Love them all, but Four-Track Demos is kind of my distillation of "perfect" Polly Jean.

Characters like Frank Booth can be polarizing.  Such characters are utterly anarchic - as soon as they come on the scene you have absolutely no idea what they'll do next.  (In this case, they'll even violate the rules of filmmaking itself by vanishing off the fucking screen.)  It's a razor's edge, and as a viewer you…

This is not a value judgement, @avclub-6997a8bd0e1042b70b60c5c879a1780e:disqus : but you sound like someone who would get a lot out of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.

But which first?  Do you end the night with a note of triumph yet a slim chance of survival in the frozen depths of space, or do you finish with no chance of survival, which itself has a slim chance of triumph, in the frozen depths of the Antarctic?

Here's a piece about Watchmen and the notion of perfection:
http://adamcadre.ac/calenda…

@unicyclistperiscopes:disqus The train scene is one of the best chase sequences ever, animated or not.

The world would have been much better off mashing two terrible movies into one: Ripley vs. Predator, in which Predators invade a space station and hunt down super-badass-feral-acid-blooded-half-Alien-clone-Ripley.

If there's any movie that shows you how corrosive, chaotic, and ultimately torturous a relationship with an an actual "MPGD" would be, it's Eternal Sunshine.

I've always been amazed at the character arc that Blackadder undergoes across the centuries.  Curtis and Elton could simply have had the same exasperated bastard scheme his way through British history, and still have had themselves a stone classic; yet they rightly understood that a soul couldn't pass through those…

I have mixed feelings about Fela Soul - as someone to whom Fela's music is pretty much at the very top of the pyramid, I found the mix a little toothless - I mean, Fela and the '70 could cut grooves so hard and incendiary the JB's themselves would drop their jaws.  (Really, why the fuck isn't Afrobeat more influential…

Also, it'll be hard to not wish that, when he was writing crazy allegorical shit like New Gods and 2001, Kirby didn't rename himself King the Abstract.

I am totally down with the idea of doing a full, unnecessary special-effect overhaul of GSvsMO every twenty years, til the point where it's a tactile holographic pan-POV experience where you are simultaneously grappling a shark with your tentacles and biting an octopus with your jaws.

I never noticed how (hic) is the transcription equivalent of (sic).

Holy shit.  Yeah, you have to flip the ego roles, and ignore that Tip never had much of a solo career the way Kirby flourished at DC, but the core dynamic is totally the same. 

In the darkness of Applegate's womb
The baby longs to see
One crowns out between two worlds -
"Goddamn NBC!"

Flesh and Blood predates RoboCop, which is good-but-not-great.  And wasn't Fahrenheit a bit of a flop upon release?

Lansbury as Lovett is lusty, yes, but also tender and motherly, wistful, funny, and fun, and all the more chilling because of it.  Bonham-Carter goes for an ironic deadpan, and does it well, but it's one-note.  Lansbury's humor and vigor so deepen the character and themes (and, it should go without saying,…

You should at least have her try the 1982 filmed performance.  Yes, it has George Hearn instead of Cariou, but it's still amazing. (I think Hearn is great in it.)  And of course, so many times better than the Burton movie.

He's jealous of their enormous schwanztuchers.

Oh, and just one more thing - do you have any unmarried sisters?