I'm thinking he's one of those actors that plays to the level of his material. Give him great stuff and he'll go all-out. Give him crap, and he'll give you crap right back.

I've only seen the Jessica Lange one all the way though, but lord it wasn't good, so I'll give it to the isolated bits and pieces I've seen of the 1933 one. I've yet to develop any interest in the Peter Jackson version.

I'm not 100% sure how you can "unwittingly" pull off a Ponzi scheme, but maybe that's something you only lean in Polka-town.

Plus Apple computers to stop the other ones. Maybe next time the aliens' secret weakness will be dirt. Or High Fructose Corn Syrup.

I didn't see any shots of scary ethnic food?

I hope this is better than it sounds. Really; the word needs more good movies.

I remember in the original the monster came from outer space? There was a short shot that the internet grabbed onto where you could see something falling down and impact really early on. So big space monster, little space monsters.

There were plenty of hills around Chicago in The Beginning of the End?

That sucks. I mean, she could at least go up and find everyone just gone, or Chinese soldiers pointing guns at her or something. And yeah, if War of the Worlds had ended with Cruise in that basement, staring down an untrustworthy Tim Robbins, I would have not just respected it more, but would have been more…

But where are they going to find places to film in Canada?

She's not just ruthless; she's a biter.

I bet if she included the imagery as a kind of free advertising, Reese's Pieces could be made to happen.

Whew. For a second there I was afraid this might skip the holy trinity of cop/lawyer/doc. Luckily network TV would never abandon me.

Huh. Up here all I've seen is the popsicle guys we used to get back in Oregon when I was a kid. Maybe when they come out again (and even in a neighborhood with almost no kids they do- we do have a lot of hipsters I guess) I'll check them more closely.

Is there such a thing as a successful semi-pro football career?

Yeah, I saw it too, and I remember being fascinated in just how awful she was. Instead of some "all pretty girls are rainbows on the inside", nope, she's terrible all the way to her nasty conclusion.

Maybe it's being on the Left Coast, but I've never seen an ice cream truck. Frozen "novelty" trucks that had popsicles, rocket-pops, push-ups, and maybe an ice-cram sandwich (maybe)? Sure. But guys roaming around and serving ice cream cones? Not once. It was always frozen died sugar ward. Is ice cream men an East…

You gotta read between the lines, man.

No Goodman little man? That's bullshit.

I hope it turns out they're all children of Aquaman, who shows up at the end to start the spandex hero season proper!