tbh, having just taken a pop at all of those authors, it’s actually been one of my plans for several years to read all of the books that Fincher has worked from, because I figure that even if none of them lives up to his films, there must be something there for him to work from. The Zodiac book and Benjamin Button are…

Planet of the Apes is good, despite some flaws. It definitely courts camp, with the apes having lines like “I never met an ape I didn’t like” and the judges doing the “hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil” pose, but that was a style of the time- the whole self-aware pop art approach.

It’s one of the great twists in cinema and there’s absolutely no reason to post it here.

actually good

Yeah, you’re right, the movie sucks. A beloved movie adored by critics and fans alike “sucks.” Thank god the internet has you to ooze an opinion on whatever comments section you can find and set the record straight. Finally, a real straight shooter. You should definitely continue to seek out message boards whenever…

Further proof that being more faithful is not a win in and of itself.

DePalma’s Scarface is fun the way Flash Gordon is fun. It’s definitely not good the way people with terrible taste think it’s good.

“Say hello to my little vagina!”

Naw, the book is terrible and the movie is a masterpiece.

Or as they called it, The Phantom Zone.

Starship Troopers is a good example of this, although that so actively fights the source material it maybe doesn’t count.

I give James Gunn all the credit for that.

Ooh, I’m sorry, but the A.V. Club has already exceeded its monthly allotment of hot takes.

71% of the globe knows about him. Stop being so fishist.

Forget Elric, forget (a decently done) Conan — when do we get Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

Amazon, instead of throwing more money at a fantasy franchise that’s been done to death, throw money at a fantasy franchise that is pretty much impossible to translate to the screen but goddamnit I want to see somebody try: The Malazan Book of the Fallen.

If you have to erase 30% of it and shrink the rest by 25%, and then relocate what’s left to get to “pretty good”, it’s a bad tattoo.

The execution could certainly be worse (though it could also be a lot better). That’s the nicest thing I can say about it. The color choices, composition, size, scaling, etc. are all a…

It’s the random blank spots that get me. Was there supposed to be something else there, trailing through the tattoo and he just decided not to bother finishing it? What’s worse that a massive, tacky back tattoo? An unfinished, massive, tacky back tattoo, clearly.

Oh cool, I never knew that. Be fun to read that.

He doesn’t seem to be calling out her physical appearance in any particular way, though. It’s an unflattering depiction, but the most exaggerated element is the facial expression. I think it’s well within the normal range of political caricature, and frankly less demeaning than his treatments of Gowdy, Rubio, and…