Recent content by Arbitrary

I don't remember if he said where the other films ended up and I'm not going back to look. I'm going to have a hard time believing Jay would rather watch The Gift than Evil Dead 1, The Quick and the Dead, A Simple Plan, Send Help, the other Spidermens, etc.

Caught for the first time. It's something I really should have caught on basic cable and somehow never did. Ivan Reitman came a long fucking way from this to Ghostbusters in only five years with Stripes in the middle. I know Meatballs was well liked in it's time but this is more like a work...

I'm not saying that they're equal. I'm saying that George R R Martin's writings were informed by Lord of the Rings (and it's innumerable ripoffs). Which they were. Martin's been asked about and compared to Tolkien a bajillion times. This is my take on what he's said and what we've received.

With Game of Thrones functioning in part as a response to and a subversion of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings I must say that never finishing the story fits perfectly. Instead of your son protecting your most important literary contribution and stewarding it through the decades you instead don't...

Hey, Rich quit reading Spiderman the same time I did with One More Day. Spiderman makes a deal with the devil to nuke his marriage so his elderly aunt can live a little bit longer. This nukes a bunch of character development and shreds several currently running plots all at the same time...

Boner comedy about nerds driving across country for the best deal on computer parts

Growing up raised by humans he became a total weeb (for Klingon stuff). His idealism runs head first in to the reality of the Klingon Empire on numerous occasions across both TNG and DS9 adding depth to the character and conflict for the writers to explore. Hell, towards the end of DS9 he...

There's more than you might think

I've got it in the "like" category but it can be a challenge. The distance between the cool parts gets pretty fucking wide. I caught the sequel for the first time last year and actually really liked it. Hal gets a character arc even. It shares nothing in terms of aesthetic with Kubrick's film...

Pacing? I've got your pacing right here. I was in to sci fi and horror at an irresponsibly early age so I was willing to give a lot of stuff a chance. When I first saw Planet of the Apes it was 25 years old it wasn't even as old then as The Matrix is now. It made a fucking mountain of cash...

Didn't Tuco play all those games and report on them?

I caught a ton of movies when I was a 90s kid that were from the 60s and 70s because of basic cable combined with nothing else going on. Given all of the available options today I can't see how young people would choose to sit down and watch any particular movie of 20/30/40/whatever years ago...

They tweeted no Trial of the Sekhema as soon as people saw the hourglass and freaked out.

I'm a little more interested in seeing if Trial of the Ancients or Mercenaries make it back in than how the new mechanic works.