I agree. There is a great deal of potential for entertaining smack talk on shitty late 90's radio rock, and I'm always disappointed when I don't get at least one solid paragraph knocking 3 Doors Down down a peg.

Yeah, "Fellowship" is by far the best of the three. The treatment of Saruman was stupid, especially Gandalf's line in the theatrical version, "oh yea, he's done. Everything's cool now. Nothing to see here, let's move on."

Bullhorn and Sandwich Board
Keith,

It saddens me to admit that that Cosby episode was the first thing I thought of when I saw this headline.

Eh, Sandman's a bit different. Sure, a lot of it takes place in Dreams, but mostly from the standpoint of Dream/Morpheus himself. The movies/shows listed here take place within character's heads, where they have little or no control over the reality, and often aren't even aware that they're dreaming.

My mom, whose favorite musician is Josh Groban, Netflixed "In Bruges" based on the title. Because we went there once 10 years ago and it was a quaint, pretty city with good waffles and antique stores. Little did she know she was getting a pitch-black comedy predicated by a little boy getting shot in the head…

I hated "Heartbreaking Work" and the orgy of preciousness it seemed to summon from the muddy depths (see also: Foer, Jonathan Safran). His writing style irks me and I dislike the general tone of McSweeney's (the mag at least). I also deeply dislike John Hodgman's schtick, if that gives you some idea of my tastes.

I was also down on YA, thinking it was all Hardy Boys and Sweet Valley High, until a friend introduced me to the good stuff. I honestly think a great deal of YA is written for adults, but just gets a YA label.

I get into shouting matches with myself over that damned ending. Half of me was really touched by the reunion and Kate saying, "I missed you so much," the other half of me thinks that half of me is an idiot.

I don't care much about ET, but I would certainly as hell love my own child slightly less if they didn't love Wall-E.

Yeah, you can't deny he's been a big influence, but that influence has not been good.

Er…
Don't you mean "fanned the flames"? Because unless you're using gasoline, dousing flames usually causes them to go out.

Mrs Gods Pancakes

If they wanted to criticize TDS, they could have been quoted anonymously. And they wrote an open letter in rebuttal. That seems pretty supportive of TDS to me.

Zack
That was very beautifully written.

It's just a terrible paragraph all around. Like something I'd have written in junior high.

WW could be charming and exciting in the hands of the right writer, just like Super-Girl. Much like Thor, I think WW's best off in a more fantastical, Conan-like setting. An Amazonian demi-god shouldn't be fighting off muggers robbing old ladies in New York allies. She should be fighting off centaurs robbing old…

DS9 kicked all kinds of ass. It's my favorite Trek. It was slow early on when it was trying to be "TNG with a light splash of Balkan politics," but became great when the Dominion showed up, Worf became a regular, and Sisqo turned into a sort of anti-hero.

"The Incredibles" has a lot of great moments, my favorite being, "you're trying to pick a fight, but I'm just happy you're still alive."

Weird
I actually thought about this movie for the first time in years last night. I went out to buy ice cream at 7-11. It was dark and I briefly mused, "man, I hope I don't get shot and end up retarded like Harrison Ford in that one movie."