ArtVanderlay

Yeah, I think it was something about her calling Charlie Sheen unprofessional and him getting her fired. I mean, I'm sorta surprised Charlie Sheen would get offended at someone calling him "unprofessional." Surely that would be like telling him water is wet or something? My guess is unprofessional at that point was code for he wanted to sleep with her and she laughed and said HELLBOY That was five years after Hellboy 2 did a "disappointing" $186 million. That wouldn't make sense unless she was under the impression that Hellboy 3 was in pre-production.

Moon Bloodgood didn't really capitalize on the push she got from Terminator: Salvation. She's in Falling Skies, but she just turned 40 and probably doesn't have much shelf-life left before she's doing Syfy Originals.

Salvation was a perfectly fine "post-apocalyptic action film" for the first hour and a half, and then Sam Worthington steps on that land mine.

Uh, guys, I started this thread so that the "Movies" thread wouldn't get clogged with discussion about shows better than Firefly. Let's get those lists/debates going here.

1. Roots 2. Shogun 3. M*A*S*H 4. Rich Man, Poor Man 5. Roots: The Next Generation 6. Cheers 7. Seinfeld 8. Star Trek: The Next Generation 9. The Winds of War 10. Fernwood 2 Night/America 2 Night 11. Ken Burns' The Civil War 12. Hill Street Blues *drops mic*

The works of Jonathan Franzen don't exactly scream "billion dollar action movie franchise."

I loved tonight's Raw podcast with Dave going "If you know you wanna do Ronda Rousey, just do it. I know who I want to do, you know who you want to do, just do it." I really hope Dave's wife was walking past his office and heard that line out of context as he said it. And the "you told me [seth's head] was made of chocolate" bit reminded me of the Key to the CIty gag from the Mr. Plow episode of The Simpsons.

How'd Idaho...my kingdom...treat you? Much better.

WOO! Local gun shop called, my Colt Commander in 9mm that I ordered finally came in after six weeks. I was worried that with Colt's bankruptcy, I wouldn't get it before they get auctioned off next month.

Fuck you to the Colorado and Wyoming Departments of Transportation. I had to call on clients in Loveland, CO, Laramie, WY, and Boise, Idaho last week and ended up being exposed to the "joys" of U.S. 287 and Interstate 80. Apparently, you Coloradans have never heard of the concept of six-lane super highways, given that U.S. 287 is an undeveloped two-lane road for most of its hundred miles. And nobody knows how to drive on 287, I ended up in 3 near accidents as local morons tried to pass each other and swerve in and out of the opposite lane. And to the people of Wyoming, they have this new invention called a "tunnel." You can actually dig a hole through a mountain and put a freeway through it, rather than put the freeway on top of the mountains, where 70 MPH winds blast across the mountaintops. And they also have this new invention called the street light, which you can line the freeway with so that people can see the street at night without having to rely on your headlights. God help you if your car breaks down on I-80 after dark. You're literally walking 20 miles to the nearest gas station, frigid winds blasting the whole time, and the air is thin as fuck.

So I stumbled across this, this afternoon: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2015/01/19/abandoned-love-did-the-joker-turn-catwoman-evil/ ...and WOW, Mike Barr and Alan Davis are so lucky that the Internet didn't exist in 1986, b/c this is just one of the most disturbing rape allegories I've read in a long time. I actually felt kinda scuzzy after reading that article, like I did after reading the rape scene/massacre of small children scene in Kick Ass 2. Thank God this got retconned out by Year One.

You forgot to list Body of Lies, Matchstick Men, or The Counselor.

If they want to do a story like that, they should have Sylvester McCoy come in for a team-up episode and have McCoy manipulate a bunch of people getting killed to achieve his goals, and Capaldi's doctor being horrified that his previous self would do stuff like that.

Has there been any actual news about a sequel to Call of Duty: Ghosts in recent times? I know they promised one at release, but it seems that FPS' that end with a "your brother has been captured by the enemy" cliff hanger are cursed (Medal of Honor fans know what I'm talking about).

