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"Because GIRLS can't be superheroes, that's just stupid. Also, Supergirl isn't FAT, jeez. And this Wonder Woman character doesn't have big enough tits, whoever she is. Nobody wants to watch this." — some boardroom-suit toady who hasn't looked up from his phone since waking up

I HAVE TO FIND JAKE

I'd like to believe Futurama killed that nonsense with the cosplay nerd calling himself "Darth Trocius."

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I love that scene. The fissure actually pursues the train. It stops dead the instant it achieves its goal. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

Korea's already tapped that gag—badly—in Haeundae (AKA Tsunami in the US and Tidal Wave in the UK), in which an impossibly-big wave (somehow) deposits a cargo ship on top of the tower of a bridge that (somehow) remains intact; the massive containers begin raining down on the people who have (somehow) survived below.

It does, but I was still ready to enjoy it for the same stupid reason I own the jawdroppingly-idiotic, career-destroying Volcano on DVD...until I checked the director's filmography on IMDb...

"He was known to have an Asian fetish because he wanted a submissive woman."

Despite advances in spine-rending Batman-grade aerial-acrobatics technology and X-Acto swords, they've somehow lost the technology to create basic hearing protection for cannon crews ("Just cup a hand over one ear!"), so I suppose that's, um, "plausible."

Where will you be...The Day After Tomorrow

This seems like the box art for the original Kenner ALIEN figure. That one had a glow-in-the-dark skull under the detachable transparent, uh, foreskin?

Man, that trailer...everything from the voice-over announcer to the generic zooming tags ("A War Between Good...and Evil"...No, really? When are we going to see the War Between Good and Peanut Butter?) reminds me of a Hallmark TV production. Worse, it reminds me of Yonggary, the 1999 CG-KAIju movie that was going to

That's...gotta hurt. "It was my brother's. He died when he bent down to tie his shoelace."

Chances are you'll get both. You've seen it throughout most superhero movies lately: the actors will wear the mask, but they'll lose it as quickly and as often as possible. The helmet-mask and sash will be torn off pretty quickly in battle, I think.

These kinds of shots are always such fun (less fun for the guy doing all the work, but labor of love and all that). Here's a similar one from Coraline that I never get enough of.

I forget where Horny Boy is from but he's ain't the Rhedosaurus. Rheddy's four-legged and very distinctive.

Those are not tomatoes, they are obviously ground beef. And those so-called "peppers"? Steak!!

The new MLP took care of that business. They brought back Tirek and they created the most incredibly violent and destructive smack-down ever for a "show for little girls."

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It is strictly a comics thing at this point. Was briefly alluded to in the Justice League cartoon, when Flash discovered it and was almost lost forever to it.

Speed Force explains a lot: why Jay Garrick's hand didn't explode while "catching" a bullet; how Jay's completely unsecured hat stayed on his noggin; why people snatched out of harm's way by any Flash didn't explode into a spray of grue. Keep the concept, guys. Flashes don't work without it.

Wept when the Beach Ball died. Wouldn't call Dan O'Bannon a great actor, but his scenes with Beach Ball are delightful.