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Trotsky criticized it for developing a "ruling caste." However, the census of 1923 after the civil war, found that the country was 80% illiterate peasants, to which Lenin remarked, "half of those without a horse." The Civil War being so bad that Petrograd/St Petersburg, a city of bricks, had...

Similar, didn't much care for it, plus having lived in NYC for a while, they were in fact annoying yuppies.

The overstuffed wallet episode is so dead on true.

There are a lot of funny Bob the Angry Flowers. Galt is so ironic it is almost a parody. I know Rand's history, she left the USSR where they lost it all, so a big axe to grind.

That is the joke of it all.

I used to make a decent living updating these houses in the San Francisco Bay Area, even got in the newspaper; house lifted and moved a Julia Morgan in Berkeley that had slid 15 feet across the property line. Prairie Schoolhouses with rot in their walls because Frank Lloyd Wright hated exposed...

Gross. I am the scarecrow without a brain, I just don't want to know. People ruin everything.

For me this was the funniest, reminds me of 2300:

If I only had a brain ...

Not sure if I want to know what rule 34 is either. :LOL: For me at least I saw the Wizard of Oz on tv so many times as a kid, it is simply burned into my brain, I know other people too, as a simple reference, easily get it. So much so. Compound it with seeing the Wiz, which was great, sort of...

I have to laugh that in a sci-fi group an Army Captain was asked what he thought of Aliens and his first comment is that the troops were all too old.

It doesn't make sense, only humorous in an absurdist way. Most books don't kill the hero either, though also one often really doesn't get to know the enemy or villain such as with Headey or Ledger. They did such a good job, one wants to see more of them on the screen. Star Wars prequels were...

There is a certain hilarity to think of if they actually did die, then it's roll credits! People would be like wtf?

I think a lot of them also expect the audience to be invested in the franchise, and if you aren't, it is sort of meh about the hero. Plus, formulaic, in that you know who is going to win, it is only see how they win. I mean, had the space princess and dark jedi been killed by the emperor's...

It's weird in a lot of films, where one is supposed to root for the hero, the villain is actually more interesting of a character, like Lena Headey or Heath Ledger.

Underrated to me is like The Salton Sea with Val Kilmer, not great, though better than it got rated. It is difficult to believe that The Thing was also considered a flop. Now it's legendary. The 13th Warrior I liked also, though considered a flop as well. Probably off the geek tangent at this point.