I don’t think Phillips was intentionally courting those kinds of people with his comments; I think he just thoughtlessly played into exactly their rhetoric.

Phillips’ comments were defensively asinine.

In the case of Megalon, the international dub was the only one created. Good point about the different cut, though.

One could make the case that it’s a 17 film collection anyway, since the radically altered US releases of two of the films will be present, and both feature extensive footage shot exclusively for that market subsequent to production of the Japanese originals.

Well, Godzilla vs. Megalon and Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster will kinda take the title simultaneously, with the caveat that in the case of Sea Monster it’ll be exclusively with a different audio track, while the Megalon dub will be consistent between MST3K and Criterion.

You know, because that kind of detail is very,…

I desperately want “Bloom got a bonobo, but he is just fine” to be a lyric in a rock song.

I see your point.

It’s marrying elements of two different things. Isn’t that what a “mash-up” is?

Not betting on it or anything, but are you the same Doctor Professor who is active in online Godzilla fandom?

The line is not, “I am a nice man.”

I saw this in the theater, and the projectionist screwed up and put the reels in the wrong order, so it went 1, 4, 3, 2, 5. I don’t remember exactly where all the jumps happened, but I remember it basically went right from the car accident to the “What are you waiting for?!” scene.

I’d say the uses of the word “uncanny” in horror and in regards to the uncanny valley refer to pretty much exactly the same thing: in essence, that which simultaneously looks familiar and unfamiliar.

Review is pretty much exactly what I was expecting, and I’ll likely just stick with those versions that profit Don Mancini, but I was a little thrown by:

Season 3 is definitely the most consistently strong season of Buffy, but even at its very best, it still doesn’t manage the same emotional extremes that peak season 2 draws out of me. Also, as I said, I’m a big sucker for the less polished, grainier, darker look of the first two seasons; I love how often characters’…

I find both to be uneven but with remarkable highs and relatively few SERIOUS lows, and I will grant that Angel was probably the more consistent of the two. However, my heart will always belong to those rough-hewn, shot-on-16mm early years of Buffy. To me, Buffy s02 is the emotional and stylistic peak of the…

Yeah, my wife and I chose to live together and get married because we really like spending a lot of time together, pretty much more than we like anything else. There are about 55/60 hours a week during which we have to be apart (I work long days and have a bit of a commute); most weeks, that’s quite enough time apart.

We care what his perceived motive is because his interest or lack thereof in the actual answer to the question determines whether or not answering the question is a good use of time. Since he doesn’t care about the answer, he is wasting the time of everyone present.

Asking an employee a question because you want an answer to that specific question is the opposite of abstract. Asking an employee a question with the intention of extrapolating different information based on your interpretation of the nature and tone of their answer? That is abstract.

It’s a waste of the server’s time because the question isn’t being asked so that the customer can make a more informed order, but so that the customer can pass judgement on the restaurant based on how genuine he thinks the server’s response is.

But this letter isn’t about asking for recommendations when actually in need of a recommendation; it’s about asking for recommendations as a means of interrogating the server in order to pass an abstract judgment on the business.