I don't need to believe you. Because I saw it with my own eyes.

Totally shook his hand and have a picture with him. Not at a trekkie convention. But, at a fundraiser for a Jewish television network. So, yeah, I got that going for me.

It's a guy who walks into KFC and asks for a small fries, big mac.

Holy Crap. I watched parts or most of all of those shows, including Eli Stone. The throughline for all of them is that they had an idea that was interesting enough to pull me in and they teased certain long range arcs that were just interesting to keep me around and then surrounded it with a lot of tedious elements…

@avclub-6c6094f256f51e83fe02bce6091163e7:disqus , I think comedy is really "of it's era". It was probably really funny in the 40's but that comedy just isn't translating to today's sensibilities. You can probably respect its craftsmanship and see how the through line that led from that film to the films of today. But,…

I saw it with the Phillip Glass soundtrack and that soundtrack does a really good job of making the scenes quite tense even when a rubber bat on a string is pestering the protagonists.

Procterrrrrrrr!!!!!!

I got jor Norwegian Wood right here, jah?

Do I need to see the other "Once Upon A Time In" movies in order to follow this one?

Yeah. There were definitely some funny moments. And the Jaime Fox scenes were good both in how he played it and in the way they were trying not to be rascist but were. But they just couldn't put together a believable plot around the movie and needed them to do stupid things to keep it going.

That movie was not good. Occasionally funny. But, required so much suspension of disbelief because the three main characters were all such dumb asses.

Where? When?

I should add that WWZ is a fascinating book and you should totally read it. Even better, do the audiobook. The voice actors are pretty awesome including Jurgen Prochnow and Carl Reiner (not that he called in any favors or anything to family friends).

Mmm. That's kind of a technicality. We're talking about WWZ and it's upcoming movie. I thought you were saying that WWZ was split into more than one book not that Brooks had written more than one book about zombies.

I'd just like to put out there that I think Marc Foster is brilliant and underrated. I have enjoyed all the movies (that I've seen) that he's helmed (Finding Neverland, Monster's Ball, Stranger Than Fiction, Stay, Quantum of Solace) and found that he always had some neat visual tricks mixed into pretty good stories.…

Maybe they could have people talk and then as they're talking they do the Wayne's World thing (doodoodo doodoodo doodoodo) and they wave their hands and suddenly we're, like, in the story. Aftermath plus zombie mayhem firsthand. Problem solved.

Book. Singular.

I didn't even notice the shadow until you pointed it out.

Um. They had to confirm that? Didn't we just sort of assume that this would go on forever? It's like you're unraveling a big cable-knit sweater that someone keeps
knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and knitting and
knitting and knitting…

Thank you, Tasha. Thank you. I keep seeing this turn up on end of the year lists and can't understand why. I found the movie pleasant enough. But, not magical. A little slow and without a lot of plot. And, sort of a little preachy on a subject that didn't really need preaching on.