Well now I know what _The Celestine Prophesy_ was about.  Here I was thinking it was some kind of ridiculous self-help book with a dozen spin-offs.  Had no idea it was a deranged acid trip with space-Mayans or something.  I might need to buy one of the dozens of copies down at the thrift store now.

I'll say this, since it is basically all you need to know: The writers of "Terra Nova" understood less about dinosaurs than the writers of "Dinosaur Train". 

Word.  The show lost me completely when I realized that every single human character should be in a constant state of, like, "HOLY SHIT WE ARE IN THE FUCKING EARLY CRETACEOUS WE ARE SEEING PLANTS AND ANIMALS AND BREATHING CLEAN AIR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OUR MISERABLE LIVES OMG WTF LOL!!!???!!!"  And instead they go to…

But doesn't "Terra Nova" supposedly take place several million years *before* the K/P Extinction Event?  That's like time-traveling to last year expecting to run into King Tut times a thousand.

Bronchitosaurus screams and bashes shit apart with it's pygostyle in frustration. 

Well, this might not be that much of a bad thing.  So far, all of the Muppet movies have been pretty self-contained anyway.  They've never had any direct sequels.  The only "constant" -to borrow a phrase- is the Muppet gang itself.

Speaking of, where the heck is "The Golden Compass" in yesterday's Not-Good Adaptations of Books Inventory? As I recall, the film completely effed up the whole premise of Daemons.

The "My Year of Flops" post on it is excellent because some of the batshit insanity is at least partially explained.  But if any movie deserved a "How Did They Make This" tell-all book/extensive documentary it's this one.  I'd love to know exactly why there even ARE dinosaurs in that movie.

Actually, "I cannot for the life of me remember a thing from it" isn't entirely true.  Whenever I think of Fudge-A-Mania, there's a single neuron that blinks on which says, "Tell me a Mitzie".  Not like that helps.

I just love the mental image it gives me.  I imagine the bigwig Fox exec who commissioned that Rage Machine band the kids are into to make a song for their giant expensive clusterf*ck of a movie settling down in his easy chair and listening to their contribution for the first time…

Is this where I note that I enjoyed "The Artist" much better when it was Sylvain Chomet's "The Illusionist"?

By way of explanation: I like "Fantasia" now mostly for Walt's sheer insane ambition at the time, but my first-time experience was somewhat similar to Vaughn's.  I didn't see the theatrical rereleases, I had to wait until the long overdue and much-hyped video release.  On top if that, every animation history book I…

A fact that still makes me drink, since it so handily encapsulates everything about the Best Animated Feature Oscar.

This is a thing of beauty.

Several hundred thousand times this.

Eh, you can take comfort in the fact that's she's watching one of the greatest old-school animated films of the past thirty years.

Having watched it as an adult recently, I will give it credit for at least playing out like a demented fever dream.

As I mentioned elsewhere, part of my childhood innocence died when Bluth followed "The Land Before Time" - which up until then was the greatest thing I'd ever seen and I still love that gorgeous analogue effects animation and score - with the awful one-two gut-punch of "All Dogs Go To Heaven" and "Rock-A-Doodle".

I'm partial to Bronzes.  Got cool powers and spend their time chilling on tropical islands. Water dragons representin'!

It makes me sad as an adult knowing that Don Bluth would immediately go from that to "All Dogs Go to Heaven" and "Rock-A-Doodle".  And that awful one-two gutpunch was, not coincidentally, also the first time I learned my favorite artists could do wrong.