VOTE: MovieLens
[movielens.umn.edu]
Bar none, best recommendation site ever. It tracks how you rank movies and compares your rankings against all other users to intuit what you might like. If person "A" ranked 4 movies you ranked the same way, it will make suggestions for you based on what that other person liked; except that it considers all users, not just one or two.
After I ranked 12 movies, the recommendations were spot on; they only get better as you rank more.
They also have a "buddy" feature which will compare your and a friend's list to pick title you will both like. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
[movielens.umn.edu]
Bar none, best recommendation site ever. It tracks how you rank movies and compares your rankings against all other users to intuit what you might like. If person "A" ranked 4 movies you ranked the same way, it will make suggestions for you based on what that other person liked; except that it considers all users, not just one or two.
After I ranked 12 movies, the recommendations were spot on; they only get better as you rank more.
They also have a "buddy" feature which will compare your and a friend's list to pick title you will both like. I cannot recommend it highly enough.
"I like the idea of an angry, spiteful poop. "
I was unaware there was another kind.
I was unaware there was another kind.
The one that has always stuck with me was on Deep Sapce Nine, "Shadows and Symbols" in the last season. You have Sisko looking for an orb, the wormhole is closed, Kira trying to hold a blockade together, Worf, et al., trying to blow up a shipyard, and in the middle of it, Sisko lapses back into being 1950s sci-fi writer Benny Russel.
The blockade is falling aprt, the jem'hadar ships are closing in on Worf, Sisko is re-burying the orb, and Benny is about to paint over his stories to keep his sanity, -- all is about to be lost -- when Benny/Sisko breaks the trance, Sisko opens the orb, the blockade runners stand down, the shipyard is destroyed, and wormhole is reopened. It was a great all-is-lost-until-one-event-turns-it-around-for-everyone moment.
@thekeith82: Given the shipping list, probably not a bad week to miss out. Pretty grim pickings.
I kind of gave up on hotel room coffee makers after I watched the clip posted on this site of the guy cooking tortellini and heating up sauce in the water heater/coffee pot.
I'm pretty sure I read Pilot Season: Murderer back in December. I'd buy a second issue if they put one out.
"White Americans, a 'group that's never been smaller' in the NBA. (You may leave the room now, Steve Nash.)."
Steve Nash is Canadian (which explains his height and lack of sense of humor). He is, I suppose, North American, which puts him in the same group with Eduardo Nájera. I don't think they were supposed to be included in the story.
Ditto as to Chris Andersen, as he is actually from Venus.
I kind of remember that Star Trek (TOS), episodic as it was, was going to have more soap opera elements. Thinking specifically of the unused lyrics to the theme song ("My love is wandering in star-flight. . . But tell him while he wanders his starry sea to remember, remember me).
Future installments of the franchise looked back to that model with larger story arcs focused on character interaction, disappearances, reappearances, pregnancies, serial relationships (I'm looking at you DS9) and were themselves were terribly soapy.
I'm reasonably certain a copy hangs in Bert Cooper's office on Man Men. #pablopicasso
@PVIII: I have the exact experience. Once Air started looking like something out of early 70s Mad (or, candidly, King City, which suffers the same problems in art and conception) it lost me
Big fan of Chew as well, but, speaking of Gabriel Ba, am perhaps most anxious (hoping?) to see the third arc of the Umbrella Academy. #5comicsyoushouldbereading
Mojo Jojo? Anyone? "I was not born a super villain chimp with an oversized brain you know. Evil geniuses are made not born."
Also, wait, Penny dies in Dr. Horrible? Noooooooooo! #supervillains
Great and freaky movie.
If I recall correctly, those instruments (works of art in the movie) made a subsequent appearance in Tim Burton's Batman, on the instrument table after the surgeon has worked on the Joker. Grim. #davidcronenberg
If I am not mistaken, if you blow that picture up to a very high resolution, you can see one-armed computer tech Manuel Garcia O'Kelly-Davis plotting to shoot some moon-rocks towards Colorado.
TANSTAAFL! #spaceporn
@Belabras ate my dingo!: Or Kellerman.
@geesejuggler: I am hoping you are thinking of Dr. Julius Sumner Miller.
I'm reasonably certain that Shazam! (always with exclamation point) was joined by its sister show, The Secrets of Isis. Teacher by day, Egyptian Goddess when the mood suited her, by incanting "Oh mighty Isis."
Kandor, rests "until the day Superman can restore it to its original size."
Or until it is returned to its regular size, and converted into a planet that orbits directly opposite earth, and was appropriating a moon (something to do with oceans?) until barechested Thanagarians with metal wings attacked the Kryptonians (who were wearing airmasks) and put it on an earth collision course. . .
Or something like that. Maybe Graeme has figured it out.
@krztov: @downwithmonstercable: Sir, that is not thousand island; that is "special sauce." Big difference. Huge.
@Charlie Jane Anders: Thresholder?
Forager (a shout out to the fourth world)?
Or perhaps you are thinking about Manticore.
@Grey_Area: That would be a younger (though not necessarily younger looking) Robert Beltran.
