This has been bothering me for over two decades. An English teacher once corrected me by saying that the correct construction would be a period and a new sentence. Your party sucked. No cakes. And I've heard that the dash is generally disparaged, because it seems to represent an incomplete thought. But wasn't this…

What's so interesting about Totoro is that there's this sense in several scenes that something strange is about to happen, and there's this slow and somewhat eerie buildup to something occurring, but at the same time there's a reassurance that whatever weird thing the girls in the film and you, the audience, are about…

I, for one, find your scenes very tasteful and artistic.
You have a natural way about you.

We really need to create < idiocracy voice > and < /idiocracy voice > formatting tags.

That woman in the movie who married Jim Morrison in a wiccan ceremony and later had a baby with him? Yeah, that never happened. It did according to her, but I've heard from some Morrisonologists that it's groupie BS, and Stone put it in his movie as though it were fact.

Part of the problem I had with Pine's Kirk vs. Shatner's Kirk had nothing to do with the actors—in Shatner's day, an unapologetic clean-cut authority-figure hero worked. In our day, it doesn't, so Pine had to make Kirk more fallible and a little more of a goof.

So it's not odd (or lazy writing) to you guys that Starfleet said to Spock, "Okay, you're all set to go into space by yourself in a tiny spaceship loaded with the most dangerous stuff in the universe. We don't foresee that anything can possibly go wrong, or that this dangerous stuff will fall into the wrong hands.…

Sorry @avclub-ce6c92303f38d297e263c7180f03d402:disqus , but your explanations fall on the ash-heap of everyone else who has tried their hand at it. And you didn't even bother addressing the time travel stuff. Hey, it's a fun movie, it just makes zero sense.

Oh God, don't get me started on the time travel stuff in that film. And I see now that @avclub-d0dfbf82a0232e4c63faf5016c25b7d5:disqus was obviously referring to the new film. My bad.

@avclub-d0dfbf82a0232e4c63faf5016c25b7d5:disqus You're talking about J. J.'s first Star Trek movie, right? Because it's got enjoyable acting, terrific special effects, a good rapid pace, and nothing in it makes any sense whatsoever. I am still asking people who liked that film to explain to me what happened in it,…

@avclub-1f93a5d50953fac07d7e6f54827ce9bc:disqus Believable? No, the genetically engineered villains are no more or less believable than the guy with ten super-rings that he got from an alien space ship. But they ARE more au courant. And I've always speculated that the Mandarin was never even intended to be fully…

@avclub-e53fc2424af041d07a7eef5cd8773505:disqus Fair enough—I've only seen a couple of episodes of Elementary, so I can't talk authoritatively about the series. Regarding Cumberbatch, I'm not losing my shit over him, I just prefer his modern-day Holmes to Miller's.

I guess Elementary is superior to other crime shows on broadcast television… I dunno. But having seen Sherlock, I have to say that Johnny Lee Miller has absolutely zero charisma compared to Mr. Cumberbatch.

I went down on him in a theee-ater.

I thought it was a pretty great twist, even though it shredded certain aspects of the Iron Man universe established by the comics. But, let me put it this way so as not to spoil it, Iron Man was a Cold War-era comic whose villains were frequently these sinister Commies, and I'm willing to let the new crop of movies…

You just missed it.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's the girl with no mouth. Something about that really weirded me out.

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus Watch out for falling helicopters.

You know about calamari, right? They're like these rubber bands that you can eat.

I gouged out my eyes before it was cool!