I'm willing to believe someone getting tricked into thinking they're eating pork ribs, or something very processed like prosciutto, or something they aren't likely to have eaten before like sweetbreads or any of the organs he was constantly serving up. But raw fish? That's a tough one to accept.

in the early 90s? when it was a financial success?

Taking something popular and changing one thing about it still isn't an original idea, Hollywood

Jack: "I can't quite place the fish."
Hannibal: "He was a flounder."

(Mads places the birthday cake on the table and cuts a slice with a gleaming chefs knife)
"Chocolate birthday cake with vanilla frosting."
"Ah, wow."
"In ancient cultures, the birthday cake symbolized the passage of time. Old age, death…and rebirth."
"And what will I be…reborn as, Mr. Mikkelsen?"
(Mads looks at Hideo…

I know, I'm just givin' ya a hard time ya knucklehead

Well, I think you've latched onto just one kind of musical and narrowed the definition too much.

They have to be careful to keep their speed down during commercial flights, lest they accidentally travel backwards in time

so to be clear, you're willing to accept that massive objects can travel at superluminal velocities, but only if they have engines on them

"if you actually think about it, you’re confused by how you could’ve made such an obvious error"

There's a blurry line there, isn't there? In the film, "Darling Nikki" actually is used to communicate: The Kid (Prince), having seen that Apollonia is at the club with Morris, wants to convey to Apollonia that he thinks she's a slut. She gets the message and runs out crying. Later in the film, he apologizes both to…

this is how I always envisioned the movie adaptation of the Moonwalker arcade game

That's probably what you said when MTV debuted Remote Control, and now we don't have music videos anymore

a-licky boom boom down?

Hey, hold the phone. Did Fight Club really originate the pejorative use of "snowflake"? I need some supporting evidence.

"these people can often be seen congregating in 'safe zones' in college…"

you probably just haven't seen Purple Rain enough times

It's bittersweet at least, and as a viewer I was much less invested in their career goals than in their relationship, so for me at least it's more on the bitter side.

What about Purple Rain?
(because you already covered all the other musicals I like)

Yes! I almost had myself convinced while watching the ending that maybe there was a chance it was going to turn out to not be a fantasy sequence, even though that wouldn't make any sense either in context or in style — but just somehow they had to make it a happy ending or else it just wasn't going to fit with the…