Or Captain Evelyn Waugh.

You mean that, to Alan Moore, plagiarism is a worse crime than blowing up a school bus of retarded children?

Uh, "despite?"

It's still up.  Presumably one look at your alt-comic confirmed that you were already a yammering creative eunuch, and no preventative action on the staff's part was required.

I'm sort of wondering at what point in history rapists and violent criminals didn't own the night.  Like, was there a time in the past when women could frolic in the streets by the light of a full moon, and later, rapists came along and fucked everything up?

@persia2:disqus Lots of functionally useless activities take 10 seconds or less.  Doesn't mean it's efficient to do them, because 99% of the time they are going to contribute absolutely nothing to anything.

The foreign box office for Pacific Rim is $55 million in the same amount of time- an amount which would have won the weekend over here.  I imagine Japan alone would be enough to make this film turn a profit, and all the other countries represented in the film (which, appropriately enough, are the top foreign markets…

Pacific Rim is an enjoyable movie with great visuals that doesn't quite convey the sense of desperation the script seems to call for, and has a few problems with the plot.  The biggest example of the latter is the status of Kikuchi's character, who is twice kicked out of the pilot role and twice reinstated with little…

Well, "colossal" generally is an adjective that refers to the Colossus of Rhodes, a 100-foot-high statue that was somehow built by an iron-age Greek culture.  It is typically used to refer to things that are big, and here may specifically refer to things bigger than their surroundings, i.e. things that look bigger in…

"Let's make some room for the lady."

You were going to a del Toro movie for story and writing?  Maybe in the future, you should notice things like the fact that del Toro's two best-written films are both in Spanish, and one borrows its story from the traditional fairy tale ur-structure, and the other borrows its story from the traditional ghost story…

Except this movie has a Japanese character who is running around in the street screaming before she's saved from being stepped on by a British man.

I are write on the internet too much, if anything.

Elba was great.  I don't know what the people around here are smoking.

I don't think the relationship between the male and female is entirely platonic.  There is some mutual-attraction stuff going on there in both the text (the thing with the doors) and sub-text (they have very good "physical compatibility," hurr hurr), but it does play a lot better relegated to the background.

Mononoke has somebody decapitated with an arrow onscreen.  It's at least a hard PG-13.

You are in fact required by law to take giant-robot-loving-7-year-olds to see it.

Ironically enough, "ugh it's not Shakespeare but it'll do" is a direct quote from A.A. Dowd's review of Much Ado About Nothing.

@avclub-2a50e3b61d7da907adce74114394ccc3:disqus Well, The Hobbit was thankful. It wasn't at the point in its life where it would deal well with getting pregnant.

God, yes.  I just finished watching it, and Elba was amazing.  There's a point where the main character grabs his arm, and his nonverbal reaction just tells you everything you need to know about him.