Yup - not like life changing cinema, but a highly enjoyable way to spend a couple of hours. Also an example of something that I think plays better in a full (well - not full, in my case, more like semi-full) theater than at home. I love a good comedy in the theater, and I don't go to much of what gets marketed as…

Glad that my baffled semi-rage was good for something today.

Yeah, that's the only thing that makes any sense to me. Whatever the cable people are paying them has to be more than what it would be worth to the advertisers. Just seems very strange - if I were a few miles closer to Denver, then a digital antenna would work, and all would be well.

Exactly. If I'm Ford, or Proctor & Gamble, or whoever, I'd damn sure want any networks that can be watched for free over the air to also be able to be watched for free over the internet. More eyes = more influenced consumers = more sugar = more power = more women. Or something.

Also this - I don't like to ask my family/friends for things.

The broadcast networks are primarily in the advertising delivery business, though, aren't they?

It seems like the broadcast networks primary allegiance would be to their advertisers rather than the cable companies. And you'd think their advertisers would want as many people as possible to be watching their ads. For something like FX, I totally get it, but for ABC/NBC/CBS/FOX/CW, I don't get it at all.

My problem is that I'm relatively new in town; don't know anyone well enough yet to make that request. I'm in CO now, and all of my friends and family are in MN, NY, or FL.

Why can't Eric Bana find some better movies? I like Eric Bana. Munich is swell, and he's swell in Munich.

Yeah, exactly. The Nice Guys was one of the best times I've had at the theater in the last year or so.

I can't be the only one who wants to see Predator's equivalent to Lumpy.

Here's a thing I don't understand:

Maybe at the climax, the kid can shoot the Predator's eye out with a BB gun.

Maybe they'll go full-Newt. Keegan Michael Key: "7 days? I hate to break it to you pal, but we're not gonna make it 7 hours! We're DOOMED. That thing's gonna come in here and it's gonna come in here and it's gonna GET US. We're FUCKED!" Olivia Cross: "This little boy lasted longer than that with no weapons and…

If he had the nerve to have the kid killed, I would be mightily impressed.

No, see, this one takes place on PREDATOR Christmas. The holiday that the Predators have for celebrating the birth of their lord and savior. It's a twist on things.

Good pick. Written by one of my favorite working critics Drew McWeeny, who until recently worked for HitFix, and before that was Moriarty on AICN back in the day.

Speaking as someone who spent a lot of childhood time swimming in public access lakes with rafts just outside of "the shallow area", that fucking segment will be with me always.

Cautiously optimistic for this one

Saw the Misfits show in Denver last summer. It was a lot of fun. Strange watching a bunch of middle aged people shouting along to "Die Die My Darling", or whatever, but good, goofy fun.