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How so? It's been a while since I saw Blazing Saddles, but other than being a comedy in a wild west context, I don't see any similarity. Were some of the jokes reused? Because the plot is pretty different as far as I can remember.

Some things in the article are tangentially related but none are addressed in the same context. For instance the time scale problem is only addressed in the context of a thousand Type II and Type III civilizations existing in our galaxy (estimation reached by the absurd chain of 1% conservative...

"any civs beyond our tech tree" is something already laced with assumptions. Assumptions about our own future (the fantasy civ is like us, but in the future - so assumptions about what is possible to achieve), assumptions about the linearity of technological discovery (even different human...

For years, there have been talks and deals and even some scripts for an american-made live-action version of Akira. At some point it was supposed to take place in Neo New York or something...

I wonder who is the clever strategist who decided to put a fort at the feet of cliffs.

Mais que veut dire "reveite"? I don't see what is so paradoxical about the Fermi paradox. It feels to me it is built on a number of weak assumptions. I mean, here on planet earth, right now, there are several million different types of life forms (8.7 some say - bacteria and the likes...

Day 9! No rain, no 5 sets matches: 4th round is completed! The Djokovic vs Gasquet match started strangely as it took 25 minutes to play 3 games! In a way this grueling start broke Gasquet's will. 90 minutes later, Djokovic was the victor. Exiled on court 1, Ferrer also made very light work...

Day 8! They wanted to play 4 WTA matches and 4 ATP matches on two main courts, but thanks to the crappy weather, 2 WTA matches were canceled (well... adjourned), and only 3 of the 4 ATP matches got completed. Nishikori did not have to play particularly well to beat Gabashvili in straight...

Damp day at the French... the 11:00 am matches could only played a handful of games before being stopped. It's now 1:30 pm and play has yet to be resumed. As I feared a couple days ago, this "sun"day feels a bit like that day Soderling beat Federer in straight sets. In humid conditions on clay...

Day 7! 3rd round top half gogogo! DJOKOVIC vs KOKKINAKIS: Not seen. Straight forward win. ANDERSON vs GASQUET: Gasquet had to play yesterday against Berlocq to play their fifth set and a decided frenchman sealed the deal with a clean 6-1. Against Anderson though he kinda forgot the...

Rob Stark deceased wife and also Ros should have a place in this GoT beauty pageant.

Huh?

Day 6! 3rd round of the bottom half is done! For real! NISHIKORI vs BECKER: Becker who won his 2nd round match 10-8 in the fifth threw the towel before even stepping on the ring. ROSOL vs GABASHVILI: Gabashvili won that in a clinical 4-4-4 that I did not see at all. TSONGA vs ANDUJAR...

They were more constant and more clutch, but what do you keep from these matches? The Warriors really playing well or Harden choosing not to drive to the basket for a potentially game winning possession? The Warriors really playing well or Harden breaking the record of most turn-overs in a...

Blatter is probably a cunning scoundrel of the highest order, but, under his reign, FIFA made more and more money and, thanks to him, a significant chunk of this money is redistributed to the national federations to help with operating costs, infrastructure building/renovation, etc. The super...

What I mean is that, in this serie, when Harden played very well, the Rockets won, when Harden played well, it resulted in close matches that could have gone either way and when he played poorly, the Rockets lost badly. I am not blaming Harden of anything, I am just saying that the Warriors are...

I would be more optimistic about the Warriors if their 4-1 win against the Rocket felt like it was their doing and not the result of Harden's ups and downs.

Day 5: Round two of the top half is over... almost. Gasquet found himself stuck in the quagmire that is Berlocq's game (run to the ball, big shout, big lift: repeat until the opponent misses, dies of exhaustion or concede an attack opportunity. In case of attack opportunity: run to the ball, big...

These pages from the comics don't have the original text, in case that was not totally obvious. I guess it kinda keeps unspoiled the climax of this scene that way.

To be fair, the word 'exposition' kinda semantically slid to mean 'bad exposition': moments where you feel things are forced in order to explain something to you, often with very verbose scenes ("Bob, what's going on here?" "Yadda yadda yadda (x27)"). Fury Road is an example of good exposition...

On a side note, making an ad deal with the father of a college basketball player is pretty clever!

If Harden manages to generate fouls on both end of the floor, there will soon be no Warrior left to play!

At5'11" Gal Gadot is taller than Grace Jones, but ok.

To express a dissenting view, both content and form are important. News at 11?

Day 4: Round two of the bottom half is over... almost... the night interrupted Andujar and Kohlschreiber in the middle of the 5th set (the german is a break up in the fifth after being two sets down!). It was a bit of a seedocalypse today. Verdasco [32] lost 10-8 in the fifth against veteran...

People forget too quickly the harbinger of the one true god.

This scenario has the Ayn Rand / Walt Disney seal of approval... SPOILER SPOILER The "funny" part is the plot does not say word one about why Tomorrowland collapsed and why the new Tomorrowland (that works on the exact same Randian premise) will not. It's too bad because for the longest time it...

I thought there was some clever things done with the script in the first one, like having Tom Sawyer as an entry point for american viewers or adding Dorian Gray to the crew. The problem though is that it was written for 12 years olds, so it was heavy handed tunnel central while the comic was a...

Day 3 is over, the first round is completed! Well... almost: The Lorenzi vs Muller match got adjourned so Djokovic does not know who his 2nd round opponent will be. Nadal who in straight sets against french wild card Halys as did Djokovic against veteran Nieminen. The finn, probably playing...

True story: I went to another city to see it in 2D as only 3D was available in my local multiplex.

In the 'odd' department, teenage Myrcella is not played by the same actress as child Myrcella, even though the original actress has the same age as the new actress. Strange. As for the interest of the season, The Queen of Thorns has been the most entertaining character by far. Also, I am...

LOL at that Harden shot! Cursed be the clock!

That fall did not look goodI am worried about the wrist/arm mostly.

I can understand not liking a movie, but citing The Prestige as one of the worst movie you saw in theater? That, I don't get. Are you a member of the Edison Fan Club or something?

I wanted to put The Swapper, but on PC that's 24 months old.

Thank you for your kind words... but now I am a bit embarrassed to say I did not see much tennis today! Murray played a quality match against argentinian lucky loser Arguello (I did not find his body language very reassuring, but he confessed being a bit nervous during the match and tad...

From a layman's perspective, it seems to me Lebron's main problem for being considered the greatest of all time is not his stat line or his ring collection, but his character. And not in term of being clutch or his will to win or whatever, but in term of being a bit of a whiny jackass who rides...

I have a VHS box set of the serie! That said, I am not sure I would dare see it again because I doubt it aged well. I would also not dare to rewatch Fire Walk With Me (the movie set before the serie - and I don't mean the pilot that got extended into a TV movie), because I adored that movie as a...

Original by David Bowie (possibly one of the artist the most covered in this thread?) Original by The Smiths

Shouldn't a remix be better than the original or at least different enough for it to be its own thing? Original for reference: