I think all the kids in the movies are fantastic, and I wish them success beyond Harry Potter, but for that to happen, they've got to demand more variety in the roles they take. Case in point: Tom Felton in Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes.

Really, the only difference there was his American accent. Other than that, he just pasted on that Malfoy sneer and went around...Malfoying...through the whole movie. It was bad enough when I realized his character was the son of the owner of the chimp habitat; all I could think was "my father's going to hear about this." Then he shows up with the cattleprod, aka wand, and when he used it on Caesar I leaned over to my friend and said "crucio!"

This was more for the novelty of it, than out of necessity: when I got my Wii, and got it hooked up to my home network, I was frustrated by the inability to stream music and video from my desktop to my Wii, the way I could to my laptop. After some searching, I found an online streaming server that would let me install their client on my PC, then point my Wii browser to their site, where I could access my media and stream it in all its low-res, buffery goodness.

Thing was, my desktop PC is right next to my TV. And is connected to it. So, while I could easily just set the input to PC and watch video that way, I found a way to send content from my PC, over the internet, and back to the Wii which was two feet away. I love living in the first world.

"It is not a point, that's math...It is not a period, that's prose"

I hadn't thought of it like that. Thanks for the perspective. However,

"Stop dieing,"

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As a grammar nazi, I went well into the internet age resisting the word "dot." "It's not a DOT, it's a period or decimal point." I finally had to relent around 1996 or so, but I still die a little inside every time I hear "dot com." Or worse, when people turn it around and say things like, "you end a sentence with a dot" or "that station is 96-dot-5 FM."

As for the widescreen argument, I used to get into it with people who hated the black bars, and didn't understand why they would cut off the top and bottom of the picture like that.

In Space Mutiny (my all-time favorite), The Doctor lands on the Southern Sun just as General Kalgan (Kalgan, blow me away) is beginning his, er, space mutiny. While Flight Commander David Ryder keeps hitting on Leah and yelling at people to "moveMOVEMOVE," The Doctor takes charge, undercutting Ryder with a series of mocking nicknames (Buff Drinklots, Big McLargehuge, Bob Johnson), as he unravels Kalgan's plot, helps humanity find a new home, and reveals the Balerians as spacebound energy vampires, reversing the polarity to turn them to a pure energy state. Captain Santa Claus and First Officer Sting thank the Doctor, who leaves while Leah begs to come along in the Tardis.

Having not seen any of the other MI movies, I can honestly say I saw this one strictly for Brad Bird, who fucking nailed it.

Has Tom Cruise always had such a dorky run? Seriously, he runs like Kryten.

I know Cain is disappointed he never got to send Seal Team Six to eliminate Cobra Commander.

<singing>Troy and Abed need a spiiiiin-off!

>Alternately, what other public domain work would you like to see Whedon adapt?

Okay, you know how Forbidden Planet was "The Tempest" in space? So, for his next stealth project, Joss picks another Shakespeare play...and sets it in The 'Verse. Could be aboard Serenity, could just be any old ship. Could be "The Merchant Of Venice" with Niska out to get a pound of flesh from Mal. Or, he could do "Richard III" with a limping war vet out to become President of the Alliance.

With how much people bitched about the weird, off-model puppet from the original release, I find this current round of nerdrage hilarious. Are we really that attached to a Yoda who looks like Roscoe Lee Browne?