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Needs more Ted McGinley.

Maybe it's my inability to appreciate Chevy Chase, but the film seemed slight, occasionally clever without being particularly funny and utterly disposable. Are there really millions out there waiting with baited breath for a Fletch franchise? Doesn't something have to actually been popular for it to warrant nostalgia?

Does the public at large even realize South Park (still) exists?

CoH at felt like a real city (at least to the degree an MMO can). Stupid civilians panicking for real or imagined reasons, cars, billboards, etc. You could click on them and they'd respond - little stuff, but it added a great deal. This one sounds like devs who can't see the forest for the trees and ignore the little

Being a non-admirer of AD doesn't help, but I find Cera's appearance to be really off-putting. He's too skinny and awkward-looking to be the leading-man people seem desperate to try to typecast him as, and he's just flat-out goofy-looking in the face. I only skimmed through the Scott Pilgtim comics, but was thinking

Why not a zombie procedural - people that watch TV seem to love that stuff, and (in theory) the younger people that don't watch CSI are zombie-obsessed, so you get both! NCIS:Z - a win/win!

Actually, it also sounds like the woman is incredibly naive and oblivious thinking she can just go back home and everyone else will fix her problems for her. It might not be on an equal level as the violence, but, if, say, your crack-whore sister decides to move back in with mom and dad, guilt them into letting her in

Maybe, but the "you can't enjoy something unless you're good at it" is common enough - and stupid enough - that I doubt that's meant as a joke. All it leads to is people who don't immediately ace something and then dropping it as unpleasant, leading tiny empty lives devoid of interest. Plus winning is only great when

Not Stilt-man!?!?! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I liked her in Observe and Report, but what really bugged me was the sex scene with Ray Liotta. She was stripped down to her bra - for car-sex; do girls really stop at the bra like that? If you're gonna keep your shirt on and hide the gods, fine, but stopping at bras when the panties are clearly off seems insane.

I'm not debating quality or watchability - i'm sure some are great. I just don't get why they eat up time at an awards show that has more or less nothing to do with the art form and a TV audience (I could see insiders caring) that is almost completely disinterested.

The Fantastic Four seem like the classic 70s comic, what with non-stop aliens, a reasonably stable group dynamic, SCIENCE, 3/4 of them acting like actual adults, etc. But have they really be relevant since then? And once everyone went all mopey-dark-whiny-13-year-olds-in-adult-bodies in the 90s, who buys FF comics?

I've always assumed they brought Bucky back precisely because of the meme, probably totally misunderstanding it. It wasn't that he was popular or missed, but the "no one ever dies" being so pathetic. It wasn't a comment on a half-forgotten character, but on how cheap death was in comics.

Would the world end if they stopped awarding shorts?
I mean, it's nice that the form has a venue to be recognized, but is this it? They seem so completely out of place, no one has ever seen any of them, and they just eat time on a show that never has enough of it. Back in the day when they showed shorts to open films,

Wonder Woman has the same problem as Superman, in that the iconic image is more or less impossible for a human to achieve, and anyone that comes close is pretty much guaranteed to have the acting ability of a turnip. So you either sort of get close (say, Xena-era Lucy Lawless) with the look and just try to write

Boy! They're really sockin' it to that Spiro Agnew guy again, he must work there or something.
Granted, a ceremony that showed the actual worst of the year would likely be really depressing and somehow dull, but who is the target audience for the Razzies? It's like a list of movies for people who didn't see any of

If you never liked any of it from day one does it count as backlash? I mean, people who "love" stuff because it's hip and popular to do so, then turn on it later for the same reasons annoy everyone. But if you're one of the few, the proud, the outcast who find the Apatows and Hurwitzs of the world overly-clever, oddly

White Mike?
Maybe he just had some business to attend to down on the corner?

Mercenary Suits
It's always really sad when you hear about the studio sending notes and you think "Yeah, they really seem to make a lot of sense." Pop-culture has conditioned me to think of the studios and/or networks as filled with soulless, talentless hacks who fellate focus groups just for practice, not the voices

It's like election season and you see an ad for the person you've already voted for (mail-only area here) and it's so weak and cheap it just makes you cringe. Or that jerk at a party who supports a policy you also do, only his reasons are superficial, weirdly racist and seem designed to be easily-refuted. It doesn't