Also R.I.P. Lau Kar-leung :(

Even if it wasn't part of the original idea, the missing scene in Death Proof works fine and I actually think it was a mistake to include the lap dance in the full version. It's a perversely revisionist exploitation flick in that it downplays the exploitative elements, and excising the lap dance serves that by…

I was actually kinda bugged by the moment in The Dark Knight when  Batcycle clears parked cars out of its path with missiles and it zooms past an undamaged one with a couple of kids inside. That got me wondering about the probability that one of the cars he blew up was also occupied at the time.

But is there anything preventing these celeb kickstarter campaigns from sharing profits with their crowdsourced investors as opposed to giving them useless swag?

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@avclub-3733fc24dc2351f3d3ba80b890e3a3e4:disqus Also note that the Engineers' language is Proto-Indo-European, so speakers of Proto-Turkic and Proto-Afroasiatic and Proto-Sino-Tibetan et al. were presumably not descended from them and therefore not really human. Well, the Engineers are white, after all…

@avclub-cfe912f5cb3aa572bd1c9ae2a9b82207:disqus "The Whole Bloody Affair" removed the driving scene (along with the lame "surprise" at the end of part 1, which was only added to end it with a stinger). It hasn't been released on disc anywhere—no idea why, since Tarantino talked for years like he had every intention of…

I'm partial to the South Park one where they're trapped on the bus and all the flashbacks are changed to involve ice cream. Then Cartman remembers the time Fonzie killed Kenny while jumping over a bunch of buses on his motorcycle, which obviously couldn't have happened, because Kenny was just killed a few hours ago by…

The Captain Carrot miniseries a few years back had animal versions of almost the entire DC staff, with names like "Giraffe Johns" and "Shark Waid." They put out a Captain Carrot comic that's apparently identical to the actual one from the '80s, then they try to summon the JLA (Justa Lotta Animals) from an alternate…

I think there's been a lot of Punisher trials, though I dunno about a full arc. Personally I like "The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe," where he's sent up for killing some X-Men and busted out by a group that wants him to kill every superhero and supervillain on earth. He agrees, but he keeps getting re-convicted…

I enjoy linking to this with even the slightest pretext, so here it is: the official Space Jam website, online since 1996

Maytag service manuals

I'm not surprised—"Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo" just seems like the Frenchiest of names, even with the "Manuel" and "Homem" parts

Alas, this guy was a little before my time, but for some reason I clearly remember when I first became aware of him—an Entertainment Weekly article that applied MPAA ratings to unrated TV/direct-to-video movies and gave Revenge of the Nerds III a PG for "the very presence of Morton Downey Jr." I didn't know who they…

There was a pre-VRA release in 1980 and maybe a re-release or two after that. The distributor didn't submit it for a certificate after the VRA came along, probably figuring it wouldn't get through in the then-current climate. It was finally reissued in 1989. It was apparently very popular on video in the early '80s,…

He then remade it in 1979 as a proper film, using mostly the same cast, and while it appears to have screened pretty much everywhere except the U.K. for the next several years…

and this

that's weird, I thought he was already immortal because of the secret, heretofore unknown ingredient in methamphetamine which retards the aging process

Yo tengo un puerco en mi nariz

There was also an Atari Jaguar game, which usually vies with Tempest 2000 for the rather meaningless "Best Game on the Atari Jaguar" award. Like everyone else, I never owned a Jaguar, so I only played it years later on an emulator. It's got the same three species as the later games and they play a bit differently, but…