I'll stand behind Matt Damon. People need to stop giving him shit about "Good Will Hunting" and the "Ocean's 11" movies. He was good in "The Informant" and "The Departed," and I really liked all of the Bourne movies. It's like Leonardo DiCaprio — everyone's so in love with themselves for hating his terrible early work…

idiotking, you just won the Internet in my mind.

This does not boat well for the continued health of the show.

"…The Dark Knight, which said everything Alan Moore wanted to say and made it better."

Damn, the teaser for "Fellowship of the Ring" WAS pretty awesome. I'd almost forgotten about it. That movie came out during my first semester at college, and it was the culmination of my entire geeky life up to that point. The teaser practically gave me a stroke with its awesomeness, the first time I saw it.

The film version of "Watchmen" perfectly encapsulates Zack Snyder's limitations as a director, in that it stunningly recreates the images of the graphic novel without having a clue as to their significance. It's like that one girl (or guy) we've all met at least once in high school/college: gorgeous but absolutely…

This review, and the accolades for Emma Stone, remind me of nothing so much as the similar hullabaloo over Lindsay Lohan circa "Mean Girls."

Some archival images of his old teaching syllabi recently were posted on the 'net. Dude was awesome even when putting together a frickin' lesson plan.

Agreed. Crappy movie overall, but dude can pull off deadpan humor like nobody's business. <3 PSH.

I think the problem is that these columns are just getting kind of same-y. They all follow the same outline.

True story - for their wedding-reception slideshow + pop song = mushy love feelings thingy, my friends chose "The Reason" as the song that played over the pictures of their courtship. I could not believe my ears. I'd known they didn't have the best taste in music, but that (plus their impassioned defense of "Avatar"…

Well, since "Paradise Lost" is already taken, I call dibs on "The Lord of the Rings." Unless plays count, in which case it would be a choice between "Hamlet" and "King Lear."

I'm still waiting for the movie satirizing fundamentalist Christianity that's written by somebody who actually has a clue how those people actually behave. E.g., the part in that EASY A trailer where the Christian girl is all "she has to get the hell out of here" and everyone in her prayer group is all "amen." In…

You forgot to throw in a "squamous" and a "cyclopean" in there somewhere.

Yeah, as soon as I heard the direction they were going with the story in this one, I was extremely disappointed. Samus was, to my knowledge anyway, the only major female game character who wasn't either weak or sexualized. She was a badass, she relied on no one but herself, and (perhaps most importantly) she was…

Addendum: I think Shyamalan's downward spiral can be chalked up to him buying into his own hype. The guy was having documentaries made about him after his first film, for crying out loud. In retrospect, it's not surprising that it all went to his head and made him think "hey maybe I should film a multimillion-dollar…

Shyamalan would've been my answer too, though I don't think his freefall started until the moment where Joaquin Phoenix whacked the alien with a baseball bat. Well, I take it back - the first half of THE VILLAGE was pretty awesome: atmospheric and creepy. I remember seeing it in the theater and getting my hopes up…

Failed secondsies.

Yeah, every time someone tries to dog Spielberg for being too sentimental and too black-and-white, I point them toward MUNICH. Whether or not you like that film, you have to admit that it avoids the easy good guys vs. bad guys dynamic. Of course, that may have something to do with the excellent screenplay too. In any…

I didn't much care for "Color Theory," and I don't see how it could be that hard. I basically just ran through the levels and touched every color switch I saw, which was always good enough for a finish except in a couple of levels. Maybe you're just thinking too hard.