jonsharky

38-year-old Millenial here. Weirdly, the first time I truly felt like an adult was the release of Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens. To add context, my mother had introduced me to Star Wars at a young age, and the 1997 remaster of the original trilogy (with new computer generated… Read More

Kelsey Grammer didn't like rehearsing when filming Frasier. He'd learn his lines last-minute, maybe walk through the sequence once for blocking purposes, and then they'd record the scene. He claimed that too much rehearsing robs a scene of its spontaneity, and reactions to situations… Read More

A lot of people like to bring up how in Cheers, Frasier claims to be an only child whose parents are dead, and yet in Frasier, he has a father (Martin) and a brother (Niles). The writers of Frasier did attempt to retcon this in the episode where Sam from Cheers visits Frasier, and… Read More

"So long, partner..." - the final line from Toy Story 3. I was already a wreck from the incinerator scene, and that line just finished me off. I was 11 when the first film was released, those were, in essence, my toys, and it was like Woody was saying goodbye to me. Honestly, despite… Read More

This is a really nerdy one, but when characters in 'serious' Zombie movies use the word "Zombie". How do they know to use the word? Characters will use the word Zombie without any reference as to how they know the word. Do zombie movies and stories exist in other zombie cinematic… Read More

The live action Super Mario Brothers movie. If you were a child when it was released, as I was, it was awesome! As an adult, the idea that 2 directors who wanted to make a cyberpunk movie took the hottest property around, clumsily adapted it to their cyberpunk vision, cast an Englishman… Read More

I was obsessed with this film as a child, and defend it to this day. If you're aware of the behind-the-scenes drama surrounding the film's production, it's amazing it got made at all. Fun fact; the woman who played the Sorceress went on to play Monica and Ross's mother on Friends.… Read More

I was and still am a big fan of the Alan Garner fantasy stories, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) and its sequel The Moon of Gomrath (1963). Wonderful fantasy stories set in Cheshire, England in which the author blends Norse mythology with English folk mythology and legends to… Read More

When people think of Terry Pratchett, most will think of Discworld. Weirdly, I could never get into Discworld, but I was a huge fan of his Johnny Maxwell trilogy - 'Only You Can Save Mankind', 'Johnny and the Dead' and 'Johnny and the Bomb' - which I always felt never got the respect… Read More

"Love is what hopefully remains when 'the idea of being in love' dies" It was an interesting phrase that was spoken by, of all people, a priest at a religious friend's wedding. I'm not religious, but the idea that Love and The Idea Of Being In Love are two different things has stuck… Read More