The actors can breathe. I just don't need to hear it in the soundtrack. It is the director, in collaboration with foley artists, that put the breathing sounds back who are creating the disconnect. Undead are supernaturally animated corpses. They are not alive. They merely appear to be, more or less. Of course, the…

Nice mood piece.

I don't know what the setup was for the performances, so if as you say it was a slapdash amateur gig where anyone with costume scraps could jump on stage, then I can see how something like this happens. If, on the other hand, it is a staged performance in which a producer is responsible for arranging costumes and…

It would have been an improvement, sure. At the very least it would have made the producers look a little less like pop culture morons.

Forming interpretations or drawing conclusions from a sample base of 80 (out of hundreds of millions of possible samples) is idiotic.

Note to the producers: Slash doesn't play a Stratocaster. As if the whole thing doesn't look dumb enough already...

I don't really understand the big fuss on either side of this issue. I don't see the value of finding and studying the remains of an artist's subject, even one as inexplicably famous as the Mona Lisa. It's not like this Lisa woman is historically significant for any other reason. I also don't see what is so…

The Thanos isn't too bad.

"Stop thinking of them as a laundry list of stuff that happens, or as a wreath of decorative bangles that you hang on your story. And start thinking of them instead as building blocks of storytelling that bring with them their own atmosphere or possibility for surprise and excitement."

Yes, but surely there is a respectable—and achievable—middle-ground between highly accurate "hard" science fiction and the complete nonsense with science-y dressing that passes for pop culture scifi these days. The science doesn't have to be perfect, but it could at least be plausible. Horror that isn't scary doesn't…

Are the relentless anti-piracy notifications, kept intact on a YouTube video, meant to be ironic? I'm a little surprised Disney hasn't hunted this down and had it removed.

"42" is not the "meaning of life" or the "answer" to it (whatever that means). It was Douglas Adams' "answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything." The question itself is undetermined.

"Secondly, the marketing for Thor really played it as a respectable, story-driven movie."

The Shaw body "structural separation" effect is just a visual representation of his absorption powers at work.

It seems to me that the question of whether Thor is fit to be king is rather moot in a universe where Odin never really dies.

This is sheer marketing activity (tying in with the Thor feature film), not rich storytelling.

I loved the Ballad of Beta Ray Bill, but surely if the Norse gods call Thor's hammer Mjolnir, then Odin would surely have given Bill's hammer a suitably Scandanavian name too, not Stormbreaker.

My problem wasn't with Walter acting selfless; that is a character trait I find authentic. It was his notion of God's temperment, if you will, that was juvenile.

That "click-clack 1970s office balls" device has a name. It's called a Newton's Cradle. I'm surprised you didn't know that, CJ.

Yeah, it felt a little odd to me too, though Walter's level of desperation accounts for much, I suppose.