Alan Moore?
It's been a long time since I've seen this episode and I may be conflating it with another one (or with something in another animated DC universe show). Is the poster depicting the Great Prosciutto an obvious caricature of Alan Moore? I seem to recall an episode where we see a poster depicting a famous…

Tim Curry's Robot Clown Laugh
Is this true?

Bites off that cumgummed cocksucker Acoyear's nose, chews it to a gristly semi-liquid paste, and spits it in his flabby white ass before plugging that stretched-out hole with his mother's toes and nipples.

The remake's biggest problem is the new Eli
Not that Chloe Moretz is a bad actress, and she gives a fine performance in the role. But iconic horror roles need more than acting talent. Gary Oldman is often a better actor than Christopher Lee, but even if he'd given a truly outstanding performance in BRAM STOKER'S…

I think that Scott's comparion to John Sayles' work is apt, although I like Treme better than just about any Sayles film I've seen except maybe Lone Star (and even there, the best moments aren't as good as those in Treme). It's wittier than a lot of Sayles, and less earnest, but there are similarities. Although,…

Sutter is apparently in good with the Angels. It's their favorite show, unsurprisingly, and they invited him to Sony Barger's birthday bash last year. He blogged about how nervous he was going for a ride with Barger's old lady on pillion.

Besides being extremely impractical, the crane stance doesn't exist in Okinawan karate, which has no animal forms at all. It actually makes more sense in this movie, not that I'd recommend actually trying it in a full-contact match. Of course, realism isn't any more of a factor here than it was in the original…

Grady Hendrix's Slate piece refers to him as an improvisatory DIRECTOR, building his movies through collaboration, location and circumstance, with no set budget or schedule, not as a method actor. But as for his acting, actually watch the slideshow, and tell me if you think he seems rigid and stoic in the LITTLE BIG…

The movie isn't terribly good, but Chan is
I wouldn't say his performance pales in comparison to Morita's. It's very different, with more darkness and melancholy, with some interesting touches of his real life sifu Jim Yuen in it (although his character isn't an SOB like Yuen's was). Plus, he rocks that 'stache.

I often like stories that start out about one thing and then become about something else, but . . .
. . . in this case, Millar's decision to rewrite it so that Hit-Girl and Big Daddy are no longer the leads creates a thematic problem.

The Peel run may have begun with him as the brains and her as the muscle, as a hold-over from the Cathy Gale days in which Steed was a more cynical and ruthless spy-master and Honor Blackman's Mrs. Gale was the idealistic Amazonian leather-wearing judo expert who didn't always approve of his aims or the way he her…

My opening sentence is cranky to the point of being douchetarded, for which I apologize. I remain croggled, though.

As I said above, muskets were for massed use on the battlefield. In their private duels, and in fending off small scale ambushes, the Musketeers would have used their swords (although if they had time, they might fire a couple of pistols before drawing steel).

While th eLester version if definitive, I wouldn't mind seeing a new one IF . . .
. . . it was French and done with the style of De Broca's excellent and too little known (here) 1997 film LE BOSSU, aka ON GUARD. Or at least Tavernier's fun 1994 D'ARTAGNAN'S DAUGHTER (with a young Sophie Marceau very sexy as the title…

As to the "do ever actually use their muskets?" question that keeps popping up
There's a fair amount of firearms use in the Lester films, but it should be remembered that Dumas and his adapters focus on court intrigues and small scale duels and ambushes. Muskets were weapons of massed combat.

Perhaps they ignored your suggestion . . .
. . . due to its ignorance. Whoever wrote that section of the article (hopefully not Tod, Noel or Tasha, as they're all writers I admire) seems woefully unaware of that there already is a definitive version, the classic Richard Lester films of the 70s, with fine…

Crap, I can't post for two shits today. I meant to say that Russell was giving a great performance even when the camera was NOT focusing on him. I'm going to walk away from the computer now, lest I find any more hastily typed mistakes.

I mean to type "the 'tap that ass' black CHICK" above but left out the last word. I'm guilty of many things, from wiping my dick on my girlfriend's roommate's cat to deliberately stepping on the feet of annoying old people when they ask me to help them at work, but I'm not like the douchetards who are always…

DEATH PROOF all the way
Not because it was the more "interesting" or "thematically complex," but because it the one that was actually visceral and fun. I enjoyed PLANET TERROR just fine, but it was a very intellectualized, contextualized kind of enjoyment. "Oh, yes, there's the Fulci homage. Now we're doing John…

It also sucks that it obscures the fact that John Kessel's PRIDE AND PROMETHEUS, in which the Bennett sisters meet Victor Frankenstein, is actually a good novel, one which I suspect Kessel was working on for several years before this boom started. Ten years ago, it would have been noticed and gotten some acclaim. …