How much more than merely? Quantify your curiosity!

Sigh. It would have been nice if I'd had time to copy/paste a couple of my longer posts across before they were deleted. Oh well. Maybe I'll come back later and feel enthusiastic again.

Yeah, I'm not a gore fan because I'm not a fan of violent injury and death (although copious quantities of blood on screen don't bother me one bit, possibly because they never look real), but there wasn't anything here that made me deeply uncomfortable. There were a few moments I had to look away from and one that did…

@avclub-d0cf409eb912cc0cc950b41b6d892d07:disqus , if you can bear to peek at gore with your hands over your face and/or just convince yourself to laugh when everything gets so ridiculous that the set is now basically covered in blood, I'd say get it on dvd someday and watch it in broad daylight from behind a sofa. :)

I'm really hoping a screencap of that board pops up soon.

I can definitely see moments in the film annoying the same people who get annoyed by overt Whedonyness in other things he's done. For me it just stayed on the right line of balancing the silly nerdy moments against the heartfelt ones, but that's going to be a subjective thing.

Yeah, I didn't see the trailer first and having watched it retrospectively I think it was better going into it knowing nothing at all (other than that it was going to subvert expectations somehow.)

Yes, although it depends how actively. If you're repulsed by gore, annoyed by monsters, and feel your bile rising when a film is clearly building up to something dramatic in that way that horror films do, possibly this still won't be for you. Otherwise, I'd say this is more Jossy than I expected, actually, and that…

Good luck remaining unspoiled, I definitely agree that's the way to do it. I actually feel kind of bad posting spoilers publically even with capslock warnings, but I really do want to discuss so… hopefully everyone has as much success averting their eyes in time as you did.

…I suppose that's good?

So am I, actually, even though I think it deserves better than that. But it's possibly just a bit too crazy for the mainstream, and it may struggle to hook the right audience in.

I think he and the heroine pretty much carry the film between them. Definitely likeable, even if in a very goofy way to begin with.

(If you want an answer. If you don't, this is a little spoilerish for the character he plays here, so beware.)

Yeah, definitely. I kind of enjoyed that actually, given that when Ted did meet Robin he instantly identified her as the girl of his dreams, and even if she didn't turn out to be so it'd be right in character for Ted to have retrofitted her into all his previous fantasies of the perfect girlfriend as soon as that…

I kind of agree, in that I found the cold open extremely funny, but then the actual scene of them farting later on - while realistically written and acted - just kind of left me cold. Farting in itself - not as funny as this show should aim to be. Ridiculous lengths gone to to avoid farting in front of new partner -…

Singing Zou Bisou as he strips.

I actually have that VHS set, which made me far too happy. My friends at university bought it for me when they found out I hadn't seen the trilogy.

I had this thought too, but whatever's going on at least he seems to be happy and settled. It'd be nice for Ted to be able to be that someday.

But wasn't that the whole thing with them while they were hiding their relationship - they were both in denial that that's what it was? Barney's whole 'OR…' thing was avoiding talking about it and just having more sex instead. Of course that Barney thought he'd stay the same forever and would keep the same fantasy…

Laden or unladen?