@darkesword:disqus Not even a "sort of spiritual successor": Liz Lemon comes back to NBC, at Kenneth's request, to pitch a new sitcom, which begins as an examination of her life as a parent, and at some point becomes every other possible genre of show before being cancelled and then inexplicably brought back the next…

@avclub-b7ee6f5f9aa5cd17ca1aea43ce848496:disqus As I see @avclub-817fde73cb35d91a2cb63520835563f9:disqus's comment is now at 11 likes, I must now declare…And Justice For All.  (low-hanging fruit, I know, but somebody was bound to make the joke)

High School High.

I think the ultimate issue was one of expectations: everybody was wanting another Die Hard, but instead got a film starring a man who was still thinking of himself primarily as a comedic actor.

@avclub-d18d162b77b4dc101430d0c28b7196c5:disqus A higher-quality production would have had a stunt-cock standing by for just such an event.

Whatever marketing department decided not to use "Van Dien is hilariously miscast" as the basis for their whole campaign should never be hired again.  I can pretty much guarantee that at the very least, it wouldn't have hurt the box office performance any.

As much as I love the whole song, the single-greatest moment, I think, is the barely-audible hardcore scream of "you were not the same" in the instrumental bridge, leading back into "You seem 'em drop like flies" (right around 3:03).

Not sure how unexpected it was, but Graham Chapman in Life of Brian.  Not so much that you didn't expect him to be naked at some point, but you really didn't expect him to throw back the shutters on the window with quite that much gusto.

I actually started watching that movie at one point. It really proves the point of "measured expectations"- if you go into it expecting one of the worst films ever made, it's actually a little bit funny.

THIS is what I'm saying, @avclub-b7784c3d4ede54a8f3e13b304f3a991a:disqus - my super-ultra-Conservative parents had no issue with me seeing the shower scene in Stripes repeatedly, nor Lethal Weapon (including the opening of the girl jumping and landing on the roof of the car), yet they drew the somewhat-squiggly line…

THIS is what I'm saying, @avclub-b7784c3d4ede54a8f3e13b304f3a991a:disqus - my super-ultra-Conservative parents had no issue with me seeing the shower scene in Stripes repeatedly, nor Lethal Weapon (including the opening of the girl jumping and landing on the roof of the car), yet they drew the somewhat-squiggly line…

While I'm sad to see it go, I'm particularly sad to know that Chaos (Wil Wheaton's occasionally-recurring character) wasn't part of the finale.  It genuinely seemed like there was a lot of unfinished business between Chaos and Hardison the last time we saw him, and it felt like Devlin and co. had every intention of…

While I'm sad to see it go, I'm particularly sad to know that Chaos (Wil Wheaton's occasionally-recurring character) wasn't part of the finale.  It genuinely seemed like there was a lot of unfinished business between Chaos and Hardison the last time we saw him, and it felt like Devlin and co. had every intention of…

Driving home from work last night/this morning, listening to BBC's "The World Today" talking to Connecticut residents talking about this whole thing one-week on, and a 60-some year old woman is walking out of a local gun shop when they interview her.  Just purchased her first gun, and her reasoning is, "The only way…

Driving home from work last night/this morning, listening to BBC's "The World Today" talking to Connecticut residents talking about this whole thing one-week on, and a 60-some year old woman is walking out of a local gun shop when they interview her.  Just purchased her first gun, and her reasoning is, "The only way…

But how will they justify the gritty realism that can only be achieved by bringing the story to modern times?

But how will they justify the gritty realism that can only be achieved by bringing the story to modern times?

It really is a great, compelling way to get a 5 year old involved in the story without making them sit through 9 hours of movie.  I've not gotten the chance to play, but my son loves it (probably more so even than Lego Batman), and it looks like they wisely fixed some of the over-complications of Lego Harry Potter.

It really is a great, compelling way to get a 5 year old involved in the story without making them sit through 9 hours of movie.  I've not gotten the chance to play, but my son loves it (probably more so even than Lego Batman), and it looks like they wisely fixed some of the over-complications of Lego Harry Potter.

It so totally confused my son when I took parts of a Cars 2 set, parts of a Batman set, and parts of a Mario Kart K'Nex kit, and used them all together to build something that was totally original.  He honestly had no idea it could be done.  On the other hand, though, the Mars Rover that I built became one of his…