As an added bonus
As an added bonus, there's a good chance that the star of "Captain America" (1990) also took some dumps there.

Finished high school but wasn't very interested in it.

Today's PG13
Today's PG13 is worse than yesterday's R.

regarding John Carter
(1) "a darker, more dangerous version of that world [Mars]" - A surprising assertion; one of the first things that happens to John Carter on Mars is he's put into a gladiatorial fight to the death - several dozen beings go into the arena and only one is allowed to come out alive. Does it get…

Belushi not looking so fat anymore
Back in the day, Belushi was considered fat. But that was the era of disco, tight jeans, tiny shorts, thin-is-in, speedos, and cocaine chic. That was an American culture that throughout the twentieth century had movie stars like Jimmy Stewart (6' 3" and 143 pounds) or Gregory Peck…

"that machine message is something I found out about in high school"

No actor has ever looked better starring in a movie than Alec Baldwin did in "The Shadow." The only thing comparable is Gary Cooper in "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer."

There isn't anything the least bit "racist" about a superhero character learning powers in the East; if anything, it's complimentary.

Scott's been planning this for a long time
I posted a comment about this back in February ( http://www.avclub.com/artic… ) and apparently people were so uninterested the comment got no responses.

convergent evolution
An odd case of convergent evolution — two people having the same idea at the same time. It's the "at the same time" part which is curious. Why now? Was there an article in a magazine published around 2000 that inspired both stories? It would be hard to believe that no short story, radio…

Yes, 8mm is a remake of Hardcore but it's actually pretty good.

early 70's mftv
For the ignorant kiddies of AV Clubdom (which is almost all of you), the early 1970's was the golden age of made-for-tv horror/scifi movies. These movies had modest budgets and were limited by FCC censorship rules. So they had to work by storytelling and character development and good acting — you…

"Lowe is a wealthy…"
Why would Rob Lowe be wealthy? He had a brief lived period of stardom in the mid 1980's, but not much more so than other brat packers like Molly Ringwald or Emilio Estevez — and they ain't wealthy enough to buy a movie studio. Then he had his problems and disappeared from the public eye, to be…

Warcraft III is probably the most distinct of all RTS's. Hero units aren't just "units with names." Hero units (1) can level up, (2) can acquire and manipulate objects, (3) have very distinct abilities (from each other and from what regular units can do), and (4) have super abilities that are so powerful in some…

The most important aspect of special effects is surrealism, not realism. Movies are dreams, not reality.

Joysticks!!

"Like early NES games
"Like early NES games, Limbo outlines its story through promotional materials"

Seems based on Escher.

Don't Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Fritz Leiber (with Fafhrd and Gray Mouser), etc. do world building? Or Asimov with Foundation or Burroughs with Mars or Doc Smith with Lensman or Nowlan with Buck Rogers or Alex Raymond with Flash Gordon? Doesn't any scfi or fantasy novel/series of reasonable length do world building?

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.