He's saying that Planes is so bad that it makes Cars 2 (which sucked) look like Toy Story 2 (which was good).

They're kind of one and the same. If you removed the need to shoehorn in the cannon of the Donner films, there wouldn't have been any need to explain where he'd been.

Probably in the sense of the definition:

"Though often derided as the lone lemon on the Pixar lot, Cars 2 looks like Toy Story 2 compared to the parent company’s insultingly lazy attempt at a spinoff. "

I think he's more going off the idea that Planes is essentially Cars 3.

I actually thought John Carter was pretty great for what it set out to be (a fun, propulsive 50s era sci-fi throwback), though it was marketed as a huge epic masterpiece and the pricetag totally overwhelmed any discussion of the actual film itself. They also should have included the word "Mars" somewhere in the title…

I was disappointed by it, due to having really high expectations, but I do recall leaving the theater with a sense that the sequels could potentially right the ship and tackle some of the moral questions that Man of Steel raises and then says nothing about. It's slightly hard to judge it as a standalone film, since…

I assume they hit the sweet spot of offering lots of money while requiring a very small time commitment.

Yeah, Superman Returns probably would have been a better reboot for the franchise than Man of Steel if they had scrapped the idea of trying to fit it in with the Christopher Reeve movies' chronology and just made it a true reboot.

It's hard to get too upset about a movie that everyone has such rock-bottom expectations for, I guess.

Star Trek Into Darkness was dumb and fun, Man of Steel was dumber and hyper serious.

Yeah, I think most of the morality stuff in the Christopher Nolan's Batman and in Sam Raimi's Spider-man films was successful. But those characters are real people who have things in their life to protect and not soulless aliens with nothing to lose. There's potential for a Superman movie that wrestles with those…

How is this not called Radiation Ruling the Nation?

I don't have a problem with it in and of itself, it just seems to be the go-to for every crappy local theater and high school production.

I'm guessing we'll see The King & I and Fiddler on the Roof in relatively short order. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying would potentially be cool, and I could see them going for that to cash in on Mad Men's popularity.

Yeah, the trick is going to be picking shows that are well-known enough to pique people's curiosity and have broad enough appeal to not turn off non-musical-theater types and yet aren't super boring or done to death, which is probably a pretty short list.

You're kidding, right?

It's honestly a pretty genius move. Nobody watches regular programming during the holidays and it's hard to get consensus of what to watch among regular shows (none of the people I spend the holidays with have the same taste in sitcoms as me), but almost everyone has at least a passing interest in checking out a live…

I didn't get a The Heart, She Holler notification for this?!

I like Tina's daydreams generally (since I'm not a monster), but it's kind of a let down when they are so short and don't really reveal anything that wasn't already clear from the context, like that one and the "Quickie-Kiss-It" one.