Which, Hook or WotW?

It would have been absolutely terrible. Gleefully, spectacularly terrible, and it would have instantly killed the franchise for another 10 years, and I would have much preferred that to the sullen shrug of Superman Returns.

But at least the original plot would have yielded usable beach-front property. I mean, yes, it lacks the gravitas of the usual mad-genius plot (which I think was a deliberate inversion at the time), but at least it could theoretically work. What the hell were people supposed to do with a continent-sized geode?

"Which take do we go with?"
"Well in this one, Aisha grabs her boobs…"
"That's it!"

I don't see why they wouldn't. Xander has always understood the emotional stakes better than the others. It's not like he would leave her at the alter or anything.

Good point. I'm so glad they didn't make another season where they bring Buffy back from the dead - back from a well-earned angelic repose no less - in a sort of tragicomic meta-commentary on the necessity of further seasons.

I loved Nightmare. Still have it actually, waiting for a functional VCR…

Buffy ended on a high note?

The actual ending* is a double twist. Immediately after the doctor confesses the ploy, she leaps up and exclaims, "I want to live!" in joy and exhilaration for her second chance … and then collapses as a clot formed by the initial aneurysm enters her brain. The event leaves her in a vegetative state, but no one is…

That "too" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. So I should be somewhat excited? What range of excited would you consider safe?

Not familiar with Steig, but I never would have believed that Hollywood could produce any movie of a kind with Fractured Fairy Tales. Certainly not on a wide-release budget for a movie originally written for Chris Farley (which somehow I was aware of at the time).

I am unable to comprehend how Shrek could have built expectations beyond what it delivers. "Hmm, the trailer had me thinking there would be more fart jokes. Boo!"

There's a fine line you have to walk, because none of the original Star Trek is very realistic. The sets are so cheap and undetailed they border on representational. I think the CBS effects do a good job of matching that aesthetic, because they look similarly cheap and undetailed in their CG way. The flat simplicity…

I am cautiously looking forward to the sequels. The story in the first film was stupid, stupid, stupid. But the world is really cool, and ripe for all kinds of awesome sci-fi possibilities. Maybe now that Cameron has had more time to play with it, he can put that world to better use.

Is it actually in Avatar canon somewhere that the material is really called unobtanium? I never got the hate for the word, because my reading was that Ribisi was throwing out, as you say, a flippant joke term. It never occured to me that it was meant as the actual scientific name until I noticed people complaining…

I remember watching Scream 2 while Scream was still in theaters.

I guess I'd agree there wasn't much to ruin if it weren't for the last act. But every scene after they reach Hollywood knocks it out of the park. Especially the Hunting Season shoot ("jesus Ben, I said I'm busy"). If the whole movie had been at that level, it'd be a stone cold classic.

No, I was out of college by then, and just starting to get disillusioned with Smith anyway. But, I dunno. Deidrich Bader's dialogue certainly wasn't any more mature, but that man just has a way…

I'm not a big Will Farrell fan in general, but I HATED him in J&SBSB. He ruined the movie for me. The beginning bits when they find out about the movie are nice, the Hollywood bits at the end are fucking brilliant (wish that had been the whole movie), but the middle grinds to a halt every time Farrell walks onscreen,…

The giveaway is they still can't get enough of Egyptian ruins.