Like a million elephants and silverback orangutangs!

Oh man, if AoS had a presidential candidate who was a South Park-style animated paper cutout, protected by Bill Paxton in a terrible wig, I would flip the fuck out.

God Emperor Designed Only for Ruling

The Snowglobe Universe was cooked up because it was a fun way of looking at things; where you get into trouble is when you start ascribing intent. So keep it light, folks; if you're going down the rabbit hole, make sure it's Lewis Carroll's and not Morpheus's.

Even though the two Bills vary pretty clearly in tone (and of course, released apart), is it fair to split the Whole Bloody Affair in two? I still feel like it's one work, even more than, say, Lord of the Rings. Probably just me - though in retrospect the Bills look like a singular work in his filmography, one where…

Hm. I still feel like one performance is all subtlety and the other is the total opposite, but certainly both have that frightening dead-eyed shark stare. And of course, they're both irredeemable, incorrigible, complete and utter bastards, with funny period hats.

A lot of the appreciation of his films hinges on how much familiarity and affection you have for his genre influences - which is a totally valid criticism of his work, if one takes that path - but for those that share the love, the thrills, however remixed and winked at, are undeniable.

For once, I agree with you. I was shocked at how ill-thought a movie it was, from a screenwriter who has at the very least always labored to have a consistent genre logic within his films. Apparently for many, the over-the-top catharsis was enough to win people over, but it wasn't enough for me.

Odd, I don't see the two characters as at all alike. Bill the Butcher is a larger-than-life cartoon villain, a video game end-boss with theatrical flourish; Daniel Plainview is the dark mirror of ambition itself, an embodiment of the rapaciousness of the industrial age that yet still holds the frailty and failing of…

Human beings crave violence. We want to smash the things that anger us, hurt us, frustrate us, deny us pleasure. This urge doesn't necessarily take the form of bloodlust - violence can be verbal, emotional, cultural, political. We manage these urges within civilization through varieties of catharsis as broad as the…

I agree, the superhero film genre does not currently have the structural strength to hang virtually any idea off of, like a well-developed genre such as westerns, or noir, or war movies enjoy. But to my point, Westerns needed decades of building tropes and iconic story structures before people started to use them in…

To be fair, it took over fifty years of westerns (one of the very first film genres, and one that started out as little more than thrilling action) to get to the point where Fistful and the like were made. Any genre waxes and wanes, for sure, in both quality and popularity, but I see no legitimate reason why this…

I thought it was huge of Craig to (nearly) out-and-out stump for her to replace him.

If they can find them between the folds flopping over your holster.

The stereotypes the rest of the world makes fun of us with:

Wow, someone else that digs that cover. Don't know if I like it better, it doesn't have the strange fragility of the original, but cuts its own groove that feels genuine.

Too bad, because despite its flaws, Awake most definitely does not deserve to be associated with Do No Harm in any way.

I've only read a few Dungeons (I would love to have them all), but they were all fantastic. @corrinradd:disqus 's Los Bros. parallel seems very apt - it takes epic fantasy and applies time, changing characters and insinuating history across its landscape. It's funny, wise, and sad, while being a crackling adventure,…

I've been putting off Mind MGMT for way too long - everyone I respect has been clamoring about it, and it sounds like just my kind of thing. Revolver sounds intriguing, too - goddamn, there are a lot of cool comics out these days.

He's not thinking of Awake, which was great, but Do No Harm, essentially Jekyll and Hyde but stupid.