One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another’s worlds, preventing gridlock.
I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.
We are the playthings of the gods.
Some of these people make my skin crawl.
What you see is so much less than what you get.
A lot of first novels are written long before they’re actually put down on paper.
The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.
Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.
A young girl is possessed by a devil, and Constantine shouts, ‘I need a mirror! Now! At least three feet high!’ He can capture the demon in the mirror and throw it out the window, see, although you wonder why supernatural beings would have such low-tech security holes.
It is all very well and good for Linda Lovelace, the star of the movie, to advocate sexual freedom; but the energy she brings to her role is less awesome than discouraging. If you have to work this hard at sexual freedom, maybe it isn’t worth the effort.
Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.
What’s sad about not eating is the experience, whether at a family reunion or at midnight by yourself in a greasy spoon under the L tracks. The loss of dining, not the loss of food.
You can’t just tell actors, especially young ones, to ‘act happy’ and expect them to do it. They must in some essential way be happy.
If there’s anything I hate more than a stupid action comedy, it’s an incompetent stupid action comedy. It’s not so bad it’s good. It’s so bad it’s nothing else but bad.
Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you’ve never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.
Nobody looks perfect. We have to find peace with the way we look and get on with life.
We are poor mortals, but it dreams to us that we can fly.
Fight Club is a thrill ride masquerading as philosophy – the kind of ride where some people puke and others can’t wait to get on again.
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.