I also like PKD's take on the Seekers in Confessions Of A Crap Artist.

Regrettably, however, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary declined J.R.R.T.'s request to be assigned to the definition for "eggman".

Same thing. Sex and drugs.

Brilliant! (In many, many senses of the word....)

Leaked plot memo for David Fincher's S7AR WARS:

Doesn't change my Cumberbatch is Cyrano Jones theory at all: what we're clearly seeing through the Starfleet-badge-shaped hole is a world terrifyingly traumatized by tribble trouble.

You started with a chip on your shoulder and you'll end with it there. You could have had a serious conversation, but you'd rather accuse anyone who disagrees with you of stupidity. Unfortunately, I seem to have spent too much time this weekend dealing with vacuous trolls who'd rather wank off in their solitary echo…

That is pointed out quite well by RLM. However, it's also true. Look, the back end of Phantom Menace is a fucking trainwreck, with a pretty good (though over-choreographed) swordfight, a space battle that would be a bit neater if Jake Lloyd wasn't such a crappy child actor (though possibly someone with Steven…

No, much of it's drawn from Kaminski's book, which is quite well researched.

::applauds::

Agreed. You get a Dell, Gateway, HP, etc., or just about any brand through a big box vendor like Best Buy, it's going to have a raft of software preinstalled that subsidizes the price. It's not Microsoft bloatware—it's stuff like a ton of WildTangent games, gratuitous third-party multimedia programs that don't do…

1) These are groundbreaking films, commercially and artistically (especially the first two). They are, as others have already pointed out, an important part of American film history and of interest not just to fanboys, but to those interested in the history of film.

I think the problem is that Lucas has a really bad habit of historical revisionism. He doesn't go and say, "Yeah, I originally planned on an open-ended franchise, changed my mind to three trilogies, was so exhausted after one trilogy I decided to drop the franchise indefinitely, then decided after I adopted kids and…

How in the world did you leave out Jack Parsons, who was part of a love triangle involving L. Ron Hubbard when he wasn't helping create America's rocket program and what would eventually become the Jet Propulsion Labs?

Lucas had Gary Kurtz on Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back (and on American Graffiti, the film that relaunched his career after THX-1138 massively flopped and effectively took Coppola's American Zoetrope down with it).

I also have it on DVD and plan on keeping the DVD—in spite of the fact Grave Of The Fireflies is possibly the best movie I will never, ever watch again.

Wait, that's it! Benedict Cumberbatch is... Cyrano Jones.

And how do we know this hasn't already happened?

So Susan Sarandon will never get to feel dirty? That's a shame. She really seemed to be totally into that creature of the night.

The Mechanical Monsters were familiar, indeed—that reference alone would have been enough to make me love Sky Captain. That the movie went on to reference a thousand other '40s pulp tropes—dinosaur islands, space arks, ancient sunken cities, et al.—made SC a movie I'll clutch to my breast and love forever—reviews, as…