Watching the movies?

Yarp. Like one or two of these is even an interesting-sounding idea.

xHamster pulled that nice PR stunt with regard to North Carolina trans bashing. Perhaps it's most ethical to masturbate at that website?

You are. I used to be the other one, but my wife bought the cast album and I think it's pretty damn good, though I'm not sure why we got almost no rap in the second act, which could have used an uptempo number. Didn't have to be a happy one, but just some more variety.

He'd be wrong, though, because heavy metal is the general catchall term for the whole genre, from Sabbath to Samoth to whatever grindcore band starts with S these days. And metal people would also fight over whether Metallica was actually thrash in olden times, arguing that it should be considered speed metal.

It was jarring in hindsight how much Indy, Salah and Marcus were all lightened up between Raiders and Last Crusade, which is really much, much more comedic and light-hearted than Raiders.

I slogged through the Da Vinci Code so I could say I read it while slagging it. I learned my lesson, though, and didn't do that with the Lisbeth Salander books.

I'd describe Kingsmen along the same lines, though obviously there's a little too much carnage and fate of the world for what the author is asking for with that one.

I don't buy that National Treasure isn't cynical. That sort of making fetish objects of the people who founded the U.S. and their particular political arrangements as some bunch of grand and noble philosopher kings, rather than just some assholes who were good at playing the game of thrones and pretty smart about it,…

But if you watch Joy Ride, you get him with Steve Zahn, Ted Levine and Leelee Sobieski, all doing their particular things at the top of their games, no?

Fair, but I'm with Ambrose Bierce on the general concept, so I guess I'll take neither.

The Thorn of Emberlain appears to be really coming out this September.

She played a pretty good sex robot on (low budget Canadian sci fi show) Dark Matter.

She's not exactly in her right mind after all she's been put through, is how I interpreted it. Plus, killing herself probably appealed partly because it gave her control of herself back, once and for all.

I think that was the joke.

We were told the organization he was mixed up with had something to do with Jessica's past, so they might go to that.

Yup, that's it exactly.

Yeah, I'd like to see her work on more cases that involve things like the woman who wanted to murder her because of the chaos caused by the Avengers fighting an alien invasion.

Yeah. The Mummy and its first sequel were really fun.

I get the argument the world needs more light-hearted action movies, but the National Treasure movies are a.) the sort of thing my in laws make we watch at Christmas b.) shallowly patriotic and excited about "history" in the manner of the History Channel or like someone who gets very excited about presidents and c.)…