That was one of the issues with the project.  Also, not killing poor people by dropping indestructible watermelons onto their heads.

It also had the incredibly luscious Amanda Pays.  Oh my.

OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN is really good!  Seriously, it sounds like the stupidest idea ever, but it's a wonderful and weird study of obsession.

It's a Banzai Institute initiative to develop perishables which can be dropped from low-flying aircraft onto starving villages in hostile Third World nations while still remaining nourishing and delicious.

First of all, I'll decide what is and isn't a "waste of my time" to think about.  Secondly, how are my musings a waste of YOUR time; no one forced to you to read my comment.  Thirdly, since Sorkin is going out of his way to inject this show with verisimilitude by noting date and time for two years' worth of major and…

Boy, this entire article was ridiculous.

And here we run into the biggest problem with this show.  It's ostensibly occurring in the "real world."  The idea that Maggie commits the exact same misquoting as NBC did, presumably at the same time as NBC was doing it, was pretty stupid.  Then again, the idea that the Newsroom staff would go after Operation Genoa…

Next week.

To me it looks like he perfectly screwed it up.  Mitty was a henpecked husband.  Here - single.  Mitty seemed powerless and took refuge in fantasies.  Here - he goes off on a real adventure.  Plus there's an inevitable love story thrown in.  I don't know how he could have missed the mood of the story more.

Regardless of the merits of the case, it was supremely creepy to use the real-life execution of a man in order to make a fictional character look compassionate and sympathetic.

"And I say this as a registered Republican!"

They're trying to make us think it'll be rape, but rape would be too long-lasting.  Easier to just introduce a new character and do horrible shit to them.

So a critic should only write about stuff they like, and give a pass to stuff they don't?  That's absurd.  That's surely not what you intended to say, is it?

He was pissed off because the producers falsely claimed that he had enthusiastically raved about the screenplay adaptation and he couldn't get them to issue a retraction, despite his demands to just be left out of the whole affair.

That's a bit like saying that if Daniel Clowes or the Hernandez Brothers got sick of the indie scene, they could have just started doing X-MEN comics.  The superhero milieu was one of the genres which Moore was exploring at that time.  DC and Marvel were where you did that.  Moore hasn't really complained all that…

@Pack Do you have a learning disability or something?  How can you read my comment and get the idea that I'm against people forming their own opinions?  I'm asking why people hold one particular opinion, which seems, to me, unsupportable.  In other words, "Tell me what it was you liked about this movie.  Try and…

@avclub-2a6ac9e5324952e36b40237cf2fcdad8:disqus  You seem to be willfully misinterpreting @avclub-043a5755513643c7f4a9cd35380ec33e:disqus 's comment for some reason.

But almost nobody is saying that.  This isn't a disagreement about the quality of his work.  Moore's written crap, and his later output seems more coasting than anything else - I love LEAGUE but c'mon, it's really just fun fanfic, and the work is more interesting for the shared world he's piecing together than for the…

These days many if not most fans have been conditioned to identify with the franchises and brand names they love, and by extension with the corporations which own them.  And so they actually get mad when people don't sell out.  It's a really pernicious mental illness.

No.  Moore's defense is that he is stealing the characters, borrowing them for new stories in his world, and not passing off his work as the official continuation of those characters' stories.  Being in the public domain was the mechanism that allowed him to use many of his characters, not a defense he was offering.…