Give Bruce Timm oversight over DC's films in terms of establishing an overall tone and an arc, and follow Marvel's strategy of hiring a promising director, then letting them pretty much make their film their way. DC, Nolan's films aside, handles their properties more like Fox handles their Marvel characters. Marvel,…

There are 2D showings of Finding Nemo, so Hotel Transylvania should probably be a third choice. But I am relieved that HT isn't totally stinking up the joint, since my kids want to see it (and they don't want to see Frankenweenie!). In their defense, their favorite movies are probably The Tree of Life (my daughter)…

It's true that most industries don't have an analog to the credit screens in video games and films. However, when such credits do exist, they become a record of not just employment, but of involvement with a specific project. And when someone is left off of those credits, they can be seen to falsify a claim to have…

I long ago accepted the demise of the day notes/night notes, and most sadly, the weekend notes. However, anything you can assign Owen that leads to him winding yarns about his dad, himself, his early days on the crime beat, etc. as well as longish interviews with quirky gamers are appreciated. He's a human interest…

Thanks for letting me know, especially since you caught it so long after the fact and could have said nothing. Cheers.

I think we're safe on the Eraserhead front, but I'd be kind of shocked if 20 years went by, and there wasn't at least one of the following remade, prequeled or sequeled: Metropolis, Citizen Kane, The Godfather. Maybe someday, in the distant future, there will be decent Star Wars prequels. Who knows? It's THE FUTURE.

While reiterating that I do, in fact, use soap... I would hypothesize that of the elements that are usually considered hallmarks of effective hand-washing: use of soap, water temperature, duration, scrubbing, surface area washed (further up the arm is better) thorough drying and frequency, that use of soap is probably…

I don't know about Morgan Freeman, but at the scale of the earth, David Cross' balls are roughly the same smoothness as the earth (it's actually hard to distinguish between the two [the surface of the earth and Cross' balls, at equal scale... not the balls themselves, each is fairly distinctive]), although probably…

First of all, my first sentence clearly states that I use soap, so I'm not sure what cbstryker is on about. As you've managed to avoid ad hominem attacks and seem able to read and express yourself quite well, I'll oblige you.

I'm cautiously optimistic about Paranorman. I hope it's great, because I love love love analog animation techniques. I don't have a problem with computer animated films, just with the assumption that any animated film has to be computer animated, and 3-D. It feels like that has died down a bit, and studios are…

I'll say up front that I do use soap, but studies have shown water to be as effective as soap and water, or even iodine. There's nothing wrong with using soap, iodine or other surfactants/disinfectants, but I think sometimes people think that if they're using soap they can wash their hands really quickly and not very…

Joss Whedon loves television but has craved success in the cineplex. Marvel is attempting serialized storytelling in the movies in a fashion more ambitious than anything Lucas has pulled off. And now, Joss Whedon is the movies' first showrunner. If anyone can pull this off, it's Joss. It'll be interesting to see how…

Of COURSE... exfoliating gel scrub! Why didn't I think of that?

Apparently.

My daughter and I were more concerned about how he cleans off the (what appears to be) lamp black. It seems like it would take a while to come off, but there are several scenes throughout the movie where Bruce should be raccoon-eyed and shows not a trace of black.

I love Miles Davis. The most original, exacting artists always have contrary opinions, always hate what others (even rightly) love, because it's by separating themselves from their peers that they achieve greatness: by trusting in their own rightness, by deciding 'this is the path of art and other paths are invalid'.…

I haven't read those books in ages, but I remember the Great Brain stories addressing different forms of discrimination, partly to more accurately portray the injustice of the time. Sometimes stories with the goal of exposing discrimination still manage to encode unexamined biases. I loved all those books too. While I…

The Bible was written Calvinball style, so I'll go ahead and say that while it may be darn near impossible to achieve complete coherence and consistency without adding layers of 'fanon' on top of the resulting structure (and believe me, there's a ton of fanon in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and indeed every…

Since many people would choose to close their eyes, I would imagine the use of the device would border on torture if we're talking about forcing people (I'm sorry, 'enemies') to keep their eyes open, as in A Clockwork Orange. And the same technology could be used to measure what images you find disturbing, then…

Heh. I just watched The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, and Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name does just this to Tuco. Which, really, was forcing him to make the correct move... a good idea, since Tuco proves his stupidity time and time again throughout the film.