Good news: They had whistles.

Nazi Titanic is high on the list of "movies I'd like to see in theory but actually… nah." The whole premise is intriguingly ludicrous and kind of sums up the Nazis' efforts to make everything about Nazism.

As the ship was sinking, the ocean surrounding it would have followed the path of least resistance (ie through windows, doors, and cracks in the hull) to fill the parts of the ship that weren't already flooded. So even though the ship was largely flooded when it sank, it would have still been forcefully taking water…

Too many, ironically enough.

Beaver hat? I don't even know her hat!

The first correction reminds me of a professor at my wife's grad school - her Wikipedia page had her bibliography and a note that she was married. Her husband's name linked to the page of a minor X-Men character.

Because of the size of the ship and the nature of the sinking, I think there's a sound theory that it had already flooded most of its air-filled spaces by the time it sunk, so the suction wouldn't have been all that intense.

I think Twisted Metal 2 is the first in a long succession of games that I bought at one stage in my life because I loved them at a previous stage - I've owned it since college and have played it once in the last fifteen years, but I spent so much time in high school playing that game that I'll be goddamned if I don't…

i haven't gotten a chance to watch this video, but I really can't believe how much depth some of those older games got out of technology like midi and a couple of saw waves.

I got an inordinate kick out of the store called Jill's Sandwiches in the original Dead Rising (complete with a poster reading "Jill is the master of sandwich-making"). It was a simpler time when Capcom zombie games were fun and those in-jokes were cute.

"Wow - what a mansion!!"

(Enters mansion) "What is this?"

Late to the party on this, but yes, pretty sure Laura's version of Annie occurs after she gives Harold her secret diary, which leaves the regular diary to write in. Honestly, I'd say that the secret diary is kind of a needless plot point, except that Lynch decided it was worth including in Fire Walk With Me.

It's pretty hard to earn that kind of twist at the very end of a movie. Maybe you could pull it off in the middle, but it really should be more of a gag than a meaningful element of a movie.

I currently live in Pittsburgh, and a few months ago signs popped up around the city recruiting owners of late-70s cars. And a dad with a British accent started coming to the park with his toddler saying they had just moved to town so his wife could work on a TV show. At first I thought maybe it was Anna Torv's…

It's like someone saying "Yes, I was in an elevator with Shaquille O'Neill one time, but I don't want to talk about it."

The most galling example in recent memory was, of course, the Hobbit movies.

Two reasons:

The design of the Predator might be the best thing Stan Winston ever did - it's just glorious. And I think it's important to emphasize that the movie's approach to characterization - as an audience, watching these gargantuan macho-men waves their dicks around and make lewd jokes tells us all we need to know about…

I'd say it has a lot going for it. The direction is clean and efficient, and McTiernan has a good grasp of how to build tension and then pay it off with some effectively brutal violence (it's actually pretty uncommon that a slow pan or tension-building long shot doesn't end with a mutilated corpse). The first chunk…