i have two "Modern Rock" stations here.
96x is the one that will occassionally play Cake or the Cure, 99 is the one that will play Pink Floyd and AC/DC. Yet 85% of the time they play the exact same thing, sometimes within the same hour or minute (this often happens with Stinkin Park).

and obviously there is still plenty of self-contained TV out there. Crime procedurals, the majority of sitcoms, most primetime dramas advance plots and characters at a glacial pace.
And most of the country watches reality shows/contests etc., which have no plot and can be watched at random for a minute or every week…

I don't think of continuing plots or cliffhangers are representative of desperate networks. Until a couple years ago, they were scared shitless of it. It took the success of shows like 24 to show people would tune in every week, and shows like Sopranos to show that TV could develop a richer narrative or characters…

David Lynch's A Goofy Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Sadly i've actually watched enough bits and pieces of RV on TBS to see the whole movie, just for the couple of minutes of delicious Kristen Chenoweth it provides. She's like a basket of strawberry muffins with kittens chasing each other around it.

I never saw the last two seasons of Sopranos, but even at the point i was at i was tired of Melfi. And the episode where she was raped was truly awful. I'm not offended or shocked by that type of thing in fiction, but i was upset by how badly it was written/acted/directed. I can't remember exactly what was said, but…

Lately Nick at Nite has been doing 2-4 hours of the Nanny every night. Exposure to that much Fran Drescher has got to be a public health issue.

i just realised
I've loved every Nolan film, except Following which i'd never heard of til i just looked at his bio. I didn't know how much i liked him. Insomnia didn't quite excite me like his other films have, but it was still pretty darn good. And Following sounds awesome, that's my next rental.

I just recently read Year One for the first time, and that Batman and the Batman of AS B&R are not even remotely similar. Like a week after reading Year One i had some time to kill in Border's so i read all first 8 issues of All Star, and it was like seeing the bookends of a great creator turned who spirals into nutty…

Zim's big dumb classmate Torque Smacky has the best name ever.

Michael Bay's other signature move
Other than the low swooping Hero shot mentioned, there is another thing that seems to pop up in almost every movie he makes. You know during a car chase, when a car flips over or something huge comes off a truck and lands on another car, but the camera is inside the car getting…

I'm glad this aticle pointed out that there is much more to MBMs than explosions. All the bullshit manufactured sentimental moments, racist caricature and humor, product placement, and Maxim magazine level sexuality are much more irritating than the explosions. Lots of people have made dumb action flicks with lots of…

It has references cited. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc…
That article doesn't specify more than "sexually humiliating video tape", and the other article is a book. So atleast we know he was videotaped and sexually humiliated in some way. That last sentence would be so horrible if it was about just about anyone other than…

I think at 10-13 years old my judgement and tastes were questionable in just about everything EXCEPT action sequences. My other tastes have evolved alot, but looking back at action movies i loved i see that the action always holds up, even if the acting and plot don't. Ten year old me realised there was something…

correct that comment, i meant "Family guy paving the way for irreverance" was a ridiculous comment.
I actually think after Simpsons, South Park was the next to push irreverance further.

s'funny that with both South Park and the Simpsons seasons 3-8 represented the shows growing beyond their intial scope, expanding the quality and density of their humor and plotlines. Side characters flourished and became worthy of their own episodes, each show challenged it's own format, structure, etc. And…

Family Guy has never offended me in any way other than with the quality of the writing.

Nick and more words… comment reminds me, i was at a gas station that sells bootleg DVDs at the counter and the 30-ish woman ahead of me looked at The Hangover's cover and commented "A baby wearing sunglasses? I don't believe it!" chuckling to herself.

add to that list Stella, Strangers with Candy, Upright Citizens Brigade, and Sarah Silverman and i think that is every good show they have ever had. Oh, can't forget Dr. Katz and MST3K, although i didn't even get Comedy Central on my cable til after it had moved to sci-fi.

Gumbercules? i love that guy!