http://marvel.com/cards/177/tour_the_all-new_parker_industries/start Marvel: Hey kids, you like Spidey, right? Comic Book Fan: Yeah! Marvel: You wanna read about Spidey jet setting around China, France, India, and Africa? Comic Book Fan: Um no. I wanna read about him fighting crime in New York. Marvel: Too bad. But ya like reading about corporate intrigue in Parker Industries, right? Comic Book Fan: No, I wanna read about Peter palling around with the staff of the Daily Bugle in between selling photos of Spidey to J. Jonah Jameson. Marvel: Again, too bad. But hey, ya like the Spidey Mobile, right? Comic Book Fan: Good God, no! That is some of the stupidest shit ever- Marvel: [sweating] TOO BAD! And hey, here's Miguel O'Hara and Miles Morales, too. Comic Book Fan: Huh? Oh, I don't care about those two characters- Marvel: Oh, I see, you're racist. Comic Book Fan: What?!!? Marvel: You're racist. You don' t wanna read about two multiracial characters like Miles Morales and Miguel O'Hara. Comic Book Fan: [Waving copies of Ms. Marvel, Amadeus Cho Incredible Hulk, and Maus in the air] I don't care about their skin color, I just don't care about those two characters. Speaking of which, what about Mary Jane- Marvel: She's over in Iron Man, getting her brains fucked out by Tony Stark every month. Comic Book Fan: What?!!? Marvel: And coming this fall to Disney XD, it's the Ms. Marvel/Sabra Power Hour! A Muslim and a Jewish superhero promoting religious harmony while fighting crime! Comic Book Fan: Waitaminute! Iron Man!??! Marvel: We're FAAANTASTIC!

Jesus, those "Free 3-D Model" ads are irritating. They act like they're targeted at aspiring CGI animators, but we all know they're really targeted at perverts with no social skills.

*sigh* Walther PPKs didn't have "white dot" sights in 1946-47.

Unfortunately for her, she's almost 40 (though looks a good 15 years younger), took time off from acting/modeling to spawn Robin Thicke's kid, and has shown poor choice in her non-MI roles (Baggage Claim, anyone?).

EVA wrote in the Marvel TV thread: I'll disagree here. Lord Taylor has quickly become a leading "dealbreaker actor" for me in that I'll actively avoid anything he's in. For me, what caused me to give up on Gotham completely was the episode where they break Falcone out of the hospital and Lord Taylor is handcuffed to a wall and screaming to let Gordon let him kill Falcone. I was praying that Gordon was going to scream "SHUT UP!!" and empty his gun into Penguin and the next day on twitter the producers would be all "hey, guess what, this is an alternate universe. Not everyone is going to make it to when Bruce becomes Batman." Just awful, over the top hammy acting, and I hate hammy acting. Obviously there are people on here who like it, but it's not for me. And then after the commercial break, Jada Pinkett Smith and the girl who plays Selina Kyle both show up with hair like Sheila E. from the 1980s and that's when I gave up on the show completely and flipped the channel. If they wanna dial down the campiness, turn it more into "Law & Order/NCIS meets Super Villains" I might come back,

Hopefully he has more common sense than Kenta Kobashi, and has the surgery.

When I think of all the dumb shit ESPN has done over the last 20 years: - 24 hour Terell Owens coverage - giving Max Kellerman a forum to share his views with the world - that poker show Tilt - putting Jim Rome and The Fabulous Sports Babe on TV screens -giving Skip Bayless a forum to share his views with the world -'We talkin' bout practice' -Colin Cowherd's racism and outright hatred of America's blue collar working class -giving Mitch Albom a forum to share his overly simplistic 'Tuesdays With Morrie' bullshit views with the world -Jason Whitlock: Racial Prognosticator -Mike and Mike -Scott Van Pelt: Rap Aficionado -The ESPYS -Giving Woody Paige a forum to share his views with the world When I think of all of that and thousands of other dumb things ESPN has done, and the prospect that behind-the-scenes people who are partially responsible for the above are about to lose their jobs, I'm reminded of a quote from the Ken Burns' documentary The Civil War, in regards to Union general William Tecumseh Sherman: "He hated reporters, because they revealed military secrets to sell newspapers. He was convinced that if he killed all of them, there would be news from Hell before breakfast."

I found L.A. Takedown on Youtube last night. For those of you who've never heard of it, it's a 1989 TV movie pilot written and directed by Michael Mann that was later remade into Heat, and if you've never seen it, it's truly wretched with flat acting from Scott Plank in the Pacino role and ham handed editing. Anyways, Michael Rooker, with a blow dryed perm, shows up in the Ted Levine role and Daniel Baldwin shows up in the Mykelti Wilson role.

*shrugs* It's Grantland, their whole gimmick these days seems to be being "outraged" over one thing or another. Having a twitter meltdown b/c Selma didn't win Best Picture and Ava DuVernay wasn't even nominated is one thing, posting a manifesto-length attack on a puppet show you didn't like is a waste of processing power.

Thank you, Berke Breathed, for today's strip. I think it was about five years ago, when I briefly had a blog, that I noticed that these Millenial young punks only put one space in-between sentences, rather than two. It's two,dammit! TWO! You young folks, listening to your iPods as you roll to work on your Segways, while you sit in a Starbucks and complain to your friends about how your 27 with a law degree and still live at home while you work at the Starbucks your sitting in, it's TWO DAMNED SPACES BETWEEN SENTENCES! If all of you had actually listened to your Language Arts' teachers in high school, instead of texting each other, you'd know that.