The flaws of the first Harry Potter film were spun into pure gold by Brad Neely.  For this reason, that film is now beyond reproach.

Not trying to defend Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, but saying the original trilogy had a consistent tone is nostalgia induced wrong-headedness.  Each has a very distinct tone.

That seems to be the consensus.  It's entirely possible that I was blinded by my lust for Alicia Witt.

D-Girl was a pretty good episode of The Sopranos

Can't we just find porn horrible aesthetically without a bunch of silly moral hand-wringing?

Yeah, I like it.  I like it a lot.  I still don't think it's quite on the level of The Wire or The Sopranos.

Jane Austen still gets dismissed as chick lit fairly frequently, and she's one of the world's greatest novelists.

I guess I'm missing it too.  The points all seem pretty sincere to me.  And they're valid points too, at their root.  The narrowness in who's stories get told, how much of the richness and variation in American life isn't portrayed, is pretty appalling.

Robocop's hand can only squeeze at a force of four hundred foot pounds.  That may be enough to break every bone in Bob Morton's hand, but I doubt it could form diamonds.

Linda Cardellini gives a Franco smile in the opening credits.  It kind of freaks me out, but I also like it.

Yeah he doesn't seem too bad.   I'd guess that it was simply that Britta was way more into him than he ever was her, which made it really easy for him to walk all over her without even really trying.

I originally found the economy (and really the society as a whole) not making any sense to be a problem with the books, but on subsequent reads I've come around.  I read it as a portrait of a corrupt and decadent society.  Their economy doesn't make sense because they don't really need much of one.  They're all (even…

Great ending of an episode and great ending of a character arch.  Freaks and Geeks is a show of many minor miracles, but how Lindsay's crush on Daniel is developed but never once mentioned explicitly is one of my favorites.

Really there's no such thing as a no-kill shelter, they simply end up outsourcing their killing operations one way or another.  Sometimes it's directly sending them to vets to be euthanized, or it can simply be that they fill up and kill shelters are the only shelter available.

That's not why I was saying what I was saying.  I was merely clarifying blue vodka lemonade's point for you.  It was a simple statement of fact

Historically, living parents could put their children in orphanages.

And mostly they never find homes for the pets, which are eventually euthanized.

They can get pretty smart, especially considering the intelligence of other mollusks, but still not anywhere near chimp levels

That can be annoying.  I was never a fan of The Onion article "This American Life finishes documenting liberal upper middle class existence" for that reason.  It read more like lazy stereotyping than on the nose satire.

I don't need to be filmed to  to talk about history when drunk.  It seems to be my go to topic.