Unfortunately, 'nobody' spent upwards of $500 million, worldwide, to express their dislike of the movie.  Ergo: a sequel.

As much as I would love to see some love for Invader Zim's Platypus Day, I don't think that's going to be covered at all.

"Wrong" doesn't mean what you think it means: we're talking about style preferences, not rules.  The American Bar Association isn't "wrong", any more than publications ranging from Pitchfork (heh) to the LSA's (those be the Linguists) journal are wrong for making the same choices.  Logical punctuation is less common…

It is not a "rule".  Something like noun-verb agreement is a rule.  Punctuation with quotation marks is a stylistic preference, one that is not universal even in the states (see e.g. ABA style), and one whose whole raison d'être no longer exists.  Nugent took the sensible tack: because the period is not part of the…

Short answer: No, that's not why.

What's your definition of comedy? I'd certainly put their #7 pick The Future there, if not half of #9 Hugo, and this site's been more than generous with comedies in their top ten in years with frankly better offerings (comedies dominate the best-of list in 2009, for example, although that's again contingent on your…

For what it's worth, I went into Weekend skeptical - nothing says ugh like 'indie', 'talky', 'low-key', and 'gay film' in the same sentence - but it's extremely good. Just perfectly written and acted, and doesn't overstay its welcome.

That's fair.

One can write a great mystery with a pointless solution, but that's not the problem with Dragon Tattoo: the problem is that it's an ugly, misogynistic, miserable piece of work that wants to punish the reader/audience for bothering to spend time with it.  I may still watch Fincher's because he's got enormous talent as…

I don't think 'archetype' and 'convincing' are mutually exclusive.  Nolan's women just tend to be underwritten.

What's the connection between noir and unconvincing female characters?  I immediately think of characters played by Barbara Stanwyck, Lauren Bacall, Ida Lupino, etc.  We could make a long list of neo-noir and contemporary noir, too, from Chinatown through Roger Rabbit to L.A. Confidential.  If anything it's one of the…

About the only one I like that I'd consider a pop standard is the Beach Boys' 'Little Saint Nick', which is a bit later.  But you're right that most of them are old, and a little dusty.

Especially since the two audiences - Randians and Evangelicals - are pretty contemptuous of each other.

That'd be really awkward, especially in the passive voice and with the 'twenty years later' preceding it (imagine "twenty years later the planet cannot be polluted.")   I really didn't intend for this to become a multi-thread thing; it's just a minor, very common error.

Heh, there's a clear change of words in your version that makes all the difference, but 'cannot be understated' = 'unable to downplay excessively enough'.  Tobias clearly means the opposite.  It's a common enough mistake, but a quick fix.

Twenty years later, the film’s significance cannot be understated

All good.  Handshakes all around!

Yep, and if I were upset or worried or seeking validation or chapped about my personal favorite, that's a legit criticism: I'm not, though.  I just asked a few questions about the system they're using, and how it seems to push their own second-run albums into the top spots by favoring breadth over depth.  Seems a…

On a website specifically devoted to pop culture?

That's likely to be only the first episode's intro, right?  Like the original series, they didn't want to spoil anything in the pilot's opening credits, so they had a slightly different set of credits for that episode.