Sure, Sophie Turner is going to stop by for Joe Jonas. But what I’m really hoping for is a Footlights reunion, maybe a little bit of Fry and Laurie.

“somehow his group of black-trenchcoat-clad thugs who had superpowers themselves were different”

I don’t know Twitter’s terms of service either but I do notice that if someone posts a video that a news services finds useful they will always ask permission to broadcast it in a response.  There must be something to that or they would just lift it.  

Planet money just had a podcast on ‘Joke Theft’ that is worth a listen. Here’s the transcript:

He could play the game about as good as anyone else....

Funny how failed wanna-be blockbusters like the Day The Earth Stood Still remake are just gone now.

Yeah, I’m with you. Even his original series irked the hell out of me for the frankly irresponsible way he portrayed “survival” situations. He took stupid risks and did stupid shit that you would never do if you were really on your own trying to stay alive. It was shit you’d only do if you had a camera crew, medical…

Why is everyone so mad about all the bullshit and unjust societal background that props up my standing in life? Cant they see that I benefit from it so therefore it cant be a problem?

You forgot to cast “Newman”, Bird and Murray.

I think the players were all chosen because they were clients of David Falk, Jordan’s agent. So, having the selection of players dictated by commercial concerns actually maintains the spirit of the first movie.

Being cartoons themselves (and knowing almost nothing about basketball) they targeted the most cartoonish stars they could find: the very short, the very tall, the very round, the very browed, the very floral.

Who are the most cartoony-looking NBAers these days?

I think it’s also a matter of a lot of movie/TV teenagers being played by full-on 23-year-olds. The kid in this movie would have been pretty much the exact same age as her character (or at least, the 13-year-old version) when she was shooting it.

Are those the shoes the little kid was trying to buy for his dying mom in that Christmas song?

Paul Rudd’s single greatest performance as an actor is when Janeane Garofalo forces him to pick up after himself in Wet Hot American Summer. I don’t care how many multi-million dollar superhero movies he finds himself in; he peaked right after Garafalo asks him, “Are you gonna clean that up?”

One of my least favourite adapted bits in the series. In the books, the dialogue is poetic and mournful, and Ned is not some overconfident lad, but a tired and weary battle commander.

Jon’s legitimacy was generally assumed in book fandom, but the show’s method of making him legitimate is total nonsense and certainly not reflective of the books. Annulment isn’t possible in the way the show depicted, either theologically or in a political sense (the idea that such an action would be secret is…

Fuck that! I don’t like people playin on my phone!

They’re all basically the same movie but each with varying frames per second for the slow-motion shots.

There’s no way Snyder turned in a releasable final cut with finished effects work. On most tentpole movies the effects houses are still turning in finished effects shots up until a few weeks before release, and we know from the Cavill-stache debacle that Whedon reworked most of the third act. Snyder likely assembled a…