I was actually surprised by how much I hated it. I mean, I wasn't expecting it to be great or anything, but the experience was unequivocally awful. Worst movie I've seen in a theater since "Terminator: Salvation."

Nah, Super Mario Bros 3 all the way. It refines everything that was great about the original, throws in better level design and more varied power-ups, and is just BIGGER. Friggin' Kuribo's Shoe!

Count me among the Cake lovers. They're not a GREAT band by any stretch, but their music is a lot of fun without being braindead like most "fun" bands. "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" and "Opera Singer" make me grin whenever I hear them.

Plus, Chicago.

Damn it. These comments really need a "delete" button.

I'd say "The Others" was the last film to pull off the twist effectively, though it wasn't quite as good as "The Sixth Sense."

That really is a hilariously awful line of dialogue. To me, it sounded like veiled sexual innuendo: "She's got two enormous master's degrees and a PhD that never ends! HOT!"

RagingBear, you'd have a point if

I retract what I just said. Someone pointed me to this scene:

I think what the reviewer meant is that the game doesn't pander to the teenage demographic by including a lot of shoot-em-up action or leering cutscenes with female nudity. Those elements may be present (I don't know, I haven't played this), but they're not there just for cheap titillation. Compare with "Indigo…

The part that always gets me is in the final seconds of the film. Having wandered through the crumbling ruins of his gigantic project, Caden is being cradled in the arms of a motherly woman as Dianne Wiest's voice narrating stage directions into his earpiece. He mumbles something like, "I think I understand [my play]…

The part where he's doing marital counseling with his wife, and she says something like, "This may make me an evil person, but sometimes I wish you were dead."

That woman in the above photo
Who is that actress? She looks like a Middle Eastern Zooey Deschanel.

That scene with Tom Noonan jumping is one of the most important in the film. I'm glad somebody pointed it out because without it a viewer might be tempted to think of "Synecdoche" as just an exercise in solipsism (as, apparently, Mike D'Angelo did). The entire film is about Caden and his art, anxieties, and personal…

He sort of struck me as a poor man's Richard Gere. And I never understood why women thought Gere was hot, either.

Yeah, I was kind of mystified by the "Back to the Future" remark too. How is it anything at all like "The Time Machine"? Other than the fact that there's time travel in both, I can't think of a single similarity.

Wait, is "Ender's Game" happening after all? Last I heard, production was scrapped, probably because they were experiencing the same problem noted about "Lord of the Flies": finding an 11-year-old who can convincingly play a conflicted military genius/killer is hard. I've seen that 1963 film of LOTF: the performances…

The first two probably tie for the best, though I personally preferred #1. There's a pretty sharp dropoff for the third installment, mostly due to the rushed ending mentioned in this review.

Good thing that Hollywood is working on a remake as we speak, so that they can add in all the action and vampire violence that the silly Swedes left out of their version. Yet I'll still have to go see it, since it's being filmed in my hometown, at my old high school.

Hmm, that's not much a palindrome.