Interestingly, AVC was the source of an article that tried to get behind that mystery - how Avatar could be one of the highest grossing movies...and then so quickly vanish from the collective consciousness as little more than a title.

The world’s priciest flash in the pan, if you will.

He can try all he wants, he’s never going to top incinerating his career through his general beef with 12 Years a Slave.

I hear that sound and rather than getting misty-eyed, I start staring into the middle distance as it becomes mixed with the opening guitar strains of ‘The End’ by The Doors.

Dark years, those were...

It’s possible to get out, thankfully.
Speaking from experience - and holy shit, looking back on my younger self, there’s better than average odds I’d have backhanded the little shit at least once.

Even with that factored in, the algorithm has a tendency to prioritize in such an odd way that it will take even the slightest inch and try to run a full marathon.
Most of my YT history within the past 6 months consists of The Majority Report, old episodes of Mr. Show and Mystery Science Theater 3000 and a whole…

Ultimately that’d still hang in part on the system.
I remember going to one of the roadshow screenings of The Hateful Eight where they had the intermissions.
...and even with that in mind, the line to the bathroom was long enough I almost wasn’t back in time.

Gonna put a vote to split the difference here - Prior to Winter Soldier, MCU part 2s were meh to garbage prettymuch across the board.

That said, the more I look back at it, the more I feel like Civil War could have benefited from tightening up its story and cast and mainly didn’t because of the expectation from the…

I really, really, really, really don’t get what it is about him as a director that seems to inspire the level of devotion his fans have for him.

I mean, yeah, I get having favorite directors you want to support. I’ve been there. But not to the point where I feel the need to go out of the way to challenge anyone who…

Sam Neill as an insurance investigator trapped in a warped reality is also acceptable.

I know it’s improbable, but there’s a part of me that, on remembering his wife, kind of wants to imagine there were times when he went on the anti-semitic track where she beat Blazing Saddles to the punch:
“Oh, blow it out your ass, Howard!”

Yeah, I know it wouldn’t actually happen, but the situation just makes such a…

Red Hook also has the curious distinction of being the one time in all of his work where Lovecraft looked back and went “Holy shit, maybe I went a bit too far.”

Granted, that was more about the anger than the bigotry, buuuuut...

This...could actually be interesting.

Interestingly, last year did give us probably one of the most overtly Lovecraft-styled horror films in quite some time with The Endless, though that did kind of get buried mid-year.

Please, no meat touching.

Thing is - you can listen to Lennon’s music and not find casual lyrical references to how he abused his wife.

Lovecraft’s views of race, race-mixing, and other cultures in general are a pretty big part of the DNA in his stories (and I say this as someone who has some collections he still dusts off in October. Taken at…

This is one of the big reasons that Superman: The Animated Series worked. It pretty effortlessly straddled the line between doing the darker, serious stories as well as having the light, silly goofy adventures (and to that latter end, Goddamn, Gilbert Gottfried as Mr. Mxyzptlk is still spot-on voice casting.)

Honestly, I feel like if Snyder made anyone in the DCEU into his masturbatory vision of Rorschach, it was Batman, who even goes so far as to have his own prison execution system and everything because...reasons...

Tangentially related to this, I feel like that’s part of why we get the totally unnecessary scene of Dreiburg getting the last word with Veidt.

“Great powers, the best powers. Believe me, Peter...”

If his saga ends with him on the receiving end of an eel or trained attack hogs, I think I can accept that outcome.