It makes the movie look like a science fiction story, WHICH WOULD BE AWESOME.

Congratulations on making parole!

This looks sooo good. My only hope is that they have Martin Freeman's adenoids removed so he sounds more like Ian Holm.

Well, that and the weather. Southern Cali gets about twice the sunlight New York gets, and that was important for early film shooting.

Oh, now you've hit my Go button, baby.

I fucking HATE when DVDs and Blu-rays disable the built-in options for audio and subtitles and shit. That drives me FUCKING CRAZY. The Simpsons disks have a commentary on EVERY episode; they're FAMOUS for it. But on most of the seasons—like it didn't occur to them for YEARS—you can't just press Subtitles to put the subtitles on. You have to find it in the convoluted menu of extras within the convoluted menus for the episodes.

And the bullshit about not being able to skip the trailers and warnings is fucking INSANE. I BOUGHT this—do not advertise to me if I don't want it—I will NOT be well-disposed toward 3 Fast & 3 Furious if it's stopping me from getting to start Jet Li and Jason Statham's I Can't Understand A Word Either of You Are Saying. And I mean, warnings about legalistic crap is one thing, but showing them in DIFFERENT LANGUAGES and not allowing me to skip thru them? WTF?

I came upon a new thing today: Republican(!) political ads before some videos of Nissan Leaf review on YouTube. Not only could I not fast forward (which is fine, because somebody's got to pay the bills)—I COULDN'T EVEN REWIND THEM to make sure I heard their bullshit propaganda correctly. "Wait, wait, WHY couldn't this Canadian woman get the healthcare she needed in Canada? How is that Obama's fault?"

EDIT: as for playing blurries on the road, I bought a Sony portable player. It's a bit of a hassle carrying it because it's kind of bulky, but it means I don't have to worry about my laptop battery life AND, since the screen twists, it's way more practical for watching on a plane.

It's the way I dress, isn't it?

I'm a man who doesn't like to be proved wrong, so allow me to quote Wikipedia...

You can't argue with Wikipedia, Jimmy. It's been proven more accurate than the Encyclopedia Britannica and the King James Bible.

Obviously it's a cultural thing. Even cops in the UK don't carry guns. The more pertient question, I think, is why does the Doctor constantly get into situations that are better suited to armies than to one guy with a screwdriver? Why not give him baddies who can be reasoned with or who are under someone else's control and therefore shouldn't be killed? (I can only think of the silurians and ood and maybe one or two others, like that fear-minotaur thing, who fit that description.)

Instead, the Doctor keeps running afoul of daleks and cybermen and silence and weeping angels such, who can't be reasoned with and respond only to violence.

Captain Katanga was a black guy, and he was one of the smartest people in Raiders. And there's nothing wrong with the depiction of the Arabs. I think you're way over-thinking the subject.

Excessive concern about the depiction of race and gender in movies will only lead to every villain being played by a white Englishman.