Astrojanitor

many years, but i KNOW the Bills are terrible. That's the difference between me and Nickelback fans

In order to defend Michael Cera a bit...dude is just a character actor. now that character might be striking gold right now, but that's surely temporary. he does this one thing well and sticks to it. Movies have always used guys like that: need a dick hire Billy Zabka need a weasel hire Ned Sparks need a snitch hire Elisha Cook Jr need a yuppie hire Bradley Whitford. Micheal Cera's very existence makes exposition unnecessary, you know he is awkward and shy and whatever just because its Cera. It works and he nails it. besides Nick and Norah's infinite Playlist is the cat's ass--I don't care what my girlfriend says

yeah man, I've seen all those. The freaking out when they can't get Touched By An Angel on dvd? Love it.

These are odd points in that film is representation and not reality. Realism is forbidden the moment Cameron creates a giant blue alien. Check out a movie called "The Hired Hand," a Peter Fonda western from 1970-something. In the film he attempted to show realistic death--and it comes off as goofy. Hyper realism doesn't work in film, if it did every movie would be hard core pornography. A sell out would be shoehorning a Jar jar Binks character into a narrative--a character whose sole purpose is merchandising. Cameron does not do that at all--dude isn't a sell out by any stretch of the imagination. He makes giant big screen entertainments that many (including me) find to be empty.

I can't even imagine what the script to Disaster Movie looked like. I remember seeing previews for it last summer and being shocked all the references were of films that had been released like 2 weeks earlier. Seems like they saw the previews to a bunch of blockbusters and wrote a movie. although it barely counts as an entry in the genre, but I vote for UHF being the Citizen Kane of whatever you what to call these movies. Something about that movie slays me every time

He's right. All of these exclusive agreements are obnoxious. Even extending into video games--Madden is now the only franchise that can use NFL teams and players. Ever since they lost competition the game has become buggy and far less revolutionary. Competition is necessary..maybe some future day it won't cost 120 clowns for a jersey.

hey man, when I was a kid my dad refused to let me watch kids movies because he felt they were all stupid. At the time it was kind of frustrating trying to watch the African Queen when I was like 6 or being given free jazz cassettes when my friends were all jamming Debbie Gibson and Warrant, but now I think it was kind of an awesome decision. needless to say that if I ever choose to breed I will be paying it forward. A steady diet of krautrock and the French new wave

see, all this is why I seriously maintain that with a decent coach and a couple better players we are looking at a playoff team. Bills seem so hopeless, but its kind of almost there. Really is.

Jets Ravens Dallas Pack I can see the Pats maybe beating Baltimore, but would be shocked if the jets, cowboys or Pack lost

damn straight! we need to go down fighting by pointing out how awful Nickelback is at every opportunity. The purveyors of mediocrity must be held accountable

weirdly enough same as Michael Bay. Lots of shimmery surfaces, camera picks up all these beautiful textures...beautiful women turning around in slow motion. At the very least they make movies worth looking at on the big screen.

Yup...and Neil Young got sued by geffen in the 80s for not being commercial enough. And Wilco got kicked off Reprise for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot not being radio friendly enough...the record that broke them into the mainstream. There are always those who understand they are artists and many many listeners who cannot respond to bland corporate music.

"Tiger turn your faith, turn to the christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world" exact words out of Brit Hume's mouth. So yeah, he told Tiger to become a christian. Which is horrible sanctimonious BS particularly coming out of the mouth of a "newsman." Sure Fox News, which is to news the Detroit Lions are to success, but some people pay attention to their nonsense.

But he was in Arrested Development and for that deserves to be put on money

Its the same crew that makes all of those parody movies these days...and they are just profoundly untalented. Disaster Movie, Epic Movie, date Movie, etc etc are just a series of barely linked references...no jokes. Love it or hate it stuff like Airplane and Kentucky Fried Movie are at least movies.

all that proves is people like ****ty music

no. no it isn't.

thats a great way of putting it. Nickelback may be better than the hardcore band I was in during college, but as far as bands people are actually aware of? They've been redefining horrible and useless for years. Just god awful bland stupid corporate rock

Worst? how do you measure such things. Nickelback is a disaster of bullship, but at least it keeps the losers away from good music. Nothing worse than seeing a guy in an Ed Hardy shirt at a Gaslight Anthem gig

i dont know, I've known some terrible 5 year olds

Brit Hume's rant about Tiger Woods needing to become a christian kinda makes him the d-bag of the year

yeah, but there are a lot of examples of popular bands staying true to their art. Fugazi had the audience but still refused to even talk to major labels, Sonic Youth has stayed difficult, Flaming Lips just put out a pretty difficult album, Radiohead has remained true (boring, but true)...lots of examples. the reason people still love the classic rock of the 60s and 70s is because nearly all of those bands stayed true to their original purpose. Stones, Dylan, Beatles, Zep, Sabbath, neil young...they made solid music first and knew an audience would respond to that. I think now people are just more aware of terrible bands being able to suck their way into a fluke hit single. Seriously, wanna make a million dollars? Write a song about butts or something vaguely about football ESPN can use during highlight reels.

Ramones can get redundant very quickly--unfortunately they were one trick ponys. But in 1976 they were revolutionary. now that every pop punk band rips them off wholesale its easy to not hear what made them so important.

yeah, you've been listening to the wrong music. Look to Black Flag, Minutemen, or Fugazi. Three actual punk bands who created an ethics to keep money and "rock star-ness" away from their circle and, by extension, away from the ability to corrupt their art. Music is an easily commodified art form. A bunch of haircuts in leather pants will always show up with a couple power ballads in order to capitalize on easy women and disposable income. But for every Bon Jovi there are ten Acid Mothers Temple

Can't really sell out if you had no cred to start with. Even back in the day anyone who actually lived left of the dial and no time or patience for their nonsense. The only good thing I can say about Green day is they probably turned some sheltered suburban kids onto the Ramones. Man once that watered down punk lite style started making money the entire genre/movement was dead forever.