I'm probably the 100th person to say this, so I'm sorry, but Rankin/Bass's Hobbit is better than Peter Jackson's.

"Sisko takes his baseball with him when he leaves the station. I think that might have hit me harder than anything else in the episode."

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Wow, only 1 thumbs-up. (I'm not responsible for any of the thumbs-down, by the way.) Has the pendulum among the Simpsorati finally swung?

There's something about this type of episode, then, that I think I instinctively like but Zach doesn't. It's disappointing to me, since I'd love to read a think-piece on them that's more favorable, but I'm content with agreeing 85% of the time. :)

Year of Hell was a phenomenal arc that was ruined at the very end with the reset. Huge waste, hugely stupid decision.

Ditto and ditto.

I'm also in the minority, but I'm shocked to be! I guess I've never been plugged in to the Trek fan community enough to know how far off popular and critical opinion I am on some of these.

"Yet there’s something unsatisfying to all of this, to the degree that I found myself snickering at the casual 'Oh yeah, the planet is surrounded by, um, energy fields that could send radio waves or whatever back through time' explanation, rather than being moved at the horror of poor Captain Cusak’s plight…"

"…but this week marks the first dud of a double feature I’ve had to review in a while"

i saw this on the big screen as a double feature with Pan's Labyrinth, which owes a lot thematically to this movie. My only real issue with this one is that the director had to so abstractify the content that it's quite hard to piece together what he's trying to say. To that extent, I'm afraid Franco's censors may…

Ouch.

Also, the misuse of the Three Stooges (well, two plus Curly Joe) is unforgivable. Some might consider it a stroke of genius, a coup of subverted expectations, to cast the godfathers of slapstick in a slapstick movie and not use them at all. I call it a colossal waste of talent.

I think it's abysmally bad. A screaming, misogynistic blot on a lot of people's otherwise fine careers. Of all people, the hyper-ethical Spencer Tracy and Stanley Kramer should have known better. They combined to make one of my favorite films of all time, Judgment at Nuremberg, and one of my least, this.

For me it would depend on the movie about hawt Cali 20-somethings. A good movie is a good movie regardless of the age of the viewer or the age of the protagonists. There are good movies about kids, there are good movies about nonagenarians, and though I'm not either I can appreciate their quality.

Thing is, this movie IS a stupid, mindless action movie. It's aimed at a slightly older set than, say, "Pacific Rim," which is odd since any adult who's seen more than 5 movies should see right through it. All the AARP members I know grew up with classics and know a good movie for adults when they see one, and will…

I do make an exception for Jake. Cirroc was somehow never annoying to me, even in the early seasons.

There are so many. They have a long way to go. I hope they make it into a massive compendium.

Red Dwarf seems like a much more Zack-like show, though, IMO. Serialized but not excessively so, light and comedic but capable of serious reflection and character-based observation… OK, that describes Futurama too I guess, but I'd so much rather read about Red Dwarf. So I'm still hoping.

It might have been cool to make someone, though I'd hate to see it done to Jake after his previous war correspondent stint, into a Dennis Hopper-like journalist chronicling Watters' Kurtz-like ravings.