This movie must have been what he was talking about when he testified before congress about elder abuse.

Thank you for giving me an excuse to watch that garbage day clip again.

Really interesting paper. I wonder why states have reduced their funding of higher education.

For years I put off reading Frankenstein, because I thought the story was too familiar. But when I finally read the novel, I was surprised by how powerful the original story is. It's more than just a story about science gone wrong. I wasn't prepared by how much the novel relied on existentialist themes and the really…

Said everyone who started listening to a song by Coldplay.

Wake me up when all of these senators' books are adapted into a single cinematic universe.

"NO!" — Disney.

Disney suddenly dumps millions into figuring out how to clone Harrison Ford.

Garden State never had much of an impact on me, but I don't remember hating it. The internet says it's not a good movie, and I trust that to be the case. But I also think it's not a big deal if you make an embarrassingly earnest film in your 20s (for the handful of people who have been afforded this opportunity).

I only saw Garden State once, but I always thought the more embarrassing moment was when Braff screams, and the camera pans out revealing an empty pit of some sort (was he at a quarry?). I remember there being some crappy CGI involved. Again, this memory is fuzzy.

You're an unashamed fan of Starship Troopers because it's a brilliant and prescient movie.

Starship Troopers is an incredibly funny movie, and if you think that wasn't intentional, then you're just bad at watching films. Sure, I've met people who totally buy into the film as a serious film who also really liked it and thought America should be a little more fascist, but those people are idiots who just…

"Macbeth is certainly Shakespeare’s bloodiest tragedy"

Ugh. Doomsday. The guy who punched Superman to death. I'm still going to see this film, but this does kind of dampen my enthusiasm.

I keep on waiting for Spike Lee's come back film, but it seems like he's more interested in making interesting failures.

Zero, we just can't have nice things anymore.

Question: do they hand out free wigs at the screening?

I'm not too sure about that. Hell, The Dark Knight had a guy get half of his face burned off in a really brutal fashion, and it was a huge hit. Besides, American parents aren't terribly concerned about showing their children graphic violence, so long as there's no nudity. We don't want to show the human body in its…

Fair enough. Snyder's track record is pretty bad. Although, I'm one of the few people who apparently enjoyed Man of Steel in part because he broke away from his usual 90s music video aesthetics.

Good point. I've mostly written off procedurals, but maybe I shouldn't. I've always thought that a PI show like Rockford Files would work great on television today, and it could be a little more varied and interesting than the usual cop shows we have. I could see Jessica Jones turning into that show if it wanted, but…