I think the examples of Beck and Kelly saying reasonable sounding stuff just highlights that a lot of these media types are playing characters for the camera / audience. I don't think many of them truly mean everything they say, or even 75% of it. I still struggle with whether that makes them better, worse, or simply…

The Olbermann thing is, at best, a stretch. He had a segment called "The Worst Person in the World" where he said that facetiously about someone on every show.

Yeah. Mitt's party did more damage to his campaign than he did directly. Other Republicans were saying pretty reprehensible things, but the memorable Mitt mistakes boiled down to "binders of women" and "47%".

Ugh, these berries are poisonous. And such small portions!

Eh. I think the "idiots in the audience" part isn't just about people disagreeing. The part I initially quoted is the important part to me; people whose reaction is simply, "This guy is stating his opinion? Well fuck him, then." In the context of the interview conversation, where they're discussing people walking out…

"So if me coming forward with what my beliefs are is what you need to hear to not be a fan anymore, that’s great. That means next time I show up in whatever said city, your dumb ass won’t be there. "

I still remember watching my friend play Silent Hill for the first time. Both of us were sort of expecting something akin to Resident Evil. Funhouse horror. Then bright and early in the game it became apparent that this was something stranger and eerier. And then the town went from Fogsville to Blood and Decay…

That Orphan joint is pretty damn good. It feels like the more overtly horrific stuff is rendered cute (Leatherface, the They Live alien, Pennywise, Jason's hockey mask), while the stuff that's closer to "normal" (Carrie although she's bloodied up, the Orphan, although she's eyeless), is more ripe for looking eerie and…

I'm sure they had their share of fluff in '86, but it's hard for me to imagine them devoting any significant time / air-space to Geraldo's vault venture, not even on the news ticker.

Yup. There was also the factor that meticulous attention to polling basically stopped well before the election. In the interim, Truman had ample time to catch up, but the general media / analyst assumption at the time was that the polling wouldn't fluctuate much after September, and many at the time assumed that the…

What a scoop!

Fucking holy shit, yes. That shit was straight up unpleasant.

Yeah, Powers did fairly well at the box office, it was a success, but it didn't do the kind of numbers you'd think it would have done in order for the franchise / character to become the big deal it became.

Amen to Lights Out. It actually was a creepy short, and should have remained that. In a pretty solid year for horror movies (during a fairly solid stretch of years for horror, all things considered), it's the one well-received / reviewed major release horror flick that I can think of that really disappointed me.

Last of the Log-hic-ans? Dances with Wolverines?

I haven't seen Apocalypse yet, but I've seen The Wolverine and grade it a "Missed Opportunity," otherwise I almost completely agree with your assessment (I'd probably be a little harder on Origins). I think the X3 / Origins back-to-back combo stained the franchise irreparably for a lot of people, though.

That scene in X2 when Logan finally cuts loose in the mansion is still one of my favorite superhero movie moments.

Not even the movie Grand Canyon?

It always bothered me that they didn't have Michael Jordan "believe he can fly" and just fully leap / dunk from half court instead of stretching his arm. It felt like a thematic miss. I mean, I imagine that if the real Michael Jordan were in a real space basketball battle against alien monsters while aided by the real…

"Streep pictures all the way down"
Isn't that the structure of the universe according to Mama-Mia-ists?