If you're too embarrassed to put the word "Mars" in the title, maybe you should not make a movie about a guy who goes to Mars?

There is no plea deal in a criminal case until a judge approves it—the prosecutor can drop charges, but they can't dictate the sentence imposed. In Polanski's case, the deal dropped all but the least serious charge against him, and he expected that he'd be sentenced to time served and probation after a six-week…

"if you acknowledge this, it doesn't make sense to treat Polanski as this super special case."

Sean the Cinematographer's answer is, quite frankly, stupid, and it makes me think less of Alex Ross Perry that he thinks it's a "great" answer (and it raises Elisabeth Moss in my estimation—as if that was even possible—that she wisely sidestepped this question).

Ugh. Wish I could agree, but I feel that Batgirl's one of the worst parts of B&R (motorcycle scene!). Silverstone looked poised to be one of the top actresses in Hollywood when she was cast, and the movie was the beginning of the end for her.

In 28 Days Later, the guys who had a zombie fountain in their yard wound up regretting it.

Why wouldn't there be, in a world where everyone on Wall Street loves the movie Wall Street, about how their chosen profession is a place of quiet desperation where you can only truly succeed by committing fraud?

"Put that dildo down!"

"No one - not even the characters signposted as being on the "good" side, who believe that Barry has a responsibility for these people's well-being - points out that the problem here isn't with how well the prisoners are treated, but with the very fact of a secret, illegal prison."

Even Lesser Whedon and his wife?

I feel like we've seen this before with Reese Witherspoon and Alicia Silverstone, where a better actor looks at a popular but less skilled actor's career and just decides to annex the profitable parts of it.

That makes sense, but I think the question is less "does gasoline decay" and more "what's the timeline between effective and unusable gas?" Weeks? Months? Years?

That blog post misses the point that most people get upset not because people are using "decimate" as a synonym for tithe, but rather because people believe that the word means "reduce a population to 10% of its previous value" rather than "reduce a population by 10%." It's a brand of stupid that straddles the…

…because people were too stupid to know what they meant in the first place.

They wouldn't have to claim that it's magic. They just have to admit that there are things you can't explain—could be supernatural, could be alien technology or biotechnology, could be a mystery that we'll never unravel. World War Z (the book) was really good at just saying "we don't know why this happens, but it…

Not defending it, just pointing out that gradations of evil do matter. Not all deportation is the same as the Nazi's euphemistic "deportation."

Plus, in 28 Days Later, the zombies are constantly vomiting/spraying blood around like damned fountains. And they're fast zombies, unlike Walking Dead's variable speed zombies.

Yeah. In particular, the Battle of Yonkers chapter made the point that most modern military tactics (including the use of artillery and bombing) are ineffective against an enemy that's immune to getting wounded (you can kill zombies, but you can't hurt them) and doesn't experience fear, panic, or disorientation.

They were kind of wondering how long he'd keep showing up to work without getting any lines or getting paid, like Stephen Root's character in Office Space.

I'm kinda hoping his character is the detective he played in Color of Night, just he retired from the force after getting nail-gunned to a piece of furniture and decided to open a barbershop.