Twitter has convinced me I don't really want to know about the internal life of comics.

Not only did the movie I'm referencing come out in 1997, the novel it's based on came out in 1985.

When a guy says he's ready to die, I'm willing to accept that.

I'm thinking up a joke for this using the term "body shaming", a phrase I recently discovered that might be misapplied to this topic by someone who didn't know much about it. So nobody do that, it's in the works and I have it covered.

You're betting on this being a 2017 Luc Besson version of a science fiction plot, but with less insufferable navel-gazing? What are your odds?

"Lucy" made like 400 million dollars and it was awful in every way so fine, sure.

He said he was ready to die so good for him.

Sure, I'll drink blue soda. I've been waiting my whole life for it, really.

You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals so let's talk about our lunch like Guy Fieri in flannel.

Can someone tell me, seriously, what it is about this pony cartoon that draws awkward men toward it? I watched some news story about autistic guys, and I'm willing to believe it serves some special function for them, but all the news stories try and explain it in terms of "this cartoon has a group of friends…

Paul Verhoeven is more a guy who made a few witty, gonzo movies (Soldier of Orange, Robocop, Total Recall) but also made a lot of movies that try to pass as witty and gonzo but are really just dumb as dogshit (Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Starship Troopers, Hollow Man… everything after Total Recall, basically).

It made more sense in the novel, which was a drier story, but took a much bigger risk by portraying the machine as designed for a small team instead of a single person. It also spent a lot more time on why Ellie might be comforted instead of incensed to see her father there.

I saw this at Telluride. It was tangled and boring and a few people in my corner of the room laughed a little (quietly and politely as possible) when it became clear which similarly underwhelming science fiction movie had gotten its ending cribbed. It's a hell of a grave robbery considering the high profile of the…

He's obviously talking about some completely different random shit you decided to bring up out of nowhere?

Pedantry on top of pedantry, really. You know as well as I do that Norway is usually associated with black metal, not death metal. Even Blood Red Throne is part Satyricon. You already mentioned how little-known Old Funeral is compared to Varg's black metal career. You're also well aware, I'm sure, how often people who…

I've done eight hours of death metal at least, and it was live, too.

People reach the truth in different ways, man.

I think you're pretty dull for having a "favorite Christmas movie".

Independence Day seems unlikely to me for the sole reason that the "A History of Violence" column seems to be mostly about mano-a-mano fights, and there's next to none of that in Independence Day. An alien gets punched out without a fight, then another one gets mowed down by handguns later. That's it.

1993 has to be The Fugitive. Its influence over the entire decade to follow was immense. Not only did it spawn a clutch of imitators, there's all those jokes and spoofs in other productions, even a sequel. Demolition Man had little of that, and even though I'd allow Jurassic Park as a contender, few had the budget to…