One of the bits in "Idiocracy" that sticks with me is the guy saying, "Welcome to Costco. I love you." So crazy and pathetic.

@Tynam: "Lowercasing."

Kenneth Branagh does a great job of making spoken Elizabethan English intelligible.

So "Robot Chicken" doesn't count because it's stop-action?

I didn't know until reading this review that the sex scene was cut for the theaters. I may never see another movie in the theater again.

Liked for both Schaal and Kane.

Oh, he is.

"The remnants of humanity are moving to Saturn’s moon Titan, once a series of giant harvesters have turned the oceans into fuel."

Is there something wrong with your shift key?

I worked for a newspaper in the '80s that stirred some controversy for printing the word "nigger" in a quote. So in reaction to the ballyhoo, they naturally went completely overboard and banned the word, in any context, no exceptions.

Dennis Miller.

+ "Monkeybone"

Liked for "RGB disorder"

But the Akron crashed in a storm—helium had nothing to do with it. Implicating the lifting medium in the crash would be like saying that Amelia Earhart disappeared because of aluminum.

Race and history aside, nobody can own a word. To say a word "belongs" to a particular group is just stupid, yet I see that premise expressed again and again.

Thanks, ApathyMonger!

Photos were heavily, obviously, ham-handedly retouched in those pre-Photoshop days. I used to work in a newspaper (black and white days), and some of the retouched originals in the morgue were hilariously craptastic.

OK, I don't know who said this, and don't think it matters, but it's not the same as PaNoire's "blacks should be happy…" paraphrase, and it does bear on Spike Lee's race-baiting. It's an "inconvenient truth" because it makes the history of U.S. slavery slightly less of a black-vs-white problem, hence inconvenient to…

Well, just about everybody is better-off than someone in a Nazi concentration camp, so I guess that rules out 99% of all possible dramatic situations.

Well, just about everybody is better-off than someone in a Nazi concentration camp, so I guess that rules out 99% of all possible dramatic situations.