He also had a problem with stuff that was just weird but not arguably exploitative — he hated the Coen’s “Raising Arizona” because he felt it “wasn’t realistic” — as if that was the goal. To be fair, he came around on both Lynch and the Coens and became huge supporters of them.

Even if the occasional story line does show Bruce Wayne showing some interest in making Gotham less of a shithole by realizing he’s a billionaire who can fund schools and infrastructure, that isn’t really his main drive, which is punching mentally ill people (note that most of his opponents are sent to Arkham and not…

Yeah, I get that Auggie is supposed to be the “conscience” of the group because she was freaked out about how she killed kids who were children of the cultists on the ship, and how she is shown using her nanofiber tech to filter water in the Third World, all very noble. But yeah, look at the big picture, girl! It’s…

What else do you want to know about these people? And what holes in the world’s logic do you mean? I mean, I suppose it is a bit weird that the world is spending so much effort on defeating aliens 400 years into the future when the whole climate change issue shows that people and governments are pretty bad at handling…

Yeah, it’s like a large scale version of giving money to public television and getting a tote bag for it. Obviously the tote bag isn’t worth $100 or whatever, it’s just a token for donating the money.

As a GenXer who was already in my 30s when this movie came out, get off of my lawn -- 2003 was just a few years ago. But I think the only interesting part of this article was learning that Dunst is married to Plemons. I didn’t know that.

They may have to adjust the minor point that the “Navidison Record” (the movie within the book, or perhaps the movie within the book in the book) was produced by Harvey Weinstein.

I assume the trains, being Amtrak, are less fearsome because they are perpetually late and break down often.

And not apparently The Onion, which is still looking for an buyer. Which will mean that they will have different owners. I remember when the AV Club was an insert in the print editions of The Onion in the 1990s.

I want a Declare movie. That’s the one where Tim Powers explains the whole Kim Philby scandal not as Cold War politics but as a feud between bizarre supernatural forces. It works especially because Philby’s dad was an archeologist and young Kim used to go with with him on excavations, so who knows what unholy forces…

And “What is this thing? I mean, it serves no useful purpose for there to be a bunch of chompy, crushy things in the middle of a hallway!”

I know humor is subjective, but all of SBC’s “jokes” are one of two things: 1) SBC says or does something offensive, but it is supposedly funny because it is “ironic” or “satirical” or 2) SBC gets somone else (often a redneck or conservative politician, if there is a distinction between the two) to do these things and…

Well, he wasn’t exactly the right ethnicity for Oppenheimer either. Or for Joseph Gabčik in Anthropoid. Or presumably the right ethnicity for “Ivan” in Aloft.

It’s like prenups. They are obviously logical and obviously when things go to hell people are glad they had them, but they just seem so cold and unromantic to make them when you are in love with someone.

Was Morpheus really a “magical negro” though? He seemed to have too much agency for that. I thought the trope referred to people like the caddy Bagger Vance.

So it was True Stories. But you don’t even have to talk about albums. True Stories was a brilliant film (even better than than the Stop Making Sense film) -- the monologue from the late Spalding Gray about the benefits and drawbacks of the eroding of the work/social distinction was prophetic (literally all of my…

And given that Radiohead named themselves after a Talking Heads song on Stop Making Sense, what does that make the Talking Heads -- prehistoric music?

That is a problem, even though I like the series (and the books). Scientists in fiction are often presented as being upset when currently accepted theories are shown to be wrong, when in reality it is the opposite because now there is room to research and publish in areas that were thought settled. And you are right…

Or the Emperor who thought Mozart used too many notes and needed to cut a few.

I always have to laugh whenever I hear Paul W.S. Anderson mentioned (even if I actually non-ironically like Event Horizon). His name being so close to that of a great director reminds me of Mr. Burns hiring Señor Spielbergo, “the non-union Mexican equivalent”.