's an interesting-if-dated encapsulation of an era in American politics (and one could argue it ended up being predictive of the current era of American politics), the…

TAKEN also turned Liam Neeson into a meme. That warrants discussion.

Eh. You've got a couple of delightful Jason Statham flicks (the Transporters, motherfuckin' CRANK), you've got Kill Bill, Stephen Chow is about to start doin' his thing, and I'm completely serious when I want to see Team America: World Police in the discussion for 2004.

Shit, I wonder if KUNG FU HUSTLE gets the nod? It probably could, except the second Bourne flick dropped that year.

I haven't seen Versus in years, but there was a summer where I swear to fucking god we did a double header of VERSUS/BATTLE ROYALE like twice a week.

300, for good or for ill, casts a long fucking shadow. Every brotastic dipshit who runs a SPARTAN RACE or whatever, and every guncult jagoff with a MORON LABE sticker on their jacked-up truck are the god-awful trashspawn of 300.

SPACE MUTINY, GIANT SPIDER INVASION, and FINAL SACRIFICE for me.