Or Redwall, which is the absolute winner. 300 pages of feasts, punctuated by brutal rodent murder.

"What was I laughing at? Oh right, that crippled Irishman!"
—contemporary Simpsons writers, apparently

They're not pleasant, but there's a sense of black comedy running through them, and the second one has a very fairy-tale feel to it (especially everything related to the pilot and the feral child). Despite their darkness, they're adventure films very much in the vein of Indiana Jones (especially Road Warrior and Fury…

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Ugh, that was terrible. I didn't think modern Simpsons could get more dead to me, but that did it.

It was a moderate hit that made back slightly double its production budget, before marketing costs, but was also a long and troubled production that took a lot of work. It was actually more of a hit at the Oscars and with critics than with audiences, and it didn't have much traction internationally. A lot of people…

Nah, the Mad Max films have a vein of whimsy and fun to them, not to mention a very humanist worldview. Despite the violence, they've got a lot more in common with Miller's work on the Babe movies than with Braveheart.

Yeah, I am so goddamn tired of people making that comparison, not least of which because I find Idiocracy's core premise to be pretty gross.

Okay, that's beautiful.

Getting really stoked for this show— it feels like it's as perfect for current-age me as the book was for 13-year-old me.

The show is, from my understanding, an expanded version of the first third of the book, with more time devoted to the supporting cast. So even if you see the show first, the book will have a lot of story left for you.

To be fair, they were both Christy McChristerson. Tolkien got grumpy when the church stopped holding Mass in Latin.

Ugh, I tried so hard to forget that song. And got so far at it, too.

Given that he's trying to sue her for defamation and this shows financial damages, this post is depressingly accurate.

Wow… that's maybe the weirdest internet drama I've ever seen in a community I'm a part of. And I was on Somethingawful in the late 2000's.

Bogdanovich and Bob Bottin too. And Paul Bartel, though he'd directed a little bit before working with Corman.

It really is fantastic— as cheap and puppy as it is, the seeds of the director he'd eventually become are so clearly visible there. And the John Cale soundtrack!

Oh damn. One of the greats. Even as far back as Caged Heat, the man's work was imbued with a warmth and humanism that was pretty unique in filmmaking. And he was probably the greatest concert film director to ever live.

I forget where he goes on the chart because he's shaped like a big bowl of chili.

Sting's not a bad songwriter overall, but he may be the songwriter with the widest gulf between how clever he thinks he is and how clever he actually is.