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Nice try, Bill Gates. No, nobody is going to use Bing, ever. It’s like the Zune of search engines.

“So you immediately identify his colour as if it has any bearing on his pathology.”

I hate that movie as much as anyone, and find her performance in it excruciating, but that’s what was asked of her, so it wasn’t her fault.

The movie didn’t suggest any of Harry’s interior life, his doubts and fears and the unease about being thrust into this new world, which was in the books. The story then just became a series of emotionally flat, undramatic victories for Harry where we never feel much is at stake, and nothing is earned.

Yep. Ocean’s 11 has arguably the most charm and swagger per second of runtime of any movie in the last 30 years.

Yeah, it almost feels like if you’re going for a Spielberg protégé for a fantasy-ish movie, Zemeckis makes more sense than  Columbus.

For the first two films, the movies were just an ancillary source of revenue. I worked at a movie theater over that winter break and witnessed hundreds of kids showing up, dragging their parents in, then quoting scenes and lines from a movie they had never seen before. The books were that huge.

The books were already a world-dominating cultural phenomenon by the time this came out.

I like the visual style of the first two HP movies better than the rest. It's a lot more whimsical and "merlin-esque" than the rest of the movies. I do appreciate how they kind of grow up along with the three main kids, but they definitely lost a little charm by going darker with each following movie.

And that’s around the point that they start to get really, really fucking long,

I thought Azkaban was the best book as well, and I think it’s telling that it was the last one released before Potter mania really took off (Goblet of Fire got a midnight release and was for sale everywhere; the sandwich shop at my office was hawkng it). The remaining novels all seemed to contain an annoying level of…

I have a distant recollection of Ebert and... Roeper(?) saying in their review that Harry Potter was less a ‘film’ and more a ‘processed film product’, like a hot dog. Or words to that effect. It has been a long time.

There are some great points here about how much pressure Columbus et al was under to make as literal of an adaptation as possible. Yet it made for such an interesting contrast to Fellowship of the Ring, which came out only a month later. The Sorcerer’s Stone reeked of a studio trying desperately to make money off a…

Ocean’s 11 holds up like a motherfucker. It’s just so effortless and charming and silly.

I’d buy that if WHY was prying into specific fetishes, but his girlfriend sounded like she was saying that to shut down any conversations about sex, whatsoever. I suspect most people have at least some fantasies or kinks they don’t feel comfortable sharing with their partner. But if your partner asks “What can I do to…

It’s time for a fashionably late addition of Savage Nobody! The advice column that’s sorry for not popping in earlier but has been very tired the last few days! I recognize that most people probably have had all of their questions answered by this point in the day, but if you’re still perplexed by platypii or don’t…

For an indigenous person, literal would make more sense than metaphorical.

And then, as the ringing and afterimage gradually fade, you get to figure out where they hid the semen. 

I have a hard time seeing WHY getting much attention here, even if the first letter wasn’t a conversation starter.