And then Zarban simul-posts about The Gold Rush and The General.    Awesome.   We should hang out.

To avatar you listen.

And the same applies to Avatar (the movie, not the Dif poster).

True enough - and those are three movies that I'm (cautiously) looking forward to.  However, it's worth noting that they're all also installments of established money-making franchises.  <sigh>   

That may be the true tragedy of the summer of '12 - sequels (and reboots - Hello again, Spiderman) will likely do well as usual, while attempts to do something at least new are setting new records for failure.   Hunger Games is the only one to buck that trend so far, I think.

I hope somewhere right now, a bunch of nerds are pinning a young Mitt Romney to the ground and quoting Firefly at him.

The next destroy-New-York movie should have a moment where the heroes walk down the street, looking at the sky in concern... and all the storekeepers start closing shop and pulling the metal shutters closed.  "Aw crap, here we go..."

Of all the episodes I wasn't part of, that's the only one I regret.