I thought that was what QT actually said happened.

I have certainly read comedy scripts that did not convey on the paper what inspired performers would do with them on stage. It's a pretty amazing process to watch, actually. I have no idea if this is actually good or not, but unless the script is just sealed magic in a can, I wouldn't worry about that part.

You've got 'em eating out of your hand! Work it, baby, work it!

Could it have a cartoon cat voiced by Del Tha Funkee Homosapien? Because I would totally watch this movie you describe.

A comedy, even! A movie intended to make people laugh and forget about their problems in life for a couple of hours! It doesn't have to be disposable, but, I mean, if you bought the ticket, enjoyed yourself and then went back to your life fundamentally unchanged by the experience, I don't think any of the filmmakers…

I have to think his actual objective here is to have his version of the Joker stand out from the crowd. When the crowd includes Ledger and Hamill, you've got some pretty serious work to do.

He's my very favorite DCU villian, but I still agree. He's had enough truly epic depictions recently that unless Leto is a can of pure genius, there will be an element of flailing. There are plenty of others to work with, after all.

I'm replaying Bioshock 2, and this time I'm actually going to finish it. I was firmly in the "hate Bioshock: Infinite forever" camp, enough so that I figured I was done with the series, but Eurogamer's article on B2 last week got me curious enough to try it again and it's clicking for me this time much better than it…

Tom Cruise married them!

I didn't hate it, but my personal opinion (natch), I found it to be fundamentally empty. Like once the big reveal happens, the rules could be practically anything without changing the actual plot. They could've just as easily been sassy hedgehogs playing snooker or asteroids in non-Euclidean orbits for all the…

I loved his attitude towards it, though. "Hah! I'm never, ever, ever, ever doing this again, so this is fun!"

…graded on how they produce uncontrollable flows of bodily fluid.

His worst tendencies now are retroactively lowering my opinions of performances of his I used to love. I used to think he excelled at projecting a cool, calculating intelligence, but seeing Smug Cusack a couple times too many retroactively reduced so many of them to more generic smug bastards, not, you know, someone…

I know it's bad form to grouse about the review not reading like the letter grade, but after I read that review I was mighty surprised to see a C.

Obligatory Love & Mercy reply.

Yeah, but my point is that when they came out, they weren't so easily available at all. Knowing about them way back when was like being in on a very esoteric joke in a way.

Aww, take it easy on the Radioactive Radioactive Blackbelt Hamsters. I don't know where they've gone, but they started out as a handout you had to work to get and, well and truly pre-Internet, we thought they were the screamingly funniest thing ever. (We were all roughly 12 at the time, in unrelated news.)

I guess so? Unwittingly? I'm not saying this reflects well on me, mind you.

So, about that ironic appreciation of Limp Bizkit: I liked them plenty when they first came out, but I assumed that they were being, if not fully ironic, then at least tongue-in-cheek. "Break stuff" is so stupidly meatheaded that I couldn't believe someone actually meant that as written. I was pretty embarrassed to…

I liked a lot of their songs, actually. They weren't really trying to push the limits of musical expression or anything, but their songs were clever, catchy and/or funny often enough that I didn't reach for the remote whenever they'd start one. I can still sing chunks of "Where Oh Where's My Werewolf?"