Damn it SouthofHeaven, why did you have to go and give me something to begrudgingly admit is kind of neat about "Hostel"?  Now I'm going to be shaking my fists in the air, yelling "Whyyyyyy!?"

I have a problem with the whole torture horror genre:  they're even more samey than the slasher or the exorcism film.  People stuck in a dark, grimy room screaming hysterically at [insert awful thing].  Rinse.  Repeat.  At least other horror subgenres will spice things up now and again.  Whatever  merits  "Saw,"…

Hey, I lasted a month in retail before that happened!

"When did it stop being embarrassing to admit you watch cartoons instead of read books?  Fuck this millennium."

Days of Thunder it!  Have Tom Cruise drive a Nascar.

I watched it a couple months ago, and I still enjoyed it.  However, everything between the opening scene (the Tokyo explosion to Tetsuo getting taken in by the army) and the climax is uneven.  The exposition scenes are mostly gibberish (rocks having genes?), and some elements of the plot (like the politician who is…

Hey, it's like I can reach out and touch my disappointment with these movies!

Maybe.  Even taken on its own merits, the finale was chock full of bad writing (Taylor stating his goals and then Jim restating them in the form of a response, just about everything that was related to Lucas) and the central conflict is just…dull.  Generic bad guys vs. generic good guys over the environment (and the…

Ugh, I thought the finale was just as terrible, if not worse, than anything else that came before, precisely because it tried to come across as the epic, emotional climax that the show in no way earned.  When crappy shows think they're reaching for profundity, when all they're doing is making hollow statements about…

For the life of me, I thought it was Russell Crowe at first, and was like, "Oh, they replaced the guy from the first movie with Russell Crowe."  Then I realized it was the same guy, and was like, "Oh…"

"I think that the film tries to have it both ways, which is problematic."
"So apparently Nolan thinks a surveillance state is ok but only when you REALLY need it.  And even then, only once."

I always read "The Dark Knight" as a criticism of Bush's tactics, seeing as how the rendition only allowed an opening for the Joker to become the most powerful crime figure in Gotham, the torture never lead to anything useful (Joker even says he's not intimidated by Batman's strength, and proves it by giving him the…

Yeah, that's bothered me, too.  It's one of those things that, to quote the show, "seemed like a good idea at the time," but the whole logic of that aspect of the plot was never thought through by the writers.  Then again, pretty much the entirety of that crappy future prologue seemed to be way more convoluted than it…

This has been one of the most disappointing shows I've ever seen.  It
went from a shaky, but promising, start to being background noise to
being something I hate to "oh, right, that's still on?" over a very
short course, precisely because it shows zero interest in its own premise, and instead keeps swiping plotlines…

Yeah, everything about that song, and that video, was awful.  My friends and I kept making jokes about how the lead singer was holding a mic like he was going to put it in his mouth…

It's the Mexicans' fault.  DUH!

Yeah, I don't get the comments that are like "Well, they've spoiled everything, now I don't need to see it."  No, they haven't.  Maybe you can guess what "the secret" is, but frankly I think it's more interesting to see how they're going to do this than what exactly they are doing.

I'm guessing it was not so much blocking out as not pay attention to any part that didn't have Kirsten Dunst in a wet shirt.  Everything else about the movie he gleamed off the cheat sheet Murdoch gave him.

Hippies!  Hippies!  HIPPIES!

One of my first experiences with Fox News was Neal Cavuto bitching about how the villain in "Spider-Man" was a businessman and "Waaa waaa why is business always made evil in movies waaa?"