Matewan is a masterpiece.

IMO, Barking Dogs is his best film. I need to rewatch Memories, because I didn't think a lot of it when I saw it.

You would have to be some sort of gigantic pretentious douchebag to think Europa Report was a better movie than Gravity. First off, they're barely similar, so they're not really comparable. Second, ER was, at best, a halfway decent found-footage film. It's only barely worth seeing.

"You know, I remember that day I found his pube on my Coke can - it was love at first pube."

Fuck that, I love Barbarella. He also made a very good version of Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla called Blood and Roses. And I like his short in History of the Dead, too.

It kind of talked to the raptors.

On Friday night I saw the Australian band The Griswolds. This was the second time I've seen them, the first being about two years ago. They were nobodies then, but they've kind of blown up since. It was in a small venue, and the crowd was super pumped. I wasn't a huge fan of their debut album (I liked their EP…

If I were to go through the whole series again, though, I would do it on DVD for the production order. As I recall, they aired very randomly on Fox anyway. Whatever the case, I'm just glad it exists and is readily available for people to watch.

I liked Boxtrolls more than ParaNorman, though ParaNorman was quite good. I don't like how they treat the bully character, though. It seemed like bullying was a big theme in the film, but then the bully (played by McLovin, of all people) ends up as a comic relief companion in the group. At the end, he takes some of…

I hate all of those. The Africa one has gotten a tad better over time, but it's still bottom quarter of the non-HD episodes (and below quite a few of those). The Israel one, ew, yeah, one of the worst ever. Probably bottom 5 (not 5%, mind you!). The British one has a few good gags, but mostly stinks.

I wonder what Gould himself thought of his whole role in that episode.

Yes, that's pretty much how I thought of it, too, and it drives me up a wall. It's one thing to respect others' beliefs. It's another when you're allowing a town to go nuts over a fake angel.

It's been a while since I popped in the DVDs. They were early in the TV on DVD era, so there's no "play all" feature, which is super annoying.

I would believe you, though, if you told me different platforms have them in entirely different orders.

1948. Yeah, it's not bad for that era, I suppose. I mean, the whole thing is a veiled Custer story, and it implies that Custer was the villain, not the hero. How many other movies of that era made Custer the hero? Definitely They Died with Their Boots On, for sure.

Yeah, the "It would be cheap to bring him back" thing most viewers had was just a kneejerk reaction that wasn't fully thought out. If people are still clinging to it, it's because they're stubborn.

What? They are!

I wasn't watching GoT at the time, but please tell me someone made a "Smells like one of Van Houten's" reference when she queefed that smoke monster back in Season 2.

"Traps" as in slang for transsexuals? Interesting.

I don't get that.