I can understand where he's coming from. The book's about him overcoming his early life of poverty and hardship to make himself something on the field, with a boost from the Tuohys; the movie makes it look like the Tuohys picked him up on the side of the road and groomed him like a stray dog. It risks making him look…

Interesting. As film geeks tend to be… well, geeks, the majority of attention on adaptations that make a hash of their source materials falls on films based on comics, sci-fi/fantasy novels, video games, etc. But there's something to be said for the long string of films that try to adapt a long-running crime/thriller…

Don't forget flops in other mediums, like TV.

Yeah, that's one of the bits I felt could have used more digging (both in movie AND in podcast). Apparently, it's all a bit of tricky legalese where the dead mother said her holdings would pass to a "genetic duplicate" of herself (implied as clone, turns out to be a random assortment of genetics). It's meant to be a…

The podcast dives into quite a few of the details of the plot - but, since Jupiter Ascending is 95% plot and meditations on plot, that still means a lot gets left out. At the same time, you're going to be watching Jupiter Ascending - which these guys did, and even THEY didn't understand it. If you want to spare some…

The way I heard the story, there were one of two ways the producers wanted to take the story: make the characters white, or scrap the elements of divinity, because apparently black people don't do fantasy.

Yeah, and while I'm not one to uphold a show as "the documentary experience," having such inaccuracies can just leave this ringing sense of disconnect with those who know the language. And I know that sometimes, that's just me -I've gotten into fights with friends over blatant inaccuracies in media, because in their…

It was a weird-ass patch work, too. For years, the Dinosaur Planet game had been in development at Rare; then, at some point, someone said, "Fuck it, let's throw Fox McCloud in here. It works if we tack on, like, two levels where you're actually in the jet, right?"

No, The Mysterious Stranger is when you jerk off with a numb hand while experiencing recurring trauma from that childhood short with Mark Twain and Claymation Satan.

To each their own, but in my case, it's more the complexity than the timing that makes it an issue. I mean, the Liz and Dick episode with Drew Droege remains a personal favorite ("I know five drag queens who've delivered better readings of 'You make me puke'"), and that one was practically a rush job. But then again,…

See, i thought it came out in the summer of '99, but that was apparently the haze of youth. March 1999 is when it came out.

Yeah, in trying to figure out how much of a geopolitical clusterfuck the movie was, I did some digging into the Tajikistan plot and found out the guys got it wrong; apparently, the heroes are just supposed to target a warlord who "runs" the country, not the de facto ruler. It's still a bit over-the-top, but it's not…

We Hate Movies, as predicted, tears into the 2005 Rob Cohen "evil plane" movie Stealth. And hoo, boy, do the guys rightly tear into it, as just listening to it, the thing sounds like a hot mess plot-wise. It's also a great hallmark of that wave of jingoism we were riding post-9/11, because the foreign policy in this…

"I'm serving 'Rosanna Arquette in Crash' realness."

In reading about the show, I feel like Sense8 is an example of a "better than…" It doesn't stick the landing, but it at least TRIES to avoid the cliches other media easily fall into. I remember the pilot of that Kiefer Sutherland show TOUCH, which had a similar "we are all connected" theme… but the viewpoint Iraqi…

Man, for the longest time and due to the content of the video, I thought "windowlicker" meant "perv." Then I did a Google search, and… yeah. Not using that term again.

I'm pretty sure every one of my straight dude friends who's played the game has done at least one playthrough where they either romance Dorian or The Iron Bull.

Man, everyone points to Olympos and Flashback and goes, "When the hell did Dan Simmons get so scared of Muslims and Indians?" When really, it's been there for a long fucking time.

Man, that episode probably had one of the standout lines for Hollywood talking shit about Hollywood: "Everyone here looks like hippies and acts like the mob."

Matthew, just so you know, it's pronounced "Butt-a-FUUU-co."