Knocked Up doesn't belong on any list of best comedies of anything. (ok, maybe best Katherine heigl comedies? but that's a pathetic list). Pineapple Express is really funny for the first half, and got pretty boring once they tried to make it into an action-parody. FSM is excellent until someone barfed an ending onto…

Mars Attacks was absolutely hilarious when it first came out. I haven't seen it since, and have no idea how well it holds up.

JPM- re: Samatha and bf alcohol

Cookie, I'm sure you'll get enough praise without me jumping in, but your two posts together lay out a design for the prequels that I can actually see being good films. It might be the first time I've gotten excited by what could have been. Thanks.

Although I just followed the nymag link and watched the clip. It's clearly *supposed* to be creepy. Liz is blatantly creeped out by it. Which makes it all the more ambiguous. Continue the debate!

Wileetay- I think it's pretty clear from the posts that it isn't like that for everyone. I've never been with someone who would be happy to wake up to having actual intercourse. Waking someone up with oral is a different story.

Party in the USA is better than California Gurls or TikTok. I never thought we'd reach the point where I longed for a pop song as nice as Miley Cyrus.

I hold this AVQ&A responsible for introducing me to that abomination.

EiT started suddenly getting popular? Weird. They've been around for years. How long ago are they supposed to have broken off from TVC?

…you let the new laws slip right in. Now you're smoking in the parking lot…

there are honestly 45 min before the evil exes show up? wtf?

Coldstream- are you kidding? Kara spoke like the consummate A&R hack. All she cared about was whether something was commercial or could fit on modern radio. Simon (who actually once made a living finding the next big thing) could at least enjoy a good performance, even if it wasn't radio friendly. To Kara, 'good' and…

ellen
Really? no ellen love in the comments? Aside from Simon (who was phoning it in last season, anyway) Ellen was the most knowledgeable, accurate and interesting judge on the panel. I was looking forward to her settling in. This new lineup sounds truly awful.

Jerry Maguirre
I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet, but I've searched on all the pages of comments. I think this is the classic example of a 'happy ending' that clearly won't last. (I'd say Sleepless in Seattle, but I'm not even sure if it counts, since they only meet at the end. There really isn't any sign…

I don't hate ToD; it's a fun little action picture. It has some great set pieces. But when compared directly to RotLA, it's such a let down. Raiders had great characters, with motivations that intersected and didn't always overlap. And the characters had history together, even if we didn't get all the details.

true story: first time I ever took the nyc subway by myself (which at this point was a while back) I had a survey worker come up to me and ask about the cleanliness. I had heard soooo many godawful things about NY and the subways at this point that I was quite happy with the cleanliness. I mean, dear lord, there were…

I lived in Jersey for 5 years. The first summer I lived there some friends helpfully took me to the infamous Shore. 10 min in the water and I felt something that felt like a body bag brush against me. (this was also shortly after plenty of reports about hypodermic needles washing up) I've never found a body of water…

well, except that Mike's original point still stands: if the director wanted ambiguity, why show the reverse shot at all? why not leave the camera on her? That's true ambiguity.

They changed that?! But *why*? harry wasn't paralyzed?

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
I can't believe no one seems to have mentioned this one. It's actually a nice change from the standard rom-com, and a very funny adult comedy, but the third act completely throws away everything it had been working towards and goes back to cliched territory.