I think this is a week where we are happy - looks like people just stayed in instead of venturing to the terribleness that is post-summer movies. Tyler Perry aside of course.

Failures in marketing: Extract edition
"From the creator of Office Space" + Jason Bateman coughing on pot smoke and Shaggy Haired Ben Affleck laughing DOES NOT EQUAL anyone knowing much or giving a shit about the movie.

Does this game ruin people's lives…
just like WOW?

But ZMF what about random stadiums built in LA that nobody gives a fuck about? You see Im just trying to give you perspective.

The biggest douche chill moment is the "You left the yard" line. Is he trying to say she hit a home run and is a hero? That doesnt make sense. Is he trying to just go for the literal "you left 18 years of rape and torture". I mean, that's EXACTLY like what us ballplayers mean when we say "you left the yard". Is she…

Hmmm… so this guy was writing a column for the OC register for… 22 or so years? His salary has to be at at least 32,000 a year or so.

You guys want some coookiiieess?

Did he never take it off in the comics?

I always loved the guy who called Godfather Part 2 a "sewed up frankenstein of a movie" or something like that.

You know whats really funny about The Benchwarmers? Rob Schneider was cast as - get this - the somewhat straightforward leading man who's supposed to be cool, athletic and honorable. Showing him act like this was high unintentional comedy in my book.

I run for ze hills whenever I hear something like "retelling of Hamlet", but between avclub and ZMF (my breaking bad cheerleader, yeah thats right I called you cheerleader), I guess Im gonna have to get into this show.

If I had made it to Walkabout, it would've been a different story. I've said this before - Im a The Wire/Sopranos/Mad Men/Breaking Bad/Arrested Development type. Stuff like Chuck or even 30 Rock dont interest me all that much. I needed to know Lost's ambitious nature before I could really get into it.

For someone originally unaware of the comics backstory…
I was blown away by how awesome some of the concepts were. City blocks miles long, miles high, that people would never need to leave in their lives? Pretty cool! Barely mentioned in that turd of a movie.

What did people make of the "Lost" pilot?
I watched it live, then didnt watch the show again for years. Definitely not a terrible pilot, but before realizing the show would have a grand secret nature, I was bored with it. Fiction with castaways with was nothing new, the roar sound in the jungle felt gimmicky (at the…

For anybody reading this who actually wants a balanced reading of some of this stuff, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

Well yeesh, a quick google of "public option popularity" shows… confusing results, so maybe my perspective is off. I have my little clique of 20-something hipsterish liberal friends and we basically all find that aspect of reform terrible, so I guess thats where my thought came from. Then again - we all have good…

Can't we still be left-leaning and against the Public Option?
Isn't just about everybody against this or am I missing something? I thought some ideas were so universally bad that partisanship doesn't really matter.

"It's hard to say anything substantive about a show that seems to have as a major goal being awful. "
It was certainly hard to read that sentence. Sentence structure 101.

I want to give props to Amelie for not picking an obvious movie for "worst movie ever", but Love, Actually? Confirmed Fresh on RT, middling but not horrible review from avclub itself. When it comes to romantic comedies - which, granted, is a terrible, terrible genre, I'd actually probably have to put Love, Actually…

Look I know you guys never thought you could get me for this but I promise not to overshadow the rest of the staff.