Quote Originally Posted by Stuart View Post
Holy Shit! You are one of the last people on the website that I would have guessed would have read the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. I can't even watch the TV series for a full minute before I get pissed and change the channel. They couldn't even make Darken Rahl have blond hair? 5 people in the Confessor hunting "Quads?" I watched about 5 minutes of the first episode and was in a rage and never watched again. That Comedy Central spoof of epic fantasy shows was much better.

I hope the movie of Mistborn and World War Z won't be such epic failures.
You would be suprised what I've read Stuart. I've been an avid reader since my early teens. I don't really discriminate in my reading tastes either, other than shitty writing style or no talent hacks. OK, OK, I tend to shy away from the fru-fru romantic style crap... Orson Scott Card's Enders Game series is currently my favorite over the last couple of years of reading. I currently working my way through the second trilogy of Maria Snyder's Poison Study series, Just finished all the Percy Jackson books, re-read Tears of my Soul (I splurged and bough a first print copy of this book), and before this read two of Malcom Gladwells' books... anyway I digress.

Yes, Michael Mann. Love his work. If you ever get the chance to pick up a copy of Heat with the bonus disc in it, there's stories about the making of it. Mann made all the actors take intense shooting courses, made the bad guy actors actually surveil and plan robbing the bank before filming, and talks about the sound effects from the shoot out. I have a copy of it. It's pretty cool stuff. He does like to be accurate in his action scenes.