I remember that was one of the earliest movies (well that I paid attention to) with a significant web campaign. You could go the the site and apply to join, learn more, etc. Now any movie with a budget of over $50 has a site, or at least a page on the studio's somewhere.

This is sad, as TVs have never been as huge and loud as they are now; just as the technology starts to mature it gets thrown away.

We have our regional toxic tune, Christmas In the Northwest, by someone called Brenda White. I think it was part of some charity drive. It's pretty much everything any reasonable person hates about vaguely-condescending holiday smarm.

So critics love a movie about how great movies are, but set in the past so we can all pretend we're not talking about Transformers. Imagine if this movie was set in 2009 and called "Michael"? No Nazis, but you could have the family being foreclosed on for that outside strife, and our hero can only find true joy…

So it's like Molly in Neuromancer, only she doesn't accidentally wake up and kill the fat senator? Well, at least the review makes it seem like it - could be spoilers territory. (Who am I kidding - this movie sounds way, way to precious to have something like that in it).

And early favorite for "child names should have to be peer-reviewed first": Quvenzhané Wallis

I badly misread the first paragraph and assumed Johnson was a recent transsexual (but previously married) and lived with Newman and that other guy in the image above and they had predictably wacky middle-aged men adventures, only with a TWIST. It sounded bad, but now I'm kinda disappointed.

Sure, but except for the Soviet IS-tanks, no WW2 tank had a main gun bigger than 90mm. Shermans were 75/76, T-34s were 76 or 85, Panthers 75 and Tigers 88. Modern tanks are 105-125, but I can't imagine anyone saying a Tiger II isn't a tank.

Remember when they colorized old ugly B7W movies to make them watchable? Why haven't they started to autotune old music yet. Imagine how much better blues and hippie music would be with the singers in tune!

I'm not disagreeing with you, but am now depressed at thinking that maybe "family-friendly" really does mean "stupid and inoffensive". It's like if it's just for kids it can have some bite, and if it's just for parents of course it can, but together it can't offend or confuse either, and in addition can't challenge…

Those stupid glasses are, I insist, still a fatal barrier to "all-3D". Yeah, when talkies and color came out people whined about the new fad too, but those didn't require cranial accessories. For infrequent "event" movies fine. For "regular" stuff, we need better tech.

It's more a question of creating a plot that sidles up next to awful cliches, and then using the plot as an excuse for why it's OK (this time). It's fiction - the opportunities are infinite, and more importantly, nothing is decided randomly. So saying "things happen" is false because you still have control over which…

What about the flashback scene to Combo's story set in the strip club. That was boobtastic on the DVDs.

I don't mind singers looking like models, but do they all have to? If there were at least some ugly chicks (and no, "no model but would be the hottest looker in the accounting department" doesn't count we could fool ourselves that actual talent is even considered. But as-is, most are half-robot anyway (as autotune…

Calvinball always annoyed me, and I found the strips based around it pointless. Being a nerd, the rules of a game defined the game - simply changing them on a whim wasn't playing a game, it was just avoiding taking any risk or actually trying. Little kids (and some adults) who get frustrated and confused about a…

When young, some friends and I rented Gothic and kind of just didn't know what the hell to think, so we all agreed that from then on, whenever anyone asked our favorite film, it would be Gothic. I hold to that to this day; greatest film ever made (there is no why)!

The scary thing is I can't think of a better American movie dealing with the Bay of Pigs Invasion than Red Zone Cuba (though I admit I haven't tried very hard, or at all).

While there are certainly good places for female characters in the greater comic book universe, maybe they just don't need to be major characters in traditional, spandex-clad superhero comics that are made by and for 14-year-old boys (mentally anyway).  I don't expect machineguns or aliens in a chick flick - hasn't 60…

"neo-funk" 
*sigh*

I can't be the only one who can't get over their name sounding like some kind of neo-punk, Fishbonesque kind of thing. I know the name makes sense to the band (even Dr. Dog seems to think they should keep their name, for crying out loud), but it would be like a black metal band calling itself "The Honkytonk Ramblers".…