Even in the limited amount of EU I've exposed myself to, Aftermath probably won't be in my top five when it's all said and done. I'm hoping a de-aged Wedge finds his way into Rogue One somehow, but he was always a character who got more attention in supplemental material.

Neat.

Star Wars: Aftermath. So far it's the very definition of "Expanded Universe" because it's about what happens after Return of the Jedi but refuses to tell us anything about any of the characters we actually cared about in the movies (aside from Wedge, I guess). I'm only a third of the way through it, but despite the…

Christ, it's been 25 years and I still hate Gary's Olde Town Tavern.

Uh, actually, it's about ethics in IMDB scores. Jesus Christ.

One of the things that seems to have made the Avengers movies successful was that audiences already knew the characters from their solo movies, so the big team-up movie could jump right in. The Justice League movie is going to have to a lot of heavy lifting in terms of establishing Aquaman, Flash and Cyborg as…

Apparently it was also a big influence on The Secret of Monkey Island games, which were a major part of my childhood, so I can't help but love it for that.

True, but there's so little the book and movie have in common that you could probably make a straightforward adaptation of On Stranger Tides with just a few tweaks and it wouldn't be close to PotC4 at all.

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers, which supposedly inspired the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie but other than the presence of Blackbeard and the Fountain of Youth don't have anything to do with each other. Even without the familiar (read: "worn-out") charisma of Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow, the book is the more…

"This whole place has gone to hell since they 86'd the dress code." I loved the Venture Bros.' interpretation of G.I. Joe as just the Village People with laser guns.

And Simmons has been successful because he's lived that gimmick morning, noon, and night, no doubt. He's fascinating in that sense because - as committed to the gimmick as he is - he never makes it feel like it's anything other than a gimmick. It's an old-fashioned type of showmanship, and it makes sense that he…

I just watched "The Decline of Western Civilization Part II" last night, and man, what a clown Gene Simmons is. He's a highly successful clown, make no mistake, but in a movie filled with interviews of preening, over-confident rock stars it's a significant achievement to come off as the most insincere, insecure, and…

Why the hell do you think people hate that guy, if not for his actual positions on issues? Looking like a rotting jack o’lantern is just the icing on the cake.

Also calls a four-year-old girl a "bitch." Damn, Dracula.

Yeah but once you know how much Sears spent for product placement, it all makes sense.

I would. I could not have given less of a shit about The Spooky Secret of Richard Parker.

Bane was definitely the best part of that movie, and Hardy's affectations were a big part of that. "I paid you a fortune!" "And thish gives you…POW-UH over me?"

Oh man, if Ambush Bug popped in at the end and offered both Batman and Superman gift certificates to a day spa and told them they needed to take a few days off to just take it easy…

I loved those initial trailers for Man of Steel because it looked like maybe Snyder would be delivering a quieter, more thoughtful take on Superman. The joke at the time was that Snyder was trying to make "Terrence Malick's Superman," and I was totally on board with that. But trailers are trailers, and although I…

I was in Orlando a few years ago, and the fact that the restaurant and a snack bar were the only representation of the Universal Monsters at Universal Studios was the biggest disappointment for me. I couldn't even get into the restaurant because of a private event. At least I made it onto the Jaws ride a bunch of…