Presumably adults who like cartoons and comic books liked them as children as well, and managed to continue to do so even under adversity.

A kid who gets beaten up for wearing a Lion King backpack is suffering for his bad taste in backpacks, not in films.

"I don't understand how people got past the constant teasing and bullying and / or beatings to remain a fan of it through their preteen and teen years."

Whether you're doing animation or live action the "medium" i.e. the delivery system, is still a video camera with celluloid in it and a projector. It's only what's in front of the camera that changes. So I'm going with "style".

If you were a REAL hipster DBag, you'd have seen the William Kentridge show that just closed over at MoMA and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

this river's full of lost sharks

Supposing I was to ask you as a stranger—going to the West?

We'll take all the least scary monsters, stuff them in a box, chop them into tiny pieces, and redistribute the pieces in small packages, which will now be scary.

Bored to Death definitely isn't awful, but it's much, much more banal than it has any right to be, given its cast and premise. I still hold out a faint hope that they'll get a little more imaginative second time around….

Did anyone see that tour DVD he put out? If David Cross isn't pretending to be someone who's not David Cross, ignore him.

Yeah, at least Persephone got a snack and a part-time queenship out of the deal.

Yeah, Poseidon's the one who's always an asshole. Hades lends Hercules his three-headed guard dog just for asking nicely.

Seasons 3 and 4 definitely aren't as funny in a laugh-out-loud way, but sometimes I actually prefer them to the first two, mostly for when they abandon skits altogether and go straight for long-form stream-of-consciousness surrealism. The first two seasons are maybe the best sketch comedy of all time, but they're…

Ooh! Ooh! The "shadowy figure who meets the boy in town and gives him a toy" is the murderer of BOTH boys, and is ALSO the " sympathetic newspaper editor"!

It's more likely that the dead boy would have been Hamm's brother. But this doesn't answer what happens to his son, which should probably get resolved somehow.

Daniel Handler once told me that Dick's Bar in the East Village was his dive of choice, if you were looking to run into him. But I see now that's it's closed, so no luck there.

Does anyone know if Netflix is going to have these on instant week to week?

http://www.iwatchstuff.com/…

I was assigned Fox in elementary school, which is more than I can say for any other Dahl, and the better-known books have almost all been filmed already—"You chose to make a film that nobody else has made already, how did you arrive at that decision?" The BFG is the only one left: who wants it? Cuaron? Del Toro?…

If you demand that films include everything from their source material and nothing else, you should probably skip this one. But I found the trailer pretty unappealing, was then swayed by the overwhelmingly positive reviews, and concur with them entirely.