I agree 100%.

No David Caruso/NYPD Blue citation? What the hell! He's the guy you see in the dictionary under this category!

Hey, does anyone know if Gaiman etc. are going to do The Dark Age in addition to finishing The Silver Age?

Along with Jar Jar Binks and Willie Scott (or whatever Capshaw's bilious character was named).

You know, I'm not familiar with the material, but it seems to me that if I were a "Decepticon" I would object to the prejudices implicit in the very name.

Yeah, plus, McConaughey's, like, a movie star, you know? Like, he looks like a movie star. (He looks like a young Paul Newman, for Christ's sake.) And he can talk, and act. He was great in that Grisham un-air-conditioned-Southern-courtroom thing, and he was great in the Spielberg right after that. He's supposed to…

Was anybody saying it's a comedy?

Remember: he directed it, too!

"As a kid"? Damn it, not this again. Okay, twelve years ago; that's long enough for "a kid" to become an AVClub commenter. Still…

This intrigues me, but not enough to go see the movie again. Would you be so kind as to take a couple minutes to elucidate this? How is it telegraphed? When you say "virtually EVERYTHING that happens [in] the movie points towards it," could you elaborate?

The problem in the first movie is that damn "oh-my-God-is-he-evil-and-scary" Orc who's personally after Thorin for the whole damn running time, starting at the original fall of the kingdom under the mountain and running all the way through to the (ridiculously overblown) eagle-rescue scene.

And Giselle Bundchen as the villain…don't forget Giselle Bundchen as the villain.

The entire movie was a weird juxtaposition of totally hokey and totally terrifying gimmicks. The notebooks; the passthrough to the adjacent hotel room through the closet; the headshot of the other soldier to prove that the technique works; Dean Stockwell crying at the end; all were totally brilliant,…

But you'll never get there! You'll just keep splicing back to where you were a few seconds ago.

When I was depressed about a year ago I ended up shotgunning most of the series on YouTube. It was just what the doctor ordered.

Ha HA!

Uh…Rear Window with Christopher Reeve? I think I fold.

I'll see your All The King's Men and raise The Great Gatsby.

Correct. You remake Cape Fear.

Man, Bryan Cranston sells the shit like nobody's business!