Through most of Friends' run I watched it for the hang-out vibe and zinger timing from the half of the cast I liked (Perry, Kudrow, and Aniston) but I always felt sort of guilty about it.  Partly because I felt like the characters were in truth almost as narcissitic and cruel as those on Seinfeld (a show it came to…

Although I agree with the write-up about Walking Dead, your experience was same as mine with the first season of 24.  I liked the format and feel of the show, but once I realized I'd missed an episode or two, and the wife was wandering the hills with freaking amnesia, a horrible plot device for a relatively realistic…

Okay, I can't reply to Scrawler, only to myself for some reason.  Anyone else finding the reply system still buggy?

I wouldn't write it off so fast.  It's not a great album, but I found it very worth a streaming listen, and I'll probably download a handful if not all the tracks.

As mentioned earlier I saw them the other way around, but maybe you're right. JGL seems more animated though, Tommy's juvenile mannerism were very over the top.

NPH as Dick and JGL (assuming he can sing as well) as Tommy FTW. Ryan Gosling as Dick isn't bad either, but being the less juicy role (he's the straight man in more ways than one) it may not warrant that.

I like how the actors espouse a real TV fan mindset, not at all just parroting marketing buzz words.  I can't tell you how many times friends have turned me onto TV shows by saying "It's epic appointment television.  A real event."

I think I did all of the above.  The few times I did a.) were by mistake.  For instance, I never knew the final track of Phil Collins' Face Value, the cover of Tomorrow Never Knows, ended with Phil singing the refrain from Somewhere Over the Rainbow, until I got it on CD.  The tape ended as the song was fading out, so…

Chris Klein is perfectly cast in the perfect role of Paul, who is really in some ways the soul of the movie.  Although he's vacuous ("and forgive me for my sins, whatever they may be") he is also completely uncorrupted, as evidenced by his reaction when they call him in with serious news about the election.  Instead…

This photo looks like both Jack and Jill are humping their popcorn bags.  For all I've gathered about the taste and quality of the movie, that's just what they are doing. 

There's the joke.  Nicely done.

Yeah, Humpday was pretty, um, limp. 

Classic Lennon response, brittle and hilarious.

Yeah, what he said! I agree that River Deep seems like an overrated record (and for that matter, Ike and Tina Turner seem to have a lot of okay singles that aren't quite of classic status. The writing was kind of funky in ways good and not so much. Not that Ike wrote River Deep, I assume that was Phil.)

My favorite story from the 60's has a high hipster Phil demanding an airline flight be returned from the tarmac to the gate so he could deplane because the other passangers were "a bunch of squares."

Mike D'angelo, I've not noticed your names on a lot of items yet, but I will look for it now.  Excellent write up.  It's a great point that it took real balls for Hughes to have Martin really go for the gut so early in the movie.

Candy was great in JFK, and when you think of it, that movie sort of presaged the era of huge crazy all-star casts that threw some unlikely performers together, most of them directed by P.T. Anderson or Q Tarantino.

Sounds a hell of a lot like The Hangover then.  I totally wanted the engaged guy to be dead and the rest thrown in jail.  Over the credits the developed film could be them getting cornholed by cell mates.

What your response tells me is that there is as much phony posturing and virtual deafness regarding pop song craft amongst hip hop fans and writers as amongst the artists. BEP at their best are much more in the tradition of MJ, Prince and Stevie Wonder than the hip hop groups you irrelevantly compare them too. It's…

Arguably many consider Zep to be Plant's prime, so I'm not sure it's way off base, though I am certainly a fan of his solo stuff which is strong enough to escape living in the shadow even of one of rock's greatest bodies of work.