Well, ostensibly that is the job they’re being paid for in those clips. Read more
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Failed? I think you spelled “Created the greatest action movie of all time and then went out on top because he knew that he could never reach those dizzying heights again” wrong. Read more
Oh god, everything about that looks awful. Like it was released straight to video in 1998. Read more
And thank you for that. It’s always best to have perspectives from people actually deaing with things (or who are close to it) than my mad ramblings. Read more
I’m sorry, I hadn’t intended my comment to reflect the viewpoint of the addiction community but rather society in general, esp. American society. Read more
I think that for a lot of people there’s a stigma attached to using drugs to fix an addiction problem because deep down they imagine it’s a problem of character not of biology. Read more
That was my favorite part “Yeah, I could tell you guys about this cool pirate adventure but instead here’s 7,000 pages on writing love poems for some asshole.” Read more
I don’t think Ayn Rand is really a tool fo libertarian conversion, it’s more like a justification. I don’t know how else anyone could get through those monologues. Read more
Faffing about and padding are such pernicious problems in sci-fi/fantasy, it’s like authors think a book can’t be good unless it’s 700 pages. Read more
So it’s the arc of every Ryan Murphy show just faster? Read more
But there haven’t been a lot of good movies with vampires or witches either. Read more
Maybe he didn’t know better on that score, I completely missed those as a kid, and really only discovered them through threads like these and my reaction is always “WTF?” Read more
I hope that kid turns into a jock and bullies his parents. Read more
It’s pretty much the only change PJ made that I enthusiastically endorsed. Read more
Well, you can always use the material as a staging point for a conversation. Read more
Looking back I can see the conservatism in his books, but I always assumed that was kind of a product of the 1950s. How’d he go over the top? Read more
I don’t tink I’d call the racism in Lovecraft hidden so much as casual - he’s not foaming at the mouth about it, but it’s all there Read more
Yeah, re-reading it half-remembered ravings of a mad visionary really don’t hang together as well as I thought and the spells are riddled with errors. I ended up conjuring Yag-Shazbat, not nearly as terrifying. Read more
I think we should start a campaign to get good sci-fi/fantasy into the hands of precocious young nerds so they don’t have to spend a lot of time spinning their wheels with the Witches of Dathomir or some Forgotten Realms books. Read more
I feel this way about so much of the genre stuff, especially the tie-in novels, I read as a kid. At best the writing can usually be described as “okay” Read more