I was going to mention Sam L, too. In an interview (here?) he said if he had a choice between doing Snakes on a Planes for the rest of his life or Red Violins, he'd have to go Snakes (or "movies like this" or something.

What's a trixie?
That's all.

typo
by the TIME he made Ran.

Whereas pretty pictures and homoeroticism have pretty much sold me!

no accounting for taste
I never really liked boing boing, and the only novel of his I hated, but that was a pretty good interview. I guess it's more the package than the message that doesn't appeal to me.

Eastern Standard Tribe was my first effort to understand this "Doctorow" phenomenon and I, too, found it to be the worst novel I've read in the last decade.

That was my first reaction.

It's "Do you know my poetry?"

Maybe you're faster than me (or almost certainly, since I have to whack every single garbage can two or three times) but 25 minutes barely got me through the training sequence. The funny comes a little later.

See, I knew all those things, but I still hold to my opinion. And it would have been better to frame it as such rather than use the word "argument" to describe that opinion - but I still think you might have missed the tone.

I never really thought of it as a health risk argument - I don't really care what people do to hurt themselves. I think the real concern in steroid use is a kind of "purity" argument that some people will probably find a little thin. To me, athletic achievement should be something that is accessible to anyone…

I love the great escape, but that scene was pretty cheesy. In the context of the film, I mean. In any other context, Steve McQueen jumping razorwire on a motorcycle makes my undies damp.

Are you sure it wasn't "buried with a donkey?" That's what I heard, and it makes a tiny bit more sense.

I don't know how anybody thinks they're aliens. Don't they pretty much say that the kid is their antecedent, like their ford model A? They look kind of alien-y, I guess, if aliens are made of plastic.

Preacher
Black Hole
Lone Wolf and Cub

I was really excited about The Sword initially, but I think I might actually stop reading it. It's weird, but I think the dealbreaker for me is actually art. I decided at issue seven that I hate it (I guess it's the signature Luna thing, but this is the first thing of theirs I've read). Maybe I'm missing something…

He establishes his cool by watching a peasant father and son fight? Or am I misremembering the start of Yojimbo?

Seriously, your biggest problem with road warrior was the decor? I gotta say, for me it was the idea that people in a brutally petroleum poor society spend their free time riding around in circles for no reason, or that a gang would see a working oil derrick and decide that stealing the gas and torching the fucker was…

Man, I had heard OF this scream but never identified it until repeated mentions on these boards led me to seek it out. Now I'll never be able to watch anything again.

Dude, the stones were to… keep that village from… exploding? Or something? Wait, there would be no children born in the village without the stones. Maybe?