Love the Scooby-Doo theme, but the Mystery Machine could be much much better.

You might know this already, but there have been some fairly great Rocketeer comics recently, with a who's who of writers and artists pitching in.

Bizarre choice of examples. The Brady Bunch films were at least interesting takes on the subject, The Fugitive was an excellent action film, and The Departed was great (also doesn't really fit in to your rant, so I'm guessing you just wanted to name drop it here).

To which I'd ask, why is the league itself (or the referees) not responsible for that? To let one team have access, etc is asking for trouble.

How the hell is it acceptable for each team to use a different set of balls, especially balls that aren't help/supervised/held by the referees?

The problem with Dune as a series is that the first book is genius, the second is "meh", and it gets super terrible after that.

The closest we've come The Rocketeer is (unsurprisingly) the first Captain America film.

Your Last Starfighter concept = Ender's Game.

YES! A thousand times yes.

Even the new Muppet Movie was only okay, though. It spent most of its time trying to make you like the new muppet (who was boring as shit), and only really hummed in the final 15 minutes. Can't see any new muppet project really working as anything other than nostalgia, which we already did.

It did have some really, really funny scenes, particularly in the third act.

JMS is great. I was at his panel at Comic Con, where he fielded questions from the audience with a hand held mic. One guy asked him about World War Z, said he was annoyed because he bought the book when he heard JMS was writing the script, and that he was put out when the JMS script wasn't used. JMS explained that it…

I am now in the midst of that dilemma. B&S seem to be ahead by a few at the moment.

Should be "national championship game", clearly.

Yes.

I've heard it both ways.

Loved everything about, except for the Basterds. The scene with Walz and the farmer at the beginning is possibly the best thing Tarantino has ever filmed. The scene in the barroom was amazing, the scenes with the filmmaker, all great. The film ground to a halt and became average when the Basterds were involved.

Wait, is American Sniper's third act also kinda terrible, burning up the goodwill it created earlier in the film?

Some celebrities genuinely enjoy this song. Others awkwardly enjoy. Others still owe someone a favor.

Is Abed African American?