I prefer to believe that Pelinka, after promising the meeting to Kobe, found out Ledger was dead, and was forced to put on Joker makeup and go to the dinner himself.

I’m glad this review picked up on just how weird the Will Smith casting decision was. Smith’s a big star, sure, but he’s always at his best when he’s underplaying the weirdness around him. Independence Day, the Men in Black and Bad Boys series, even I Am Legend—all of them have him play a regular guy cast into crazy…

I wonder if Tarantino’s career would be different if he did more straight adaptations of previously-existing material like Jackie Brown, rather than the “mixtape cinema” he dove into afterwards. Maybe he’ll revise his “10 films” promise to 10 original films, make 2 more, and then spend the latter years of his career…

Look, we all hate to admit it sometimes, but Galaxy Quest exists.

“it’s the world’s best occupation that doesn’t exist yet.”

Surely a revision of existing history in a QT film should be referred to as a “Basterdization.”

Hi-Roman-numeral-five for that joke!

In the penultimate movie in the series, it will be revealed that capitalism was the ultimate bad guy the whole time.

This is the sort of emotional development that fans of the F&F series expect of the characters we’ve come to know and love. Good on the screenwriters for showing some integrity.

This makes me worry that you have been pronouncing the last two syllables in “Obama” and “Alabama” the same way.

Appropriately enough, the song is “Hey Man, Nice Shot” by Filter.

Most people understand that polls of the general electorate in the middle of a party primary are heavily skewed based on the electorate’s familiarity with each candidate. For a candidate like Hillary, who has been under attack by the GOP since 1994, the polls against Trump represented her floor. For a relative unknown…

The ltics.

Looking forward to reading this at some point! It’s just a little much right now.

They’re counting on Kidd to sabotage Lue and then maneuver to get the job himself halfway through the season. I have no idea WHY they’re counting on this, other than the fact that it is sure to happen, but they’re counting on it.

One thing I like about Pat Maroon is how his skating reminds me of a young Jaromír Jágr.

To be fair, the Warriors aren’t in the NHL, so the Nuggets might have a better shot at the Cup than at the LOB Championship Trophy.

Again, this is probably correct, but not in the way Friedman intended--the third-party Republican would help split Trump’s vote, so that all the, “well, I don’t want to vote for him, but I can’t vote for a wom- I mean, for such a radical liberal as the Democrat candidate!” peoples’ votes go in the trash, where they…

Juancho dancing after that three is pure. Glad the Nuggets got that before Kroenke inevitably cheaps out on paying Tim Connelly, causing him to take the Washington job.

“Stan” means you have an unhealthy obsession with the object of your admiration and will write them increasingly-unhinged letters until you’re driving down the street screaming into a tape recorder with your girlfriend locked in the trunk. Not joking.