Yeah, Gamera 3 is both thrilling and poetic. That first big fight scene is definitely a masterpiece, but it’s full to the brim with wonderful moments. I love Iris’s seduction of Ayana in the golden-lit woods.

I’m particularly fond of the third one.

“while it took Godzilla three movies to turn face,”

Five. It took five. He was the villain in Gojira (aka Godzilla, King of the Monsters, 1954/56), Godzilla Raids Again (aka Gigantis the Fire Monster, 1955/58), King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962) and Mothra vs. Godzilla (aka Godzilla vs. the Thing, 1964); he takes his first…

While it was overall a well-written and well-produced episode, with a lot of fun moments, this episode just wasn’t emotionally fulfilling to me. We were in an alternate timeline, no characters from the usual “prime” timeline were present, and the way that the problem was solved would seem to have eliminated all of the…

Is the other Russo you’re alluding to John Russo, for his fucking up of NotLD?

I was checking for this on second viewing. Prior to seeing Mjolnir in action, we briefly see a hand reach down and grab the handle while it’s on the ground.

I was only commenting on the phrasing of the headline.

A voice of Winnie the Pooh. Not the voice. If anyone gets the honor of the definite article, it’s Sterling Holloway.

As much as I don’t want to see the cartoon designs rendered in 3d and interacting with live action adults, I honestly think that would still be vastly preferable to making the babies look realistic, which would just be completely the wrong way to present those characters. But, really, those characters don’t belong in…

The fact that they are commonly used as pajamas does not make them by definition pajamas. Again, this is a matter of perception and interpretation. Lots of people eat cold pizza for breakfast, but cold pizza does not therefore become breakfast regardless of the circumstances under which it is eaten.

But a t-shirt and sweatpants are not anywhere near universally regarded as “pajamas.” Those are just, y’know, clothes.

Regardless of what those clothes are? If I sleep in a t-shirt and sweatpants, how is anyone going to know that those are my pajamas?

Yes, it’s absurd to ask that any purely cultural standard (pajamas are in the eye of the beholder) with no significance to health and safety be enforced by an official body.

I can only somewhat tolerate that song... except when performed by They Might Be Giants (then I’m totally on board), but that wasn’t recorded until far, far past 1995.

Yeah, I overlook a lot of bullshit from him because he is a genuinely caring person, and because he’s demonstrated a willingness to change he perspective on things based on experience (for example, he no longer believes in a gay conspiracy to destroy Christianity, now that he’s actually met and interacted with some…

My choice would have been “Rebel Girl” by Bikini Kill.

My only complaint is that, personally, I maybe would have preferred “Rebel Girl,” because Bikini Kill is just more my jam than No Doubt. Even so, I’ve never liked “Just a Girl” as much as I did in the theater that night.

I think a strength AND a weakness of the movie, in a sense, is that even when she believes herself to be Vers, Carol is always fundamentally Carol. From a pure narrative technique perspective, it makes her arc less pronounced, and the movie lacks a single definitive moment where her old self reawakens (on second…

A friend of mine (with whom I disagree about almost everything in entertainment, politics and philosophy, but we always keep it polite) is insistent that this scene should have had some big monologue from Carol about her conflicted feelings over having to turn against this valued mentor. I tried to explain to him how…

I also somehow wound up a college student en route to Denny’s one morning.