Armageddon's stupid because it's based on the premise it's easier to train drillers to be astronauts than it is to train astronauts to be drillers. Fuck everything about that film.

I agree. And the fact is that most of the people in the clubs they're going to will be aware who they are, what they're like, etc.

He mentions having complete control up to post-production. So, he may have delivered something approximating a cut, he may not have. He doesn't specify one way or the other in that interview.

I suppose you need partly to be completely faithful in your own abilities to become a director, but the thought that maybe the cut of Cabin Fever 2 he delivered to the studio…wasn't very good…never appears to have occurred to him.

It's not so much the lying that I don't get about that film, it's that people can't keep their fucking mouths shut. It should be called "The Invention Of Not Saying Every Fucking Thing Out Loud".

No backlash, really, he just became less and less funny, possibly linked with the increasing amount of screen time he was given in that gang's films. Superbad was just boring, with a few funny moments - same with Knocked Up, same with Pineapple Express. Loved 40 YOV. Just because when he's mentioned in comments it's…

How can people take Network seriously, after Anchorman? And so on, with the meaningless references.

The "couldn't stand on its own" commenter is missing the point a bit, I think. The fact it builds on past associations is a good thing! It's developing a nice Universe for these people to live in.

Can't Live With Em
Done better and funnier in Cheers over 20 years. Norm: "women…can't live with em, pass the beer nuts". One of that show's most famous lines, and I'd have thought that if they were just going to do that gag again they'd have done something else with it. Lazy.

If he was so desperate to get away from everyone, why didn't he just go in his office and lock the door? It seemed a fairly lame hand-wave at getting him and Kenneth stuck together for those jokes.

I thought that was the only weak part of the episode. In a town where Sweetums have been so entrenched for so long, there's not a single pressure group trying to make them genuinely more healthy? And couldn't they actually be sued for claiming high-fructose corn syrup is healthy?

I can't believe there are so few people in that town who's love the guy, or that if they were so fat they wouldn't have been at least informed a little better, by the national media or whatever.

Misogyny is the least interesting part of Dick as a writer though, and it's the thing which gets mentioned the most. And it's not like all his female characters are that bad, either. I feel it's some liberal law that to like Dick you have to mention his misogyny in every thing you write about him, or every time you…

Not racist at all, really. It'd be worse to never do those jokes for fear of offending a minority group- and like Viewdrix said, it'd be the exact same joke if you changed the race of the person.

Best episode of the season by some way for me, and close to being one of the best episodes the show has ever done. Brilliant structure, cleverly done, with tons of great jokes and lovely character moments.

It's not like I'm against bands reforming - the new Dinosaur Jr is much better than the post-Where You Been old Dinosaur Jr, and probably as good as they ever were. I'm happy for the other members of Pavement to be getting some good paydays, but I just don't see this as being anything like as good as DJ.

I said it was their last good album. They did occasional good songs after that, but their creative spark had long since gone. I think a lot of this good feeling for their return is based on their first two albums and the EP collection "Westing…", because I can't imagine they made many new fans with their post-CRCR…

Lack of exposure to that film in a few years makes me remember, when I read lines like this, how truly fucking extraordinary it was.

I saw them in 95 or 96 in Cardiff, in a tiny wee club, and enjoyed that show much more than the fairly boring albums they were putting out at the time. Desperately trying not to seem cooler-than-thou, but I really didn't care for anything after Crooked Rain all that much (and at least some of the reviews I read at the…

It's an unusually negative review to get such a high grade.