The vulgarity doesn’t bother me. The strawman does. And that, indeed, is my point - principles such as free healthcare and subsidized education are fantastic ideas that deserve better advocates than people who get their rocks off by willfully misrepresenting the truth and attacking anyone who isn’t in lockstep.

“You clowns”? Exactly what circus do you think I belong to, friend?

Nah, the Catholics at least have a widespread pro-LGBT faction gaining traction. Start with the Mormons.

Not at all, but Bernie’s online cult is almost indistinguishable from Trump’s if I’m being honest. Say, for instance, that you make an innocuous comment about Bernie’s age - within about five seconds you’ll have someone like Caitlin Johnstone vomiting some ridiculous response such as, “YOU ARE A DERANGED MCCARTHYIST…

The way Bill’s falsetto abruptly fails when he says, “Why do you keep calling me ‘Bill’?” in the episode where he’s pretending to be Lenore never fails to slay me.

“WE’RE HERE! NO REAR! GET USED TO IT!”

“That sure is a clean-burning Hell, I tell you what! <maniacal Hank Hill chuckle>“

This is the same guy who made a movie in Spy Kids that featured villains straight out of some Lovecraftian horror movie (not to mention robot thumb soldiers). Alita’s eyes, in comparison, seem positively tame.

I can’t like this enough. For a person who is so fantastically famous for disappearing into roles, it could not be more obvious that this scene was the MERYL STREEP SCENE rather than anything organically part of the story. You never once forget it’s MERYL STREEP doing that awful accent, that it’s MERYL STREEP doing…

This, friends, is what the Internet was created for.

“Paradise by the Dashboard Light” is pretty fantastic. But for me (and I am fully aware that I’m the only one in the world who feels this way), the better Meat Loaf song, and the one I’d most like to see redone if someone can match the bombast, orchestral weight, and sheer power of it, is “I Would Do Anything For Love…

I agree 1000% - I’d love for Macross to be a limited series, and then if they get good returns to keep going with some of the other Macross properties (I’d kill for a Macross: Frontier series - the music alone is tremendous). But right now the only significant interest is in doing the movie. I just have this sinking…

I still think it could be done. I have seen the Macross segment of Robotech more times than I care to admit (only seen Southern Cross through once and Invid twice - I’ve seen the original animes of those more times than the Harmony Gold versions), and as much as I absolutely love it, there are a lot of places that can…

I don’t know about toxic superhero fandom. I just know that I shelled out a king’s ransom to see this movie and got gypped royally by a ponderous, self-important, extended product placement ad that was drab, joyless, and filled with so many plot holes that a Swiss cheese would look solid by comparison. A cut-rate…

Sure it would. But it’d have to be well-written for it to work. And maybe instead of doing a movie, you’d have to do a Netflix/Prime limited series with Macross and then, if it works, do Sentinels/Southern Cross/Invid as sequels.

If he did, it’s too bad, because he was the only guy committed to trying to do a live-action Robotech movie.

This hurts me as badly as “Better Off Ted” being canned after two seasons.

I think the stage for the creepy factor here was best set by Zemeckis’... um, shall we say, adaptation... of A Christmas Carol. I think The Polar Express was a rather shallow wade through the uncanny valley next to A Christmas Carol. Zemeckis took what was a fascinating, if unsettling, experiment with Polar Express…

I was just about to say that Jodie Whittaker is rapidly turning into my favorite Doctor. Then again, I thought Tennant and Smith were too twee and that Capaldi was way better than either of them, so what do I know.

Yeah. When I heard the “I’m going to end it” line in the trailer, I got this horrible sinking feeling that Brie Larson is just terribly miscast in this role. I mean, Marvel is kinda due for a miscasting after their long, long, unbroken streak of successes (Don Cheadle as War Machine is about as bad as it’s been,…