I would guess because it's based on the same books the movies are based on and not the movies themselves.

2 years later, but:

Way to revolt against "'thoughtful' clickbait articles" by clicking on it to comment that you refuse to read it. That should work.

I guess I just don't know these people who had high hopes for A Thousand Words. I also don't know people who had low hopes for it, as I've never heard of it before this conversation.

If you take those 7 films, three were financial disappointments.

Is Mae Whitman really more known from Arrested Development than Parenthood at this point? Even if Arrested Development was seen by as many people (and I don't think it was), she was more prominently featured in Parenthood and therefore showed up in more commercials and all that.

I understand not wanting to look at betting markets ahead of time because it can ruin the fun, but when you then write a preview column for the Oscars and declare (in some cases massive) underdogs as favorites or darkhorses, it makes you look completely ignorant.

Bobby Hill, for sure. Lot's of people like to try out their Hank Hill impersonations on me. "Damn it, Bobby!"

That lyric is downright straightforward and sensible. It's inclusion is truly bizarre.

Does "Slowly walking down the hall faster than a cannonball" not pretty accurately capture the feeling of being fucked up to anyone else?

I'm surprised there's no "An albino, a mulatto, a mosquito, my libido." It's about as weird as it gets, and it's not like it's obscure.