♫ Show me the way to snark home… ♫

Ah, an excuse to post a link to Hale and Pace's classic sketch about cannibalism:

Robocop 2 has aged pretty badly. The climactic battle's over-reliance on stop motion effects makes the last third of the film resemble an episode of Robot Chicken. Plus, I hate that smarmy kid that we're supposed to feel sorry for when he dies.

Leonard Rosenman was a fine arranger of classical music - didn't he get an Oscar for Barry Lyndon? - but Good Lord, he was a total hack when it came to "original" scores. His "Ro-bo-cop!" theme is awful, and it contains a bridge he'd already used in his Lord of the Rings theme and his Star Trek IV theme.

Random thoughts:

I was disappointed that the Bowie episode didn't rate a mention in the list above. It truly is amazing. Cavett, to his credit, is never condescending and seems genuinely interested in talking about Bowie's music, William S. Burroughs, etc, and Bowie, grasping a cane and looking unnverving skeletal, is coked off his…

I thought she died years ago when she was in the middle of singing "On the Good Ship Lollipop" and got eaten by a 50-foot prehistoric ape.

We Can Jerk It Out

I actually prefer the home video version of Gremlins 2 which replaces the "Hulk Hogan in the cinema" interlude with the Gremlins battling John Wayne.

Ah, "The Lewis Trilemma." Since Jesus said he was the Son of God, there's only three positions you can take on him: he really was the Son of God; he was mad; or he was a liar. So you can't just say he was a great moral teacher and discount the religious stuff. Which is all well and good, but it's undeniably reductive…

Isn't Paul Bettany already married to Betty Ross? I DEMAND THAT THIS BE ADDRESSED IN AVENGERS 2.

Dr Leonard McCoy never expected the Spanish Inquisition when he visited a San Francisco hospital in 1986.

Dunno if this story has been recounted somewhere on this site before, but anyway… Piers Morgan was in Australia recently while the England/Australia cricket series was on. Morgan ran into former Aussie cricket captain/current TV commentator Ian Chappell, and the interaction, according to Morgan, went like this:

I don't blame Leno for being offended, but not understanding why Hicks was pissed off at him in the first place does fit in with the notion that Leno is some sort of clueless man-child.

Animated version: http://youtu.be/A5oiiSip5KA

…and apparently Leno was offended by that rant and didn't understand where Bill was coming from, which just goes to show how massively lacking in self-awareness the man is.

I'm not 100% sure on the chronology, but didn't the collapse of Jodorowsky's Dune free up Dan O'Bannon (and later, H.R. Giger) to work on Alien? I'm pretty sure O'Bannon came up with the idea of Alien after kicking around with nothing to do after Dune fell apart. So maybe the alternative universe that got Jodorowsky's …

I read Mike Farrell's autobiography, and there's a chapter in it about Patch Adams (which Farrell helped produce). If the movie is a piece of shit, the behind-the-scenes story is even worse… Basically, the studio forced changes on the film, and the real-life Patch Adams went along with it because he'd been led to…

"What happened to Patrick Fugit anyway?"

I love smug George. George is usually so down on himself, on the rare occasions he feels like he's got the upper hand on someone, he fucking runs with it. Examples: his barely-contained glee telling the Bubble Boy his answer is wrong ("Oh nooo!"), taunting the convict over missing out on getting the Time magazine ("Ye …