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That is… not a good picture. You can sort of see how many from a different angle or something she'd be fine, but… yeah. Not good.

That would be awesome. Not because I have any particular dislike or hostility towards this show, but it's fun kicking NBC while it's down, and well, the biggest flop ever would be cool to see.

Yeah, but then that's Hollywood for you. $100 million for CGI, the change we stole from the local Starbucks' tip jar for a script. It felt like some idiot VP, who truly believes their market segment is semi-sentient, forced them to throw the extra line in so "people would get it".

Maybe they could do an extended version with the dog in front of a huge pile of bloody cat carcassas, handing out Doritos to neighborhood men one at a time.

The CGI on the slingshot baby was just terrible - they didn't even try to make it look like the baby grabbed the bag. Was I supposed to think it was cute for being amateurist (but still CGI)? Terrible, just terrible. And so obvious, too.

So, sort of like Luck… Broadway? I'm trying to determine if I've just finally completed my lifelong journey into curmudgeonry, but… Broadway? We care about that now? About a tiny, insular culture of cheesy, to-the-rafters stage shows? Maybe I hang out with the wrong people (not enough gay theater types and/or suburban

Yeah, though once you understand the subtext, "Never marry David Cronenberg" becomes a life lesson.

But he already works around the clock!

I'm pretty sure she's kinda cute, but she wears lipstick like she wants to be on PTL. I'm also not sure whether I'm supposed to like her or not. I liked Kala, but it hasn't aged well for me at all, and  I've yet to hear anything since that was really catchy. Plus the entire posturing thing and wasn't there something a

I love knowing that Lana Del Ray is now the touchstone of our shared culture. She's everything to everyone (pretty! robotic! sultry! mannequin-like! cynical! product! inspiring! big-lipped! artificial! not dressed like a pharaoh and flipping me off!), which of course means she's not really involved at all. My dream is

I was really expecting a list of 20 items to be split over two (or more) pages. While it wasn't my favorite list here or anything, having it all on one page was kinda cool.

Sometimes I think of trying one of these, but they always seem to require so much buy-in that unless you've grown up with them, they just seem impenetrable. As someone who came into gaming relatively recently, the appeal of turn-based combat continues to baffle me, long cutscenes annoy me and while I'm not an

In a sane world I'd agree 100%. In this current 2012 one, I really believe anything truly frightening and genuinely disturbing would manage to merit some excuse for a higher rating, be it "Mature Content" or "Adult Situations" or something weaselly like that. Even with zero sex, swears or gore. The only hope is that

Wow; up until this moment, I was 100% he was a Chinese guy from Hong Kong.

Anyone else feel robbed that she isn't singing at the Super Bowl? Surely we need to catch this wave before it crashes (i.e., she gets redone into some kind of country-pop crossover blonde thing).

They also had like 9 singers. For what possible reason would your girl group need that many people? One or two will do most of the work anyway, and with 2-3 you can have a range of hair colors, body types and off-the-shelf personalities. This isn't choral music - it just really offended my practicality (plus they

So does this mean that some trolling billionaire bought up a few million DVDs to make up the money gap (which I could totally see - no one lives forever, and you only have so much time in the world to screw with the poor and/or liberal)? That would be kind of funny. Especially if he mandated that there be a seen of

I feel good that this sort of decision has been made by the fine folks at NBC, who surely have their finger on the pulse of today's entertainment market. I mean, if this was CBS or Fox or Univision or MTV and I read this, I'd think "Did they hire someone away from NBC to make that decision?" But as is, all is right

But The Ring wasn't an original property. So they took an existing concept, a la the Harry Potter stuff, and fit it into what felt like a natural rating zone.

Reminds me of election season coming up, when you'll see horribly-produced, misleading ads for people you know you'll wind up voting for anyway, but in chasing the stupidest, most uneducated swing voters with brain-steam targeted blather, it sure makes you feel dirty about the whole thing. So you have a film here (if