Boyhood, yes. Birdman, enh. I guess.

Wrist Banger? I hardly know her!

I still like it more than Snowpiercer.

Yesss, Cliffhangers! One of the segments, if memory serves, was the Frank Langella Dracula series that got its own show afterward.

They had it right in the 80s: home taping killed music, and then bands like Blink 182 started recording.

Really enjoyed What If, or as they call it here in the Canadas, The F Word. Great cast, smarter than usual script, and yes, lovely vision of Toronto (plus a bit of Ireland).

Which one was in What Happens in Vegas? Sudeikis? Yeah, fuck that guy.

Yeah, I wondered about that. He was just called "Him!" at first, then had his own appearances a bit after that in Marvel Spotlight or some such. I know him best from the Starlin book of the 70s, which I think also introduced Gamora.

Yeah, I haven't read those myself, but apparently he was brought back that way after his death in the 70s. I would have loved to see Bug from the Micronauts in the Guardians film too.. maybe next time.

There is a difference between shared universe films and a film series that apes old movie serials, which was the idea for both Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

Hmmmmm, maybe so, but if you're going to do a film about the Guardians, it makes perfect sense to involve Thanos. If anything I wish they could have brought in more of the Adam Warlock story and characters. Maybe that is planned for the future.

I take your point, but I would watch the hell out of a big-budget Gill Man movie.

I do recall a golden time when TLC ran marathons of the original Connections series, plus The Day The Universe changed, interspersed with that same rerun of The Operation where a guy got a vasectomy.

I could not be more sick of hacker characters in films, TV, games, everything. For every one that is actually interesting, useful and/or well-written, there are a hundred that are two-dimensional tokens, killing countless hours of storytime with nonsense problems that are always solved just as the progress bar reaches…

Your movie sounds much better than the one I actually saw.

Fair enough. Not sure why I misremembered the Randian stuff. Still hated the philosophy and thought the ending was rug-pulling bullshit.

It wasn't just the reveal. It was the half-assed, proto-MRA philosophy that Durden spouted at the end when they were going to blow shit up. There is a difference between an examination of an individual and a tedious glorification of AynRandian Individualism.

Fight Club. Thought the movie was an interesting, edgy social satire and was with it up until the reveal, at which point I realized it was an incredible pile of shit.

My wife and I are buying the Super Mario World Wii U bundle for each other for xmas, am hoping to pick up Smash Bros. and Mario Kart as well. So, counting down the days to Dec. 25.

Oh yes, the plots of the episodes of Elementary are so. very. original.