Tenzin dying still might have proved too upsetting, leaving his wife and kids behind. I can see why they felt they could never go that way.

Loved The Return, thought Elena sucked.

"Wait, is everyone who doesn't like the series suddenly bad?" No, not suddenly. I imagine they've always been a bad person, but it just came out in an obvious way now.

I definitely thought Mako could die, but, yes, it would have put such a pall over the final scenes that it would never have worked. I think they probably could have killed Tenzin, if they were going to go for a major character death, in Season 3 when the anarchists had him. Really, with that cliffhanger, I thought…

Korra and Asami: doing the thing for eternity.

This comment was much better than the movie Lucy.

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)
2. Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
3. Gone Girl (David Fincher)
4. Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller)
5. The Immigrant (James Gray)
6. Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
7. Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho)
8. Calvary (John Michael McDonagh)
9. Ernest and Celestine (Stephane Aubier, Vincent Patar &…

No, trust me, it's a very slow, dull movie.

Here it is, but for some reason I can't get it to play: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Well, I said "IIRC," which implies that I might NOT be recalling correctly. It's been probably well over a decade since I saw it.

Eh, I wasn't too pissed off about it or anything (I was more bothered by the Lord of the Flies DVD, which I didn't keep, though I kind of wish I had since I've never seen that version), I more thought it was amusing that, out of every Criterion movie that had been released up to that point, that's the one she would…

There's an episode of Two and a Half Men where Erinn Hayes of Childrens Hospital fame dresses in Nazi fetish gear. I must say, it's almost worth sitting through an episode of 2.5 Men to see! (no, it's not)

Zardoz is actually a lot of fun. I will absolutely rave against anyone who dares call that movie bad.

Pretty sure everyone has done that once or twice throughout their education. I know I did my sophomore year of high school when I never found the time to read a particular novel. It was an individual project and I knew the teacher had never read it, so I just made the plot of the novel up, largely.

In the most risible way possible.

I really need to rewatch The Pornographers, but, IIRC, it's pretty far from being even a little bit salacious.

Ha, no, but that would be equally shrugworthy (seen it, didn't mind it, but have no desire to ever revisit it). I guess it could always have been Armageddon.

Oh, that's not even my best "film buff receives horrible Christmas present" story. My mom is notoriously awful at gift giving. Once she gave me the novelization of Mrs. Doubtfire, because I both liked movies and liked to read.

Back when I was first getting into Criterion movies, I gave a list to my family of the ones I already owned and told them where they could buy them. Despite detailed instructions, few could actually handle the task. My mom, for instance, bought me the 1990 version of Lord of the Flies (presumably because it was…

I love Bad Time Zoo. I think you'll like Hella F'real. Also I very much recommend Snaxx, his mixtape from a couple of years back.