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So this is a remake of Herman's Head, right?

IM2 is great, if you're really into watching Mickey Rourke type.

But then he was replaced by Lorenzo Music, in a strange twist of fate.

Bojack Horseman made a small running joke out of Andrew Garfield sharing character traits with Garfield the cat. It wasn't until weeks after I watched it that I got the joke. Just sitting there one day and I blurted out, "Oh, THAT's why they kept saying he loved lasagna!"

Congo is about as close as I have ever come to walking out of a theater in the middle of a film.

Oh man, that is awful.

I go with The Tailor of Panama. Probably the best depiction of what a "James Bond" would be like in real life.

He's actually the goofy sidekick, Wang Chi is the hero. Chi is the one whose fiancee is kidnapped, who takes on the quest to rescue her and has a heroic journey. Jack Burton is the comedy relief.

Congratulations, Jerry Seinfeld. You have become the crusty old man you used to make fun of your father for being.

Only one problem with this theory: Clubber Lang murders Mickey and gets away with it, without so much as a single criminal charge. A professional fighter punches an 80-year old man, leading directly to his death. So Clubber earned his title shot, but he also should have been sent away to prison immediately after.

While "terrible" is probably not the right word for it, there are definitely some literary writers who take a very subtle approach to plot. James Joyce is pretty much the heavyweight champion here. He is universally acclaimed for his writing, and nearly universally noted for being a difficult read. A lot of the

Kinda makes you wonder if Michael Crichton had an annoying younger sister.

While Andromeda Strain and JP (and many of Crichton's works) were thematically similar, the plot for JP was lifted directly not from another Crichton book, but from the film Westworld, which Crichton wrote and directed.

Crichton loved technology but was scared of the people who got to use it (not an unreasonable fear). As he went on, he became more obsessed with this theme, to his detriment as a writer. When he ventured to the past, like The Great Train Robbery or Eaters of the Dead, it got him away from "the fools are going to kill

Johnny Drama is a B-List doltish older brother, but Kevin Dillon is a B-list doltish younger brother - Matt is a year his senior.

Honestly, I can't keep the Gibb Brothers straight in my head. I know there have been some deaths, but I can never remember which one was which.

I once tried to read Finnegan's Wake while on painkillers. That went by more briskly than King Kong.

The first two were such shameless attempts at becoming the "British Tarantino", though, so I don't really mind that he stopped. Although he did go back to that well in 2008 with Rocknrolla, which was bad enough that I think it finally put a stop to that nonsense.

Yeesh. I consider King Kong to be a perfect example of what is wrong with later Peter Jackson. That movie is so, so bloated. He manages to take nearly twice as long as the original to tell the exact same story. It is beautiful to look at, but it really suffered from the fact that there is no to rein him in and keep

I wish I could figure out a way to keep Portugal from making kissy faces with Aragon. Every time I go to war those dirty Aragonese, I get attacked from my west. It's almost like they don't want me to dominate the Iberian peninsula. Why not? I'm pretty cool.