Right on about The Years of Rice and Salt!
That doorstop was my first and last Kim Stanley Robinson book. What a bizarrely boring way to piss away what could have been a really interesting premise. The first few chapters really did seem like it was going to be something different, but then it just spins its wheels…

Even though I own a classic Dodge Charger…
…(yes that avatar really is my car) I gotta go with Planet Terror. It was just more entertaining. And seemed truer to the spirit of the cheesy movies Grindhouse was supposed to be ripping off.

I slightly understand Southland Tales, or accepted that it wasn't necessary to
Saw it again a couple weeks ago on Blu-Ray (was one of the dozens of Americans who actually saw it in the theater when it came out) and I still kind of liked it. Even though it doesn't necessarily work. But I also recently saw Mulholland…

In the Loop, ehhh
Aside from following the oh-god-please-let-it-die-single-camera-Office-fake-documentary-but-not-really format, the other problem I had with In the Loop is that it ended up being just mean and nasty. (But y'know, in that clever British way.)

Guess I thought the whole anti-videogame religion was a bit too self-serious. And just dorky in general.

I remember this movie sucking actually
Saw it in the theater when it came out. Didn't have particularly high expectations for it but it still fell short. Definitely not one of the good Cronenberg ones.

very plausible
I hate fake scripts, letters, etc. that are substitutes for actual articles. (Maureen Dowd at the New York Times seems to think she's a genius for crapping one out every couple of weeks. She's sure got issues.) But this was truly hilarious.

What do I not get about A History of Violence?
The critical BJs heaped on A History of Violence continue to baffle me. And if anything it seems to be getting more every year. I guess soon it will be regarded a "classic".

One False Move, hands down
The Ring, Shining, Zodiac, all top scariest for me. But the #1 most utterly terrifying scene of all time is in the early Billy Bob Thorton movie "One False Move". Home invasion— my ultimate nightmare scenario I think— combined with the most cold-blooded torture/murder I've seen in a movie.…

Amen! My wife and I looked at each other after that scene in Zodiac and said that if another one even remotely that disturbing happens then we leave the theater. Luckily it didn't so we could watch the rest of the movie. But that's a good sign of how well done the movie is, if you can handle it.

It's also a good reflection…
…of how many dudes from New England are redneck pricks.

I always just thought the show's title was a good reflection…
…of how uninspired Family Guy is. Hey hey! He's a guy! With a family! Woah, look out! Try to guess all the crazy situations this "Family" "Guy" will get into!

Yeah, what the hell's with all the raggin' on Bloom County?
Bloom County was really big with my middle school friends and like them I secretly didn't get most of the jokes until I re-read them in high school. And they're freakin' hilarious! I think there's some confusion between an old strip being topical and…

Man…
This show, the Misfits of Science, and my Atari computer were all I needed to make heaven on earth in the mid-80s

How dare you?!
Finally ended up reading this to verify the Orson Welles Transformers thing for a fellow office drone, but after reading the first entry I am choking with rage.