This was quality overall, but an extra point for the “Bat Out of Hell” reference. 

Really? It occurs to me I haven’t seen their stuff in a while, and... shit.

Boy, did I.

Can’t upload a photo of Yrcanos, though, strangely.

(Nods approvingly.)

“Unless they’re painting Maslany green, that might involve some expensive CG.”

Actually, they’ll be forgoing both makeup and visual effects - Maslany will accomplish the transformation purely through acting ability.

I was stumping for Aisha Tyler. But Maslany is amazing.

(weary sigh)

He had a “deal” that required him to fly a small plane from Miami to Costa Rica, over a vast stretch of water... and people feel the need to spin some wild spousal murder story? C’mon.

YES. Both are wonderful in their own ways.

I thought “Forrest Gump” was a perfectly enjoyable, well-crafted movie that absolutely did not deserve the level of attention and devotion it got and still gets.

Incidentally, I also worked at Blockbuster in spring of ‘95, and don’t remember being subjected to a “GUMP” nametag. Not sure how I avoided that grim fate.

Also…

Oh, also: I know a lot of people think the San Diego sequence feels tacked on, but it was EXACTLY the kind of thing the first one left me wanting. :) 

I actually like “Lost World” better in some ways.

I think Moore works better than Dern as the female lead, Vanessa Lee Chester is much better as The Kid, and I dug Postlethwaite’s vibe as the jaded hunter.

I’ve gone back to buying physical CDs for music I really care about. The vagaries of who owns what have caused me to lose some digital files.

Anyway, depending on the album and where you get it from, you can often find used copies for less even than the cost of buying it digitally.

Yeah - I liked them early on because they were weird, but after a little while I realized that most of the humor just rested on them being weird, rather than actually funny.

Clearly SOMEONE has never heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon.

“That blob monster that ate Tasha Yar?”

Jesus fucking Christ, The AV Club - it didn’t eat her - it SMACKED her.

Where are your standards these days, The AV Club? WHERE ARE YOUR STANDARDS?

It was many, many years before I learned that “zebra crossing” is actually what crosswalks are called in the UK, and not just a thing Douglas Adams made up as a joke about logic. :/

It wasn’t even close to as fun as actual Eurovision.

It was too respectful to be spoofy and too distant to be loving (there’s surprisingly little actual Eurovision stuff in it). The political angle, which would have been REALLY interesting to watch, is seriously downplayed and then done away with quickly and easily.…

I didn’t love too many movies more than “Batman” when it came out in ‘89, when I was a pretty damn callow 17-18 year old.

Watching it ages later? Yeah, it’s clunky as hell, but it still works because Tim Burton of that period was so damn good at letting us into his weird worlds, and he was able to surround himself with…