This is going to be a shocker for you, but when people in one country remake a work of fiction from another country, they often set it in their own. Which I know is cray. And then they just cast it like a normal work of fiction in their country, which granted can be a little skewed to the majority. So when Kurasawa…

Raold Dahl always killed off the parents and then had evil adults involved in the plot. Why? Like others have said, it spurs action and removes the obvious default of turning to a good adult for help. Now you have an adventure, the child is forced to do something. And it reinforces the adults vs kids feeling you…

Ah the Pope, one of the few Catholics who aren't famous for either fondling kids or covering up fondling kids. Please tell me more about how communism is bad, yet owning enormous amounts of property and not paying taxes on it is cool.

The monkey may not benefit, but PETA will succeed in raising awareness of the existence of PETA, which seems to be the only thing they exist to do. So nice job, ass hats!

It sounds like a mediocre ELO ballad. Their good songs had strong drums and nice crunchy guitar riffs to go along with the piano parts and strings.

MODOK Assassin is clearly the best Secret Wars book, with it's gleeful violent nuttiness. And Giant Size Little Marvel is right there. Jason Aaron continues to do great work with Weirdworld and Thors. Ennis' Where Monsters Dwell was highly entertaining. Master of Kung Fu was fun. Spider-Man Renew Your Vows was…

Ultimate Nick Fury looked like Sam Jackson pretty quickly, well before the movie version. But they did pull a bizarre retcon in the main universe where all of a sudden the #1 spy on the planet has a kid who looks just like Ultimate Nick Fury and Movie Nick Fury, but has a completely different first and last name. …

I don't remember that one. I'll have to check it out.

It feels like a lot of the series are about the different lands figuring out things are wrong or building up to fight Doom. I think once more of them conclude the main series will be about the different groups coming together to fight Doom. And then some Deus Ex Machina from outside the universe will show up, and…

I like Gillen most of the time. It's hard to find too many bad writers at Marvel right now, I'm happy with most of the Secret Wars writers. Except Soule, I simply can't understand how people like his crap. And I know a lot of people love Peter David, but every time I read one of his books, I feel like I've been…

I read White. It was boring and crappy. A generic Captain America thing. It's hard to read a book on the early Captain America and Bucky relationship without unfairly comparing it to the Brubaker run though. His version of that story line was just awesome.

I thought it was blocky and stiff as well, and the faces were just bad. You can make a face cartoony or realistic and still have them be expressive and feel natural on the page. But when they look like a bad plastic surgery recipient, it's hard for them to express anything. Although I don't think the coloring…

I read some of Immonen's work, and it's really not all that interesting. This issue is pretty by the book, with little actual characterization, a lot of stiff character interaction, and a go nowhere plot that at it's core makes no sense. They put a whole bunch of people including one of their top officers on an…

You don't really need to go much farther than "Billy Joel song" to define why this is hate-able.

So you said only one thing about a movie, and it was negative. Then you became offended when someone interpreted this to mean you didn't like the movie. With that lack of context, what else was this person to infer? It's a combination of the incredible lack of depth tweeting provides, and the over sensitivity you…

Ever since Wolverine exploded in the 80's, he's been that same level. His own movie series, multiple solo comics series at a time, in multiple team books, guest appearances all over the place. He's had a consistent 30 year run. Unlike say Punisher, who popped in the 80's and then fell back into the third tier. …

I believe it was the philosopher Brian Flanagan, in his classic work "Cocktail" that stated "Everything ends badly, otherwise it wouldn't end." As true in our own time as it was in his.

Body double is my favorite DePalma film, just a fantastic exaggeration of the sexual obsession you see in Hitchcock.

You watch Argento and DePalma movies for the crazy ride they take you on. The minutia of the plots are unimportant, the whole thing exists as a means for delivering thrilling set pieces and sublimely perverse shocks. This was true of Hitchcock as well. What's on the microfilm that everybody wants in North By…

Ukulele's in non-Hawaiian music is enough to make your song terrible. But adding those lyrics to it should be a death row level offense. Until I read this I never paid enough attention to this song, it was king of a background thing I heard passing through places, or in terrible TV or ads I wouldn't pay attention to…