No, none of them were. Some took it with good grace, some caused a bit of a stink about it afterwards (Fox in particular)

@avclub-7e1ce4ce3124fd9ecc13a151afcff11b:disqus haha. Dude how are you getting so worked up about this, 2 days later?  Todd's doing ok - though I don't imagine he enjoyed reading my criticisms, he at least recognises that it was about his writing style, not him personally.  People have their work appraised &…

@avclub-7e1ce4ce3124fd9ecc13a151afcff11b:disqus haha - so you respect my opinion, but call me an asshole for expressing it, in the section of the site intended for opinions - then you pre-empt what are in your mind the only two possible responses I could have had! Splendid work, chap. Here's your Internet Discourse…

Thanks for respecting my opinion, Bastard.  (there's no way of writing that without seeming sarcastic - I'm not though)

Slurm comedowns are a bitch

It doesn't strike me as ballsy given that every single piece of writing by Todd strikes me as being by a cringe-inducingly self-obsessed adolescent with pretensions of having a poetic soul.

@avclub-2d31cb28609a0ccb044e798fe73c023a:disqus Does it cut Orlando Bloom out of the movie?

A perfect punchline too: "well that's none of my business…"

I saw about ten minutes of it a few years ago. The fact that they'd changed it from being one man's nihilistic stand against authority to a guy who's trying to get across the country for his sick kid (if I recall correctly…) amused me greatly. But not enough to keep watching.

But isn't pretty much everything Todd writes in the 1st person? Because that's why I can't stand his writing & am reading far less of the site than I used to.

I can't speak for the first 3 years as I was too young to watch it then (though it does indeed enjoy the reputation of being a relatively groundbreaking show in the beginning), but The Bill for the most part was a reliable yet formulaic half hour crime show which followed the "two separate crimes being investigated -…

@avclub-ecbdad96460f85751944de9d6c2d50fe:disqus oh alright then, your arbitrary wikipedia page totally trumps my speaking german, living in the capital of germany, working for a german company, formerly living with people from other regions of the country & having a german girlfriend. We all say "ze" all the time and…

@avclub-ed279991297d161c6fa41c29869c19ac:disqus - the pronunciation of "th" in german is basically the same as in English, so yes, they pronounce "the" nearly always correctly, and I can't think of a single occasion in real life where someone's pronounced it zis way.

And no Germans I know say "ze" instead of "the"… in fact they often actually pronounce the "th" sound more correctly than English people (like myself) do.

I live in Germany. I know people from every part of the country. None of them sound remotely like the characters in this.

So this guy's still here, huh

Thank you both - I find this theory to be largely nonsense. A bunch of these movies were releases in this period because they stood a better chance then for the type of movie they are, not because they were being dumped. Be Kind Rewind for example had a big marketing campaign behind it - in no way was it dumped. And…

I love that despite the meat machine no-bread sandwich concept being patently ludicrous, KFC still went right ahead and did it anyway.

Well I loved 1 & 2, and 3 was pretty good despite me finding salma hayek as irritating as hell.

I stopped during 4 after not laughing once for like 5 episodes. If I just skip to 5 am I gonna miss anything important?