Holy fuck that's accurate.

Invent a warp drive and come back to me. *swig*

Beyond the Black Rainbow is a well-executed "not good" film. It's a beautiful rocket engine that never makes it to orbit. I loved the aesthetic and the music, hands-down, I even enjoyed the glacial pace. What I hated is that they did so little with it. The set pieces are siloed ideas that don't work together. The…

The soundtrack is amazing, the versions they did for JagJaguwar are awful. The added percussion is bad.

I watched Carpenter's "Thing" before the remake and his work is masterful.

God… dammit…

Yeah, these were weird promotional things that I didn't understand as a kid, because they never showed the full toy run either, a la Supermarket Sweep. It was just, hey, here's this thing you have no chance of winning, but boy do these kids sure look happy.

Man, to be a kid today has to be weird. Everything on-demand? More video games than ever in history? All your favorite franchises, now in LEGO form? Smart phones? I remember having to turn on my television at a specific time to see the program I wanted.

He actually canceled a local date for With_Teeth and I was kinda mad about that. He'd only play Denver, never the Springs. Really liked that album, but Year Zero was so much better.

I liked bits of "When Life Gives You Lemons…" and I've basically hated everything since.

Is anyone else shocked at how poorly Frank handles himself on-camera? I thought it was out of place when he bungled his CNN debate in S2 (the whole "AEIOU" thing, *shiver*), but watching him lose his footing in real-time whether it was with Colbert in the pilot or in the debate later on, it was just… cheap.

Mendoza was just a prop to build early tension in Claire's arc and it was actually pretty exciting considering the entire Claire-as-Ambassador arc was the most boring thread of the season. We'll see him again next year. I think if the Senate hearing had killed her ambition entirely and Frank hadn't shoehorned her into…

Doug Stamper has always been my favorite character. Being the lapdog for Frank, willing to commit the stressful, inhumane acts that Frank requires just made him admirable. Maybe that's just something I admire in people: a pure loyalty.

I was kinda surprised she was in S2 at all and then she was dismissed off-hand anyway.

Strategized marketecture.

The ending is pretty rubbish (basically, everything during and after the titular date) and any time the narrative tries to mesh with the real-life trends of Oswald don't work that great, but it was pretty enjoyable.

Fuck five, I want a hundred and eight mics.

My parents like to brag that they saw Spacehunter in theaters as well! They were newlyweds stationed in Germany and their favorite bit was when the protagonists' ship crashes, the original shot featured an unfinished special effect shot in which you can see the parking lot where they shot the crash. Of course, every…

However, the worst scene in the film is when he's calling home and he gets trapped in enemy gunfire. Then his pregnant wife stands there in front of the hospital gasping like a Lifetime movie while her husband hunkers down against Islamic militants on the other side of the world.

I think we're talking around the same point: we wanted to see more of Chris Kyle's flaws. Honestly, he doesn't come across as "mentally ill" in the film, just driven and perhaps mislead by an upbringing that painted morality in very few shades. There wasn't much of anything that indicated he was a blood lusting…