The books chose the wrong fucking protagonist. Vasiliy Fet is awesome. Eph is a whining, self-centered bore.

I watched it through a second time with my girlfriend, and we took to saying "clunk" every time a terrible cliched bit of exposition or characterization was dropped. We ended up "clunking" over most of it.

Because it's Del Toro, and so it has a higher pedigree than most genre shows.

Clunky writing. Way worse than the books, and those were pretty fucking clunky.

Also, what's the deal with airline food, amirite?!?!

I wasn't quite sold on the film until this happened: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

It's amazing the difference a vocal melody can make. Autotune the News used a Weezer song from "Hurley" (I think) and wrote an original melody over it, and even though the melody is pushed through the demands of autotune/etc., it's actually a pretty great melody: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Another POV re: Weezer's recent suckitude: http://badassdigest.com/201…

Boar's Head: works every time.

Yup. Although on the poppier end.

I never quite got the overwhelming love for the Fifth Element - sure, it's pretty damned entertaining, but we're not actually pretending that was a good movie, right?

That's the twist, dude! Like in the Sixth Sense. You find out that the dude in that hairpiece the whole time? That's Bruce Willis… the whole movie!

I'd be a bigger fan of it if they would just turn up the dystopian facscism, already!

oh, goddamnit.

Now you do: http://www.joblo.com/script…

holy shit!

Is there any chance Louie might be attempting some subtle(ish) satire here? The idea being to present something as offensively as possible, to draw people's ire in one particular direction so that the issue can be discussed by the public in a way that might actually be meaningful or productive? (See: "The Jungle,"…

"The famously mercurial Jobs ended his involvement with Apple in 2011 by dying."

SPOILERS (FOR A 23-YR OLD BOOK)?

Floating around here, to be exact: http://withnailrules.tumblr…