There are so many logical errors in the Matrix but since the red/blue pill thing is being discussed, the real problem is this:  Morpeus says that they never take a person beyond a certain age (i.e. an adult).  But unless they are luring tweens into dark apartments and offering them a choice of pills that is all they…

Yes, the 87th precinct.  The early ones were good but at the end he did get lazy but that really wasn't the problem.  He tried to make them more serious and allegorical and make up for some of what he must have felt were mistakes.  One of the best was from the viewpoint of a young man who came to the big city, made a…

Another example was Ed McBain.  He wrote a series of police procedurals over decades and then decided to take himself seriously.  Instead of crimes they were suddenly allegories about Nixon and others.  Then he branched out into fairy tale pastiches and other crap.

For a similar take, find "The Great Man", in which Jose Ferrer gets his big break creating a eulogy for a dead radio personality who all America loved.  But the more he digs the bigger an asshole the dead guy is.

And this time it's personal.

Couldn't they have used frog DNA or something to save him?  Sorry, never read the books.  The worst sequels are books which are sequels to movies made from the first book. Especially when the ending of the first book didn't allow a sequel.  There was a book sequel to The Poseidon Adventure that starts out telling you,…

There's a certain reality to this episode in that some people just seem to lived charmed lives.  Donald Trump has gone broke several times and should be living in a dumpster.  Jimmy Swaggart (if old movies have taught me anything) should be spending his days in a semi-alcoholic haze in some South American cantina.  In…

So you would have loved "A Face In The Crowd" if Andy Griffith had turned into Andy Griffith and it ended with him and Opie walking to the old fishing hole while pretending Jim Crow didn't exist.  The movie is great because it shows the power of the media to allow bad people to manipulate business and politics.

Sue skipping the best day of school ever reminded me of an old Robert Klein routine, spoofing The Little Rascals pretending to have measles to skip school.  Then they found out there was no school and everyone got ice cream.  "We'll never skip school again." Waa Waa Waa.

I first heard this story as a kid around a campfire - that was spooky.  I later read the Damon Knight story which made more sense, but compressed to 22 minutes apparently made it  necessary to simplify it.  In the story the Kanamits were like a bad combination of pigs and humans and wore short pants  for our modesty. …

The amazing thing about Greg the Bunny is that I think it was the only time I saw puppets outside.  Just being in daylight made them that much more surreal.

Giant ants was Them!.  Mankind had not ended but it was close.  The greatest of the creatures made giants by radiation movies.

There was a scene in the movie Sayonara where two US Airmen are taken to a puppet show in Japan by their Japanese girlfriends.  They seemed baffled not only by the production (in which the puppeteers were not hiding but stood in full view), but also by the storyline in which two lovers commit suicide so they can be…

For years now I have dreamt of having my identity stolen.  You deal with my ex-wife!

This entire discussion reminds me of a Benny Hill sketch where a director (Hill) is being interviewed by an admiring critic who brings up all the symbolism in his latest movie, only to be told the prosaic reality.  The sudden shift from color to black and white to symbolise the bleakness of existence?  They ran out of…

From the color of the glow I'd say gold.  Why is that so difficult to accept?

It wasn't the fact that they told you the twist ending at the beginning?

Jerome was mainly funny as a punch line for the family.  When he visits the house and Stewie wakes up and sees him : "Are we being robbed?"

Best line goes to Mike:  "I haven't read the book but I assume it ends with the guy shooting Morrie."

Thank you!  From the moment the lights went up in the theater and a guy in another row bitched that they should have some other movie in the multiplex (I forgot which one but it was crap) I have not understood the problem people have with this movie. It's not perfect but it's the most real of origin stories.  The…