Don't forget when he reaches into his arm and ties the severed tendons together!

That's how I managed to read Alan Moore's Miracleman a few years ago. It had been out of print and tied up by rights disputes for at least a decade and nearly impossible to find legally, but I was able to torrent scans of it, so I finally got to read what was a highly influential classic of comics literature. Of…

It seems like there's the temptation to redo memorable jokes from the first movie, since that's what people liked. But that doesn't work with comedy, since it's all about surprise. It ends up just being a reference, and at best you get a smile of recognition. The worst example of this I can think of is Will Ferrell's…

"Hee hee hee! Where was I? Oh yeah, STAY OUT OF MY BOOZE!"

I never saw the movie version of Sahara, but I was disappointed when I found out it didn't include the big reveal from the book, in which our heroes discovered that Lincoln's assassination was faked, and the real President escaped on a submarine and ended up dying somewhere in the middle of Africa. That was so weird.

Is this some kind of bust?
Yes, and a very nice one at that!

Steeee-rii-hii-hii-hiiiiike!

And there's also an Alan Moore Green Lantern story that's similar, with some alien conqueror wanting to defeat some giants who experience time at such a slow pace that they don't even notice him.

I was surprised to learn that he has nipples.

The "one original conceit" of small people perceiving time at a different rate than larger beings actually comes from Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad series of kids' books, titled Truckers, Diggers, and Wings, I believe. I read those as a kid and thought that was a neat idea, with tiny people able to avoid detection…

My choice is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I was first exposed to it when my family listened to airings of the original radio series on NPR, and I loved it and thought it was hilarious. So when I found the book and its sequels at the library, I was in love; I'm sure I've read it at least half a dozen times…

BOOM!

Since my family didn't have a TV when I was growing up, I read a hell of a lot more of the novels from the various series than I actually watched the shows. I'm sure there were tons of clunkers in there, but I liked a lot of them. I imagine very few would hold up if I revisited them, but here are some that I recall…

The experience that springs to mind for me is the second time I watched the Royal Tenenbaums. In between the first time I saw it and that time, a family member had made a suicide attempt (unsuccessful, thank god), and when I got to the scene in which Luke Wilson slits his wrists, it just absolutely wrecked me, to the…

Do all Changelings have to revert back to liquid form every 16 hours? I always thought that was just Odo, who wasn't very good at being a shapeshifter since he had to figure it all out on his own.

Holy shit, I was also at the 2001 SXSW Film Festival. In addition to the movies Noel mentioned, I also remember really liking the documentaries Pedal, Okie Noodling (I turned out to be sitting in the row in front of the Flaming Lips, who did the soundtrack of the film, at the screening of that one), and Amato: A Love…

When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?!?!

She definitely got better in the second season, probably because she started to play an actual character, and make her interesting, rather than either a mindless blank or somebody we're supposed to buy instantly. She came into her own along with Echo, like her acting skills were developing along with the character's…

Oh yeah, they totally crammed at least three seasons' worth of plot into season 2, like they wanted to make sure every neat idea they had for the show made it in before it ended. There was the episode where they explored "the attic" that could have been a mini-arc, as well as the bit where Victor joined some sort of…

Didn't he find Atlantis in one of the post-series TV movies?