Am I the only one who thinks El Pollo Hermanos was a real restaurant? And I want an industrial laundry/meth lab playset.

In the United States, the opposition to a global government has typically come from fundamentalist and evangelical Christians with their weird literalistic reading of the Book of Revelation. In this view, the anti-Christ leads a one world government held together by a one world religion made up of a hodgepodge of…

Why didn't they have the smurfs to set the Smurfs in the medieval fantasy world that Peyo created?

When are the Spaceballs going to crash into the planet?

That clip of Data looked like it was taken from either the first or second season. He didn't have the high collar that they started using in the third season. Just a overly detail oriented observation.

The Vulcan salute is probably between Kirk and Spock. One sleeve is yellow and the other is blue. The reference to family is both a reference to Cumberbatch's character's family and an allusion to the Enterprise crew being Kirk's family.

I thought of that but the marines in Aliens aren't actually called space marines. They are the Colonial Marines.

Games Workshop is getting a little too big for their britches. I'm not sure how they can trademark a generic term that's been around since the 1930s.

Thanks for the info. I don't own the Ghostbusters DVD, so I haven't heard the commentary track.

I wonder if he ever saw any of Frank Frazetta's Middle Earth illustrations. His painting of Gollum paddling straight towards the fewer is cool. The others are hit or miss. His Hobbits look like children with swords and his Eowyn is nekkid from the waist down.

That would go great with a baked Pillsbury Doughboy.

Tasting a finger full would probably have been OK. Just don't eat any that actually touched the street. What I always wondered was what the effects crew used for those shots of exploded marshmallow all over the street.

I think Tolkien and I have similar tastes in illustration. I like the ones he likes and hate the ones he hates. I remember reading about one of the non-English European editions where the illustrator misunderstood the term 'ranger' and gave Aragorn a cowboy hat like a Texas Ranger (the law enforcement agency not the…

Between the two Turtle creators, Peter Laird is the better draftsman. At least I like his sketches better. He has cleaner lines and sharper details.

If you look at picture of Tolkien from the back cover of the American edition of LoTR and compare to his illustration of Bilbo, Bilbo is essentially a self-portrait.

It probably wouldn't be possible to make contemplative, cerebral science fiction movie today. Even if a studio bought the script, it would end up in development hell for years until the brain-dead studio heads lost all interest. One of the big problems with movies right now is that movies aren't the passion of studio…

Even today, Mike Huckabee was whining that the reason the shooting happened was because we took God out of the schools. It's like he's never even read the Bible. It's one of the most violent, sex crazed books available. If someone made a movie based on the Bible exactly as written, it would be rated NC-17 for all the…

Yes, but is it better than the Rankin-Bass cartoon or the Leonard Nimoy song?

The linked Playlist article just says that the studio didn't like it.

This article just gets increasingly incoherent as if the article pressed "enter" or "send" before it was finished. Are we supposed to click the link to actually find out why?