I'm kinda hoping that they really do up the Flashpoint thing to bring Kara into the Flash/Arrowverse, and that they're just casting Superman so that she can have the dramatic scene where she tells him, "But cousin, they need me in this other universe. They don't have a Superman or a Supergirl! Here, with you, I'm…

I can only remember two things about it:

As the rest of this thread makes clear, "movie-better-than-book" isn't a particularly rare phenomenon. We tend to think it is because there are so many prominent examples of great literary works getting bungled in adaptation that it seems like the movie being better never happens. But Hollywood adapts a lot of books…

Ooh. I have a bizarre affection for that book, but the movie is much better. Weirdly, the book feels like Tevis wrote it with a movie adaptation in mind—small mentor role for Minnesota Fats at the beginning—but there's so much of the book that's just Fast Eddy being bewildered by the '80s, as if he'd been put in…

I didn't like Jemma's treatment of Inhumans last season, but I have to disagree on every other point. Since S1, she's the character the show has had some of its most developed plans for: her spy turn in S2 and her alien exile between seasons 2 and 3 were among the better storylines of the past two seasons. Her turning…

DHS is actually the last officer on the Presidential succession list, which makes me think that the Presidential succession order is actually by order of seniority of the department, rather than its perceived importance/potential capability of the secretary to govern in a moment of national emergency. If we're serious…

At the time, Robocop was the most kids I'd seen in an R-rated movie. Parents just couldn't accept that a movie about a robot cop wasn't something their young children should see.

The thing that made it cool was that it wasn't unbelievable. It was just a really good shot.

I was kind of disappointed that they didn't have a scene where a billygoat is retching miserably near a rice paddy, and then Rambo passes by, picks up the food that made the goat sick, and chows down as if it was a stadium hot dog (again, per Troutman).

Well, that and Richard Dean Anderson's deadpan. The thing that baffled me about nuMacGuyver, other than his lack of proper hair, was that every moment of every preview I've seen has been overloaded with smugness.

Cheney being away from the 9/11 address to Congress is arguably the one time the designated survivor idea was, I think, really taken seriously (Ashcroft in 2003 might've been another, although they had Norm Minetta as DS and it might've just been a matter of not wanting a democrat to be the real DS). I might remember…

Ah, Piper Perabo. Jennifer Garner's less-tall understudy.

I thought they didn't have the budget for full-time Deathlok, but seeing as they've added a CGI flaming skull to the cast…

No, they had a scene where he was surprised to be picked, and didn't even know what the designated survivor was. It was a final humiliation after the president decided to kick him to the curb (which, apparently, is in Montreal).

Kirkman short-timing it meant he wasn't needed to do pre- or post-speech media or otherwise show up at the SotU. It makes sense: if they really thought the designated survivor was likely to become president, a top-level cabinet member would have to sit out the speech each year. According to Wikipedia, the…

Yeah, because no one at a dubstep party has a phone or is checking social media. That would just be rude, like failing to make out with your drug dealer.

It's a stupid line, but it's also a bit of truth in advertising. It might as well be preceded by a warning: "The movie you're about to see is a treacly mess, full of homespun wisdom that makes no freaking sense."

Copyright infringement. Plagiarism isn't typically something you sue over.

That CSM episode is definitely the silver lining to Forrest Gump's cloud.

He was too busy snorting cocaine with those bills to dry anything on them.