What if they picked up with him atoning for his sins, building villages in Africa? Oh wait…

Avatar defined exactly two civilizations - America/Earth and the Navi - set up a conflict between them, and then largely resolved it. Doesn't leave much to wonder about, discuss, or expand on. For better or worse, every creature in the Mos Eisley cantina could have his or her own story (and probably does in the…

Jude the Obskewerer
William Carlos Wiliams' Little Blood-Red Wheelbarrow
Freud's The Interpretation of Screams
James Joyce's The Dead (another you don't have to change)

I'm with Erik x2; I'm not sure the video really adds much to the discussion on these movies. It works as an intro to the material, but Mac and Me was a My Year of Flops, and I'm pretty sure the Asylum movies have been discussed 'round these parts before (not to mention in mainstream news sources like Time, CNN, etc…).

I was at the gym the other day and the country station was on. Back to back I heard - both for the first time - "I Hear Voices All the Time" and some song about how nobody listens to you until after you're dead. From this small sample, I think non-crossover country has taken a skew toward the crazy since I last heard…

Nevermind. Crap. I've heard the Avril Lavigne song. Oh well, there's always next time.

After 24 entries,
a NOW compilation where I don't recognize the name of a single song. It's about time.

The Expendables is kind of the definition of this sort of thing: the execution was irrelevant, it was sold on premise. I went to see it on premise. And I was mildly entertained by a whole lot of bullets flying, mildly disappointed that it wasn't the ultimate action movie experience it was apparent going in that it…

I recall an all-too-enthusiastic review over at DVDVerdict once upon a time that I can't seem to locate right now that justified the bad plotting and characterizations by the idea that its a function of the plot that the Jedi Council is an ineffective system the brink of the collapse. To an extent, I'll buy it.…

The movie of Name of the Rose cuts out all the theological stuff that I found fascinating in the book and simplifies down the mystery quite a bit. What it gets awesomely right is how grimy and disgusting everything and everyone looks. It's a great way to watch Perelman, Connery, Slater, and F Murray Abraham wander…

Adam West will be bumped up from bit part to lead. The role of the monkey's handler will be archival footage of Ronald Reagan from Bedtime for Bonzo. Christian Bale can play the monkey.

This is exactly the kind of movie that should be remade so it lives up to its description.

Depends what you're looking for. If you wanted to shell out ~$100 a ticket for some impressive production values backed by largely generic Broadway-y songs, wrapped in a parody of Wizard of Oz that has the Wicked Witch of the West as a goth-y outcast and Glenda as an airheaded cheerleader, then you'll enjoy it. Those…

Happy to see NASA likes Fritz Lang
but wouldn't the age of some of the movies on the 'good' list make them less plausible, given that they haven't come to pass? Or has making a sexy robot woman to crush to the proletariat what NASA has been secretly working toward all this time?

Psshw. Kids these days should be discovering themselves with the Man from U.N.C.L.E., just like they did back in the 60s.

I saw a Fray concert that year because they were at my college, the tickets were really cheap, and my friends were going. I had not actually listened to them before I saw the concert, and man were they the epitome of boring, useless, by-the-numbers three-and-a-half-or-so-chord radio rock. They did, in fact, play that…

As I mentioned above, the more I thought about the movie the less I liked it. Obviously, it isn't trying to be a ' "traditional" "documentary" ' - but I'd be willing to forgive its stylistic indulgences if it appeared like the director had some desire to inform his audience as well as explore his own grief and anger…

I recall another commentary saying that they could make fun of old people as much as they wanted because they were the only demographic that didn't watch the show.

Referencing the "this is your brain on drugs commercial" is outdated? Now I feel old. There's always the "constant scrubbing / WHOA-oh, meth! song" one…which is also probably at least a decade old by this point. Are there any memorable current anti-drug PSA's, or did television pull out of the drug war?

I just started reading "The Lost Continent" (no comment yet) and in fact went to hear Bryson speak last month in our mutual home state, where I still live. Iowans for the most part consider Bryson one of our own. Part of growing up in the state is to consider it the most boring of all possible existences, but as you…