Quantum was a mess but I still liked it more than the soulless, mirthless, fun-murdering Skyfall, which in a have-the-critics-lost-their-minds-moment somehow pulled 92% positive on rotten tomatoes. Usually even if I don't care for a popular movie I can still see how others might enjoy it. I mean, the Transformers…

I can't. Its popularity is one of the biggest cinematic mysteries of the last ten years.

Minority or not you are correct. There were so many problems with Skyfall. But its mortal sin was that it was a complete snorefest. No verve to the thing. Even Quantum was better.

Agh, so I did miss it. I'll blame it on the Superbowl hangover. Thanks.

Can anyone shed any light on the "Red Beard" references? Mycroft mentioned it in the last episode, and Magnusson mentioned it to Sherlock in this one. But I must of missed what they were referring to. Anyone catch it?

Totally agree. Hellfire is amazing, but the movie has a lot of nice moments. Even the discordant parts that feel like they're from a different movie (like the Gargoyles' ditzy cheer up song) don't really ruin the movie, they just leave you twiddling your thumbs until you get back to the good stuff. And how good was…

Mushu was the fuzzy caterpillar to Donkey's butterfly.

Btw, when you think about it, isn't Tywin's rationalization of the RW basically correct? A dozen nobles and their entourage get ambushed and killed at a party. Gruesome, but it settles the war and prevents the far more gruesome act of thousands of peasants and commoners killing each other in battle. Many of whom…

I don't follow — Frey broke guest right by killing Cat at the RW in the book, so what is your issue with him doing the same in the show?

Totally agree. A perfect match of actor and part, and the scenes that put him against a smart foil — e.g. Tyrion, Arya, Queen of Thornes — are among the best in the series. Even the deleted scene where he fishes and calls Pycelle on his b.s. at the same time is awfully good.

Dark Souls ruined other console games for me. I tried Read Dead Redemption. I tried GTA. I tried Little Big Planet. I tried Uncharted. I got so bored with each I said 'screw it' and went back to DS. Replay value is through the roof. DS 2 cannot get here soon enough.

People believed it was a hoax at first because, by an insane coincidence, someone did start a hoax rumor earlier in the week that Walker had died.

Memories! Was Boy Named CB the one with the sequence where Snoopy ice-skated to some beautiful piano music? Because I remember loving that. And (spoilers!) seeing poor CB crater the spelling bee in almost the most embarrassing way possible was the kind of ending we don't see enough in kids shows. Sometimes you blow…

We had Race for Your Life Charlie Brown on constant VHS rotation too. I loved it and all of the Charlie Brown-goes-on-an-adventure specials as a kid. I don't know if it holds up as an adult but I kind of don't care.

I agree with the consensus in here that this movie is a lot of fun.  But not nearly enough is being made of the fact that Allen — on purpose — cast actors who can't sing.  The whole thing is a high-concept schtick:  basically, what if you had a musical where people stop and sing, but they sound crappy like a normal…

I'm happy for the Hannibal fans that it survived, but the world will miss Bunheads more than it would have missed Hannibal.  There will always be another creepy serial killer show in the hopper.  There's nothing new on TV like Bunheads.

This nicely sums up another reason I was rooting for it.  Not only was it a good show, but it was refreshing to see that they prioritized casting actresses who were interesting over actresses who fit the run of the mill nymphette physical archetype that's ubiquitous on TV these days.

I don't know whom to hate more; ABC Family, or the people monitored by Nielsen who didn't watch Bunheads.  Right now I hate them both; they're all just so foul.  RIP Bunheads.

Did it cover the main character's work on war planes during the WWII? I'm curious if Miyazaki did anything interesting with that.

I agree.  Especially the prologue about Dracula fighting the Turks.  I walked away thinking they should have just expanded the prologue to an entire movie and dropped everything else.