Godzilla Plus One:  Godzilla brings Kong along as a date to Mothra's wedding.

I think it’s a colloquialism, but the idea is that Japan, immediately post-WWII, is so broken and unmoored from its own historical trajectory that as a society it’s at a terrible disadvantage to deal with any more tragedy. IOW, they’re not starting from zero, but from -1.

I might be wrong but - defeat in WW2 set Japan back to zero. Now along comes Godzilla and he’s taking them below zero, to minus one.

“Open-faced Mako,” the bootleg with predominantly studio out-takes, is much better.

This is great — something the “old” AVClub would do. While certainly people have been thinking about this performance lately for obvious reasons, I don’t think most of us really stopped to think about the actor himself (I didn’t even know his name) and how he got to play Napoleon.

Sounds like you’re out of touch.

I heard the members of the Police did the same. They’re always saying “Don’t stand so close to me.”

Given that it’s a restraining order, I assume both sides will have private eyes watching them, and seeing their every move.

“Area Man Sees Onion Headline in Real Newspaper”

I tried to come up with a better joke than that, but no can do.

The schism can be traced to the discovery that one of them CAN, in fact, go for that.

Was kind of rolling my eyes at the title of this article but once shrinking it down to avoid the slideshow it’s pretty spot-on.

I’m going to get that dumb hot dog apron and just wear it everywhere, like a cape.

I just rewatched it a week or so ago (the previous time may have been when it was first released). It holds up really well, once you get past the Mel Gibson aspect.

He also enjoyed San Dimas’ waterpark, Waterloo. Although you’d think the name would have unpleasant connotations for him.

I can barely remembr the movie, but I remember that my reaction to it wasn’t as positive as I’d hoped. It had a concentration camp vibe but, of course, a Great Escape parody would I suppose. It was probably Mel Gibson. I just can’t stand the guy, even it it’s just his voice.

I think with everything going on in the world, we’re probably pretty far past “Bradley Cooper’s nose is the most antisemitic thing out in the world right now.”

you can squint and say breaking bad is a similar arc about watching a guy become a power-hungry villain while still remaining a ‘hero’ in his own head.

“BRING ME LE IMPERIAL DONUT CUSHION!”

What kills me is this would have made way more sense as an Integra. The Prelude was never Civic-based, and Honda could’ve given the world the Integra coupe they actually wanted, making up for the embarrasing DE4 launch.