Ron Perlman has been very forward about the fact that he takes paychecks on pretty much anything he doesn't find morally reprehensible and he thinks he can actually do. Whenever he's in a bad project, I feel like somebody took advantage of him.

The first was $45 million. You're telling me one of these $200 million dollar movies can't shave off $60 million, tighten the belt a bit, focus on characters, AND give us a Dredd sequel? I feel like it would improve the big budget movie, and give us something we want.

Interesting. It seems so obvious in modern retrospect - who else could have pulled off the simultaneous the charm, the malice, the worldliness of Lime, and then did an absolute nose-dive into a feral, instinct-driven man-on-the-run at the end? The best laid plans, yadda yadda yadda…

I didn't know, and I saw the movie this week - it was a surprise to me, so I imagine a lot of new filmgoers have no idea. It's not as much part of the modern cultural influence as say, Keyser Soze in Usual Suspects or anything.

The question is also: was he cutting the penicillin with something? "Watered down" doesn't necessarily mean water.

Saw it at the Music Box in Chicago this week. A gorgeous print.

I like to think of some Austrian guy leaving his apartment every day, and getting scared every single time from some apologizing asshole.

I wish they did a Matt Damon in Interstellar thing and hid it, but I can totally imagine how the argument between the advertisers/backers and the production would be in trying to hide Orson friggin Welles.

Saw this for the first time this week, and I just assumed that Lime was dead and we'd see a flashback to the events leading up to his death. I don't think it's casting-spoiler at all.

It's one of the most energetic, thrilling movies about occupations, or resistance, or colonialism, or racial strife I've ever seen. It tackles the conflict with such vigor and enthusiasm. I just adore that movie.

That one was so cool looking, I just assumed it was built for the show. Then again, lots of European shit looks cool to us just because of divergent architectural trends.

She's not very good on The Strain, but I blame that on her muddled character and not so much her.

I prefer the combat of a Bloodborne (even if I'm awful) or Witcher, but Inquisition has a lot to trumpet in its characters and plotting and wouldn't be pushed aside.

Oh, I got so so annoyed by her fake slang I never brought her on a single mission!

That's not really totally true though right? Isn't that Dorian's quest line with his father, to overcome homophobia? Admittedly you seem better versed in it than I am, and that's the only situation I can recall that would fit, but it is a prominent side mission.

Yep, just because something is funny doesn't make it satire.

Is Nashville that bad? The couple of times I went there I managed to meet a few young, forward-thinking types so I figured it was somewhat more liberal (like an Austin).

This is a beautiful sentence.

… Guy's gotta eat, amirite??

Not to mention the numerous wars in service of seeking and defending the Promised Land that were condoned by God, and the stoning that was condoned elsewhere in the Old Testament.