Graham Norton interviews are a great YouTube hole to go down. Anna Kendrick admitting that the characters in Disney's Robin Hood are really sexy is a highlight.

The trailers had "this is a movie that bombs in theaters and finds a following on video" written all over it, so I'm not surprised it bombed, but I wasn't expecting it to bomb THAT badly.

The subtext in Alien, Eraserhead, The Shining and The Wizard of Oz isn't exactly subtle.

Like the title of Dumb and Dumber To, I suspect that the advertising campaign (a little Hart and a big Johnson) will provide the biggest laugh anyone gets out of this movie, and by biggest laugh, I mean "exhaling through your nose slightly harder than you normally do."

Zack Snyder is our most homoerotic dudebro filmmaker. See: 300, blue dong, dildo pods, Henry Cavill looking like a Guys In Sweatpants castoff.

Ebert had a good quote about how movies like this are for people who don't care if nothing good happens in a movie, so long as nothing bad happens in it. They're for people who don't go to the movies except to see movies like this, where they can have their values preached to them and feel safe and content.

Of the cast of 13 Going On 30, I would not have predicted she would be the first to do a Christian movie. I mean, Judy Greer, the perennial "she should have a better career" candidate, was right there.

Even though this looks crap, part of me hopes it's successful, and R-rated animated movies become a thing again. I've been jonesing for a stop-motion Stephen King movie since forever.

"Opening weekend comedy plays to polite silence in mostly empty theaters" sounds about right for Grimsby. That's always an odd experience when you end up at one of those.

Do parents even still use the stork story as the prelude to the actual where-babies-come-from talk? Is there a more dump-month-ready concept for an animated film than this?

Scandal's definitely more batshit, but it also ran out of gas by the midpoint of season 3, because there were no stakes. If anything can happen (and Scandal is a show that assumes a Republican President could run for re-election after two major sex scandals in his first term), why should it matter if anything does? It…

*obligatory "HERE'S JON VOIGHT'S BALL SACK" Patton Oswalt quote*

Yeah, considering that we know the Underwoods have an open marriage, and that Meechum has been with them for a long time, I think the sex scene was random for the audience, but not for them.

I always wonder if Wolf Blitzer and the other pundits worry about spoilers when they're taping their segments for this show. Do network news types even watch this show?

Wiki says Flo's first ad was 2008, so she's two years away from catching Most Interesting Man. Probably the best answer.

It's sort of amazing how long this ad campaign lasted. Are there any other recent-ish commercial characters who have had that kind of longevity? Everyone I'm thinking of is, like, Ronald McDonald, or the Serta sheep.

Cool beans.

Oh, I agree that the assembly is key, and that long-ness is usually relative (the Ebert quote about how no good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough applies). For me, at least, choppiness is less disorienting/irritating than padding. Sometimes a scene in a comedy just needs to take care of plot business,…

The scattershot-ness was emphasized by John C. Reilly, who enters the movie in what looks to be a decent supporting role, and then dies at the 30-minute mark almost as an afterthought.

On the one hand, I'd always rather see a comedy that's under 90 minutes and feels like it could/should be longer than a comedy that's 15-30 minutes too long. On the other hand, this looks terrible. On the other other hand, I'm generally a fan of SBC, and on the other other other hand, Bruno was dogshit.