@ Limeade Youth

No, it just seems incredibly insulting to order the same type of food that your business serves from some other business.

I wonder if Topher Grace was really all that big a jerk. I mean, Soderbergh's used him in three films now, met with Kutcher for one to see if he was just a vacant party boy and decided he wouldn't use him. Soderbegh hardly seems like a difficult man to get along with, so I can't imagine him hiring someone repeatedly…

Funny enough, I rated this about a D+ at the time, and it was captured as a B-. I just tried changing it and it still says B-. That's weird.

WAY off topic, but…
I thought of a scenario earlier that I thought would be funny.

I regret that I have but two eyes to roll for my country.

CASINO? Um, no. Please don't be another CASINO
Please don't be another CASINO
Please don't be another CASINO
Please don't be another CASINO
Please don't be another CASINO
Please don't be another CASINO
Please don't be another CASINO

@ Rawhide and Werner

DEEP IMPACT/ARMAGEDEON
ANTZ/A BUG'S LIFE
FIBDING NEMO/A SHARK'S TALE
CRASH/some television after-school special*

Sorta. In the foreward he talks about the genesis of the series and how, at the end of the book, he'll be revisiting ELIZABETHTOWN.

Santa's not coming this year
Unemployed, downscaled, and not in the mood.

Rilke writes poetry. cummings writes poetry. Issa writes poetry. Mallick's poetry is not poetry.

The tone of it in the trailer made it seem odd, but I never know about some stuff like this. Thanks.

Is it normal for a dad to want his boy to hit him? I can understand if he's trying to teach him boxing or something, but… as a rite of passage? Is that normal?

BADLANDS and DAYS OF HEAVEN are faaaaaaaaaantastic.

Did the story somehow recently go public domain or something?
Not sure what the rights issues are, but why all the productions all the sudden? Especially why start a stop-motion that'll probably take two or three years and come out after everyone's clearly burned-or-bummed out?

I thought it was meh. I was a little disappointed even with low expectations, but I got a few laughs for matinee money.

MORNING GLORY
I would've put MORNING GLORY on this list. I mean, I'm sure there are tons of direct-to-DVD movies that came out that were worse, and the only one on this list I''ve seen is HOT TUB (which was meh, but not AWFUL), but MORNING GLORY was just atrotious on almost all counts. Goldblum was okay, and McAdams…

I thought maybe with THE THIN RED LINE he'd gotten his worst impulses out of his system
…saw this trailer the other day in the theater and concluded, "I guess not."

Good to hear!