Beyond just being a shock we sort of see coming, I always enjoyed that line for the killer-innocence of the Terminator. The guy at the counter tells him he "can't" load the weapon (i.e., he may not), and the Terminator's like, "No, I totally can, see? Works out just fine."

To me that seems possible: Skynet was designed to win a war for one side in a human vs. human conflict, not wipe out humanity altogether. No reason why the former would necessarily allow it to do the latter in an effective or efficient way, even if the humans fear that.

Interesting to see how Cameron "dreamed up" a couple of his biggest hits in ways that just so happened to copy earlier productions he might have seen.

We get a few glimpses of a goofily pretentious type, a character who
dismisses Beethoven as a “nine-hit wonder” and attempts to pick up a
woman with the line, “What do you think is the best religion?”

Although the whole "they demoted me because I saved the world" business is admittedly Petrov's own version of events, it was just repeated over and over by Western pundits and writers.

World War 3 happened in 1995 and Randy Savage won I think.

That whole angle makes me disinterested. It's too complex for Superman, who should be a simple character. The idea that he's already had an entire career with different versions of every character makes him more like Superboy Prime, a stand-in for the long-time reader.

You could argue it's legal, smart and in the interests of their shareholders that they do it, but you can't really argue that it's not a middle finger to Moore no matter what intentions pave the road to it. They know what he thinks about all of it.

Sheesh, that three-panel image is spot-on over the comment about the weak point being the art.

It should be the Mark Millar Civil War story and the entire show should consist of a single cold open.

Post-production is cheaper now so they can fold with fewer losses.

I won't watch it but probably the moment to do it, right? Sell those commercials.

It's the ideal age because, contrary to baffling common wisdom, King is incapable of writing teenagers in a way that comports with how they actually talk, because as a teenager he was a self-acknowledged social outcast and nearly completely isolated from his peers.

My parents were huge King fans… so I was banned from watching this and "The Stand". Later I read them and realized they were probably afraid of me seeing or hearing things that never showed up on the TV series.

:D

And the only NPR-linked discussion that survives turns out to be money talk on Facebook, an advertising-supported site run by a private for-profit company.

I think they did that so as not to completely confuse people who had only seen the Nolan movies, and I don't think they were entirely wrong to do it considering the general audience across all demographics (and the simple fact that Nolan's films are nearly guaranteed to age better, and thus sell better over their…

The Clock King was pretty badass in the '90s Batman cartoon all things considered since that version wielded things like eerily precise punctuality and super-speed devices instead of, say, a watch that shot its hands out like darts.

I'm starting to get the feeling this is #2 on their top 4 most read stories today.

FWIW I think it's cool to like something and know it's bad and know why per your comment here. Not everything everyone likes has to be "good" by their measure of quality, and it's that exact mentality that gets people to defend the quality of bad movies.