Obligatory Six seasons and a movie!

Out of perverse curiosity, I read the plot synopses on Wikipedia. I clearly made the right decision in not watching this silly show. It reads like a Heroes redux: all buildup, no payoff. Why does TV always screw up shows that are designed to be about DINOSAURS EATING PEOPLE with boring love triangles and drama…

This description sort of reminds me of Double Dare, where the questions were contrived to induce physical challenges. They would schizophrenically jump in level of difficulty from "___ Tac Toe" to "Who was Amelia Earhart's mechanic?" Even when I was five, I realized the structure of the questions made the actual…

Agreed. It's the same kind of argument that comes from straight white males that affirmative action means that minorities have an unfair overall advantage in getting hired and promoted over those poor, trodded-upon straight white males. Of course, they scrupulously ignore all of the statistics that show that…

I'm sure the women in your office will find it hilaaaaarious.

I myself am one of those VHS hoarders, and I still have the tape with this special, from when it was first run (sharing space on that tape: a Shaggy-turns-into-a-werewolf-and-has-to-race-Dracula-for-some-reason Scooby Doo movie). The funny thing is, I could barely get through it the one time I watched it (my hatred of…

Feminazis, amirite?!

Thank god that genetic engineering fixed that, along with the fact that everyone was in black & white.

I was joking. Sean wrote that the story is clearly a metaphor for communist revolution, and I countered that the movie ends with a return to the status quo, which I surmised belies the tinkering of the authoritarian studio system.

They cancelled Nathan Rabin Is In This?

Don't forget the authoritarian conservative rewrite of the ending by the fascist studio system (SPOILER for 60 year old movie): everyone goes back to parts they're destined to play, as it should be. No revolution here, nothing to see, move along.

I always appreciate it when they give the hired goons some character and motivation. Just why would anyone want to work for the Joker, or take on the Justice League? They can't all simply be motivated by greed and stupidity. So when one of the henchmen shows some agency by openly disagreeing or just walking away, it's…

One thing I've learned about real estate agents is that they spend it faster than they make it, no matter how much they're making. I knew a Malibu agent once who was averaging 20K a month a few years ago. But he never saved anything and went bankrupt in the crash. Now he's selling furniture at a discount furniture…

Her 3 seconds as a punk rocker in Spider-Man is still my favorite.

Thanks for looking into it. But you still haven't answered my question (and I'm not going to read the review to find out): what the fuck is this shit?

What the fuck is this shit?

That's why I included the caveat about producer-distributor affiliations. It's a legal designation that doesn't affect the underlying principle that IFC isn't on the hook for Guild contract obligations. Just like they aren't on the hook when they buy the rights to some independent Iranian movie.

1. They're the max in the sense that they're as high as the MBA salary goes. Writers, actors and especially directors will often negotiate their own, better deals with producers.But the residuals, which is what we're talking about here, aren't typically very big for individual creatives.

Maura Tierney was in my gym class yesterday. She's still cute as a button.

If she was savvy enough to do the basic strategy of "shopping around", then she should've been savvy enough to just fucking google it and find out where the best rate was, or at least figured out that no cash-for-gold place would give good value.