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Flag On the Moon
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It's funny that people think businesses only care about money sometimes.

OK, add three people and eight bucks.

Off-screen collateral damage is imaginary, like convection, explosion shockwaves, bed hair, pit stains on non-fat guys and soundless space. "It's funny 'cause I don't know him."

Yeah, it was "mind control".

Well, yes, but the hope is that with enough mockery, screenwriters and directors might become aware of it and stop doing it.

Not to mention wandering around instead of putting down roots and buying real estate.

I see that and agree. But there has to be a middle ground between ROI-driven middlebrow crap and zero-return crowd-funding, doesn't there?

The problem with Tebow is he's a system star in a system that only exists in college. Some skills translate; others don't, and his set doesn't. He can't read defenses, make line-adjustments or throw the ball correctly. This isn't a "needs to work on his footwork", but "you can't be a marine sniper because you are

It would be fun to see 900 year-old sexy people sitting around, pounding Cuervo and playing World of Warcraft. Maybe later they can complain about what a horndog Ben Franklin was.

Hmmm… I *am* having trouble thinking of times I've seen women cut off other people's heads using swords in melee combat…

They need a gritty prequel spelling out the glorious history of Planet Zeist! With Michael Cera as a young General Katana!

The marketing was a problem (new team that hadn't done movie marketing before - they'd done luxury car commercials - and tried to target an audience Disney had had trouble reaching for awhile) but it was also a victim of a leadership change. The "can't say 'Mars' because 'Mars Needs Moms' was a disaster" part just

No, they just hire people to yell at actors until they agree to be nice to America's littlest victims.

Remember in the old days when people would find investors, who would provide money for a project, and when the project was complete and eventually created profit, those investors would get a cut of those profits? What was wrong with that?

They were always awesome as the band whose homo-eroticism goes so far it wraps around again into heterosexuality.

The tragedy is all the girl geeks and hipster-chicks you get as bycatch; those have enough natural predators already!

That's a foot?

What's wrong with being sexy?

"I'm sorry you're such a moron that you got offended when I showed you how wrong you were, shithead."

He always looks like that guy who you know could help you out with your project, but is such an insufferable asshole that you'll ask someone, anyone else, even borderline-incompetent people, in the prayer that you can avoid yet another smugathon. And then you suck it up and go to him and yeah, douchebag city. But