The one nice thing I can say about Final Frontier is that they seemed to be trying to recapture the mood of the series. The plot feels like it could some from one of the original episodes (though, as Zack said, too bad it feels like a 3rd season episode).

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Exactly. That death added a huge amount of tension to the final battle, especially as the heroes began to fall one by one.

Clerks 2 had a few funny scenes, no doubt. But it is one of those movies where, whenever a character opens their mouth, you don't hear the character talking but the screenwriter writing. So listening to Rosario Dawson do some raunchy sex talk, all I could think of was Smith sitting there writing those words for her,…

@Jidges - It seems the island really is huge. Remember, back in the first season Sayid started a walk-around, and after a day or so of walking went only a fraction of the distance past the beach camp before being abducted by Rousseau. A full circumnavigation would likely take a week or more.

Question: Why do bad movies keep getting made?

Got to agree with Sarkazein. A full-featured tablet would be a useful tool, but frankly this comes across as the worst of both worlds, not the best. It loses one of the key benefits of smartphones (portability…as well as the fact that it ain't a phone) without the functionality of a similarly-sized netbook.

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Watched the new KITH last night. Not bad, though I can't say I was laughing my ass off. A lot of the characters just came off as freaky rather than funny, but I probably just need to get used to them. Certainly it was closer in tone to the late-period long-form Kids in the Hall skits than the…

The tank thing felt like it was from the Charlie's Angels movies.

The 3rd season added Fred Freiberger as producer, and a lot of the bad decisions rested with him.

Kevin Smith is famous for playing the "laid back dude" persona while, in reality, being extremely uptight and sensitive to any perceived insult. He talks shit publicly about anyone who slights him, using his stand-up routines or website to attack them (just look for his comments about "Greasy Reese" Witherspoon, a…

Not a dumb theory at all, the same thing occurred to me. I don't think it's likely that Epitaph One will turn out to be an attic-fantasy, but you never know…

The hive-mind soldiers in "Stop Loss". while a reasonable evolution of Rossum technology, felt just a little too silly, like something out of Doctor Who or a bad X-Files episode. I think it brought the episode down a grade, even as interesting things were happening elsewhere.

The Usual Suspects was, and always shall be, awesome. The twist didn't "invalidate the rest of the film" by a long shot. Instead, it made you think again about everything that happened earlier in light of the unreliable narrator. Very different from most twist films, which are just trying to play gotcha.

They haven't been "dicking around for 10 episodes trying to make people morally repulsed". The first five episodes of season one were bland, no doubt, but ever since Man on The Street the show has been in warp drive when it comes to plot developments. They could not move any faster.

I love AD, but I agree that it does not seem like something that would work on the big screen. Hoping to be proved wrong.

The writer seems to think there are only two options when watching this scene: be a clueless viewer (like his parents - nice) who doesn't notice the fancy camera work, or be a film geek who spends the entire time wondering how they filmed that.

The example that tops them all: hearing Laurence Olivier being called "Larry", which I remember from some behind-the-scenes stuff on Marathon Man. To see an actor with his stature simply called Larry was quite amusing - it's fucking Olivier, man!

Very, very annoying.

Unless you're some french-Canadian lumberjack trying to speak mangled English, then no, nobody up here actually says "aboot".