Or an adaptation of Gantz.  Actually, that would be a great troll project for Hollywood.  Make a live action version of Gantz and advertise it like Men in Black, then watch people leave the theaters shellshocked at the psychological torture and rape.

Comparing the advertising to this movie and John Carter is strange.  If you showed someone the ads for John Carter and then asked them what they movie was about, they would give you a blank stare and say something like "A guy who fights big monsters I guess?".

From what I've seen of the trailers this doesn't look utterly unwatchable.  Bland and formulaic for sure, but probably has a few good one liners and visual gags.  The sort of thing you could turn on in the background in 6 months when it's showing on TV and not feel too embarrassed. 

That's what I was getting at.  It is a double reference, Asimov story and US 200th birthday. 

I think it's going to be a paperweight forever now.  Doc and Jackson have abandoned it pretty convincingly at this point. 

I had to think about the Bicentennial Man line for a second.  When I remembered he was built in 1976 it all clicked. 

@Dikachu:disqus You forgot about Speedy. 

Well, that and all of the Genocide.  Kind of awkward summer blockbuster fare. 

Maybe because he was in a delicate situation and the last thing he needed was a bumbling robot to come crashing down and knocking the jeep off of the ledge. 

I guess his show is also instructive as to which survival techniques are bunk.  I never really considered it that way before.

Les Stroud has a much better personality, but half of the Survivorman episodes seem to involve him nearly starving to death after just a week.  He's always setting up this penny ante stuff that nets him almost no return (ooh yeah, those three drops of scummy water were totally worth all of the effort I spent putting…

Yeah, having the deer already captured for you and then just adding an arbitrary "carry it across a frozen river" challenge to that is the worst kind of reality TV braindamage.

I had the impression that Hank's bed was always miswired a bit and he got some cable TV in his, which is why he talks like a Nick at Night character sometimes. 

Oh this reminds me, if you ever have a chance to see FDR: American Badass, just don't.  It's fucking horrible. 

I thought you would just give them a bit old shot of Heroin and then roll them on their back. 

Water has a high specific heat, which means you need to expend a lot of energy to bring a human body up to the boiling point.  Worse, the "throw the body in the drum, cover it with gasoline, throw in a match" technique will tend to waste most of the energy since the flames will be above the body, not below it where…

I think it's pretty clear that he was always an asshole.  Really, you don't get into the Meth business unless you're an asshole anyway, that stuff destroys lives, cancer treatment bills or no.

Don't feel too bad for LSP, she pushed away everybody who tried to be her friend.  She needs counseling for sure, but you can't blame anybody else for not wanting to be her friend. 

I thought it was a dig at the pants at Mens Warehouse being a bit ill fitting. 

Look around the poorer part of town and you'll find plenty of tailors tucked into the backs of laundromats or dry cleaners.  I know because mass market dress shirts are only sized for pencil necks.  Trying to buy a dress shirt off of the rack is hopeless for me, I end up inside a tent with fabric down at my knees and…