MERRY PRISMAS EVERYBODY!

So she didn’t actually do the lip disc?

Same as Indiana Jones surviving a nuclear blast by hiding in a refrigerator...?

I always thought of her as the grown-up version of Penny from Inspector Gadget.

Here’s the deal. You either find Tarantino’s rambling, self-indulgent writing “clever,” or you don’t. And if you don’t, his later movies are an interminable bore, like listening to the Grateful Dead play or Sarah Palin give a speech.

A phrase I learned in ROTC was, “When you drop a bomb, you write a check. That check is paid for with infantry.” I didn’t get it at the time, but now that I’m old enough to have witnessed the disastrous consequences of my country attempting to fight two wars using only air power, I think I get it.

Oh! He’s a moderate conservative? Well in that case, if I ever meet him in person, I’ll only spit a moderately-sized loogie at him.

I agree about the “special companions.” Seriously, I’ve burnt out on all the “specialness!” I would so love the next companion to be a straightforward “normal” person with no magical timey-wimey hoo-ha about them. Bonus points if said companion wields a knife or a baseball bat. (Hey, it’s worked before!)

In 7th grade, playing 1st Edition AD&D: Our party was halfway through White Plume Mountain and we had to pause in game time to camp out, rest, eat, heal, etc. My character fetched a bucket of water from an underground stream and I told the Dungeon Master I would boil the water over the campfire before I drank it, just…

Say what you will about the debacle which was Galactica 1980, but that series is COMPLETELY REDEEMED by this single episode, “The Return of Starbuck.”

The Illuminatus! Trilogy has not aged well since I first read it as a teenager in the 1980s, but what a hoot it was at the time!

Chris Tucker was the most believably “futuristic” thing in that whole movie!

Or at the very least, he should have made the film’s climactic reveal something other than an unfunny version of the “jailbreak” gag from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. “Hey, what if Future Us came back in time and left your dad’s keys behind that bush over there?”

Funny, I came here to comment that that photo of Luke above is how I wanted Flynn to show up in Tron Legacy. Sort of like, hey bad guys, you thought he was a grizzled old coot, but you just pushed this old mystical warrior too far, and now, look out, he’s just stepped back onto the gaming grid, and —- ooh, look at…

Maybe this guy... He calls himself an “unreliable narrator” at the outset.

You’ve clearly never seen a movie at the Parkway in Oakland, CA.

Dear Esther: Ain’t no shame in your game!!! I too live in the Bay Area, and I clung to my 2006 burner phone until just about a year ago, when my new job required me to have a smartphone. And now I’ve become one of the Textwalking Dead.

Summer of 1982: I asked my older sister if we could see Poltergeist but she said that would probably be too scary for a kid as young as me. So instead she took me to see John Carpenter’s The Thing... (In her defense, she thought it would be a straight remake of the 1951 film The Thing From Another World.) I think this…

I fondly remember, when I saw Drag Me to Hell in the theater, how the whole audience gasped at this scene, except for a woman in the back row who gleefully screamed, “SAM RAIMI IS BACK!”

Cryptonomicon was the novel that made me realize I really don’t like Neal Stephenson. I had an inkling of the coming breakup somewhere in Diamond Age when Stephenson turns his 6-year-old heroine into a voicebox for the Libertarian party. Cryptonomicon kicks off with the oppressed-middle-class-white-hetero-male pity…