But he's a god, right?  All kinds of awesome powers.  Didn't he (or maybe it was another super-villain) have a line about how ruling people is like ruling ants?  I don't think his inferiority complex is that tiny. 

But he's a god, right?  All kinds of awesome powers.  Didn't he (or maybe it was another super-villain) have a line about how ruling people is like ruling ants?  I don't think his inferiority complex is that tiny. 

I'm not sure what Phipps was expecting from this.  Garfield and Stone are much better actors in this film than Maguire and Dunst were in theirs - Garfield has a good awkward, angular energy, getting the wit and the angst of the character, and Stone is sharp and charming (where Dunst is just a void).  The effects,…

I'm not sure what Phipps was expecting from this.  Garfield and Stone are much better actors in this film than Maguire and Dunst were in theirs - Garfield has a good awkward, angular energy, getting the wit and the angst of the character, and Stone is sharp and charming (where Dunst is just a void).  The effects,…

Don is just a big baby.  When he can't, or doesn't want to deal with a problem, he runs away, regardless of the consequences.  A well-adjusted adult would realize that Megan's reference to his mother was just a comeback to his forcing his delight in HoJo's sherbert on her and insulting her for not liking it.  (And a…

WTF?  He blows up at her after she politely rejects his nuclear colored sherbet after he has dragged her 300 miles to sit in a Howard Johnson's?  So his Mom's dead, boo hoo.  He's a grown-up, and a husband - the last thing he should do is abandon his wife in the middle of nowhere.

The Beach Boys produced some of the most beautiful, heartbreaking music to come out of the Sixties.  If you can't hear it, there's no help for you.

I think they've been building to this all season.  Neither one knows the other well.  Don's birthday party was the first we saw that Megan definitely doesn't know what is going on with Don, and all along he's been treating her like he treated Betty, as an appendage.  Don has been a dick throughout the series, but…

Game of Thrones SPOILER ALERT:

Ok, I'm clearly far removed from the demographic this is aimed at, but I haven't gotten even one internal half-hearted chuckle from this show.  I get that the situations are awkward, to say the least, but unlike other cringe-comedy (e.g., Curb Your Enthusiasm), which generally gets some laughs from me, it all just…

Yes, The Lord of the Rings is pretty much a Catholic book.  But I liked that pretty much everyone was weak when faced with the Ring (except perhaps Sam), and that, in the end, it was the most pathetic character who saved their world.  And I agree that Frodo was pretty much a drag, and not someone I'd want to party…

You are correct.  I was thinking about the original version.

Minor Threat's records do hold up, which is not something I can say about a lot of hardcore I listened to.

Ian doesn't actually say "I" don't smoke, drink, etc. (at least not that I can hear), so it comes out as a series of commands ("Don't drink!"), but the other members (some of whom definitely were not straightedge) made sure the lyric sheet included the personal pronoun so that it would be clear that Ian was just…

Another factor was that the population of the city declined for 30 years after WWII as people moved out to the suburbs following the post-war boom.  In addition to more crime, due to fewer people on the streets (and in houses), this led to insanely low rents, which enabled musicians and artists to start the whole punk…

I haven't seen a career-spanning retrospective (are you listening, Rhino?), but Warners put out a decent "Ultimate Dr. John" covering the Atlantic years.

I haven't heard the new record, but the live versions performed with the album's band were killer - they had that spooky thing the Dr. had on his first albums.  I'm not a Black Keys fan, but Auerbach knew what he was doing when he put that band together.

Wainwright is a fine performer, and I love some of his songs, but I can't get into a lot of his albums due to the adverse goofy/novelty to sad song ratio.  

I think it's really hard to make passivity compelling.  The only thing that comes to mind that does work is Being There, where Chance's passivity is the whole point of the satire.  In Girls, the characters are just lumps.  Plus, it isn't funny, which I really think is just poor direction.  The camerawork is mediocre…

I didn't laugh once, although there were some potential lines which, if they had had better direction, could have been funny.  Mostly it was just awkward, but not in an awkward-funny way, just in an awkward-creepy way.  Maybe if they had better directors it might come to life.