Yeah, deus ex machine predates us by a couple thousand years, so I don't think we can take much credit on that one.

"Coffee and bagels" doesn't have an entry yet, I'll write one up.

I feel like I want "It was so cold that night..." to be a thing, too.

Considering that the Confederacy arose pretty much exclusively because they wanted to own human beings with dark skin and were mad that they weren't going to be allowed to do so, anyone who is proud to display the flag of that movement and root for that side is celebrating racism practically by definition.

/close encounters

Frankly I think we could stand quite a bit less blind rah-rah nationalism over here.

/so very on topic

Filmmakers have taken to insisting that "performance capture" films, like TINTIN and everything Zemeckis has made lately -- are not the same as animated films despite everything being created digitally. So perhaps, as a result, it didn't qualify.

I think you just answered your own question, then.

We did neglect to mention it.

The problem in a nutshell, if it's still unclear to anyone:

Under the current incarnation of SOPA, posting this gif

is an act of piracy, and a valid reason to shut the entire site down permanently, or rather to permanently block access from U.S. ISPs. Posting it just once. That's about as not-cool as it gets.

If you started now you'd have just enough time to watch the entire series before the recording tomorrow.

Although the movie only comprises the first season's story (what story there is in the movie), so you could easily watch the first season and the film today if you were so inclined.

You seem to have chosen a very appropriate forum handle. That rage was indeed quite mellow.

It is impossible to be sober and like COP OUT at the same time. Which is particularly infuriating because the spec script it mangled is one of the funniest I've ever read.

If you're basing the "diva" thing solely on things you heard about his behavior on COP OUT, you should watch "Too Fat For Forty." In which Smith gleefully tells you his story of how, via a dedicated campaign of complete unprofessionalism, he taught Bruce Willis to hate him.

I watched both the film and TFF40 in the same week and I kind of hated him after, too.

JURASSIC PAR

An up-and-coming golf whiz (Shia LeBeouf), a disgraced former world champion (Will Smith), and Jeff Goldblum (Jeff Goldblum) travel to an eccentric billionaire's private island to prove themselves in the deadliest game of golf in the world: 18 holes through the territory of cloned dinosaurs. THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE meets PREDATOR, this jungle has one law: you have to play through.

Oh BTW, no, I didn't work on AIRBENDER. Although I do now work at the company that did its less-than-well-received 3D conversion.

(In their defense, it was their first conversion, a last minute rush job, and if I could tell you the process they were using then -- totally different from the current one -- the result would make sense. They got better -- they're currently doing TITANIC among other projects.)

(I'm not on the TITANIC team.)

(Vote AIRBENDER)

(Vote Quimby)

You bet your ass there'll be lembas bread.