Could someone explain this starz person to me? Is it a parody of Youtube comments and l33tsp33k in general? A satire on the decreasing intelligence of Internet exchanges? Is there any sense or point to be derived from it?

Also…here's a link the full movie, which is surprisingly faithful to the book.

The Penguin's a good idea. It needs to be possible in the world Nolan has established. No people made out of clay or who can magically fly or whatever.

I heard that Jim Carrey will be playing the Riddler…
and that Joel Shumacher will be directing.

Watching a trailer for the A-Team REMAKE recently, I found myself thinking the only thing that could at all redeem that movie would be if its logline was something along the lines of "Hollywood has finally run out of ideas."

In the trailer, the furry little animals could be playing happily in a meadow to Vivaldi's "Spring." Then: the record scratches! Cue: Smashmouth: "Hey Now, you're an all-star, get your game on!" All right! And here comes a badger on a dirtbike, loud, POV: from underneath the dirtbike's raised front tire! A…

Just shut up about Frog and Toad! Even if Jung's idea of a Collective Unconscious doesn't exist, the Internet seems to serve as its proxy, and when you put these ideas out there anything can and does happen. The last thing I want is a 3D CGI "re-imagining" of Frog and Toad from the producers who brought you BARNYARD…

Lone A., you seem well-read and articulate—why are you not more involved in Wrapped Up in Books? Your presence would be welcome and appreciated there.

Die, trend, die. Seriously, die. I think it would be more tolerable if people's approach to the idea of the literary mash-up was more organic, but now with companies devoted to churning out title after title, it feels totally hackneyed and unwelcome. I will never read these.

I can show you the buried remnants of humanity right now. They're called ghost towns. And ruins. And cemeteries.

The plot sounds retarded. The book's not a post-apocalyptic fantasy. Everyone attached to this project sounds awful. I see no reason to see this not sucking terribly. Even the live-action mix stuff is probably more for budgetary reasons at this point, and it will be a CGI 3-D mess before it's all done. With a…

Quiet! Quiet! Don't mention them.

Isn't the concern here that this will be the first movie in the series NOT based on a book by the series' original author? Part of the reason the series has been so solid so far, I think, is that it has those books as the center.

Joe Eszterhas is into "Loving Jesus"?

An interesting page about A SCANNER DARKLY—
http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

Lala NEEDS to be replaced with something, otherwise AVC's music section will become something like Cokemachineglow, like a print magazine online.

Teenage Fanclub was the best wine I ever had.

Now that Lala is gone,
AVC, you needs to find a suitable replacement. Don't just have nothing. That's like a print magazine.

This thread is for short lists of the year's best tracks.
And here's my short list:

When Russell Brand is on the screen, I can at least tell that I'm supposed to be laughing—I mean, it seems that in these disjointed statements he utters, the first portions are, I'm assuming, set-ups, and the latter portions are, say, punchlines—but then when it gets to the part where the man's spoken words are…