If Lawrence Olivier can stoop to "Release the Kracken!" I'm not going to turn my nose up at Liam.

I'm a horrible person. Because I keep thinking what a horrible spin "Hiroshima" puts on the quote about the fake "Aguaman" movie. "Hiroshima sounds kind of horrible. But when you see James Cameron's Hiroshima, you kinda wanna see it, don't you?" He does know there were *people* at Hiroshima, right? People aren't exactly a big Cameron selling point, as well as complicated moral choices. Cameron likes big loud, explody shit...I bet he'll spend a quadrillion dollars on his fake Enola Gay and it will be the next best thing to being there. Retch. You know? The only thing worse? George Lucas' take.

I'm pretty sure that I don't HAVE to see Clash of the Titans.

You couldn't pay me to see Kick-Ass. Basic premise that makes me cringe, stars Nicholas Cage, and every ticket puts money in Mark Millar's pockets; it lacks only Fran Drescher laughing to make the Oh HELL No-ness complete.

I'm in for that one.

I'm pretty sure that I don't HAVE to see Clash of the Titans.

I'm pretty sure I do. I think that might let you off the hook.

The only 2 movies on that list I'm excited about are Inception & Paul.

After that, I will of course see Harry Potter, but after the fuck up that is the previous movie, I'm not very excited about it.

I've seen 2 trailers for "The Wolfman" and I think that movie is going to suck. "Clash of the Titans" looks worse and worse and most of the rest of the movies listed are complete turnoffs.

I'm interested, but worried, about "Alice in Wonderland."

I loved the last HP movie, though it left out enough that I'm worried about the next one. But it was so funny! Lavender was awesome!

I enjoyed HBP as well. (Particularly Malfoy's goth-mod suit.) Emmett and I are just starting to listen to it on audiobook so I'm curious to see what they left out.

This is sort of related to our earlier conversation, but earlier today I told someone that I thought a certain detective show kind of had political messages and she sort of treated me like I was insane because a party wasn't named in it. But I think that if you make a statement about society in something, that's kind of political...it's not like I said there are subliminal messages encouraging people toward collective farming. But does there have to be before something has political undertones?

Everything has a subtext. Once you take a point of view about something then the presumptions behind that perspective inform the work.

Most detective shows are going to have a somewhat conservative bent. The Wire does not, as it fully lays out the social circumstances behind the criminals' decisions.