"how this "innocent" dude managed to "find himself" in a position where he's being charged with aggravated assault"

What about Burton/Selick's "James and the Giant Peach"? I thought that did an excellent job of capturing the feel and the magic of the book.

But is that "middle class" in the American sense of the word, or "middle class" in the British sense of the word, in which it actually means "upper class"? There's a major difference here!

I do think there's something to be said for having a few sane and moderately sympathetic bodies on the other side of the aisle (see: Susan Collins: unacceptably conservative, but willing and able to mitigate the depraved right-wingery of the rest of her party).

Honestly, even the "Vote Jill Stein!" people are being dangerously stupid.

I think some liberals want to vote Trump because that will "prove" to the Democrat establishment that not-liberal candidates like Hillary can't win, and will force the party to move left-wards.

And, regardless of Trump's actual policies, Trump's rhetoric *inspires* bigotry.

When I first read Snow Crash, the Crips were mentioned, and because I was reading too fast and I'd never heard of either Bloods or Crips, I mis-read the name of their gang as "the Crisps," and I assume they were a British-based gang named after chips.

Ah, that's the thing: that's not what "fam" means.

I have literally never heard anyone use that word in person, and I've only ever heard it used online by black people, and only starting in the past couple years or so (and by occasional white people who have encountered it and are trying to use it themselves.)

Well, Selick *directed* it, but Burton produced it, and it has "Tim Burton" (*classic* Tim Burton, that is) stamped all over it, especially the character designs (Burton's skill as a cartoonist and illustrator is heavily under-appreciated).

I don't disagree, but how else could they explain his absence?

The original "Transformers" movie was stupid fun, I have to give it that.

You always have to judge a piece of media on it's own terms.

On a related note: Fantastic Mr. Fox is a damn good movie.

There's a scene in Minority Report where Cruise is recovering for surgery in which he had his eyes surgically replaced with someone else's, which for some reason took place in a filthy abandoned apartment (I mean, abandoned I understand, but why filthy? Clean the damn place up; you're doing surgery here). And his…

The animation was a little too obviously motion-capture, but otherwise a very worthy adaptation of a classic comic.

If they'd done this in a sort of minimalist animation style based on Quentin Blake's illustrations … it could have been magnificent.

I like sharkcats. I guess it's a testament to the nature of the internet that I've seen a couple of these things before, but I like 'em.

"Bae" is one of those words that works perfectly fine when an African-American uses it, because it's an African-American word.