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It's fine by me, this is how I talk about movies.  I can't remember the names of people in my office, let alone movie characters.

The bank and its interior decor are pretty much the only distinct gag I remember from the first film.

That is the worst.

*sings*
will he is or will he ain't my baby?

It's… so… FLUFFY!

That's one the first time you saw memento, two the second, and three the third (presumably).

On balance, I prefer not to.   Or is this an Achmage of the Aether style roleplaying reference, and you want to roll a die?

Surely 'he was a fine young cannibal' falls squarely into so-bad-it's-good territory?   Anyway I laughed.

I always thought that if people from Krypton fight on earth, their powers should cancel out and it would be like the Bridget Jones Diary fight between Colin Firth and Hugh Grant, only in capes.

Interesting.   Is this going to be something like Night of the Generals?   That's a good film, it just can't decide what genre it is.

I've met people from online.   It's pretty much exactly like meeting ordinary people you don't know.

It's conceivable that in 50-100 years they'll look back on Wall-E the way we look at Chaplin's The Great Dictator.   It's not necessarily a problem to have very overt, simple messages and themes in a movie.

Yeah, why not show the demon.   Special effects move on, but its nice to establish that total lack of ambiguity at the end with a full-on mythological monster.

I never had a problem with the explanations in Akira (the film) because I don't think the characters giving the explanations had much of an idea what was going on.

I had forgotten about her in that, and she's great.   But we can only presume she got out-husked.

Clarice Starling is the protagonist in SOTL, and she always sees Hannibal clearly, more clearly than the audience.   She would never, ever, let him get away with what he does.

Voiced by Kathleen Turner.   She of the famously husky voice (see above, where the list of actresses with famously husky voices goes 1. Kathleen Turner  2. Scarlett Johansson).

It went from weirdly sincere to weirdly insincere to weirdly awesome.   With any luck this will be the last Veronica Mars casting announcement and they'll go out on a high.

Yeah that one.   100 Smiths goes on too long, much like the 1 million Smiths in the last movie.

Yeah, disease is much more of a threat when infrastructure is already wrecked.   Spanish flu was bad but the specific war/post-war situation of poverty and mass movements of people probably made it much deadlier than it would otherwise have been.