The Wire’s fifth season is only bad when compared to The Wire’s fourth season, which is a defensible choice for the single best season of TV ever.  It went from “essentially flawless” to “just really good,” which I guess is technically a significant drop, but still...

Don hugging that man means so much to me. All throughout the show, his big moments of triumph - winning over a client or nailing a campaign - come from him talking, coming up with some glib phrase that makes people happy. Here, finally, he stops talking and does something. He reaches out and connects with someone. He…

Honestly - probably Enterprise.... the ratio of how much the quality went UP was actually really entertaining. :) (Not counting the final episode, obviously.......)

To this day I contend that E.T. the Extra Terrestrial is massively overrated. To the point of self-parody.

“one that ended when Jaws invented the summer blockbuster in 1975" Ended is a bit strong and I would say Star Wars with its ancillary revenue streams did more to end it, but in either case, those movies were the beginning of the end. The golden age of movies didn’t really end until the very early 80's. It took awhile…

It sounds a bit like a Bourne movie, but with, you know, an old man.

Yes, I think it makes me superior. Making a snarky remark on a site built on snark makes me nature's greatest miracle.

<Discreetly rolls down sleeve to conceal elaborate 1910 Fruitgum Company tattoo and leaves for a just-remembered appointment>

I'd rather envision a world in which those shitty books were never written.

Not in New York!!??!!???!!!!

I encourage everyone to watch Rocky III just to see how amazing Mr. T’s performance is. Legit, no snark. He shtick got old quickly, but in this movie he’s a goddamn presence.
“My prediction?” *licks lips* “Pain.”

DON’T YOU PAUL LYNDE ME, YOU SUNNOVABICH!

There hasn’t been a Hardee’s within 500 miles of Barstow for decades. That was just an old sock.

That’s really just bc GWTW was re-released like 30 times. It practically spent 5 years in theaters

Yes—and to make a broader point, I think it’s a good thing that divisive directors still get to make movies every once in a while. The self-involved irony/reference bomb thing he has going on doesn’t scan as super-charming for me (although Kill Bill is so ironic I don’t mind it as much), but I buy Django and RD as…

Still not as good as the time Spider-Man met the cast of SNL and they teamed up to defeat the Silver Samurai.

Come on, Tig! The boulder was as wide as the walls of the chamber. There was no room to step out of the way. Plus, Indy would have realized the rock was much wider then the entryway. If he had managed to get behind it, he would have been sealed inside forever. Isn’t that just like a stand-up comic to…

Burt Reynolds actually did Stick and it was a massive flop. They need to do it again.

[plays Torgo theme]