If this shirt represents the current line between attractiveness and intelligence, we are in deep trouble indeed.

Listen to how and when the audience laughs on that video.

I thought one of the strengths was that Pixar knew how to corral the Cable Guy persona to make it palatable in the context of the movie. It did suffer from the fundamental flaw that the movie wants audiences to learn a lesson about accepting people as they are, whereas Mater does things that would deserve at least a…

I think a lot of the issue is perspective. Audiences like your typical AV Club commentator (or David Cross) don't view "Larry"'s typical audience as laughing AT him for holding offensive views so much as murmuring in assent. The close identification of Dan Whitney with his persona doesn't help things; he becomes less…

To everything there is a season, and time for every purpose blunder heaven.

That trailer ensured I will never watch this movie, yet will likely never forget it. That sort of sticky, obnoxious repetition ought to be outlawed in advertising.

When I was in the target age range in the early-mid 90s, I was reading Goosebumps (and, as a boy, had no interest in BSC or SVH). It did, however, seem that amongst the elementary school girls in my neighborhood the Babysitters Club series was very popular - kids read them, talked about them, bought the merchandise.…

Speaking from my experiences with online dating while living in a sparsely-populated rural area several hours from any major metropolitan centers, I can say that an overwhelming percentage of datable women in those cities do not share my conception of "dating locally."

I have similar feelings. I imagine Peter Jackson did as well, what with seemingly doing everything possible to avoid directing these movies.

DO NOT WANT?

The brilliance of this strategy is that the ending is enough to piss off most viewers to an extent that they won't bother to go back and double-check for inconsistencies. They will remember the one that was, well, big enough to drive a truck through.

Cyentist - to answer your last question, here's a good place to start:

He speaks the truth. General Obvious, indeed.

Eyes Wide Shut is one of the must debatable Kubrick movies in terms of quality, by which I mean there's plenty of fodder to argue that that the movie is brilliant, crap, or some combination of both. Ultimately, I think that works to the movie's credit, watchability, and the recommendation factor. Plus, Cruise's…

Frank Black ate shrooms, visited Graceland, and wrote the song "His Kingly Cave" about the experience. Good song, though it sounds like he had a considerably worse time of it than Golan and Globus:

I was thinking more 102 Dalmatians, in which he had a single-minded focus on capturing the "poopies." Kudos to him for mixing it up this time around.

@tibber - Tom McLoughlin directed "Cyber Seduction" and Part VI, as well as several episodes of the (unrelated) TV show called "Friday the 13th."

The classics from any era remain playable and fun today, as they will in the future. I think 2D games stay fresh easier because - how do I want to say this - perhaps because of how well the technology curve matched programmers' ambitions? Pac Man, Chrono Trigger, Street Fighter II, Sonic, Monkey Island - these games…

In the first one, Death had a flair for the dramatic but was efficient - every element in a scene served a purpose in the deathtrap. The second one focused more on misdirecting the audience with a lot of close-ups of things that ultimately weren't involved in the ensuing fatality. The prevailing thought when my…

The original Final Destination felt reasonably original and exciting at the time (at least to High School Me) in comparison to the half-assed maniac-in-a-raincoat slashers that were coming out post-Scream.