I really haven't been able to escape Ron Howard lately. I was watching Arrested Development yesterday, than switched to Parenthood, then to Sports Night and they were all produced by Howard and Grazer! The man does have a good eye for television, regardless of his questionable directing career.

"Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom is shorter and less boring than Che!"

Really? The Thick of It is a pretty excellent show, but I don't think it all completely came together until season 3.

I would have liked this movie much, much better if it showed the dancing sequences and was actually a musical, instead of filling half the movie with horrendous and headache inducing action sequences. It's actually a pretty interesting movie, and I might watch it again, but I will most definitely fast forward through…

Seriously, watch the director's cut if you're going to watch it. It's very unlikely that you're going to want to watch it twice, and literally all the best scenes are only in the director's cut. Unfortunately, I think it's only available on bluray…

Watchmen gets an A for ambition but a C or D for execution. At least half the roles are hopelessly miscast, the pacing of the movie is all off, and the visuals really miss the mark. The action sequences are also really atrocious, with all the ridiculous zooming and slow motion. Aside from the first five minutes and…

I don't even like this movie very much, but I could mount a better defense of it than this. There's a lot of gorgeous cinematography towards the beginning and in the central portions of the film (particularly a subtly stunning dressing room scene), and at it's best the scenes set at the whorehouse manage to achieve a…

Yeah I wasn't actually being facetious… the argument was presented in such an odd way that I wasn't really sure whether it actually made sense or held together. Thanks for your explanation, it makes more sense now. It's kind of interesting but I really don't think that was what they were going for.

Is it just me or does this comment make no sense?

Why do you feel guilty? Just because the writers disagree with your view of the character doesn't make it invalid.

Wow, poor Megan Hilty must be desperate for tv roles. Hopefully someone sees the talent there and will sign her up for something less terrible than this and Smash.

This is kind of hilarious: they should market all movies in terms of how superior they supposedly are to Soderbergh movies. "Gravity is light years better than Solaris!" "This is the End is more self referential than Full Frontal!" "Matt Damon is better in Elysium than The Informant and Behind the Candelabra combined!"

They actually don't get offered very similar roles anymore, now Adams is pretty much all about the serious, Oscar-y type roles. While I like that she's expanding her range as an actress (and she was incredible in The Master) I do wish she would do some more light and funny roles.

I think the awesome cast is the thing that is making me consider seeing it, though I'll probably wait for it to pop up on Netflix or at the library. Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Mark Ruffalo, Isla Fisher, and Michael Caine? Yes please.

I really don't trust Dowd's judgment on these big summer movies, considering that he apparently thinks Star Trek was superior to Iron Man 3. Man that was a generic, boring action movie if there was one: without Simon Pegg and Cumberbatch that would've been in the D range for me.

@avclub-0beb34df7e9615cd43b9090989ca4848:disqus To be fair, the big trick in The Prestige involved clones. So it's not like that movie stuck to the realm of what is strictly possible.

Most of the other reviews indicate it's being received almost as poorly as The Last Airbender, this review is really an outlier in how positive it is.

I'm fairly sure Todd would include it in his top ten, if he were inclined to make such a list.

I thought the whole thing consistently got better as it went on, though it definitely peaked with the Maeby episode, and I thought the last two were a bit weaker than the ones that preceded it. Episodes 7-13 was one of the most consistently great runs of television that I've seen for a while. The first three episodes…

@LemLemoncloak:disqus That's obviously a joke with a point though… the facebook sounds don't have anything to do with what's going on in the scenes they happen in and aren't related in any way to any joke in the season.