Oh, I don't mean to imply that Moore was innocent (and the story you quote is what I remember more or less). It's just that it was really a private beef, but most people who saw TA didn't get that and and just assumed it's the usual whatever for people who already hated Moore for not-directly-related reasons.

So are they going to put feathers on the dinos this time?

Maybe a couple of time. Just to, you know… be sure.

And that's stopped a production, when…?

Huh; since the Romans were in charge when Jesus was lurking around, if there were dinosaurs, wouldn't the Romans have them? Hannibal thought he was pretty smart with those elephants over the alps until he got face time with the T-Rex legion!

Eh, I think of Lawrence Kasdan responding to people claiming to follow the Jedi code as a real-world religion: "I wish people would read more."

From what I gathered, that wasn't it even if that's what people want to believe. It was pure tit-for-tat playground shit; "big picture" and "body of work" couldn't have been less interesting to them, love or hate it. This wasn't satire or even general character assassination, but pure petty payback.

Back in the 80s, scalping sports tickets was an arrestable offense around here, and people would seriously use that line. And you could tell they really thought that would work, because… well, because they were stupid. But they really thought it would prevent them from getting busted.

Country has changed a lot since the days of Hank Williams and Patsy Cline; all those mutants have really transformed the scene.

Supercrab, maybe with scary powers like those guys from Ravenous, only from crabs!

"I saw this and it made me think of you, like you'd really like this." Passive-aggressive gifts are awesome.

I'm going to say this once so I never have to again: When I saw this episode, to me, it was so incredibly obvious what exactly Tambor meant that Michael's obliviousness wasn't funny to me, and kind of infuriating. Maybe that was the point where I realized Michael wasn't actually the straight man but just as insane as…

Yeah, that one was a close call. AC 9!

No, but like superhero comics a lot of people know it by association, and a skilled marketer could use that to sell a lot of movie tickets. People don't need first-hand knowledge to engage with a property (and hell, that might even be a barrier as their expectations will be so specific); they just need exposure.

Maybe if they had made any effort to establish that was a skill he had. But they were long out of eyesight (per what we see, anyway), nor left a blood trail. If they'd even had some backstory of him being a tracker or some shit, maybe, sort of? It just felt like "we need some last second drama, so fuck it" rather than…

This one was weird, as (well, for the A story anyway) I sympathized with and was annoyed by each character, often at the same time. Homer being unusually dense but genuinely hurt and being disliked. Grimes being infuriated at Homer's charamed life, and yet attacking him as if it were his doing or somehow deliberate on…

Nothing but a series of 10x10 rooms with two orcs guarding a chest. It's like Cube, but a lot more violent and no bullshit ending where the bad guy somehow teleports into the last room that the whole rest of the movie was about establishing how hard it was to find. Holy shit did that ending piss me off and turn the…

The Mummy? But sure, The Phantom and The Shadow and The Rocketeer and Sky Captain and all didn't set any box offices alight.

How does he do against giant mechanical spiders? I'm, uh… asking for a friend.

Hiring somone to kill your ex-wife is a really important task, and you need to really put some thought into your interview process.