I like this picture a whole bunch, and I’m an even bigger fan of the source material, but the common refrain that Cera is not very good in this movie is 100% true. (Although he’s surprisingly credible in the fight scenes.)

The hero wears an X on his jacket in homage.

I kinda have to agree. I read Console Wars when it came out, and it was fine, but I didn’t see anything in it that screamed “this should be a movie or TV show!” I mean, it’s basically just a book about how marketing works.
That said, I love Vogt-Roberts’s stuff, and Rogan/Goldberg have an excellent track record as…

Also plastic bags/plastic wrap/styrofoam. Technically it *can* be recycled but

Because the food attracts pests before it is recycled.

Excellent writeup. Couple points—I think the sex scene is actually great because this film engages with something that very few other superhero movies engage with, and that a lot of the whole superhero milieu is very bound up(heh) in kink and fetishism. I think Batman Returns and maaaybe the first Spider-Man are the…

There was a period when he was trying to gun down jaywalkers and litterbugs, but we don’t talk about that stuff these days.

This has been my experience.

Pix of Nix please

See, what *I* find very disturbing about the scene is that, as the great Dana Gould and Dan Vebber pointed out years ago, it’s played for laughs. Both ANH and ESB have torture scenes, and they are kinda disturbing and y’know why? Because they are torture scenes.

Thank you Cookie, that was great.

Hi Spoiler. I did that account, and later the Skrull Stan version. Sadly those accounts didn’t survive the Kinjapocalypse. But I think it would only be appropriate for Skrull Stan to make one last appearance to make The Smilin’ One’s passing from this reality. So here goes:

Good for her. At this point I care much less about seeing Abrams win and more about seeing this unscrupulous racist ratfucker lose.

Seriously, I know Detention kinda flew under the radar but most entertainment writers are at least aware of Torque.

The genius thing about War Zone is that it’s basically Batman ‘66, only super, super violent, and that’s a concept I can get behind.

Well it’s a cliche but it kinda sorta is. It’s one of the lesser themes of the film, but TDK is saying something about what it means to live in a major city. There’s deliberately a lot of day scenes shot inside city buildings with gigantic windows—notably though, in what appears to be only the first, second or third…

Also, the fact that DD 2 was a quantum leap over its predecessor. DD1 didn’t have hills for pete’s sake, just a completely flat racetrack. (I must admit I spent a lot of time messing around in the Replay mode though)

Clu Gulager played the medical supply shop owner, James Karen was the foreman/manager.

Why use the term “puppy play” when “ruff trade” is right there?