Why does Harley, the larger Hoser, not simply eat the other one?

Is he really?

International Karate Plus. It was frantic, unpredictable, no fireballs or superpowers, most of your attacks would miss, characters could only take three or four big hits before being knocked out, and there was a teleporting Mr. Miyagi.

Ooh, good picks for the Dibnys. I had Fonda as Batman (though as Sir Winston points out, Peck might be a better choice). Bogart would be a great Question.

With Henry Fonda as Batman, Cary Grant as Superman, Errol Flynn as Flash, Jimmy Stewart as Perry White and Katharine Hepburn as Lois. Someone get Hollywood and a time machine on the phone, stat.

That'd make for a good topic. Non-comedies that are nevertheless funny for whatever reason.

I haven't seen it.

Pixar's movies are great, but rarely ever particularly funny. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is the only animation I can think of that should be on the list.

Yeah, but you can apply that reductiveness to anything to make it seem bad or unfunny.

*Ctrl-F Hot Rod*… Ah, here we are. Yep, agreed.

Should've been Margaret Thatcher.

If the revival is done in the style of Spartacus it will be the best show of all time.

I was gonna invent a skrateboard but I already have 500 of them.

What about Henry VIII, Jessica Alba, or that guy Scott who works in the hardware store near me?

Also, in terms of clear, visible ripple effects, Scream is one of the most impactful modern movies I can think of.

Well, you'd probably be allowed to use a pseudonym. And I would've thought fanfic writers of all people would understand why someone would take someone else's ideas and put a different spin on them.

Yeah, this did get away from me. I just get the sense that a huge amount of fanfic (possibly a majority?) is a sea of poorly-written porn and/or juvenile IP crossovers, and I bristled at the idea that very many authors of that kind of crap would have the integrity to reject the opportunity to profit from it. And yeah,…

I get that hardly anyone sets out to write fanfic with profit in mind and that money never even occurs to you during the writing process. I'm talking more about after the fact. Like, by now you've presumably got a few completed stories. Let's say one of them is about Groot organizing a charity concert to save the…

None, but I'm not talking about originality per se. Just nitpicking over the word "nothing", really. In terms of pure effort and creativity, the fanfic writer has a significant head start over the writer who has to build everything from scratch (assuming the two writers are equal in skill and dedication).

Yeah, but characters, setting, backstory and tone are more than just tools. They're narrative elements that need to be imagined and written, the same as plot. Having those things already created for you is a few steps ahead of starting with actual nothing.