Martin has created an elaborate plan where the final books, which he has already completed, will not be published for many decades until all or most of the original fans are dead or at least senile just to be a total dick.

Poor little hobbit hasn’t had any steady work since Wilfred ended. It’s hard to see him like this.

Pretty ridiculous the guy is a professional actor and butchered that Gammons tweet

To quote the immortal words of Plinkett: “The Star Wars prequels didn’t ruin my childhood. Fucking polio did!”

I am going to go to the adult movie theater using my adult money with my adult wife while driving my adult car this weekend.

This is seriously the best thing to show up on the little screen since Firefly.

You miss 100% of the memes you don’t tweet.

Sports are just so fascinatingly weird.

I get not wanting to nibble on mediocrity, but I’d much rather nosh on adequacy than choke on greatness, assuming I can also sip on competence.

Depends how you look at it — some say the Warriors are experts on choking.

Well, it would be actually kind of refreshing to find out a Warriors player knew how to grab something by the throat.

It seems to me that The Force Awakens is a good template for how to set up a sequel right, even without being part of a franchise. The whole story was a quest for a MacGuffin that the heroes believe will solve their problems. At the end they find the MacGuffin. So, the next question becomes, what will the MacGuffin act…

I know, just having a little fun.

So you write an entire article on why this can’t work, then throw in a single sentence admitting it is possible (LotR) before pushing that to another essay?

If they’re going for it, shouldn’t it be a quadrilogy?

I think that Avengers 2 was too worried about setting up sequels to make it a good movie.

Some Movies Are So Worried About Setting Up a Sequel They Forget to be GoodMovies

Most grievous recent example. What a waste of a pitch-perfect Spidey.

Feig’s attachment as director has always been the biggest strike against this movie for me. I would have killed for someone like Edgar Wright on this. Like you said, his dialogue always has some major problems to me, which I think comes from him being a huge fan of improvisation. Some people can pull that off, and…