At the very least they had to retain the name rights, because if they’d let them lapse the other prototype names they could try a product tie-in with didn’t work nearly as well in testing survey groups:

But...but without a sequel, how can we ever introduce Alicia Masters into it...and thus finally get an answer to the question this first film setup...namely: where's the Thing's DICK?

Does Rapey Smurf have an alibi for any of these?

I can’t wait for the new movie and the scene where you see Han standing by a water-flow vent on Bespin, holding a cigar in his mouth and letting the Falcon’s waste-feed tube blast chemical shit into the vent at his feet. And when he looks up, grinning at the camera. “Hey! Shitter’s full!”

That movie is gonna be so…

Hey, you know what would be REALLY creative and potentially entertaining? ANYTHING about the Scooby Doo gang that DIDN’T automatically use the tired cliché of Velma and/or Daphne being a lesbian. Frankly the movies at least did that much right (I’d even give half-credit if the girly-girl Daphne was the lesbian and the…

“Do you bleed mayo, Brian?"

Watney has to preserve his crap because it’s the only source of additional bacterial nutrient for his potato crops. Average astronauts aren’t trying to grow emergency rations on Mars...so no, nobody wants to poop in a Ziploc and let ‘blue and yellow make dark brown’ no matter how necessary it is. Space shuttles and…

Gotta love the term “Apollo Bag” which is meant to stand for “Sticky-Rimmed Shit-Bag.” Wonder how many thousands of dollars each one of those overpriced Ziplocs of turd-tastic science cost.

I always rather got a kick out of Andy Andrist’s comedy routine about all the handicapped spaces you see at venues where it doesn’t seem to make sense, like all the handicapped spaces at Home Depot.

“Apparently there are paralyzed carpenters all over this country. Bullshit. You don’t see a guy rolling out of Home Depot…

Another classic fauxpology:

“We’re sorry to those who were offended.” Translation: if nobody was offended, we wouldn’t have actually done anything wrong.

Further translation: “We had hoped to make another trash epic like the already-cluttered Wal-Mart five-buck-bin crap that is filled with copies of ‘Exodus,’ ‘Prince of…

Then it gets even worse, as Superman has to face a new wrestling villain, Shaquille O'Neal as "Steel"! Horrors!

1. I feel you doing a detailed play-by-play of this episode is a more hateful war crime to the audience than the original episode which most of us can just never watch and/or ignore otherwise.

I picture Neil Blomkamp sitting in a bar drinking a beer and Ridley Scott swaggers in, orders a whiskey, stands next to Blomkamp.

CBS will only allow a crossover with “The Flash” if “Supergirl” is tanking. If it shows any promise in the ratings, they’ll play stubborn about it remaining its own property. Everybody who gets a DC deal right now is desperate to keep it their own as much as possible because they don’t want to become the DC equivalent…

By the way, for anyone interested, I have a Star Trek-inspired phaser for sale. It's a slingshot, but it has some LEDs attached to it.

Agreed. Once again trend outweighs intelligence and we forget what we’re even saying. “Hover” implies “hovering,” as in ‘free, unsupported suspension in the air over a surface.' Not "resting on two wheels." My rollerblades are not 'hovershoes,' my skateboard is not a 'hovertrack,' and my model train set is not a…

I realize I may be in the minority here, but I’m having issues with this whole attitude of spending so much energy and time developing the companions as it is. Ever since Rose Tyler and the series’ latest revival, we’ve seen the series slowly get absorbed into the companions over the Doctor. And while I like the…

Sadly I was really interested in this movie during initial teases and talk about its cast and subject. But as soon as I saw the first actual trailers appearing this past week, I checked out. I would MAYBE on a bored day with nothing better go see this in six weeks at the buck-fifty second-run, but otherwise no this is…

Would you really call the first Thor movie the ‘fringe’ of the overall MCU storyline? I mean it introduced us to Loki, the prominent villain of no less than three of the movies to date and the first Avengers film in particular. It also sets up the basis for the Infinity Stones...and "The Dark World"'s easter egg gives…

When reached for comment, Saturn shook its head and said "Whatevs."