Independence Day is also helpful to the alien invaders, as it should remind them to use virus protection on any mothership defense systems they bring to the invasion.

Rick stabbed him to death while Shane had a gun held on him. I thought it was pretty badass, myself. Not public, but a good private badass moment.

The 'Stanton is a control freak' excuse rings most true to me. The movie itself is good, and all the sci-fi/fantasy fans I know that saw it loved it. The marketing is what failed, and that was apparently Stanton's fault.

"(long sigh) It's clobbering time, I guess."

The Hulk has been imagined as a tubby imaginary friend before. It's pretty appealing.

I was a big fan of the books as a child. Just saw the film and I loved it. Yes, they played with the plot and updated Dejah into a kick-ass scientist princess. Yes, there were some subplots left unresolved, obviously in preparation for a sequel. But in my opinion it works.

Anything powerful enough to affect your iPhone would have first fried our electrical grid and sent our satellite networks into fatal conniptions. But I'm curious — did your phone start playing "Straight into Darkness" or "You Got Lucky"? Because those would be spooky omens.

I suspect it's a symptom of the same problem — tools and materials that weren't good enough. Making toy wheels out of soapstone using stone awls isn't that hard. But soapstone won't hold up if you scale it to vehicle size, and you need real metal tools to shape wood at that scale. Metal cladding for the axle helps…

It's Australia. I don't think they have non-venomous spiders. Almost everything on the continent can and will kill you.

I knew nothing about the extended universe and the stories set after the Battle of Endor. They actually named a child Anakin Solo? Someone cloned Palpatine? The new Jedi empire lasted for only a hundred years before falling to the Sith, of which there were only two a generation ago? Geeze, how incompetant were all…

They're less sensitive to physical pain. They're only more sensitive to *fire*, just like any self-respecting vampire or zombie.

Science has now definitively proven that gingers do not have souls. Cartman will be pleased to hear this.

The original Lorax was a myth. The story portrayed him as a myth, and he became a mythic symbol after the story was published.

In the books it's both. He unites the green (four-armed) martians and the red (princess-led) martians against the bad guys (who are more or less humans).

Russel's the right size and shape to be R2D2. That makes Kevin C3PO.

On Equestria-Election.Deviantart.com, an enterprising artist ran a poll for president where the selections were all characters from My Little Pony. Fluttershy won. (I voted for Twilight.)

What paleontologists fail to recognize is that, for an animal as big and clumsy as an elephant, footprints are the only way for them to invent writing. If Stegotetrabelodon were intelligent, that field of tracks probably translates to, "We'll leave the oil right over here."

Robocop's commercial endeavors in Asia bring up a classic question: Do the Japanese appropriate western culture in weird ways because they're crazy, or are they crazy because they've had western culture thrust upon them in weird ways?

I have a file in which I save short quotes from the internet, and in it I have an excellent capstone for Susan Pevensie —

I didn't like the end of Bill Willingham's Jack of Fables because it was a #2 ending — everyone died, senselessly, in a random free-for-all firefight. But over time the last issue grew on me. I think it was the best way that series could have ended, and it certainly was a memorable experience.