So, you didn't actually contradict anything I said. Very telling.

That's right; I didn't think of that.

I'm against making CGI recreations of actual people, living or dead, on principle. It's creepy and revisionist, and future generations won't be able to tell what was a real actor and what wasn't. I'm against colorizing old photos for the same reason.

My biggest gripe was that if they were going to retcon the Death Star's weakness as being intentional sabotage, it doesn't make sense that the port would be so ridiculously small that Luke had to be EXTREMELY lucky to hit it. It was miraculous that the gambit ever worked.

There may or may not be a fan-made reconstruction of the original cut of the first one floating around, if you poke around in the right places, and don't care about officially-official finger-wagging bullshit from the hall monitors.

I always pictured him as Paul Rudd, but he might be too old now.

"Best book in the series", if "Let's completely halt the forward progress of the story for a 500-page flashback" is your idea of exciting…

The ending to Under the Dome was…underwhelming, yeah, but it kind of works in a sort of Twilight Zone/original Star Trek way.

I only read the unabridged version. From what I understand, it was necessary for him to update some of the references.

I thought The Stand was mostly great, except the whole time it seemed to be building to an epic, climactic battle. Instead, we got a deus ex machina of a final confrontation that fizzled out like a wet fart, followed by 200 pages of anticlimax. So yeah, his best and worst habits.

I kind of agree, except I believe it was actually supposed to be a serious, self-contained epic (albeit with references to King's other works) for the first few books, and was better off that way. It only became a meta jerk-off after King got hit by a car.

"Terrible ending"? The ending of the Gunslinger was what definitively sucked me into the series. I found most of the first book to be a slog, but that ending was so fucking cool and made me sure that Stephen King did plenty of hallucinogens in his youth. The second book is my single favorite book of all time, and the…

The ending was good, but I don't like how King used the last few books as his own ego masturbation trip. Dark Tower was not a story that should have been taken meta. I understand King needing to air his demons from the accident, but that wasn't the place to do it.

The Dark Tower adaptation I always carried in my head had Hugh Laurie as Roland and Daniel Craig as the Man in Black. Mostly because those were who the book illustrations looked like to me.

A couple months ago I was in a focus group for an upcoming science-fiction/fantasy film. Because of an NDA, I can't share which one it was or what my opinion on the portions of the movie they showed us was.

The slippery slope is a logical FALLACY. You might want to know this. Look it up, I'm right. People who go on about slippery slopes in earnest fail to realize that it's held up as an example of BAD LOGIC. There are no actual slippery slopes. Human beings are creatures of discrete measures.

Eddie Dean was always my favorite character, so I hope this movie does well enough to warrant a sequel. Love his snark.

He also referred to them as "Jap shit", which is never acceptable no matter what.

I mean, I get why a guy from Detroit would hate Japanese cars. But fuck him anyway, Japanese cars are better.

And if he was black, he'd probably still be in prison. I think that's worth mentioning too.