Yet it still raked in $3B. I watched all six last December, seeing Battle in the theater at the time. I'm still convinced there is one very good three hour movie in The Hobbit, if someone would take on the editing.

He's been going back and forth on it for years. It seems unlikely, at least for another 10 years or so until the effects required become cheap enough.

According to Del Toro, he was going to take the story in a completely different direction. I don't know what that means, of course, but he seemed intent on not repeating himself.

Stone sober. Although my pants weren't fitting that well.

I don't think we watched the same movie.

It's too bad Del Toro bailed on The Hobbit movies for a number of reasons, but the pertinent one here is it would've given him clout going forward. What he really needs is what Peter Jackson already got: one movie (or trilogy) that makes so damn much money that the studio will let him do whatever he wants (like say a…

Yeah. Pacific Rim was a blast but I don't really feel like it needs to be a franchise. I'd much rather see Del Toro get to work on At The Mountains Of Madness.

Letterman didn't sweep them away, though. He admitted what he'd done directly to the camera on his own show. Sure, he did it to defuse a blackmail situation, but the fact is he still put it out there as directly as anyone. There's also the fact that his offense wasn't remotely rape. Regardless, that he survived that…

I still don't much like that song, as I was bombarded into indifference towards it while it was popular, but I will concede that it's a bit smarter than I realized.

I forgot about Black Cauldron. I actually saw that in theaters when it came out. I'll have to revisit that one.

Not only did they not lose anything, they seem to have gotten better. This one could arguably bridge the gulf between Real Thing and Angel Dust.

Yeah, no complaints whatsoever about the bikini shots in the trailer. As I'm sure it was completely relevant to the plot.

Johnny Five is a…plane.

This isn't terrible, but 93 minutes of it?

I really like the show, but I think what you might be missing is the gut-wrenching amorality that so much of modern television has gotten us used to. We expect to see something awful every episode, and when we don't, we're disappointed. This show was marketed as a comedy, and whether you like it probably comes down to…

I didn't feel comfortable calling Breaking Bad great until the third season.

After shifting so sharply to a darkass Breaking Bad vibe with Mike last week, I wasn't sure they were going to be able to go back to the Jimmy side of things without it seeming contrived. Mission accomplished, though. Odenkirk is beyond great; part of the depth for me comes from having watched his turn in Fargo, which…

Well that was an ugly last episode. This season was entertaining but in the end, it gave way to the aging-show tendency to pad and pad some more. They did the first two seasons not knowing if there would be another; they clearly did this one with an eye toward the show lasting awhile, and the price we paid was filler.…

Can't blame people for wondering, though; we did after all see Doug "dead" in the dirt at the end of season 2.

This show is and always has been slimy as hell. I'm frankly mildly astounded that anyone who ascribes to Christianity would watch it in the first place. The show makes a mockery of morality; it should have offended your sensibilities from episode 1.