They ultimately did, and it did indeed fail, but it seemed to take a ridiculous amount of agonized debate to get to that point. Sure it’s a big step to launch nuclear weapons, but less so when they’re the only weapons you have that aren’t obviously laughable given the scale of the threat.

I didn’t really dislike ID, but I’ve always been vexed by the absurdity of everyone’s handwringing about using nuclear weapons in the face of the threat — These ships are absurdly huge! Attacking them with fighter planes is like ordering cops to destroy a stadium with their pistols! And they’re systematically…

It really does, in the sense you point out, stand out as the most faithful film adaption of a set of trading cards ever made.

The Nightmare Before Christmas wasn’t technically directed by Burton, though he clearly has creative ownership.

If you’re the sort of guy who likes extended soaks in a tub that’s too short for you, it doesn’t seem like that much of a stretch that you’d have a phone in there -- though you’d probably have it hooked up to a wall jack rather than somehow running under your tub.

Just want to emphasize that Night of the Creeps is definitely “Watch This” worthy itself.

He has something of a track record of being a bright spot in an awful production. Really the only things to recommend The Final Conflict are Neill’s performance and Jerry Goldsmith’s score, though both are outstanding.

Not just “vibes” in that one... Pretty much a whole entourage.

I’m really hoping we see someone wearing “Madness Castle” clothing in a future episode.

Something, maybe the key, of Let’s Spend the Night Together makes it feel kind of incidental and “ambient” to me — like a background track more than a song.

Of course, you could force Abrams to watch E.T. as many times as you like, and he still wouldn’t get it (because he probably has, and doesn’t). His directorial approach basically reeks of “What’s supposed to happen next?” rather than “What should happen next?”

Sometimes a hit property experiences a subsequent backlash, or simply gets forgotten, and then gets dubbed “underrated” by the kids that came in late. I’ve noticed a similar arc to Sam Raimi’s first two Spider-man films.

Yeah, it’s going to be a looong quarantine. Bring it on.

That crowd’s going to need a lot of corned beef coffee to sober up.

I’ll probably use the “My idea going once... twice... sold. Lets do my idea” line, but it would sound a lot more clever if I was actually an auctioneer.

Insurance fraud of the week is a dicey premise for an animated comedy series, but this cast might sell it.

I had the good fortune of seeing the preview “cold”, being unfamiliar with the comic, and not having seen the trailer or heard other spoilers, and I was as impressed as Lussier. I figured some sort of turn was coming when the basic revenge arc seemed to resolve so rotely, but I really didn’t anticipate it going in the…

I was really waiting for that... but it was clear that they would have had to have some sort of exposition to explain that risk for it to pay off. Still, there must have been some risk of pyrotechnics just filming the scene.

Another hat tip to Bob’s Burgers mythology, in that while Gayle didn’t take Derby, she would, in a second.

He may, though the number of similar parties seems to have proliferated though the 2000s. Such apparently paved the way in the ‘60s, with the famous Monty Python Election Night sketch I think broadly popularizing the idea in 1970