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I'd harp on Fudge-A-Mania but I cannot for the life of me remember a thing from it.

Eh… I hate to be devil's advocate here, but I have a hard time hanging the failure of "Planet of the Apes" (or "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" or "Alice" for that matter) on Burton.  I mean, how long was it in development hell?  I can tell when a director is handed something that's been reworked and reworked and

"Do you know what killed the dinosaurs?  The ICE AGE!"

Right, you know what?  You aaaaaall have to let this Koski/"Ghostbusters" thing go.  Because I'm reading it now and it's not worth getting all worked up about in the least.  She just didn't happen to enjoy the movie as much as people who grew up with it do.  Horrors!  It isn't like she personally attacks anyone for

I think if you listen carefully to the soundtrack in "Godzilla vs. Ferris Bueller", you can still to this day hear all the voices of the people who had grown up watching "Creature Double Feature" crying out, "WTF is this?!?"

I have two bizarre memories associated with the "(Whatever) Movie" franchise.  Briefly, they are two of the most deeply awkward movie-watching experiences I've ever had.

^ (Raises hand shyly.)  I liked "Stardust" too…

"I am in awe that Avatar managed to introduce hundred year old,
fictional, mythological slang as a running joke and somehow make it
hilarious"

"The only reason the series has done as well as it has is an evolutionary fluke that mistakes cosplay for camouflage."

"the description of them as "Harry Potter for adults" I find to be a very
stupid thing to say. Harry Potter is Harry Potter for adults because
Harry Potter is for everyone, and I hate the idea of someone trying to
adapt The Magicians and its sequel having in mind to fill this imaginary
void"

I liked the books and am relieved as well because frankly I can't imagine a visual adaptation that wouldn't end up being terrible in some way or other.  I feel it would have been another case of completely missing the point of what made the books cool like with the "Golden Compass" movie.

As an aside, is anyone else sick of the phrase "Harry Potter for Adults"?  The series basically stopped being for young children as soon as we got to the last few chapters of "Goblet of Fire".

I keep wanting to read that as "Ass raptor".  Which is fine, in the sense that Brannon Braga's invented dinosaur species looks like ass. (Especially in the sense that it does not behave or look like any theropod -or hell, any animal on this planet for that matter- ever has ever.)

"Not a Narnia fan.  Did not care for Fillory."

They must have Tiffany return as Judy Jetson or not bother with it at all.

You know, when I was a child, the only version of "The Jetsons" I knew were the newer episodes that had that ridiculous little Gizmo rip-off, and I remember being utterly confused when an older episode would pop up that had a different animation style and no mention of Orbity.  Ah, the things that don't make any sense

There was a recent car commercial where Kermit rides a mountain bike.  Great stuff!

Disney has a nasty habit of just sitting on the remaining season DVD sets of the shows they own the rights to that have huge cult followings and are very hard to find anywhere else (ie reruns, video, etc.)  See also "Gargoyles."  Technically, there IS a season two set - but it contains only half of the episodes for

I remember the first time I saw MuppetVision as a kid and laughing hysterically as I figured "A Salute to All Nations, but Mostly America" was a dig at World Showcase right from across the lake.

"guy had a giant, prehensile penis growing out of his spine"