Dr. Giggles and Darkman II: The Return of Durant.

@lfweigel88, with two posts on the AV Club you have become my friend. I beg of you, commenters, if you think that this show is a dire, trad, laugh-free embarrassment, please sound out.

Liked all of it, including the third act
Yes, the energy of the movie dissipates by the third act, and it's a horribly ugly movie, though that might have been the point. In a world with no artifice or imagination, things will look functional. In Lecture Films HQ, the bulletin board seems to be covered with pictures of…

Shawn Ryan has recently been tweeting about meeting Ekman, to get an idea of where to take the character.

I've yet to play Arkham Asylum, but I've heard great things about Spirit of Arkham. Perhaps I would have been more critical of the Sadie sub-plot if I'd played B:AA first.

@The Raft Blew Up, Dude! I already said THAaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAATTTT!!!

Plus all of the satire poking fun at Objectivism. You can't go wrong with it.

In the UK, via Amazon, it's discounted to 30. Games here are normally 50 (i.e. $80), with discounts bringing them down to 40. Perhaps this discrepancy in price is why I see American online commenters disliking it, but I've found UK fans have responded more positively. It's priced like an expansion pack, so the amount…

WAaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAAllllLLLLTTttttTTTT!!!

A-
I was going to say I've never disagreed with an AV Club review more, but that's a dick move. Agreed on the narrative playfulness. The way the story (two stories if you count Sadie's radio play) unfolds is beautifully done and completely engrossing. Plus, you get to play Halo as Nathan Fillion, Adam Baldwin and Alan…

@Matt Cardin ::applause:: Thank you for that. T'was food for thought.

Tone issues
Mr. VanDerWerff hit the nail on the head when he talked about the tone of the show. In the first season it seemed to have trouble settling down, and whenever it did get it right, the next two episodes would be off. It was like watching a dowsing rod flickering around trying to land on the right spot,…

It rewrote the visual language of turds? Truly a choad for the ages.

That must have been an amazingly profound turd. The Breakfast Club itself is the natural successor to Zero de conduite. You know this to be true. Give in to love.

They are indeed great points (you've made a case for it as the natural successor to The Breakfast Club, in fact), but I'm afraid the actual tiresome tone of the movie and the dreary pace, not to mention lack of identifiable jokes, turn me off nevertheless. Sorry.

I got your back, Rowan. The Apollo/Starbuck romance wrecked my enjoyment of BSG. The latter half of season two seemed to be preoccupied with it to an insane level. That boxing match episode promised so much, but, as you say, the next week we were back to square one.

I'd swap the grades for Wolverine and Transformers 2, give IB an A+ (if allowed), and drop Hangover to a C-, but otherwise, we're on a similar wavelength.

Ben Affleck, in top form
As chairman of the Ben Affleck Appreciation Society, this news pleases me greatly.

Yeah, I thought the last hour of the movie was a series of homeruns. I was beside myself with joy by the end. Only Inglourious Basterds has hit me harder so far this year.

It's like watching Pee Wee Herman pick a fight with the Hulk.