As have you. I watched it aagain earlier, and I was wrong about Bob. He does try to intervene in the mugging, which I had forgotten. He is also far more gung-ho and jock-like than I remember, which does give strength to the argument that he's in it for himself. Nevertheless, this is his failing, the central aspect of…

Unfortunately for your theory, OTAQ, 1906 is live action.

Oh God, I'm the worst self-editor in the world. From above:

What it comes down to, and what keeps getting lost in all of the talk of the Randian, macho, anti-feminist subtext of the movie, is that that's really the sub-sub-text, if indeed it exists at all. The actual subtext of the movie is about how responsibility, and family replace the things you did when you were younger,…

I'm going to have to split this up. Sorry for going on so much.
"I didn't feel like he went back to heroism for anything *but* the rush, and to deal with the anger he clearly felt at being mistaken for unspecial — i.e., a loser."

The backstory was great, and confirmed for me that the show is not just about hipster japery with no depth. It's the real deal, like Lost but with robots and flying cocoons (and, oddly enough, similar levels of failure; the Losties are all crap at being human, after all). Maybe everyone else felt Venture Brothers was…

Souche? Ugh. You all know where I was going with that.

Ananan, thank you for not pointing out what a sarcastic souche I was earlier. You would have been well within your rights. I apologise yet again.

Oh boy, that's the second time today I've written a really mean post and not bothered to read for context. Sorry, Ananan. I disagree strongly, but I mean no disrespect. I just love that character, and though I hate any right-wing bullshit about a woman staying at home because that's her place (a vile thought), I also…

Ananan, Dash comes second in the race. By choice. For him, it's the taking part that's the most important thing, not winning, which, of course, he could do without even expending any real effort. Giving someone else the chance to win when he could have easily come first is the antithesis of everything Ayn Rand stood…

"The fact that he writes articles for the New Yorker doesn't change the fact that his comedy persona has pretty much always been "straight looking white guy acting like an idiot". Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but it's hardly highbrow."

And it was James Stewart's last movie. That makes it all kinds of sad.

Ah hah! That charge cannot be laid at Bowfinger's feet. Murphy was doing that kind of mulltiple role thing in Coming To America, and arguably in Trading Places and Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2, where he is always pretending to be other people.

Man, I feel really bad about that. Sorry, Andrew Stanton! You have a really really good eye even though your films are too sentimental.

"Any time you're using characters who are physically superior from birth as the heroes, and you're pitting them against a normal person who just wants to be special, and you're painting the legal system as a barrier to allowing the naturally superior people doing whatever they want, you can't help but attract a stink…

If anything, it makes it funnier.

Actually, that looks rather more mean than it seemed in my brain.

How about this to help you out? Bird > Lasseter > Stanton.

Don Bluth brought us Titan AE. There can be no forgiveness.

Thank God I'm not alone!