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Liked it, too. I thought it was a generally workmanlike genre piece with a number of fun moments (the ways they all met up, Goggins shivving one of the baddies, everything with Laurence Fishburne). I liked the samurai vs. predator scene a lot as well. Not only was their duel close to my understanding of how katana…

The reason it's offputting is because this is the kind of behavior 5-year-olds engage in. "I was at school today, and then Braylen said I looked cool, but then Tony said I looked stupid." You, meanwhile, have no idea who Braylen or Tony is; but since, to the 5-year-old, everything's about them, they automatically…

I don't get what people are cracking down on Magnus for, either. This intro read like a description of geeks by someone who once read about them and assumed no one else was familiar with these people you call "nerds." Zack praises a show for not dumbing itself down as he talks down to his own audience.

I'm basically with Pops in that I'm not interested in judging the new season after two episodes, but that second episode was awfully mediocre, I thought. The second half when Leela and Zapp are trapped together was completely predictable and awfully dry laugh-wise. Even the stoned people hardly made a peep through…

Stan's right in that hardcovers cost more to cover all the expenses of acquiring a book and turning it into as nice a product as possible—the author's advance, the editors, the copyeditors, art team, etc. The physical costs of printing a hardback only run like $2-3 per copy (paperbacks, incidentally, cost about half…

(Incoherent gargling)
I haven't been this angry with a movie since that dumbshit lecture-posing-as-film Lions for Lambs. It would require the public hanging of everyone involved to properly atone for the crimes they've visited on audiences everywhere.

I laughed louder at that line than everyone else in the theater put together. I don't regret it, either.

It's not the love a gorilla feels for a kitty, so wuv it is.

Jorge, I'm not sure they've made the candy heart to express the way I feel about you after that one.

Omar!!
That scene with Kenard had me screeching as bad as the woman running the deli. But somehow, I'd been so scared for him the entire season it was almost a relief to see his fate finally played out.

While I generally liked the movie, I too found myself distanced from it, possibly because we just don't ever know Robbie and Cecilia that well and thus it's hard to care too much when things don't work out for them.

Lester
Dragging Lester into McNulty's scheme was brilliant. Made Bunk's naysaying look schoolmarmish and also makes me think there's a small chance it won't come back to ruin them both—if it were just McNulty, you know it'd get good and fucked up, but with Lester there, it might actually work. Can't wait to see that…

Mild dissent
I too was thrown by the almost total lack of suspense and characterization, but thought it had an okay sense of humor and a couple subversive moments. Not very good, but certainly not among the worst movies I've ever seen.

Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

You didn't like Wizard and Glass? I know it didn't advance the main plot at all, which was mildly frustrating, but for me, that was the last book of the Dark Tower series that was in any way good.

Noodle
Just think about that scene where McNulty and Bunk say nothing but "fuck" for 5 minutes straight, or when McNulty uses that atrocious British accent to infiltrate the prostitute ring, and the pain will go away.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, people
Democracy simply doesn't work.

Requiem
I was on vacation with my family back in college and had heard great things about this movie. So we're sitting around the hotel fighting off jetlag or something and it's available on one of their channels, so I, totally clueless as to the horrors I'm about to experience, suggest we watch it. Yeah. I watched…

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