I was kind of tearing up unexpectedly reading this Lauren! You and your voice will definitely be missed on the show, and I hope that your future shows will be just as good. I'm sure you can't confirm this one way or the other, but I hope that you'll at least remain on board in some kind of advisory capacity so that…

I don't think it's the comic zingers so much as Jenna's voice and a lot of the complicated emotional beats that will be difficult to replicate without Iungerich at the helm.

Yeah I'm really bummed by this. I think Ungerich is basically the factor that makes this show a cut above other teen dramedies, she seemed to realize that characters and relationships had to keep evolving and can't remain static all the time. I love how she's made Jenna so brazenly selfish and sometimes unlikable this…

@avclub-734ffb84cfa214922893511fae356b45:disqus That eleven fingers and red eyes bullshit was stupid though, everyone that's adapted the material has been smart enough to steer clear of that. As much as I like Harris he has a tendency to go a bit overly obvious and ridiculous at times, and physical deformity as a…

But now you're just assuming all adaptations are inferior? This really isn't necessarily true: I'd say the Silence of the Lambs movie is slightly superior to the book, as is The Godfather, Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (both versions), and many other adaptations (though yes, in the majority of cases the original is…

I've never understood this… you're worried about reading the original book for fear of "spoiling" it's adapatation? It's just a bizarre mindset that I really am unable to understand…. we're through the spoiler looking glass here folks. Red Dragon is a damn good story in it's own right, and after reading it you'll be…

Yes, it was the only movie I've ever considered walking out of, and the only movie I've given an F to on this site. I was a little blown away by how terrible and lacking in any redeeming qualities it was. And I was really looking forward to it based on the trailers.

ASOIAF is so circuitous and formulaic compared to War and Peace… it's basically a fantasy soap opera, and doesn't have anything approaching the power or scope of W+P. Saying that ASOIAF evokes War and Peace or something along those lines would be appropriate, but saying that War and Peace is basically a version of…

I'm warning you now, skip that movie. It is so much worse than critics are making it sound… it is basically one terrible, poorly executed scene after another, and the script is barely at first draft stage. It is by far the worst superhero movie since Batman and Robin.

I only got to read 500 pages before I had to return it to the library today unfortunately, but I was really liking NOS4A2, especially the first third. It was kind of becoming too straightforward of a horror story for my tastes but I was still entertained by it. Still, it seemed like there were so many potential…

"It's basically the Russian Song of Ice and Fire"

I'm pretty baffled trying to imagine an ending to that story that is more terrible than the one in the movie.

Wow this movie sounds like it's going to be terrible. At this point I'm just holding out hope that it will be a complete trainwreck, and not a boring slog like the first one was.

I loved Lost but must admit that all the scripts he's called in to "fix" end up being really patchy and poorly thought out. Though perhaps that's because they had enough issues to need a "fixer" to be brought in at the last minute…. the original Prometheus script definitely sounded pretty terrible.

I am almost certainly the only person on the planet who thinks Quantum of Solace was the best of the three. It didn't have the pacing issues the others had, stayed light and fun for the most part, and was very focused and had a pretty strong emotional core. Plus Olga Kurylenko was easily the best Bond girl of the…

I will say @avclub-bf685d0c6e419fab93fb447f71610d36:disqus , that I thought Skyfall was the single most misogynist Bond film in the series, including the sixties and seventies movies. The "Bond girl" is a sex slave that has basically been raped all her life, and the night Bond meets her he barges in on her in the…

Absolutely, there isn't even any competition for Ratatouille as their best film as far as i'm concerned. That movie is just an absolute masterpiece.

I'd say it's more like:

Thank you: I thought I was the only one who thought the Toy Story sequels were generic and disappointing. Both films are a complete rehash of the themes and basic story of the original and don't bring much new to the table (the new characters are horrible in both movies). Toy Story 3 has to be the one of the most…

You have to wonder who is behind ZMF these days… I kinda suspect the person that created him left the writing staff and that perhaps one of the newer staffers is gung ho about bringing him back.