My parents are visiting, and their one request was that I make them a batch of beef jerky. I'm not a great cook (though I'm pretty good when I put some effort into it), but jerky is a really easy way to impress people and make them something they probably wouldn't make for themselves. I picked up some really cheap…

We won't know for sure until she explicitly tells us how she feels about sand.

Soundgarden Inadvertently Reunites At Area Cinnabon

The reverse-shot right before it made it really obvious that a joke reveal was about to happen, but damn. I lost it too.

*eagerly* I like it!

I watched the first Hobbit movie in 3D and didn't like it. Then the next year I watched Pacific Rim and, although the movie was fun, I didn't like the 3D. I'm pretty sure I just don't enjoy 3D no matter how well it's done.

He's clearly a good actor being dealt a pretty bad character - at least, compared to the rest of the cast. But his Kardashian voice is hilarious.

That was like if Tracy Jordan's best line and Jenna Maroney's best line had a baby. I paused the show for a full minute just to process how good it was.

Watching that movie again as an adult, I was shocked at how little he tries to hide the fact that he's an asshole. He borders on playing it the other way around, with the flat-out cruelty being the core of his character and the affability as a veneer.

Zzzzzzzap!

The only good songs are hymns.

How do you like the prahnk, you little shit?

BANG BANG INTO YOUR MOOOOOUUUUUUTH

I thought that was his tail…

That's so generous of you.

I've seen the despecialized version of the first film. It was good, but I wasn't crazy about the way he meddled with the dogfight scenes at the end.

Thanks for mentioning the Ewok song. It's cheesy as hell, but at least it fits the rest of the movie - the surviving Rebels celebrating with the scrappy outmatched indigenous people who helped them. Those are the people we've been watching, the people we care about. We don't need to cut to other planets (especially…

The monkey-eyed woman-emperor is fine in a weird sort of way, but replacing her with Ian McDiarmid is one of the most okay changes they made in the special editions.

When 900 years old you reach, etc.

The CGI dewbacks aren't great, but they're not altogether terrible. I'd happily keep them in if it meant getting rid of the slapstick droids outside Mos Eisley, Hayden Christensen's ghost, Darth Vader's thoroughly unnecessary "NOOOOOO" and of course the entire Jedi Rocks sequence.