No, the way Smith told it on An Evening With Kevin Smith, Jon Peters told him to put the stupid spider in his script, not that it was an idea from him.

He's no Charlton Heston

Defended from what? I imagine there's not a big movement going on to censor this movie. It's not like it's Cannibal Holocaust or Faces of Death.

Keith David?

Probably one of those "needs restrictions" artists like Stephen King or James Cameron. Loser and stuff like that probably came from somewhere too personal and indulgent. Course, this is a wild guess.

"It's a sad and beautiful Gotham. It's a sssaaaaaaad and beautiful Gotham."

"Upstarts, a 1990s period drama about the dotcom boom produced by The Social Network's Michael De Luca and Kevin Spacey"And the casts and crews of Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire whimper as their award prospects whither and die.

I'd say the pressure's getting to Rabin, but WHAT pressure?

Nah, that's more a reference to old movie serial cliffhangers that they somehow mixed up with Shakespeare.

All I know about the guy is through a Mr. Show commentary track, Bob Odenkirk described him inspiring a sketch in a way Odenkirk's voice made so much better. It went something like this
"This was inspired by watching a documentary about Al Jolson where there'd be these old people saying 'Now, ol' Al, he wasn't the…

Not at all. At least, not the episodes I've heard. He just tried to make the conversation about his relationship to that artist and about his career. I listened to his interview of Joe Rogan and learned nothing about Rogan, just that Maron was jealous of him when he knew him when Maron's career was going nowhere. I…

I don't buy it. I admit I don't know Linklater in the slightest personally, but the guy just seems way too laid back to believe something like that. I think he just finds conspiracy theorists like the guys in Slacker or Alex Jones entertaining so he'll put them onscreen. There's this Slate article where it's described…

How the fuck could this possibly work? Who the fuck is actually going to go to the trouble of copying and pasting that screenname, editing it, and going to that site? "Oh, I'd better go visit this Nathanrabin.com! Then I'll check out this Scotttobias.com!"

Once upon a midnight boring, my roommate asleep and snoring
I perused a site for some film review,
when spotted I a tiny writing, maybe praise or maybe spiting, 
of a movie sounding old yet new.

Who called the Popo?

Yes. And it's great how one of co-producer Lewis Friedman bashes not only the movie but Zucker a bit: 
http://www.avclub.com/artic… 

Does this one have a framing device as AL:VH did, or is it just straight into the pastiche? And now I realize it wasn't even said if this is presented as being like some sort of apocrypha. Is it?

What do the MLP people do that's bad? I've heard of Christian Chandler and other bad porn and fan fiction writers. I know there's a bunch of Invader Zim quotes people have milked dry, but all I've ever seen about this show is screencaps in avatars.

Boy, does that movie kind of dip in the middle. And I don't thing the pseudo-documentary format adds much.

What, would OneyNG, Jason Steele, or the Annoying Orange guy not answer your messages?