Open Thread for June 17, 2011
“Green Lantern,” “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” and Anthony Wiener’s resignation. What a great week, America!
Posts by Mark Lee on Overthinking It
The Prestige Factor For Actors
Measuring actors’ Prestige Factor by their movies’ release dates
The State of Schwarzenegger Fandom, Post-Scandal
How does a bummed-out, Overthinking Arnold fan cope with the paternity scandal?
Statistical Analysis of Movie Title Lengths
Spoiler alert: weak R squared values ahead.
Tik Tok Blues: The Music Video
The Ke$ha classic “Tik Tok,” sung by Mark Lee in the style of Muddy Waters.
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Nitpicking “Terminator”
“What happened to the guy that stood up Sarah Connor?” and other important questions in Terminator Studies.
Underthinking It: The Musical Talmud: “The Star Spangled Banner” By Jimi Hendrix
You’d think that this supposedly great musician would actually sing while playing his guitar, but no.
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The Alien Paul vs the Apostle Paul
In which we consider the theological implications of a pot-smoking alien with the voice of Seth Rogen
Open Thread for March 18, 2011
Nurse that post-St. Patrick’s Day hangover with that Hair of the Dog we like to call the Overthinking It Open Thread. This is probably of interest to our readership: Simon Pegg’s geek fan-service alien movie Paul is opening this week. … Continued
What We Talk About When We Talk About “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark”
Well, gender politics and the economy, for starters.