I'd like to think that the real lesson here is there's "no there there" - that the process has created "leaders" who have to essentially surrender their functions as actual humans to please the endless pundits and fickle ignorant masses that want someone who's a genius but not an intellectual, relatable but not…

Only one I ever walked out of was Sin City. Between the Michael Madsen "hey, maybe if I put a banner ad on cnn.com it might be more obvious I'm going to betray you… maybe", the "how can someone pretty be a lesbian" to "don't kill the guy - shoot him in the nuts so someone can come up and kill you instead but let the…

First date = "Dead Ringers" = last date. The movie probably held up better.

I dunno; for someone who's never seen it, the artwork seems very unappealing. Yeah, I guess that's like saying actors are "too ugly", but for animation, I think the stylistic choices do matter and bad design makes it really hard to succeed even if the writing is aces. Shame if the show is as good as people seem to be…

It does give people like me hope though; they tell me I can be a self-obsessed, navel-gazing rampaging asshole, and all it takes is some odd coincidence and some super-sexy chick (granted, one with at best a hypothetical personality, but hey, she's not there for the conversation anyway) will realize I'm the only…

I dunno; Haute Tension felt like the director really thought he was making something incredibly clever and witty, so while the film itself was dogshit, you sort of remained amused that it seemed to think itself was wicked awesome and some kind of profound modern treatise on… uh… frustrated lesbian crushes? Something?

Huh - in my experience claiming to like the "non-official choice" was the way you got your hipster cred, just as you did preferring Mary Ann. And like that, in my experience, I can't think of *anyone* I've known saying they preferred Loni or Ginger - it was always the…

Netflix - like a real-world version of one of those comedies where someone wholly unqualified to run a company is put in the big chair and makes wacky decisions that somehow manage to be accidental genius and saves the company - only the bad ideas are just bad.

I like Judy and Ken but the premise sounds absolutely terrible and has the "Up All Night" vibe where it just skates by on the goodwill the actors have built up over the years but if it had to live or die on its own would be dead long ago. But hey, who knows?

Well, you make it for "families", so it can't be actually threatening or scary or challenging. That is, what adults think pre-teens want to see (and/or possibly what they want those kids to see), but not what kids actually want. Kids don't like dinos because they like science or lizards, but because they're big and…

As a kid in 70s hippified Oregon, when sugar was the greatest enemy ever to face mankind, some proto-24/7-newscycle-scare-report came out with some "your kid's cereal is trying to kill him or her" report about how much sugar there was. Well, supposedly "Super Orange Crisp" was a whopping 71 percent sugar (well,…

I do love how absolutely sure the fans of the comic seem that the Governor character will in any way be awesome when put on the show, and not just another excuse for idiots to talk at each other, padding out the show to proper episode length.

I dunno; I found most of the ones who never left the island to be pretty interesting. It was just Michael and Sun and Hurley and Jack and Kate  were walking writer's conceits.

I prefer to think of him as a deep-deep cover agent for the real US government (you know, the shadow one that survived because they required at least average intelligence in hiring so they easily dealt with mindless undead) who takes his job very, very seriously. In his private moments he worries he's getting dumber…

Came for the T-Dog update; left satisfied.

Yeah, at the Superbowl she kind of looked like a muppet. There's a point where avoiding aging approaches uncanny valley territory and she seems to have set up shop.

Showtime - doomed to forever be HBOs uglier, less talented little brother. Sure, they sometimes have some good ideas, but eventually they fall apart into self-parody and then run for three more seasons for reasons no one ever understands.

I told you I'd shoot, but you didn't believe me. 
Why didn't you believe me?!

Oddly, I found Shinjuku Triad Society to be so incredibly gay (yet weirdly straightforward about it, like hey, that's just how they roll over there) that it pretty much satisfied any need I'd ever have for gay porn.

And to think my innocence lasted this long; guess it's time to find Jesus.