Blarghagh

First one from Bruce, second one from Sam.

The fact that you have a ranked list of the worst days of your life and a ranked list of the worst days per year concerns me much more than whatever happened to ruin your mood.

How do you meet people?

Honey also tastes better.

Say please.

Then why would it be coming from China?

I went to a kind of rennesaince fair/fantasy cosplay type event yesterday and I witnessed a very heated discussion about wyverns and dragons and their number of limbs. Is this the kind of thing geeks argue about these days? Because I'll hand in my geek card then. A dragon and a wyvern are whatever the hell you want them to be because they don't exist. Show me a scientific, peer reviewed paper that without a doubt proves that Smaug is a wyvern and then we'll talk.

Just read that a theme park in my country is getting a B&M Dive Coaster next year. Happy.

I agree - he was boring as the straight man, to learn that it was all an act throws a lot into perspective. Not sure if it all makes sense, though, but it sure raises the stakes. Also, nobody here mentioned the last Game of Thrones? I think George R. R. Martin enjoys killing characters at weddings, but this time it was infinitely satisfying.

Really? Because I was yelling at Coulson for being stupid enough to let him accompany Bill Paxton. When did Ward get cleared for killing the fake Clairvoyant? They never cleared him of killing that guy under orders, it was the only thread still loose and it was obvious that Ward wasn't telling the truth.

Quite a lot of references to Naked Lunch. Vintage Cronenberg/David Lynch in places. Making it partly comedy was a clever move. I liked it. Not meant to be fully 'understood' I think. Didn't like the ending much, but how do you wrap up something like that anyway. You'll enjoy the book - the weirdest, mindscrewiest parts aren't in the film. In fact, the movie ends with a weird plot twist, yet that is only the least weird of the large amount of plot twists the book ends with.

Really enjoyed the latest Agents of SHIELD. I think it's finally found it's footing by realizing it's supposed to be a spy-show, not a high tech police procedural. Hope they stick with it.

The thing about John Dies at the End is that the movie takes roughly the first quarter of the book, does a fairly loyal adaptation of it too, and then it skips straight to the end by using a bunch of shortcuts that make no sense. Not saying the book gives clear cut answers on everything, it's still extremely weird and I think some of it's strength lies in keeping it unexplained, but a lot more of the puzzle pieces fall into place and begin to make sense. I do recommend reading the book, its a bit too meta and clever for its own good but its the only book that had me laughing out loud and experiencing lovecraftian existential dread in the space of a single page.

True, but then these stories haven't ever really gone out of style. In fact they've been making a resurgence recently and it's just getting tiring. Add on top of that the rather hefty pile of political nonsense that they're tossing at you about domestic spying, internet foot prints and that this character from WW2 (supposedly the "greatest generation") basically saying that what they're doing is un-american, and it feels a bit to much like they're looking at the audience going "EH!? YOU GET IT RIGHT!? EH EH EH!?" But they also point out that the "greatest generation" did some nasty ****. I didn't see the flick as picking sides in this discussion at all, rather raising questions.

Also a great choice. All I hope is that they don't follow internet rumors and go with Benedict Cumberbatch. That would be awful. I dig the guy's work but I just don't think that's a good fit - I don't know why everyone else thinks it is.

I see - I may have jumped the gun there a bit, sorry. I've seen a bit too many people bashing it for political reasons and it irks me. I apologize.

You can call it whatever you wish, really, but I'd say it's a pretty large leap from "a secret evil illuminati like Nazi force corrupting an intelligence agency into creating huge machines that will kill millions of dissidents" to the NSA, but it's a comic film and current events inform it but do not equate to it and saying otherwise is ridiculous. Somehow I can't imagine you being quite as critical when The Dark Knight made Batman into a one-man Patriot Act even though that movie was a soapbox lecture and this had parallels to the NSA, Snowden and Drone combat as a way to give us facets to identify with for entertainment's sake, not as a means to change our minds about anything. But if that's how you wish to see it, that's up to you. Some people will find any reason to hate something. Boohoo, left wing Hollywood. Personally, I'm more interested in the name-drop of Dr. Strange and wondering if they'll cast Liam Neeson or Nathan Fillion.

Hahahaha, oh you guys, it's like there's a laugh track on your posts together.

The lump in my mom's breast that our GP thought was cancer turned out to be randomly clumped up breast tissue.

I seem to be getting the odd pressure headaches and nausea that I normally get from car sickness, except just throughout the day now. Getting a bit concerned.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I'd rank it second only to the first Iron Man in terms of coherence, plot and character and second only to The Avengers in terms of adrenaline and spectacle. It's been a while since one of these films felt like more than a "here's something while you wait for the movie you actually want to see" and works in it's own right.

Sandra Bullock did a fair amount of Shia LeBeouf-ing in Gravity, just muttered "no no no no no no" ad infinitum. :D I thought the movie itself started out really strong and slowly collapsed - they made Bullock's character incredibly incompetent (to the point it was hard to believe she had been through any form of basic training) just to keep up tension and it completely destroyed the suspension of disbelief. The first half hour, however, was incredible and it was worth watching for that. A word of caution, if you have problems with motion sickness the first half hour is going to make you hurl. Not an oscar winner by any stretch, but that first half hour at least is must see, especially that badass twenty minute tracking shot. I watched Knights of Badassdom and was thoroughly entertained although the monster design was forehead-slappingly-bad. It looked like a giant Gremlin. But oh well, low budget and it was still hilarious. Do the pages of thine Monster Manual remain... stuketh together?

That's awesome. Oh, how I wish that was the only thing it still was.