But this was the best—except for the human element

[sovay]

I am skeptical of remakes. So many of them seem unnecessary at best, offensively pointless at worst. Every now and then I think of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) and I still don't understand.

. . . If you tell me that Peter Capaldi is going to play Professor Marcus in a stage version of The Ladykillers (1955), I want tickets.

(The rest of these are kind of stupid, but I approve of John Oliver: "You're not a man unless you own at least three monocles.")

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[larryhammer]

I was willing to give a pass on the Mandarin, on the basis of the translation convention. I was also willing to give a pass on the steel weapons a good eight centuries before the Iron Age, for no good reason (beyond the necessities of the Rule of Cool). But that one bugged me.

Will write it up tonight, if I've the time.

---L.

[larryhammer]

And circling back, posted.

---L.