Apropos of nothing, my favorite "Uwe Boll, this fucking asshole" story comes from Genevieve Turner, who was asked to do first pass on the BloodRayne script. Boll was apparently barking down her throat about when it'd be done, and then, when she got the first draft done, he said they'd be shooting from that. Her first…

For those who've been following a history of the movie, there's a specific dig in there. Original drafts of the script had the Morpheus vs. Doctor Destiny dream battle from the end of the first TPB collection, only with The Corinthian in Doctor Destiny's place. Then, when Jon Peters came aboard, his draft* had…

It's very much a "nobody gives a fuck" movie. Nobody gives a fuck about the island full of dinosaurs which is unprotected and, as the end of the movie shows, has flying dinosaurs on it. Nobody gives a fuck about Vince Vaughn's character making things infinitely worse because principles. It's not quite as "LOOK AT ALL…

They did live-action miniseries adaptations of Hogfather, The Color of Magic, and Going Postal. Last I remember, Hogfather was on Netflix for a bit.

I thought Fourthmeal started in the mid-00s. Hell, they still have ads for Fourthmeal every so often out here. Which just goes to prove the thesis that fast food chains out in CA know what's really going on.

Man, out here in California, it's not just Taco Bell. Jack in the Box has been advertising its "Munchie Meals," available after 9 PM, with the tagline, "Get one tonight, and get weird." I'm guessing because "get wrecked" would have just given the game away.

Not only that, but - and this thread continues into Season 2 - most of the cases center on the depersonalization of the victims. They are not who they are; they're a proxy for somebody else, or an echo of the person the killer wants to be, or a resource for the world's grimmest art project. Even Georgia Madchen's…

Man, I want that to be the next one. Just so we can talk about Mafia involvement on Amity and Mrs. Brody's zipless fuck with Hooper.

Isn't this like when Shyamalan got called out for whitewashing on The Last Airbender and said, "That's not true! Look at all the extras!"?

Man, it's more than that. She was turned down for the female lead because the studio wanted to cast a bankable white guy as the male lead, and antimiscegenation portions of the Hays Code would have made casting her for that part impossible. So, after the rest of the cast was filled out with white people, she was…

I await the obvious "Boston Brahmin" joke.

We Hate Movies was on form for Space Jam. There was a part of me, the young child who had actually watched the movie, that was reluctant to listen to it at first. But then I did, and that reluctance was obliterated in nuclear fire. I did not know that Michael Jordan was that much of an asshole (what can I say, I don't…

I feel like there was a time when Sandler was trying to get beyond himself and talk about others, even if he was hobbled by his own… Sandler-ness. Big Daddy had the whole "gay adoption" subplot, which (I may be misremembering) was treated with some respect. Spanglish, despite the "white people's problems" overlay of…

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I loved Morrison's X-Men run. For too many years, mutants were treated as "[insert minority here]" - they were targeted, they had advocates, but they never had the sense of cultural cache that an oppressed group does when they come together and make their own world. I mean, I think…

I do think bringing up the topic was good - around the time of the Twittersplosion, I saw Jason Aaron saying similar. "As mutation has been attributed to everything from radiation exposure to Celestial intervention, and has just been used as a catch-all 'fuck it, you have powers,' can we really say that there is a…

I can understand why Havok comes from where he does, even if I don't agree with it. I suppose my main reasons for getting churlish were:

Was being a geography nerd a big Thing in children of the Nineties? I mean, I know the stereotype that every kid has a dinosaur phase, and it may have been fed by this show, but is geography one of those things kids just gravitate to at a certain point?

And we blew past fish guts years ago, when someone on the show thought, "Those fuckers will drink donkey cum for couch change."

It's Rodriguez. His sins re: kids movies may be many, but he generally stays the fuck away from "dark," "grounded," or "realistic" when making them.

Common theory I've heard is they basically did a patchover. There was a script drifting somewhere in the depths of Hollywood that was something of a Hannah Montana knock-off; then, someone realized Hasbro stuff is big, bought the script, and did a hasty re-write to turn it into a facsimile of Jem.