I won't buy a book with an Oprah seal on it. I've resisted The Road because of that, though it would have normally been a book I would normally read. Given my weekend dad status post divorce, though, I'm not sure I could handle it now that there are plenty of copies with the originall art or a picture of Viggo on it.

I love the shit out of 5th Element, despite some of its flaws, though I admit Tucker become less tolerable with his intentionally over the top annoyance factor with rewatching.

While I enjoy a good peruse of the few local used stores in my town, I use email coupons to chop 30% or so off the hardcovers of authors or series I "collect". I'm trying to grow out of the collection thign, though, as I'm a mostly genre sci-fi/fantasy reader and it's light stuff I don't have time to reread anyway,…

My general thought is that if it is an intentionally self aware or meta type movie or parody, I'm ok with it. So Scream is fine. Last Action Hero is fine (in this context if not the movie itself, though my kids liked it).

No, Eli can make new vampires. This is in fact, why she has Haken to drain people for her, because of the risk of infecting and making new vampires. Too many predators and uncontrolled spread is dangerous to the suvival. Of course, given the body count, one would think Haken would have been discovered rather…

but the squirell joke continues to crack me up every time I think of it. It's funny because the squirell dies at the end.

I'm not sure anyone said they didn't like Hopkins' Lector, just whether Cox was better. It's been a while since I've seen Manhunter, but I recall liking both the movie and Cox's Lector better, but that might be because sequels to Silence have undermined Hopkins' performance in my mind, and I've only read a few of the…

it's not that astonishing. PO summed it up quite well in that Leno apparently used to be a good, edgy standup and then got his opportunity to just please the masses and has been cashing in since. Easy to say, I guess when you're not the one cashing the checks, though it doesn't make it less true. There's a bit of…

I saw her face in a preview last night, and concur with consensus that since FSM, she's quite the charmer/hottie, and I hear she's a video gamer, mostly world of warcraft, which still counts. I preferred the redhead from 70's show, just because she was a redhead and not typical in attractive appearance, but MK is…

Gritty spiderman would suck, especially if they are looking to reboot it to a highschool age spiderman, as the only grit there is the teenybobber angst nerd-parker has. Now, if the reboot was a flash forward to an aged spiderman ala the dark knight returns with an older and more vicious batman coming out of…

Now, now, just because most, if not all, previous reboots have come after a near franchise killing debacle and a hiatus of 10 or more years, doesn't mean a studio has to follow that formula.

TDK is a well made movie, but Bale's batman voice is FUCKING DISTRACTING. It holds up to rewatching mostly, if not only, because Ledger is that good in it.

hey, what producer in his right mind wouldn't want to see naked girls in chains?

which is why Favreau will have to watch his ass a bit after Iron Man 2, so they don't start thinking any director will do so long as they've got Downey Jr and a shiney suit

@zardoz - I don't think politically correct talk has anything to do with political jokes. I've seen very little of Lange's material for standup, and it wasn't political, true, but that's not the same as politically correct (or incorrect).

and no, I think political correctness, especially when complaining about comedy, is still more annoying than complaining about political correctness.

imdb lists him at a mere 6'2 and 3/4", which is taller than average, but not an ungodly 6'4"

based strictly on physicality then it's a shame they didn't put in Liam Neeson (or however his last name is spelled).

yet it still hasn't wiped the smile off your face, so you still have that going for you.

Dexter being Dexter, I think his first instinct will be to hide that a death took place and dispose of Rita as he would his usual victims. Like you, I don't know that that's the best path because he is a decent actor, but only when he's prepared to mimic or tell a story. Caught in the act does leave him rather…