This doesn’t get enough credit for being the inspiration for ‘Ready Player One’

And yeah, that kid is a total fuckin’ square, man.

They’re apparently still showing this thing in schools now (or at least a few years ago).  When they showed it for my son’s class in 2nd grade he said it was the best cartoon he’d ever seen, and that he’d never use marijuana because it turns you into a zombie.

Jesus, I feel like Miyazaki just punched me in the stomach just from watching that... I can’t even imagine how awful that felt for those guys.

Yeah, you know me.

And also, his second cousin was his first wife!

I had a professor in a film class in the late 90's who went on an extended rant about Joel Schumacher’s oeuvre singlehandedly disproving the auteur theory - I don’t think anything Schumacher has done since pokes any holes in that argument.

I believe Philip was ‘retired’ with the exception of maintaining the Kimmy relationship - he was going to go home until her father was promoted.

It may have improved since then, but I was in China last fall with my Project Fi phone and had wildly mixed results - every time I turned on my screen it was exciting to guess whether it was going to be a fully-functional smartphone or just a camera. According to local friends services that are blocked or open vary…

I saw this exactly once in the theater, and to this day I still sometimes smile at the mental image of Meteor Man flying along at parking-meter height.

The masquerade ball scene still remains my favorite Batman-related thing across all media. Also, hell yeah Meteor Man!

Sure, but do you remember what Navarro was wearing?

She’s a modern-day Waif Nicholson! Agree to disagree.

Big bang or GTFO

Who can we thank for sparing us an episode focused on jury selection?

And also nonfiction!

No, it’s quite simple - simply isolate yourself from all forms of human communication until you’ve finished consuming all media in which you have any form of interest for your lifetime, and only then expose yourself to others!  Just hope they don’t have any suggestions for new things you’d enjoy, or you’ll have to…

(fuller disclosure - I’ve never seen Mindwarp, I just did a search for low-rated sci-fi/horror movies from 1990-1992 - incidentally, Flatliners was the first hit)

Oh, no argument that beat-for-beat remakes are pointless (as seems to be the case here, but full disclosure, I remember zero details from the original and didn’t care enough to watch the new one) - I’m more saying that if somebody’s going to fuck up a gritty re-imagining of something I’d rather it be Mindwarp than…

This is just about word-for-word what I came down here to write myself. There are tons of old movies out there with a decent premise that could actually benefit from remakes with new tech, better scripts/casts/directors/etc, so just leave the ones that were done right the first time alone.