Making Money wasn't that bad, because Moist was the best new character Pratchett came up with over the like last 10 books of the series.

You're both insane. Watterson's Sunday strips post-sabbatical, near the end of the strip's run, are some of the most amazing work done in the medium, ever, hands-down, no debate. You really want to ignore, say, the wordless "aliens abduct Calvin and replace him with an ill-behaved robot" strip? That one alone is worth…

Re: the 6 "mediocre to outright bad films" between Bambi and Cinderella, those were all "package films" of mostly preexisting material cobbled together to fill a void while most of the animators were fighting WWII. You can't really hold them to the same standard you'd hold the rest of Disney's output.

Good Lord, the only tiniest speck of a thing this band has in common with Belle and (Li'l) Sebastian is that their name could be a B&S song title. (Well, OK, some of the punnery in the first album's lyrics.) Unless we want to broaden the scope of things bands have in common to things like "uses melody," B&S isn't…

Thirded. Seven Brides is a Mrs. Crusader favorite, and having watched it a dozen times, I can vouch that it's far, far too chaste a film overall to bother with either actual or implied rape.

"One of the best animated films ever" is a stretch, but Emperor is still a terrific movie, easily the best thing Disney's hand-drawn division did in its decade of death throes. It's an entirely different animal from traditional Disney; no music, minimal plot, small cast, an extreme emphasis on gags. The comparison to…

Owlectric Boogowloo

What assurances do we have that Tasha's animation reviews aren't just screwing us up?

George Lowe, voice of Space Ghost, signed copy of Space Ghost's Musical Bar-B-Q. It's fairly awesome.

Playing to tie does not work if you are facing the Spanish soccer team. Unless you are Switzerland, or the USA, for some strange reason.

Blues Traveler helped organize the H.O.R.D.E. Festival (Horizons of Rock Developing Everywhere. Now, where did I leave my keys?), which I caught once, and that year's edition in retrospect was like one giant '90s nostalgia-fest: Barenaked Ladies, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Fastball, Alana Davis, Cowboy Mouth, and of…

What's interesting is that when you get right down to it, the new Abrams Trek is much, much closer in that entertainment/philosophy balance to Star Wars than Trek itself. I'm sure I'm not the first person to point out the whole farmboy-turned-space-swashbuckler-stops-planet-destroying-villains plot similarities, but…

casehouse8, if I'm reading you right, you're shuddering at Leap Year? I was a husband dragged to see it, and I thought it could have been so much worse—lots of awesome Irish scenery, the male lead isn't punchable, Amy Adams is hawt, lots of quality Irish music on the soundtrack. That's not to say I'd recommend it,…

This thread's not bad, but have you ever read the original draft of it by Frank Darabont?

Damn you people, that's the third time since these recaps started I've wasted an hour and a half watching those things.

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Zero nominations for Fringe as a whole. No writing, no directing, no acting. Yeah, that makes sense.

Alex's injury is a major, major bummer, but assuming he's toast, I was thinking: this is the first time SYTYCD has ever lost a major player due to injury. The only injury-related departure I remember was what's-her-face, the redhead from S4, who wouldn't have even gotten as far as she did (week 5 or so) without being…

For anyone wondering why the lyrics might have sounded semi-familiar: that song was a sorta-cover of David Bowie's "Dance Magic Dance" from the Labyrinth soundtrack. Just, you know, FYI.

Agreed about Jose. His solo was good; I'd much rather watch him spin (and spin and spin …) than see Ashley or Lauren perform Contemporary Female Solo No. 37A out of the handbook. But you compare him to Dominic or Legacy and man, he just doesn't hold up. I don't mind the judges allowing some slack for a phenomenal…