Can someone who doesn't have a twitter account be twitter-shamed? I wrote a story that was published in a science fiction magazine and a critic at Locus said certain passages might be construed as offensive (though she also said it was clearly satirical of historical literary genres). Is it possible I'm being…

No one. If I don't like someone, he's not great, end of story.

"losing weight is easy is someone who is naturally slim by nature."

Advanced people such as myself already do survive solely on food pills. For example, I eat ten heaping bowls of pills every day.

The money makes you into a true believer.

I find it impossible to believe anybody believes this genre of "I died and went to Heaven and it was white puffy clouds and everybody has a halo and wings and it's the greatest family reunion ever" is real. Even my grandparents, devout Christians and Republicans, know its bogus, so I can't even imagine what type of…

Almost every one of these was already pointed out by Mike Stoklasa in his Mr. Plinkett videos—Leia and Padme shooting at fleeing ships from a landing platform, C-3PO's head on conveyor belts and R2 dragging him around, space junk floating out the back of a ship, the similarity between the Cloud City ships and the ones…

"if Lucas hadn't explained exactly how the Emperor seized control"

The only thing more depressing for me than the thought of aliens visiting Earth and seeing that we still believe in supernatural entities is the thought that they might believe in supernatural entities also.

"No Country for Old Men isn't exactly your typical award bait"

Sure, we all would like that, but it would get an NC-17.

This is his first movie with a title that has more than 2 words (not counting My Best Friend's Birthday, natch), and the extra word is "the." He really likes short titles.

There was little need for "world leaders" to show respect for "native methods," as they were already using those methods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

It's certainly got the most Kangol hats.

How old are you? Differing cultural touchstones, etc. When they remake "Dazed and Confused" and set it in 1993, the inclusion of the Crash Test Dummies' "MMM MMM MMM MMM" is going to feel extremely obvious to me, because I heard it a zillion times that year, but to someone born in 1993 it may well be non-obvious.

I have to say, I never got over my disappointment that this movie wasn't about the Doctor Who villain.

i really love X. But not the punk band X. And not the drug ecstasy, sometimes colloquially referred to as X. No, it's the letter X that I love.

As you probably know, in screenwriting terminology a "reversal" is just basically anything that gives the audience something other than they were expecting. Do the prequels contain any reversals w/r/t the originals? Do they ever give us a fact or sequence of events that revises our pre-existing knowledge based on…

No doubt Mr. McCown recognized in the "odredeks" the allusion to Kafka's "Cares of a Family Man," but was too modest to make an ostentatious show of his erudition.

Unmarked lights and buttons are always good for a laugh in old SF movies. The Last Starfighter had a control panel with, like, 300 orange triangular buttons with no labels. I guess you're just supposed to remember what each one does. Wait, is this one "open hatch" or "self-destruct"?