Agreed. It's such a lazy plot device. Rather than creatively revealing the character's motivations subtly through her actions and words, we are going to dump it all on you in a flashback. Boo.

"major plot turn hinges on a dumb luck coincidence …" What about the fact that Quinn just randomly was rescued off of the street by a jihadist group with connections to a key emir in Iraq?! Am I missing something?!

But it's like watching a cartoon! UGH

In my humble opinion, AOTC is better than Phantom Menace and, in my rankings, would come in 5th place. AOTC has a lot of interesting (and, as the author points out, "chunky") sequences that make it a more compelling movie. Phantom Menace has Jar-Jar and pod racing, and both are shitty. Maybe if the pod racing was…

I wish I had more upvotes to give, Flag. You would get lots of them.

Because the soundtrack is just a bunch of child murdering and crying.

I loved when Papa Smurf cured the purple smurfs in the book. Did that make it to the movie?

I love the way Barf and Lone Star get a kick out of the joke despite themselves.

NO! I'm the latest! Also, to my late-watching friends, how shitty is it that we don't get to hear many of the songs that were in the original airings, replaced instead by bland soap opera music?

Midi-chlorians keep my pool a sparkling blue all year long.

I think they are grate also.

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I'm here with you Sadiki. In fact, I've moved even further into the future, where I'm excited to see Michael B. Jordan starring in Creed.

Future me says: NO it's ridiculous. Anyone that knows anything about football knows that you kick the extra point there. Landry's chances of making an extra point are greater than the offense's chance of converting a two-point conversion. The conversion rate in BOTH college and the NFL hovers around 20-25%. …

Loved both of them. The only disappointing aspect (of both, frankly) was the weak framing device. Why even bother?

Are we all on the same page about As Above, So Below? I enjoyed it. It's certainly kinda sorta dumb, but it was well paced and had some good scares.

I'm all for a "faithful interpretation," as long as it's, you know, good? That mini-series piece of shit? No thanks.

I always read it as suggesting that assholes like him always had a place there. It wasn't literally him, but it was that kind of guy that was always there.

Mythagoras - spot on, brother! I've always read it in precisely this way. She IS annoying, but no one deserves to be abused … but she is annoying … Duvall says Kubrick rode her like hell to bring out the worst in her, and it shows (and it, in my opinion, pays off in spades … she's just so freaking exhausted and it…

There is nothing AT ALL that can be said in favor of that godawful, bland, lame and overall shitty mini-series. Nothing.