Depends. Is he wrapped up like a douche?

I know, I wasn't criticizing you. Just trying to be humorous about my aversion to "people being wacky in the office" stuff.

The words "those people in the office lip-synching" guarantee that I will never click that link.

Aren't they all, when you think about it?

Given the resentful-teenager tone of the review, it's also not hard to imagine the book being a lot better, and going for something a lot different, than the critic seemed to think. This could be a bad book. But the apparent belief that that final passage was a literal admission that the book is just an excercise to…

I'm not generally one of The Plausibles, as Hitchcock derided them. Gotta say though, that was the nitpick I've read that i kinda agree with…too distracted by why it would be up there, if it's supposed to be relentless, always-forward thing, to feel creeped by it.

Huh. I remember it being the form of her dad, as seen in a couple photos, but it's been a few months so maybe I'm misremembering.

Wow, you're old. For me it was Junior.

Well, I get the actual intent and effect behind it all. I just mean that the structure of the sentence suggests thatBlazing Saddles is, stylistically, akin to Merchant-Ivory or as content-innocuous as a kids show, something like that, and while this trailer doesnt clean up Sandler's movie to that extent…etc.

I'm gonna guess a reference to the campfire scene was edited out.

I don't understand the first sentence, is Blazing Saddles now considered a monument to good taste and racial sensitivity?

Yeah, I think the proximity to Sixth Sense hurt it a bit (in people's opinions, not necessarily at the box office). But it's kinda like The Orphanage, and the Sixth Sense for that matter, in that the intensity of the dread and fright kinda morphs seamlessly into a bone-deep sadness by the end of the movie. Almost as…

He's not kidding, you should see his mom's basement right now.

I believe Mike D'Angelo did a Scenic Routes about it, on this very site. He had the same conclusion. Unless you're talking about a different scene, then…never mind.

How many does she have?

I guess he really is Mick Jagger's bastard.

Definitely needs to cut back on the trans fats.

How do you know he said it if he said it subconsciously?

Yogi Berra's ghost, is that you?

For me, the first glimmers of a bad sign are less in who she's hobnobbing with than in reviewers' language of "evolution" and such…and in the possibility that it's a partial driver of how she's evolving "as a comedian." Scare quotes to signify some skepticism, I guess. This review is nicely observant of the dilemma,…