I’m working from home today, so I could say “oh, shit” without consequences.

recognitions is no doubt assembling a pipe bomb to mail to Scarlett Johansson as we speak.

“Liberals who call anyone who disagrees with them a Nazi! It’s so unfair!” -Conservatives

“Jesus told the guards, ‘do what you came for friend’. And that, being the signal Jesus’ commandos were waiting for, resulted in a barrage of gunfire from the nearby bushes into the Socialist Roman guards who had come to arrest him, slaughtering them wholesale, including the traitor Judas.

It was fun laughing about this until it struck me that there are literally tens of millions of people for whom this is some real, no-bullshit, truth bomb cinema, then I just got sad. 

Those are not the only two possibilities.

::red meat lands in comments/on Twitter with audible THWAP::

I mean, I think it is a decent sitcom of its era, not the best but also not the worst. But it being treated like an all-time great timeless show I think is, in my personal opinion, crazy.

Yeah, I did nod my head in approval at that bit.

So the bad guy disguises himself as a Border Patrol agent? That certainly won't get anyone's panties in a bunch.

The franchise hasn’t been as damaged as, say, Alien - but there hasn’t been an entry worth a damn since the T2 ride at Universal (and yes, I include the gawdawful TV show in that - it was starting to show promise with the skynet civil war subplot, but I couldn’t stand anything to do plots centered on the leads. I…

That machine gun to the face was pretty cool.

His performance in the trailers has definitely taken this from “why are they making this” to “maybe it’s...good?” territory for me.

Joaquin Phoenix has steadily evolved into an actor who elevates anything and everything. Even if the movie is somehow awful (and I find that tough to believe, because these trailers suggest it’ll be watchable at the absolute least) I genuinely feel like Phoenix is going to be incredible.

I can’t tell if you’re agreeing or disagreeing with me on the first part, but that aside I do think that IT (and much of King’s work) would ideally go the HBO/whatever miniseries route. The first movie was good enough, though.

He has no political opinions because he wants the broadest possible swathe of Americans paying money to see his movies.

Let me check the ol’ Nissan HQ webcam... 

I remember once Chris Rock was hosting and he introduced a performance by Good Charlotte. He just said, “Good Charlotte? More like mediocre Green Day,” and then the curtain opened on Good Charlotte. What an incredible burn, and an oddly accurate statement, but something that nobody at MTV would have pre-approved.…

You know that scene in Groundhog Day where Bill Murray’s character is desperately trying to recreate a spontaneous snowball fight that had happened on one of his earlier ‘days’ .And just ended up running around ,fake laughing, trying to look excited but just looking terribly desperate . Well thats the VMAs.