10 years ago it was called Better Off Ted. (...sigh)

This show is extremely hilarious and depressing (which is the best kind of hilarious). Good to know it will get a final season.

Reading the headline I went from “yay” to “aww” in the space of two words.

I don’t know why they had to change the battle system. I don’t play these games for that. There’s nothing wrong with turn based jrpg combat. /oldmanrant

I’m waiting for how Costa Del Sol will look like.

Russia should just make a series called Flint.

The TV adaptation of Hitchhiker’s Guide was fantastic, though.

Pratchett is probably the closest author you’ll get to Adams in quality and style. They’re both unique and incredible but if anyone asked me for a recommendation of a new author and had only read (and liked of course) one of the two I’d point them at the other without hesitation.

They both manage to pull off this…

“Goddammit, Swearengen, I don’t trust you as far as I could th’ow you, but I enjoy the way you lie."

That is a highly accurate review of the movie. This is the worst movie I have ever sat all the way through in a theater. Had I not been there with other people I would have walked out.

He’s not even that. 

I like how filmmakers try to cop out any moral responsibility by saying they’re simply depicting a reality, whether that depiction be rape or sexual violence or any number of things. They always try to assume some kind of distanced posture, like they’ve suddenly become a documentary filmmaker whose job is to document,…

SNYDER: My film said deep things about sexism and violence against women!
ME: And that is?
SNYDER: That sexism and violence against women exist!
ME: Hmm. Interesting.

Have you seen the M*A*S*H* movie? Absurdity is the core of the thing. The show is a different story altogether, but the movie is high absurdity. I do agree on getting Stoppard to adapt it though.

This is a good point but it also serves as a reminder that for every customer who complains, you’ll get several more who will quietly leave unhappy...and then never come back to your restaurant again, and probably tell their friends not to go there, either. Taking advantage of the kindness (or meekness?) of a customer…

It was set in Korea but definitely about Vietnam.

I read the book MASH and it was mostly pretty bad, and that may have freed Altman from worrying about faithfulness to the book. Wikipedia quotes the screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. to something along those lines.

I think Erik’s comment about the too-pretty cast is spot on.

I think Catch 22 is adaptable, but it needs to be done by a director willing to be irreverent, both to the source material, and to systems and authority in general, which are qualities that aren’t exactly conducive to longevity within the studio system. They’ve got to be unafraid to monkey with the material, which is…

It’s the Kill Your Darlings mantra, which has been taken to heart far too much, in my opinion, by creative writing teachers. I think it was originally meant to suggest that you should think critically about your own writing and consider whether your love of something might be blinding you to its value, or lack…