A good director can create a wow effect out of cardboard and string. There were a hundred different little things that went into making the first MIB charming as hell and the sequels no so much. Like:

That’s missing the point. The point being that except for industry professionals, whiners, and pedants, audiences as a whole don’t really care if their special effects are “very real-looking.”

the production budget for Swamp Thing’s first season hovered somewhere near $85.

“We have reached out to Tesla for comment and will update this post with its response.”

I know. Fuck Amazon and the government equally.

There are kids reading this who weren’t born when Firefly first aired.

Wondering what McDonald’s is going to do with this random collection of foreign currency?

The next time a jogger is raped in Central Park, I think we can all agree, without any evidence, who the guilty party is:

Do you have a line in the sand?

Hey, unless Congress renews the Copyright Extension Act (as they may well do, call your Congressperson and tell ‘em to fuck that shit right off) Batman will be in the public domain in our lifetime, and then everyone can make their own Batman movie.

Well, yes. And it was. And then administrators would have to investigate, which they did. And then they would have found it all a big misunderstanding and no rule infractions or crimes had been or were going to be committed, which is also true. Then they punished the kid anyway. For nonexistent crimes. Which,…

I often think of myself as someone who has made a feminist argument.

You:

No, I want to see where this goes.  Everyone continue arguing about hash browns.

Even the ads specifically tailored to my tastes are still for products and services I neither need, want, or care about.

On my part, I think it’s a reaction to the tendency of people shooting fingers at any close male friendship (Frodo and Sam, Holmes and Watson) and snickering, “They must be fucking.”

Aziraphale and Crowley have the not-quite-platonic-but-neither-physical-nor-sexual love that is also shared by Jay and Silent Bob, Frodo and Sam, Holmes and Watson, Kirk and Spock, and Thelma and Louise.

Well, I was thinking in terms of the bare minimum. It’s what I’d expect from cheap pulp. Anything better would be an awesome, unexpected surprise.

In a field of 20 candidates, most of whom are sliding off the map, you figure at least one of them would pull a Bulworth and say something like, “Donald Trump is a cocksucker. I pledge that if elected President, I will suck 100% fewer cocks in the White House than Trump. I also promise not to shit myself on a weekly…

I wish they had used film instead of digital cameras. I know they have many advantages, but in fantasy and science fiction movies, they have the sad effect of making even the physical models and puppets look computer-slick.