Michael Bay: A Quantitative Comparative Analysis
How bad is Michael Bay, really? And how does he compare to some of the greatest directors of our time, quantitatively?
Posts by Mark Lee on Overthinking It
The Ghostbusters’ Risky Business Plan
Forget Gozer and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. What about the cash flow problem?
No Fate But What We Make: The Greatest Terminator Lie Ever Told
“No Fate” did not spring fully formed from James Cameron’s skull. It’s a messy doctrine from a narrative point of view, and from a meta-narrative point of view, it’s the undoing of the franchise.
Star Wars Episode I: The Tenth Anniversary Confessional Booth
Admit it: you liked Episode One when you first saw it. And you didn’t think Jar Jar was all that bad.
Bedknobs, Broomsticks, and Terminators: James Cameron’s Inspiration?
Angela Lansbury = Skynet?
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Wolfenstein 3D and the iPhone: The Odd Couple
What happens when you put a violent edgy video game onto a sleek showoff toy and take them into public?
The Pump Action Shotgun: The Sound and the Fury
Say hello to my distinctively sounding little friend.
Bruce Springsteen’s Sequel to “The Wrestler”
Given his fixation with people/things that have only one of something (ponies and tricks, dogs and legs, men with arms, etc.), we figured it’d go something like this: (Lyrics by Belinkie, Fenzel, and Lee. Guitar, piano, and vocals by Lee.) … Continued
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Dr. Manhattan, Meet Dr. Bridge and Tunnel
There is no future. There is no past. do you see, bra?
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A Photoshop—and Economic—Disaster
Americans don’t make things anymore. They Photoshop things.
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