Last time I tried to watch Street Fighter I burned out after about ten minutes. I mean… that shit is bad. Granted, I haven't watched MK in about 15 years, but I at least remember its costumes and production design being less eyeball-hurting.

My girlfriend in high school bought me a copy of Redneck Zombies on one of our first dates and then agreed to watch it with me. We got so bored about halfway through that we wound up having clumsy sex on her parents' sofa. Reader, I married her.

The second one is hilarious. Paul WS Anderson makes spazzy, ridiculous movies, but the second RE movie is someone with less panache aping Paul WS Anderson, and it's just transcendent.

It also had a character who jumped onto her opponent's shoulders, wrapped her legs around their head, and snapped their neck. It was immensely stupid bate-baiting, but the gross sound design and animation of the dead opponent's head lolling around was pretty nice. And IIRC Quan-Chi had one where he beat his opponent…

I like how they literally name-check several game characters who didn't fit into the script - like there's a scene where a minor villain lists some characters who are dead or unavailable. I also like how Sub-Zero drops in for a few lines of dialog and then makes himself an ice bridge and flies away. The rest of the…

I tried to be technical, but I was terrible at it, so I was always just slowly button mashing whole my cousins were quickly button mashing. I always lost. One time my dad got upset because he thought I was being too obvious about throwing matches to the little kids, and I tried to explain that I actually couldn't beat…

I looked up the MK3 title card, and it looks like you're right (they say he "outfitted his arms with cybernetic implants"). In MK9 he definitely has his arms ripped off, but I remember taking about that event when I was a little kid. I kind of wonder if it was in an unlicensed strategy guide or something and got into…

In the MK9 story mode (which really is shockingly good), I got to a moment where I realized I was about to see Jax lose him arms. Sure enough… Man, there's nostalgia and then there's having a video game cutscene mainlined directly to your inner 12 year old.

Liu Kang was just a 360 degree turn of the joystick.

I wasn't too keen on it since I loved/love that movie, but I was 13 and, whatever the circumstances, she was still a girl, so I went with it.

(Skims Martin quote)

I remember reading an interview with the author of a historical novel set in the American south, and he said that he asked a friend to give his thoughts. The friend, who happened to be a herpitologist, told him the description of a black-tongued turtle (which took up a few words of a four-hundred page manuscript) was…

I rewatched that scene after the Jezebel chat thing, and I don't really get it. The most relaxed position for a person's arm when they're lying on their back is palm-up. All you have to do to do is flex your elbow and rotate your should slightly, and you can press your palm against the surface behind your head.

We had a lock-in when I was in eighth grade. We watched Halloween. It was a catholic school, and we were all thirteen and fourteen. Also, some of the jocks and cheerleaders set up a tent, and the chaperones didn't seem to know what was going on. After the movie my friends and I tried to play a set with our wannabe…

She was sixteen, I think. So it was probably legal wherever they were filming and… The seventies everywhere else.

It was very well acted and well directed. In fact it was so well acted and directed that the goddamn narration ruined the movie for me - the narrator was just telling us things that the actors and director had already told us with framing, editing, and facial expressions.

You know what's a fun movie? Premium Rush.

Yeah, as I understand it the writing credits on a movie are a reflection of guild regulations as much as who actually contributed dialog and plot to the movie.

I was in junior high, so a lot of these pop culture moments were the moments that first introduced me to pop culture. Also, 1997 was when I started hanging out with girls. Big year.

A couple years ago I bought the first Criterion edition of Picnic at Hanging Rock at a second hand store. It was released in 1998, and it was absolutely incredible how good it looked. There was basically no compression artifact, and the colors were very crisp - and this was a telecine transfer without modern digital…