Terra Nova is a great comparison. Also The Event. They all fall into the same realm of crappy genre shows that are nonetheless entertaining to hate-watch, mock and deconstruct, and it's fine if you miss an episode here and there. (Which I would take over something I just plain hate watching. Picture me making side…

It's not a favorite of mine either, but I know it's a favorite to some people, so I went ahead and included it in the list. Really, if I was making MY summer of '82 list, I would have just included Blade Runner, E.T., Conan, Rocky III, and Fast Times. But that would have just been egotistical of me.

I can't even hate-watch this show in a fun Glee/The Newsroom-type way. It bores me to the very center of my core. I'd rather stare at a switched-off television for an hour. As this will be the last episode of Low Winter Sun I watch, this will be my last post in its reviews. Adieu.

I prefer cash.

Summer of '82 was sick. Blade Runner, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Conan the Barbarian, Star Trek: Wrath of Khan, Poltergeist, Rocky III, Road Warrior, John Carpenter's The Thing, Tron, Fast Times. That's a good 3 months at the movies.

I think William H. Macy was depicted as a villain for about an episode and a half of Sports Night. It wasn't clear until the glass tubes monologue that he wasn't.

I'm kind of in the same boat; I don't find this show very compelling, but I do still really love The West Wing (hell, I rewatched some episodes of it for kicks just a few weeks ago). I have a half-baked theory that The Newsroom would actually be better if it was moved to network TV, made 42 minutes with commercials,…

In all fairness to Mac, with her living in New York City, this could have been the first time she's driven a car in months or years. The first time I drove a car after living in NYC for several years was somewhat terrifying.

I was personally disappointed that Skyler didn't state the date, because I'd be curious to know what year this is actually supposed to be set in at this point. One year after the show started… 2009, I guess?

Octopussy is a lot of fun. Louis Jourdan and Steven Berkoff are both a blast hamming it up in their own distinct ways as the villains, and the knife-throwing twin henchman are pretty cool too. Maud Adams has the strongest chemistry with Moore of any of his Bond girls, save maybe Barbara Bach. The train sequence, the…

Jeez, did that whole article fall off the "really generic TV critic opinions" tree and hit every branch on the way down. Why even bother expressing your opinions at such length if they're so safe and generic that a sufficiently advanced computer could have made the same list after analyzing the TV blogosphere for 10…

I don't think there's a problem with a Bond actor going from a sillier film to a more grounded one. Roger Moore immediately followed up the most ludicrously high-stakes film of the series, Moonraker, where James Bond literally saves the life of every human being on the planet earth from being gassed by a supervillain…

It's true, three of the five most egregiously awful special edition changes (1. The new Mos Eisley intro sequence 2. Han shooting first 3. Han/Jabba New Hope scene 4. New Jabba's palace song in Jedi 5. Hayden Christensen's ghost in Jedi) are in A New Hope.

I'm pretty sure the DVDs actually have the original pre-1995 VHS cuts, without the cleaned up colors and reduced matte lines and grain. The only way to get the true ultimate edition of the trilogy (i.e. the THX 1995 cut in widescreen) is the 1995 laserdiscs. I do not have them, but I knew a guy who did, and I bowed…

I'd like to remove On Her Majesty's Secret Service from George Lazenby's filmography and put Sean Connery in it instead.

What I really wish Nintendo had done is had the balls to declare the Metroid franchise a closed-off and finished work after Metroid Zero Mission. Metroid, Metroid II, Super Metroid, Metroid Prime, Metroid Fusion, Metroid Zero Mission - it would've been legendary! Instead they had to dilute the impact with lesser Prime…

Chris McKenna, who wrote those two Community episodes (and several others, including "Paradigms of Human Memory," and is returning for season 5), wrote for 5 seasons at American Dad before hopping over to Community.

Or we could take it all the way and just imagine that George Lucas retired from any involvement in filmmaking in 1995 after the THX remastered editions of Star Wars came out. (Aka the special edition no one remembers because it was actually good and didn't change anything except reducing matte lines). So we have…

Samus also had dialogue in the opening cutscene of Super Metroid. But it was all pretty expositional and to-the-point, so it didn't really have any impact on her as a character.

I'd like to get rid of Vietnam part but keep the Civil Rights Act part AND the dick-waving part.