I just want to tell you all: "good luck". We're all counting on you.

"This is how the AV Club comment world ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang and then a moan and maybe a whimper."- T.A. Eliot, probably.

I was sad when he said goodbye to the family, I thought he was going to stick around, but he never came back. Went back to his home planet and all that.

When I first watched this episode some time after it was first aired, I thought Roy was going to be a regular character for real. Not only did I missed the meta-satire, I actually liked him as part of the cast.

A few weeks ago, I watched Nixon's "you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" speech, and he uttered the phrase "if they're against a candidate, give him the shaft, but also recognize
if they give him the shaft, put one lonely reporter on the campaign who
will report what the candidate says now and then." I thought…

John Entwistle's bass solo for "My Generation". It was the first time I realized how awesome the bass was. I always look forward to it when I listen to the song.

Stephen King just posted this on his FB: "The A.V. Club asks an interesting question: What's your favorite non-guitar solo? I pick Ray Manzarek's keyboards in 'Riders on the Storm'."

Predator also from 1987, funnily enough. And while I think RoboCop is "crazy…like a fox", there are several moments in the movie that definitely qualify as undiluted quirkiness.

No joke, I would do a pilgrimage to it when its finally unveiled.

Oh, that Q&A sounds awesome. It is pretty crazy how I grew up wanting to visit Detroit to see all the landmarks from the movie, only to discover most of it was actually Dallas, with some Pennsylvania thrown in. That was a shrewd move from Detroit to steal landmarks, but I think I'll have to stick to the real deal…Old…

My dissertation is for a career called Hispanic Literature. Dissertations on film comparisons are welcomed, but they must have a basis on (or be linked somehow) to Spanish-speaking authors or works. There's a master's degreee on Humanities where a dissertation on RoboCop would've been valid. Anyway, I am doing mine…

Unless I missed it, I didn't see an article on RoboCop. July 17th was the film's 30th anniversary (we share the same birth year…though I still have a few months left to waste my twenties in the most boring ways possible). I've been planning for years to write a lengthy essay on how RoboCop was the first movie I…

The most fascinating thing about Jodorowsky is how people think he or any of his relatives have anything of value to say. This dude and his family are a bunch of pseudo-intellectual con-men. He also likes to play with the concept with rape in a manner that should make anyone uncomfortable, but he does it under the…

Any wannabe super-villains need their own psychotic butler.

This is actually a nod to "The Living Daylights". In that film, Joe Don Baker plays a megalomaniac American arms dealer, and his villanous lair has a ton of paintings and statues of famous leaders and tyrants with his face on them. It's the movie's 30th anniversary, and Farage and Bannon are probably fans of this very…

It's a thin line. I distinguish parody as a subversion or deconstruction (humorously, sometimes in an overt way, sometimes in a very stealthy manner) of a genre or creator, while satire targets issues, people, mores or institutions with more exaggeration and ridicule. "Robocop", I think, is a movie that illustrates…

Haven't seen that one yet, but I think Sinatra in "From Here To Eternity" could qualify.

Damn, I can't see my downvotes, but I have no idea why I would be. I wasn't dissing Nolan, Styles or anyone else, just pointing out a possible casting shout-out…or maybe an Avalon/Nelson fan didn't like the comparison I was making. I know they're still out there.

I though his casting of Styles was in a similar vein to his casting of 80's actors in supporting roles, but instead referencing the way in which old teen idols were cast in Hollywood films alongside acting stalwarts… Frankie Avalon in "The Alamo" and Ricky Nelson in "Rio Bravo".

The non-spoof parody truly is a lost art. One of the best practitioners of parody within a genre framework is Ira Levin. A whole book should be written about his works, because the guy was unbelievable. But basically, Levin excelled in several aspects of parody: 1) He took over the top conceits and placed them within…