At some point the return on 'avant-garde' dramas diminishes. We're seeing that with GoT who didn't kick it off (as Sopranos did) but they're ever increasing budget, the huge demand for spectacle, and the general need to keep escalating makes keeping shows like that afloat difficult. Even going smaller scale with the…

In a weird way Sandler has been the comedian that keeps doing dirty ethnic/race jokes long after they went out of fashion. His general 'harmlessness' image is what keeps people from realizing he's been a quasi-bigot this whole time. He made 4 of his most famous movies in the first 3 years of his career, since then…

I'm going to be one of the many who pointed out what he said in terms of hard data is not bigoted, even his notion that there should be fewer female country singers if a station wants to make more money based on their fan base is non-bigoted though offensive on the level of capitalism over art. The really intriguing…

He quit because he was tired of it supposedly and this game show format lets him film huge chunks of episodes at a time. Though right after he quit there was a point where he was going to host another talk show on WGN. It sounds honestly like when they switched out Letterman CBS sent a notice to Ferguson since…

I really don't know where to even begin, the respective networks have every episode of Carson, Leno, Conan, and Letterman (well, Carson from about 1970 onwards) and over the years there have been curated collections that have popped up but nothing really substantial. I'm hoping that as bandwidth becomes cheaper and…

It's sad to see the end of an era but if anything Letterman has left his mark indelible on comedy as a whole. If he was a bit less of a goofball he could have taken Murray's role in comedies but he served a far better role in late night television. I recognized the last year or so he wasn't off his game so much as…

So? This is why we have to have fresh voices in media providing fresh progressive views. TV has a very narrow marketability factor, it has to appease advertisers and advertisers are run by marketing firms and marketing firms for better or worse are about playing to the masses which makes them de facto racist because…

It really isn't a surprise that many great writers and even liberal authors on paper had regressive issues here and there. It makes me sad to know he hated the Clintons and preferred Dole but as an aging white man who was relatively wealthy, it isn't a far stretch to imagine him being economically conservative to…

He remains my favorite author and frankly he was just an awesome a man as I imagined in so many ways. As for Mars, it was a convenient place that was 'almost home' in so many ways. It was a distance place that was still human in so many ways. Truly amazing to hear him speak like that back in the late 1970s.

It's been long known that late night show hosts are picked by executives. Paar didn't pick his replacement, Carson nor his, Leno didn't want to leave and had to be staked like a vampire. It's not really that surprising to see this happen. Though to be fair it seems that the execs have been surprisingly good at…

I understand people really loved Ledger's joker but he appears nowhere in the books or comics. In fact, Ledger's take is really a whole new direction that isn't consistent with the Joker's theme in the comics in so many ways and while I appreciated it I don't think it was the end all be all. Leto's is much closer…

I'm with you, I only saw it about a year or two after release and it carries on just fine. I would give it an average-B and while I love superman he doesn't the same effect as a tony stark as Iron man does for a number of reasons. Mostly the writers refuse to make him too super (in the first few movies) and then…

It genuinely seems the lighting was done with intent to desaturate, especially in the close ups where Clark & Lois' faces are lit unnaturally from below but returning the color actually makes for a more upbeat film. If anything I think desaturation should have been largely used only for the most intense fight scenes…

True, but in theory he also absorbed the power of the yellow sun from plants…..It was all kind of weird in that episode.

In the Dark Knight Returns the batsuit he's wearing taps directly into the city's power grid (though in this one they'll probably make the suit some nuclear/unobtanium level self-contained power) that gave him power close to Superman's. Mixed with the green arrow's kryptonite gas arrow to atleast weaken him a bit it…

That is what makes that ending so frustrating, it tries to take on a physical plane interpretation of heaven. It removes the concepts of greater consciousness and instead hands you a very narrow concept to 'live in forever.' It implies that David dreams/dies after the day finally satisfied in his mission but that's…

I believe I read it here at some point in the past or watched a review at some point but A.I. was meant to be Kubrick's big budget 'happy film' to end his career on or atleast try once for something different. Spielberg was a producer more so to gain insight into deeper storytelling because Spielberg knows how to…

I was a latecomer to the show, only started watching it at the beginning of Season 3 in order, having previously shotgunned the first two seasons through Amazon Prime. Still, this show has a been a massive part of my TV-watching life for the last few years because I find the GoT/Breaking Bad style TV to be tiresome…

I actually like both, but GoT is tiring to watch, you can feel the twist and turns. The surprises and changes make it more a rollercoaster than an epic story in my mind. In years to come GoT will be beloved as the post-Sopranos champion of storytelling while Justified will sadly be considered antiquated though in…

And in a weird way GoT is the anti-Justified (or vice versa). One show is built upon a near infinite number of characters, each playing out their stories, each one woven together in a vague way, nobody really able to be the hero or the villain, just people trying to joust for power.