I kind of miss games back before the yellow line. It added a little dramatic tension that doesn’t exist anymore when they bring out the markers to test for a first down.

He has crazy amounts of fun with split-screen editing, trying to approximate comic-page layouts, to the point where the credits are in comic book font. The editing doesn’t actually make the movie look like a comic book, but it’s dazzling in its own way. It makes for a whole new style of filmmaking, a whiz-bang…

While I can really appreciate the work that goes into some of these costumes, it’s things like this that make me not really take cosplay seriously:

I guess that would be nice, but again, imagine if the story was re-set during the American Civil War, and the movie ended with a scene of Ulysses S Grant exhorting the plantation owners to pitch in with the “slave work”.

Regarding the ending where Mulan goes back to her family, only to have the romantic interest show up:

Louisiana is considered a red state.

I’m sort of annoyed that the guy DRIVING is also holding his cell phone to record it. That seems like a bad idea when driving on twisty roads that are on fire.

Reminds me of Rex Grossman in his hey day.

The article is complaining about is that the case of someone not absolutely guaranteeing that someone else said a racial slur (that everyone pretty much agrees that he has said any way) is much more important than actual policy implementation of humiliating and revoking traditionally granted security clearances from Pr…

Miracles Still Happen. A somewhat similar based-on-a-true story from the 70s.

Roger Ebert disagrees with your sentiment about Titanic: “James Cameron’s 194-minute, $200 million film of the tragic voyage is in the tradition of the great Hollywood epics. It is flawlessly crafted, intelligently constructed, strongly acted and spellbinding. If its story stays well within the traditional formulas…

I wouldn’t really call the acting and writing “great”. Writing-wise, it was a well-done paint-by-numbers comic book movie ( “we need a fight scene on pages XX, YY, and ZZ, with a big battle at the end” ) that still had some pretty bad lapses of intelligence, and you really had no interesting surprises as to how it…

I’m fine with giving Jordan an acting nomination, and Black Panther is a decent comic book film, but it’s not really Best Picture-worthy. I’m not even convinced that it was the best Marvel movie this year.

I don’t know. Who were the bankable iconic villains in...well, ANY Marvel Universe property before they were introduced?

Also, they need to stop acting like The Killing Joke, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns, and The Death of Superman are the only comics DC has ever made.

When airlines have a kerfuffle over who gets what seats, the person with the highest frequent flyer status wins. This kind of thing happens ALL THE TIME. I’m not saying that the system doesn’t suck, because it does, but don’t think that there’s some secret anti-gay agenda checkmark in the flight records. This is a…

I’ve been consistently on flights where the attendants will ask people to shift seats so people who are booked at random seats can sit together. It’s fairly common.

Unless Alaskan Airlines has a checkbox on their ticket that says “mark here if you are straight” or something, this really has less to do with breaking up a gay couple because they were gay, and a LOT more to do with the legal practice of overbooking flights, and then trying to re-arrange passengers on-the-fly by…

Oh good. The jerkiness of high school and college bros weaving in and out of highway traffic at twice the rate of traffic combined with HD’s trademark “you can hear my bike from 2 miles away” exhaust package. Boy, I can’t wait for those to hit the street.

It’s about changing your mindset.