Exactly; while the mushiness is a bit heavy, the family brainstorming session more than makes up for it.

Most of what I know of her I learned from the Killdozer song "Lupus"
Lupus took the life of Flannery O'Connor
She wrote some books
And then death was upon her

Well, a bad show or movie will use it so they can show the hero as flawed for sinking low, but still heroic because the information will be shown to be accurate and necessary and there was no presented alternative to get it. It's also a cheap way to engage the audience, since they are simultaneously attracted and…

Yeah, I like how they kind of took the makeup off and the rough-and-tumble PI was really what people like that are; thugs and bullies more interested in their own ego than in saving anyone. Sure, there was *some* affection for his secretary, but he still treated her terribly and everyone else was just was just someone…

Watched I Saw the Devil, which was good, though for some reason I kept thinking "this guy is crazy-evil, but yet somehow not *quite* as crazy-evil Anthony Wong in Ebola Syndrome. Different genres (sort of), but I kept thinking of the other movie. Maybe it was the cannibalism and the haircut.

An ambitious, driven woman who falls apart emotionally when the chips are down?
Not on my Star Trek! Well, maybe on every other episode, but not all of them!

Very few people are saying it's truly terrible, just not worth paying to see unless you're some kind of die-hard fan. Too much CGI, rigid origins-story-formula, way too little time in space and too much watching some guy mope about not wanting to be the hero anyone in the theatre would love to be (please someone kill…

The guys I know who've been lawyers all said what they learned in law school was useful for neither the bar nor being a lawyer, so that the idea that a guy with magic powers passing the bar is shocking really isn't.

From what I've been able to gather, the Danish version was good because it was Danish. But it was filled with incompetent police, stupid red herrings and a last second, out-of-nowhere killer. But everyone had accents, acted all foreign and had weird little foreigner character bits people weren't used to seeing.

If I could believe she was in on the joke, that'd be awesome.
You know, serving up shit sandwiches and then calling anyone who complains a philistine? That's kind of awesome. And hey, she got a second season, so that's even more so; ha-ha suckers! Sadly, in my gut, I suspect she actually thinks her nonsense really is…

Wait - so Doc Savage wasn't made of bronze?
I'd never read any of the stories, but I remember one "Doc Savage The Man Of Bronze" in my middle-school library no one ever checked out, and it looked like a big bruiser guy with bronze skin. You know, like an old-timey Luke Cage, but with actual bronze skin. I figured…

Is that before he shot his old lady, having caught her messin' round with another man?

The idea that the local daily runs the town is comical, and that guy in the photo needs about 6 layers of schlubbiness to be a Seattle mayor. Our current guy got elected mainly because he seemed kinda harmless. But I guess even anti-formula TV is still TV.

They did keep up with reviewing V and The Event, even though the articles got pathetic hit counts, few comments and the shows were garbage. So… maybe? Or maybe they'll learn.

Bad CGI is easy. Good CGI is hard. Like acting, directing, shooting, sound, whatever. That said, I was watching the latest X-Men movie and waiting for the non-existent post-credit stuff, and there were like 15+ people credited with working on Beast's fur. It wasn't really any better than a guy in a decent fur suit, I…

I dunno; maybe the problem isn't the characters, but the need to make them tentpole sequel-factories with $150MM budgets. A smaller, character-driven movie could do well by a lot of superhero characters, but if they need to play to the teenagers and internationals, the math fails. Maybe a $40 million WW picture with…

So why are they flying SOTA military jets? Or is this more of the shit "all international corporations are really just the founder who designs everything and does all the meaningful work and yet is the sole provider of half the world's arsenals" comic book derp? I mean, in a comic book, Steve Ballmer is at his desk…

Well, apparently Sinestro is a good guy (at least for the movie)… Sinestro? Was Evilo or Iwillbetrayyouinthethridacto taken? That would be like having "Victor Von Doom" be the hero! Or Edward Nygma (it hurts me to type that, so goddamned stupid… arrghhh…) be the gruff cop to hates when weirdos play games. Groucho…

It's just defies belief. Why would he make a gun like that, when he could just make the bullets. If the idea is that he's making actual gunpowder too (that is, he can make stuff that then reacts chemically, giving him Dr. Manhattan-like comical overpower), why the multiple barrels? A gatling gun has a single receiver…

This doesn't sound like a masturbatory Mary Sue semi-autobiography at all!
The disconnected loser just drifts into an arrangement with the hot popular chick (happens all the time!), is the smartest guy in the room without a trace of self-awareness, and deserves to get all the best things he can comprehend by virtue of…