I've never been as turned off by a book jacket blurb as I was on this: holy shit did it sound like teenage snowflake nerd-handjobbing. At the time my nerd friends all loved it; now, they say "…I was pretty young and nerdy then". But OTOH, I paid to watch Prometheus, so my bar is pretty low…

Granted, I live there too, but there's also a lot of America north of Baltimore.

Like a song they could use if they remake This Is Spinal Tap (as a hip-hop act, presumably) soon.

I like to think that once they actually sat down and calculated at all the money they'd spent for "something that could be a hobby", they figured they might as well make it worth paying for, retroactively, so it was sex tape time.

I remember being at a Built to Spill concert, and we were up near the front of the crowd. After awhile we realized that around us people were oddly calm, and we were surrounded by a bunch of older teens who were all really quiet, passive and pretty much worshipful; it was like being surrounded by a cult. They didn't…

Eh. After the reveal that they remoevd the alcoholism subplot that's been core Iron Man for decades because there's money to be made and Black wants some of it, this sounds like yet another "they told me no and I want this job so I took it out". I'm not even sure I want any of those, but he comes across as kind of…

Except since most of them are about exactly that - where the song fits in culture, and not the song itself - he fits right in.

Derp! It's popular so it sucks! I'm not going to analyze it or point out where it fails as music or entertainment or anything about it itself; that would be work! Instead I'm gonna channel my inner 14-year-old-desperate-to-fit-in-teenage-girl and complain how it's oveplayed! I'm an asshole!

Eh, I really, really wanted to like it. Skeletons and monsters interacting with non-cartoons! How awesome was that? Yet, it always felt fake and I could never get past that to enjoy the action. He was great at something that wasn't very good. (*sigh* "alley")

But, oddly, your more-than-fair share of sleazy sex, too.

I wanted to love this stuff so much, but… I just couldn't. Like shitty CGI that has no weight to it, the jerkiness never stopped bothering me no matter how much I tried to just go with it. Just like the jerky tauntauns in Empire, it just totally took me out of the movie. Now, Harryhausen's stuff sure beat, I dunno,…

Don't the Duplass brothers have like 35 movie projects in the works already?

Out of the Past is my all-time favorite movie. Cool Mitchum, sexy Greer, and more humor than you remember.

That was the last movie I ever got carded at. Actually, the only one (and it happened twice!).

Not real! Not flesh and blood like WE! I'm telling you, cartoons aren't real. They're… they're, eh… they're… puppets!

I saw Sinbad at a McDonalds once, and those all those attacking stop-motion skeletons got really old, really fast. The man just wanted a Quanter Pounder!

I thought the miniseries was fine, but it mirrored the issue in the book, how watching the world collapse and diverse kinds of people fail to deal with the plague was so much more compelling and interesting than the pseudo-Christian good-v-evil stuff in the second half. So if it just ends somehow when they get to…

He's like the world seed of the new world to come. Eventually he'll consume and replace the earth, like any proper awful "deep thoughts" sci-fi story.

That sounds good, but how? How do I tell if the accountant is bullshitting me or up-and-up? I don't speak accountant and have no idea how to read them. I can ask family and friends  but I'd wager that's why 90% of these issues happen in the first place. When you have a kind of insular existence and limited experience…

Or kick-ass coat.