Down Periscope, best submarine comedy of the year! Should've launched Kelsey Grammar's film career and saved us 7 or 8 seasons of Frasier. (Perhaps the show would've been re-titled Niles.) What if, huh?

There might be legal reasons they have to say it's a completely new thing. It's possible that if they use recognizable elements (other than characters' names from the books) from the previous films they might owe money to the previous production company. (I'm only guessing here, but I would at least imagine the…

It it sci-fo or sci-fum?

I don't mind, I'm Yavin a great time.

You underestimate the internet at your peril, sir. And of course we all know that "reboot" refers the second time you vomit in the same evening.

"There's a small town in Southern Ireland called Muff. They once asked me to be the president of their diving club, but I turned them down for legal reasons"

It was probably doomed to fail, and since you mentioned it, I do appreciate the ambitiousness of it all. It may be the same reason I like Lynch's Dune, i.e. cult directors biting off more than they can chew with classic books with mixed/fascinating results. Even the bad parts are at least interesting.

Interesting example, one in which Red Dragon retroactively rebooted Manhunter. Funny, that.

Oh yeah, I know. Like I said it was their thing, and they toned it down like crazy for the kids, but if they were going to make it a musical, they could've done better than just sticking with the folky motif (Rankin/Bass must've assumed Hobbits were hippies or something). Which makes watching Return of the King after…

I'm not exactly sure why Rankin/Bass had to make it a musical. I know it's their thing, and it was a reasonable approach for a story like The Hobbit, but it just kills the narrative, or what's left of it anyway.

I'm waiting for someone to put a bit of edge on "Frodo of the Nine Fingers." Maybe Adam Levine could make it sound only mildly annoying.

Prince Caspian made $144 domestic, Dawn Treader $104 domestic.

FASTER LION! KILL! KILL! KILL!

That's stretching the meaning of the words "kind of."

Well, Star Trek has always had the "Planet with One Religion" trope, which I think is even dumber.

"TriStar on board to continue Narnia series" would've been a perfectly good headline. The word "reboot" is just abused these days.

Huh? (For a second there I thought they were going to do The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe all over again.) How is it a reboot if they are continuing with the series? They are starting where the other creative team left off, and it's not like they can completely ignore the continuity of the first three books.

"Nobody, nobody makes Sheriff Buford T Justice look like a possum's pecker!"
"Except for that-"
"Shut yo ass!"

Henry Corden, who started doing Fred in 1977. I think most of us at the right age picked up on that. I saw Smokey and the Bandit on HBO first, so I knew what it was supposed to sound like, so it was especially odd to me that Sheriff justice sounded like Fred Flintstone when was he was supposed to be cursing. ("You…

Well, around that time Chan was trying to break into Hollywood, (The Big Brawl had come out the year before), taking even a small role in such a star studded action film was a reasonable career move at the time.