I call foul on Midge not knowing “White Christmas”. I was written by Irving Berlin! It doesn’t have a single reference to anything even remotely religious! Seriously - it’s a Jewish song, not a Christian song, and she should know it.

What!? No Spartacus? Not mention of the most balls-to-the-wall awesome show of the decade?

My theory is that Prisoner of Azkaban did so poorly because of a delayed reaction to Chamber of Secrets, which was easily one of the worst in the series. The box office of a movie in a series often reflects how much people actually liked the previous installment (which is not necessarily the same thing as the previous…

I can’t disagree. You want to kill Nazis? Put a bullet in their heads and then go look for more Nazis to kill. All that intimidating, blustering, brutalizing and torturing is just a waste of time. Killing an unarmed prisoner may be justice, and it may be the right thing to do, but it’s not something one should enjoy.

She also has a Lego minifig, which is where it’s really at.

Oh yeah, I’ve read them all - “Tuff Voyaging”, “A Song for Lya”, “Dying of the Light” and all the other Thousand World stories. They’re excellent. Wild Cards, I liked a bit less. Too morbid for my tastes.

A Wizard of Earthsea is the Platonic ideal of a fantasy novel, clear and concise, without a single word wasted. Someone should staple a copy to George R.R. Martin’s forehead.

I just skipped a bunch. I read the first seven back when they came out (1-3 were great, 4-5 were good, 6 was OK and 7 was dire), gave up, and then read the last 3 after becoming a Sanderson fan years later. I really don’t feel like I missed much: for one, I understand that some of the books I skipped had literally…

It’s nice to see  Betan hermaphrodite do so well for itself in today’s world.

I’ve been saying it for years: Johnson needs his own James Cameron, John McTiernan or John Milius. He needs a talented lunatic to make him the movie he deserves.

Those aren’t ghosts in Raiders, those are angels - specifically, the Angel of Death and its minions.

So you’re saying that expensive CGI looks better than cheap CGI?

Note that he also directed the frankly amazing “Big Man on Mulberry Street” dream sequence from the “Moonlighting” episode of that name. One of the best TV scenes of the 1980s, in my opinion.

This guy, always.

My bailing point was when that girl came onstage and started singing a song called “This Is My Least Favorite Life”, and I started laughing out loud from the sheer on-the-nose ridiculousness of it all. Also? Worst nightclub ever.

American Hustle is of course the greatest of these: Batman is married to Mystique but is having an affair with Lois Lane, with whom he embarks on a plan to scam Hawkeye. The matter is complicated by corrupt FBI agent Rocket Raccoon, who’s hot on their heels. (With Luis from Ant-Man in a supporting role).

What does it say about me that I’m perfectly willing to accept real-life videogame fights and superpowered vegans, but I can’t suspend my disbelief enough to believe that multiple beautiful women would be throwing themselves at Michael Fucking Cera?

My issue with anime movies and OVAs is that they often seem to lack a middle act. They start out with a huge amount of exposition and world building, and then move almost directly to a wham-bam climax, without much actual story in between.