Ha. Funnily enough, it is writing 'about God' and it is a computer/machine meant to take the place of Monk work - so not super far off from the A.C. Clarke story parts.

I vaguely recall the Merovingian's tie, but my mind was focused elsewhere ...

I suppose the ending wasn't quite as bleak as the rest of the film, but it's still pretty damn bleak.

Don't you guys in the US have any regulatory framework/legislation on how "powerful" a single commercial entity can get?

I am sorry but visually, no. It was like a Moebius comic come to life. We've never had the Fifth Element on screen before. When I was younger I didn't get it because I was expecting something more serious and it violated the tone I had set in my head but as I've grown older I realize how wonderful it is.

I saw alien worlds, spaceships and frickin laser beams. I'm in. Go back to your magical superpowers, vampires and werewolves and leave the real Sci-Fi to us.

Everybody has been pretty on point so I'll go obscure:

Napoleon? I don't remember him being evil... Though every great leader throughout history can be considered evil since they killed a lot of people to get in the history books.

No Verizon? Fuck you, Google.

So many folks of the modern era. I think Sci-fi was saved far before that by this person:

horror is not scifi.

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Yeah, the stillsuits from Dune also processed urine and feces. So, just as disgusting as Waterworld.

Are you suggesting that Taco Bell has actually been serving real meat all these years! Because I am dubious.

Has anyone here had an adverse experience with Hola? This past weekend my wife and I went to watch something at Hulu on her Tablet using Firefox and every time we typed "Hulu.com" into the address box it kept redirecting to Hola and telling us we needed to update to the latest version. I disabled Hola it still did it;…