I don't think throwing your own words into another person's paragraph, (Archmage never inferred anything as violent as "snap out of it"), and then vouching for a friend with problems you don't have, asserts any kind of superior intellect.

It's just a trope, not a rule.  If you see a gun/tool/implement being introduced, then the audience can predict at some point during the climax, it's going to be used.  If it doesn't get used then it's a red herring.

I've seen The Onion Movie, I don't know who's responsible for that crap, but hopefully, one day, there will be an AV Club Movie, where only the infamous snark of Sean O'Neal saves America from a band of antagonistic Hollywood executive sociopaths who are brainwashing the masses with their cheap risk-averse franchise…

attempts at humor…

The best ytmnd. ever.

I was a big fan of Lexx.  Admittedly I started watching it when I was 13, but I've got the DVD's and I still love it!

I don't know what's more insufferable: the insufferable or the claim of insufferableness in the insufferable?

I enjoyed Scott's concoction of "The Herzog Scale", as all standards of films must be measured up to the mighty Werner Herzog from now on.

David Simon said himself that he couldn't make sense of his own words.

@avclub-ce6c92303f38d297e263c7180f03d402:disqus A bleep can be just as harsh as a curse.  The idea isn't the word itself, but the tone that's employed.

Ong Bak was my exposure to Tony Jaa, but I stand by The Protector as the ultimate Jaa experience.  Even in the original uncut version, which has more story, every fight spectacle was designed with the same logic as a traditional beat 'em up video game and little relevance to any actual story telling.

I was thinking of reading the books after hearing all the praise and hype it's been getting. But thanks to Jiminy Cricket's informative post, you can count me out of ever going near The Hunger Games series.  Nothing worse than reading a terrible book.

Battle Royale is mostly appreciated by anime fans, though.

Well, if you want to "care" about the main character, the film does open with him saying goodbye to his pregnant wife, so at least they wrote in some stakes.

Chronicle Saga: Tales of the Rise of the Requiem Journey

Just finished reading Cloud Atlas.  A brilliant book, but how the hell are they going to do it as a movie?  Unless it's 6+ hours long, which I actually wouldn't mind.

The only thing unadaptable about SPvTW is that they didn't have the complete story to adapt when they were making it.  Brian Lee O'Malley had to provide them plot points, but then he ended up completing the graphic novels in an amazing, mind-bending final showdown, and the film just fizzles out by comparison.

but it doesn't take a dick to have blue balls …or something. Where am I going with this?

I hope you're alone in this, the movie was godawful and decimated the essence of the book.  The actors were doing the best they can, I especially liked Albert Finney's Kilgore Trout, but it's as if some hack editor who was blind and deaf stapled together all the worst takes, piecing together the most awkward and…

A game of chess.  Is like a sword fight. *shing!* *kshing!* *whish* *whosh* *whish* *whosh* *wheesh* You must think first. *whoosh* Hya! *fwosh* Before you move.