Pinball's one of the few activities where you get better at it when you got a buzz on. Plus if you play a video game in a bar you look like a total loser, but pinball is kind of cool.

Tommy is a great Ken Russell film, but an awful Who movie. Still, come on, it's hard not to at least admire how over the top it is.

I'd recommend booze while you're young, and then therapy when you need to get your shit together.

Huh.
You wouldn't think the star of Flashdance would still be getting so many hits.

The TV Set wasn't bad, though the whole "talented creative type sees his vision corrupted by evil hollywood executives" thing is both tired and self-indulgent, and The Comeback was a million times better as a commentary about exactly how shitty the business is.

I'd have asked ask him if he and Schwimmer ever had a contest to see who could make the most hangdog expression.

I got both your backs on this one.

So? Eight dollars isn't that much money and it's hardly the biggest rip-off I've ever heard of. I don't think most people here who are so outraged about this would have thought twice about this if they saw it in a store or catalog.

If you get addicted to drugs you'll at least meet some interesting people and have some horror stories to tell when you go straight. Plus if you end up becoming a writer or something it's a great boost for the resume. If you're addicted to World of Warcraft all you have is shame.

You just know they came up with the title first and then named the character to fit.

The big problem with hitting a home run with one story and then retiring is exactly what we see happening here, or with the rumors that Capote wrote (or heavily contributed to) To Kill a Mockingbird. If the writer doesn't keep writing they get accused of being a fraud.

I just re-watched the whole run of the Sopranos, and there's actually not nearly as much therapist stuff I you remembered. What is there does feel kind of tacked on (and Melfi's scenes with her own therapist or her ex husband are just awful)

I feel like there was a point in time where it was kind of okay to be into World of Warcraft, and that point in time ended a good year or more ago.

Hopefully TV will get even more realistic, and we'll have more long rambling conversations about movies and the weather, and real-time scenes of characters driving from one location to another and going to the bathroom.

Unless, of course, they didn't update the trailers yet…

I seem to remember it being the other way around in the Frost/Nixon review. And reading awfully weird, because you'd say "Langella" instead of "Nixon" doing stuff the real Nixon did.

It's silly to discount Spielberg. "The Terminal" and "Catch Me If You Can" weren't huge event movies, and the latter was certainly riffing on 60's caper movies. Plus he's directed huge blockbusters from the beginning (of varying genres at that) so you can't knock him for continuing to do so.

I'm guessing that since he just won an Oscar a few years ago, it's really not likely at all that it's going to happen again. (Yes, I know it's happened before, but it probably won't for this.)

I was going to say something about how The Departed wasn't Scorceses' best picture by a long shot and only won because he was due… But considering what it was up against (Little Miss Sunshine? Babel?) maybe it was the best enough picture.

Maybe people don't like AICN because the design is an eyesore, the text reads like a fat guy at the Comicon is shouting stuff at you, and who really gives a shit about being one day ahead of the game with breaking news about movies that won't be out for two years?