Disney’s $250 million epic John Carter earned a measly $30 domestic box office its first weekend. Would anyone like to know why? Because it’s name is John Carter. You can’t give a sci-fi fantasy epic a prosaic name like that. People assume that it’s ironic, that you’re not really doing a real epic, but some… Read More Why Names Matter: John Carter Tanks (Updated)
Not only an actor, and a blues musician, but an author as well: The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie.
I’m reading Althouse’s Fisking of Maher’s recent yammering crap about his uncomfortable role in the ongoing Limbaugh outrage kabuki, and the only thing I take away is that this tool has the nerve to cast himself as Carlin’s successor. Lemme explain something to you, Bill: You are not Carlin’s successor. You are not fit to… Read More Did Bill Maher Actually Compare Himself to George Carlin?
You could not pay me to care any less about the Oscars. A million dollars would not spur me to care less. “I’m sorry,” I would say to your offer of a million dollars, “but the task you set before me is impossible. Human boredom can only do so much.” So enjoy this instead. Blogging… Read More Quiet Monday
Ace uncovers it in a (generally positive) review of The Woman in Black: The PG-13 rating is misleading. It doesn’t have the typical red flags of an R-rated movie. And I guess you can’t give someone an R for mood and tone and pervasive morbidity. So they got a PG-13. But it’s really an “R” movie,… Read More The Problem with the Movie Rating System
…was way back on the road this little girl died on. This is one of those stories that one doesn’t even want to read; you get the particulars in the first paragraph, and you drop the rest. It’s both too horrible and too banal to comment on. But Ladd Ehlinger does a damn good job… Read More The Point Where Punishment Becomes Abuse…
HIMYM was funny tonight. “I camp in secret,” “Landing strip on Marshall, even money,” good stuff. Last line, super-annoying.
Watched “Midnight in Paris” yesterday. Is it just me, or do all Woody Allen movies lack a third act?
I remember getting all worked up because people drank crap beer. I no longer do so, because I understand why people drink crap beer. Because it’s beer. BEER. What people drink when they want to get slowly and pleasantly drunk. They don’t want to intellectualize it. They don’t want to turn it into an aesthetic… Read More Bad Beer is Bad.
I never promised I was done with this.
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