It’s the Sophie’s Choice fans I can’t stand. Always wanting to remake it so she picks the other kid....

If there is another season of Arrested Development, and Tambor remains on the show, yes, I’ll take major issue with it.

Just because you’re able to make a list of things that he didn’t do to her doesn’t mean that the thing he did do wasn’t toxic, unprofessional, and unacceptable. If someone treats you horribly at work, do you just think “well what a gentleman, he he didn’t even rape me once!”

How many strikes are we going to give David Cross before people realize hes just a giant fucking asshole?

But Alan Tudyk just looked like Alan Tudyk.

Every part of that post was incredibly cool.

Or the Japanese balloon bombs: some of them reached the US but the government ordered the media not to report on them. The Japanese concluded none of them were reaching the mainland and discontinued the project.

Fun facts: the Germans developed a magnetically detonated mine that did catastrophic damage to ships; it lay on the harbor bottom and fired when a ship passed over, literally breaking the ship in half. American physicist John D. Kraus (1910-2004) suggested a countermeasure; he could measure the magnetic signature of…

There’s also Project Habakkuk, which was an attempt to make an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, which is a mixture of ice and sawdust that has a slow melting rate and is as durable as concrete, during WW2. It didn’t pan out but we can confirm that this did actually happen.

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Why didn’t Ross just eat the other Friends? 

Also, the Ciment book has a 1980 interview with Julian Senior, head of publicity for WB Europe. I don’t know if it’s reproduced in the English edition of the book. The section of the interview on Barry Lyndon has Senior explaining that Warner audited projectors, because of all the photographic research done for the…

So Laserblast finally got a gritty reboot?

Oh get right the fuck out of here with that.

The best time to plant a tree is 30 years ago.

Maybe the bars that decapitated the kid were doing their job, maybe they weren’t. Should it really be up to the media, with its anti-decapitation bias, to decide?

“Well, looks like we got ourselves a readah!”

The glasses let us know she is a scientist. If you take her glasses off, she doesn’t look like a scientist anymore.

Is this film actually trying to discourage me from watching it?