I'd be interested to see some hard numbers on adaptations vs. original screenplays. Hollywood has never been shy about about rehashing books or legit theater, but the source materials may be less well-known now, making it seem like there were more originals. On this thread, for instance, adaptations are currently…

That is a legit classic line, which makes me wonder how it ended up in the Street Fighter script.

Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Pairing up the leads in a series isn't anything new, of course. But what's interesting to me is the idea that some fans really dig on pairing up characters who are explicitly not meant to be paired, like Merlin and Arthur. If Sherlock and…

Huh, I always thought that was unintentional. But now that you mention it….

Nah, conspiracy theorists are looking for flattery. They like to think they have some kind of special knowledge that everyone else is too ignorant or scared to have.

The immoral ones quickly became ill, died, and were dispatched to eternal torment in hell.

Show sounds hilarious - thanks for turning me on to it, One Million Moms! …Oh, what, now they want one million thank-you notes? C'mon!

*rimshot*

Sounds like a Tommy Wiseau vehicle to me.

Don't lump me in with those skeeves. What Penny and I have is real, man.

Be on your guard if you have a Lady Boss. Before you know it, you could fall straight into her vagenda.

Ha ha, my teachers did that too! "History in the making," they would say. Uh-huh. Maybe if you're writing the history of the slow death of American journalism.

Kinda tough to shill when all your posts are just laid out right there at the click of a button. I think the same thing about those people with a bizarre hobby-horse topic. Do they click their avatar and go Wow, I did great work defending NAMBLA/putting sluts in their place/telling liberals they're going to hell! Way…

On a gut level, abandoning the helpless to their fate is always a hard sell. So the intellectual argument for the Prime Directive has to be very compelling indeed, and somehow Trek's writers are almost never capable of making it. Like, why even take that story on if you don't believe the premise yourself?

It's weird that you think Fargo has no affection for its characters or locations. It does capture the bleakness of upper-Midwestern winter, but that's hardly all it's about. It's film noir in a location that is about as wholesome and un-film-noir as you can get. Neither of the Coens' Minnesota-based movies (the other…

Apparently Wendy is another pop-culture reference. Not that that makes her any more explicable. I linked to Williams' Wikipedia page because Google's Safe Search just withered and died when confronted with her punk antics.

1) Older man/younger woman relationships are not necessarily creepy. However, it is a bit creepy to rehash this plot if you're almost as well known for a molestation scandal as for your movies.

I fully believe that casting is done this way, but I thought it would be considered gauche to come right out and say it.

You get to be on the right side of history for twenty-four (24) hours or until you next say something dumb and/or racist. Congratulations!

Orange folks have their own grading scale.