It takes all kinds of critters to make Dr. Lecter's fritters!

It's kind of like when I watch Adventure Time and I'm like, what drugs do the writers take to come up with this brilliantly insane shit.

Yeah, sometimes I think, why am I watching this? It's a great show, totally compelling, but it's pitch black in tone and just relentless in its horror. Yet I can't not become wholly engrossed. I've come to think of it as "enterpainment."

It is insanely good. I went in hoping for a reasonably entertaining thriller, but this is just intense and smart and arty in a way that should not exist on network TV.

I think what bothers me about Khan in this movie is that he just doesn't feel like Khan to me. Even in "Space Seed," where he's at his most imperious, Khan as played by Ricardo Montalban had a very human fire in his soul — I wouldn't say "warmth," exactly, but maybe a sort of old-fashioned, romantic quality. You could…

Yeah, they could have echoed/mirrored Spock's sacrifice in TWOK more subtly, and achieved a more powerful effect by not shoving our faces in it.

I want to TWOK you on the head for that joke!

Yeah, I hate to be so cynical, but the most unrealistic thing about Marcus and his dreadnought was the notion that he'd have to keep it a secret, instead of Starfleet openly building a fleet of those things, with the full-throated support of a terrified Federation.

As far as Treknology issues were concerned, I pretty much stopped cold with the whole "transwarp teleportation" concept. That was a dumb creation that totally breaks Star Trek. If you can just beam yourself from Earth to a precise location on Kronos with a portable teleporter, what's even the point of starships…

Much as there's no such thing as a bad orgasm, even horrible Star Trek is still OK with me, because come on, it's Star Trek!

Really, WHY NOT just have Classic Spock fill everyone in on everything he knows? This is where these films are the most muddled and confused. If this film was premised on a single, but alterable, timeline (a la Back to the Future), then it makes sense that you'd want to avoid mucking about with the past. But it isn't.…

I agree; I can justify this scene being there because it's consistent with the previous film's theme of destiny and the forces of fate tending to shape events so that certain events will tend to occur no matter how the timeline is altered. So, Khan will always be defeated, but only at a terrible cost. Intellectually,…

I think you pretty much covered it. I was a big fan of the previous film and will still defend it as a beautiful piece of work (albeit admittedly something of a Star Wars film in Trek clothing), but even I can't defend this lazily constructed trash. I can't fault the performances — the actors sell the shit out of even…

I dunno, the last time I watched TWOK the "KHAAAAN" moment felt bizarrely out of place. Kirk did know he wasn't really trapped, so it wasn't that he was responding to Khan's taunting. And I'm not sure I buy the idea that it was an expression of hate, since for most of the movie Kirk doesn't seem to project seething…

In the introduction to the Colombia episode of Anthony Bourdain's new show, he talks about how Colombia is a mixture of "Spanish, European, Afro-Caribbean, and indigenous peoples." It was a real "wait, what?" moment. But I think a lot of people believe Spain is part of Latin America and don't even think of it as a…

There's a passage in David Lynch's "Catching the Big Fish" where he points out that all period films are contemporary films, because no matter when they're set, they always reflect the sensibilities of the time. A 1950s film about the 1890s looks like a 50s film. A 70s film about the 1890s looks like a 70s film. So Sup…

Why isn't there a Henry Rolllins gimmick account? I read Get in the Van a while back and for weeks afterward had this voice stuck in my brain:

At first glance, I thought this was about "The Taste" coming back, and I preemptively slashed my throat with my own fingernails. I'm bleeding to death, but on the plus side I don't have to worry about ever seeing "The Taste" again. So long, suckers!

As far as I'm concerned, it's called "Freedomuf."

Viewers can’t accuse of Reygadas of repeating himself, that’s for sure.