On this subject I agree with Marty McKee, poster over on the Mobius TV board, who said, in a thread about SUPERNATURAL:

Yeah, that's just what we need, another goddam serialized plot so it can be like every other new show! Yes, Boyd is an interesting character, but we don't need to see him every week or even every month. Yes, there were some promising hints at future developments in the pilot, but but I don't need to see a…

Jennifer Tilly Fucking Christ, WHY must we "start moving on the overarching plots"? What the fuck is wrong with the show being a procedural? Why does it need that A Story nonsense that's threatening to ruin BURN NOTICE? Why can't it just be a smarter, funnier and darker version of the kind of thing that would have…

Fuck you whippersnappers and your fancy-ass arcs, stand-alones are fine with me!
Jesus Tittyfucking Christ, why does every new dramatic show have to have some kind of over-arching plot? Most of my favorite shows in the history of television never did. There were none on Maverick, none on The Avengers, none on Star…

No "definite" versions of The Three Musketeers or The Prisoner of Zenda exist?
Wtf? I think that statement is just maginally justifiable regarding Zenda, as the Ronald Colman version has the better production values, Black Michael, Fritz and Rudolph, whereas the Stewart Granger remake (which used the same script) has…

You appear to have misunderstood me and to have a small penis. Or perhaps I wrote badly and unclearly (and you have a small penis).

"Gweilo cocksuckers," or sincerely meant musings that still make me sound like a glib asshole
Some years ago, I was studying Shaolin Longfist with a Chinese instructor who'd actually attended the Shaolin Temple. Now, don't be too impressed, as A) I was very bad at it (I've sucked at every martial art I ever practied…

"By contrast, as it is the American version is the closest thing to 'Un Chien Andalou' that most people will ever see, and as a sequence of disturbing imagery it manages to infect the mood of the whole thing."

David H. Keller's "The Thing in the Cellar" scared the shit out of me as a kid, but the thematicall similar "The Boogeyman" only made me snicker, encountering it in college. In fact, NIGHT SHIFT was a huge disappointment, the first time I began to notice King's flaws as well as his strengths.

I think RINGU is superior to THE RING for a number of reasons. Amongst them:

This would only be an "anthology" if . . .
. . . Ishiguro had edited a book of short stories by writers other than himself. Since all the stories are by him, it's a collection.

Noel, yeah, living in North Carolina, I've heard plenty of stories of Mann's antics. While filming MANHUNTER here, he allegedly had his crew use LIVE ROUNDS in the final shootout, and one person I know swore that he and another crew member jumped into a ditch just before bullets whizzed over their heads, as Mann…

Perfunctory Kicking?
At this point in Season Three, he was just getting warmed up, but Stunt Coordinator Jeff Pruitt and his wife Sophia Crawford (the former brawling British barmaid turned Hong Kong villainness and stuntwoman who was Buffy's fight double for Seasons 2-5) were already crafting some of the best martial…

Not the footage I was remembering, but here's a guy performing cartwheels and pushups in armor.

Thanks for the kind words, SP and KJohnson, and yes, feel free to quote me.

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There's a lot of bullshido out there about Samurai (and Asian martial arts in general). The real ones weren't the ultimate warriors that popular culture paints them as being. Oh, sure, there was Mushashi, but he wasn't exactly an average Samurai. Most of them never fought one-on-0ne duels. They lived in an…

Sugartits said:

I can't decide who's more irritating, Tarantino or his haters
Don't get me wrong, Tarantino the Man seems like a bloated self-absorbed motormouthed choad. But the posturing oh-so-jaded hipster douchebags who thump their saggy mantits while declaring The Tarantimperor Has No Clothes strike as every bit deserving of a…

No, as others have said, as I've said in other threads, McGee belongs higher on the pop literary spectrum. John D. McDonald owned the character and created him from his own inspiration, not because he was hired by a packager. While the books have their dated aspects, they're decently written, sometimes elegantly so.…