I think of that every time I see The Godfather

you can probably do a really thorough restoration of a good movie in poor shape for the same price as making a terrible one

Well, it's not an electrocution in that that the word means 'to execute via electricity' and Tina isn't dead

It makes me seriously upset when bad things happen to Tina, I want everything to go well for her

Edison was an honest to God monstrous asshole, Topsy is but the tip of the iceberg

Yeah, one of the things that really makes the show a nice place to spend time is that the main cast all actually like one another, and are mostly decent towards each other- for instance, that someone as emotionally out there as Tina isn't shit upon all the time.

It affects the dynamic with Louise that the substitute teacher is genuinely awful and stupid and cruel and has no more attachment to actual science than her recycled volcano

If people weren't insane with desire for more, it wouldn't be Arrested Development.

Yeah, let's not fat shame Kevin Smith. Let's join with our fat compatriots and 'being fucking Kevin Smith' shame Kevin Smith. Everyone can enjoy that!

Yeah, that seems… weird. Though obviously the point is just to have Archer being the halfway decent human for once.

I think we're having a racist in intent/racist in conception problem again. I don't think Tolkein was consciously trying to stick it to black people at all.

Oh, absolutely- Bride of Frankenstein is a legitimately great and hilarious movie in every conceivable way

I can never tell if the yuppie paradise that Marty betters his family into is itself supposed to be a joke- that he fixes all their problems, and comes back to find that his family's still distant and kind of fucked up, just now they've got lots of stuff. You can either read it as a total endorsement of the…

Apart from the Catnappers and the early short story where Bertie is just endlessly punished to no particular end (the one where he's into the woman who hits the dude with her car, and then Bertie has to take him in, and then appease the dude's sister who's made at him for hitting her brother with a car, etc etc) the…

I think I'd probably take out the Pepsi Free joke, myself

I think it's just that, until you watch it, it looks like at best a silly ensemble dramedy or something. I was really shocked by how good it was when I first watched it.

It's hard to declare something perfect when they had to recast a major role between the first and second part

Magnolia, since it's the best way to bridge early PT Anderson with the more epic in scope stuff like There Will Be Blood and The Master. There's nothing you should skip, though.

The evil savage black men from the south who automatically join up with the bad guys

Children of Paradise, along with Rules of the Game and a lot of Ophuls, has this really tightly made plot structure where a pushes b pushes c pushes d pushes a, and everything is reflected and refracted and compared and contrasted in all these places you'd never see unless you watched it 100 times- not just in plot,…