This has been weighing heavily on my heart, guys, since I love pumpkin bread and tacos. I decided to ask my favorite Tolkien scholar about it and the rebuttal has made me feel better about Middle Earth.

"Babe is an example of a film that doesn't overwhelm you with spectacle, but uses VFX to make you feel something intense"

I think what jumped out at me most about this novel was how well VanderMeer dealt with tone. We had this oozy, spooky Lovecraftian scenario, but it never felt overwrought or florid like Lovecraft. There was a kind of wry humor, even though there was also this very earnest intensity. Plus somehow it was a deeply…

Which makes sense when one considers the fact that the Pixar acquisition was more of a complete direction change on the part of Disney.

COUNT AGAIN! ;)

I've really never seen a good argument for why the Chinese Room isn't a sentient being that is aided in communication by the person inside. If it is, as Searle supposes, so complex that communication with it is indistinguishable from communication with an actual person then it is merely an alien form of life (one that…

There are few things worse on the Internet than people who comment not to give an informed or thought out opinion, or even to pile on excessive amounts of abuse, but to tell the world they don't care. Screaming "I DON'T CARE" into the void, as if anybody should care about that? Why should anyone be anything but…

I actually started laughing my ass off cause it was just so lazy.

I would absolutely love a story of the Alamo with dragons. Bring it.

Alamo dragons? MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Looks like the Dreamworks face.

Man. Not one mention of Dean Cundey up in this article. Dude made magic for John Carpenter. Dude field tested Panavision high speed lenses the get the most out of the night time shots for Escape From New York and that movie has a hell of a look!

Still love this movie. Don't understand why so many people weren't into it.

The Fast & Furious franchise shows a group of characters that gets progressively better and obtain more powerful artifacts (cars), starting out doing relatively small quests (bank heists and such) and ending up doing epic-level feats such as flipping over tanks and taking down a plane. They act like a D&D group that…

Vin Diesel's other action franchise is also a big D&D adventure. Here's something a friend came up with:

Ahhh! Woooh! What's happening? Who am I? Why am I here? What's my purpose in life? What do I mean by who am I? Okay okay, calm down calm down get a grip now. Ooh, this is an interesting sensation. What is it? Its a sort of tingling in my... well I suppose I better start finding names for things. Lets call it a...…