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You read that Gabe? We all like you so much that when you don't like something we do like it makes us sad. Do you feel the like? In actual response to Max- I agree with you man. Futurama is one of the best T.V. series ever made. It managed to combine low and high-brow humor, interesting stories, well-developed characters, great running arcs (Fry/Leela shipper right here), absolutely fantastic acting (you hear that FOX! (who are totally reading this post), and basically everything else that could be good about T.V. Show into a single entity. About the only time it truly faltered was with the movies (and at least Into The Wild Green Yonder managed to get it right), while almost every other time we were met with brilliance. Truly, we'll never get another show like Futurama. Hopefully FOX let's Futurama finish on it's own terms this time, rather than being canceled by their bad decisions. LONG LIVE FUTURAMA!!!

Everybody, they are not going to replace the old cast. All signs point to this either being a negotiating tactic to get the actors to accept lower salaries (same thing happened to The Simpsons back in 1998 (and they ended up getting more money) or an elaborate joke for Comic-Con. Rest assured, one way or another, the original voice cast will be in place for the new episodes. @Gabe: You don't like Futurama? ZOMG FANBOY RAGE!!! I"LL NEVER VISIT THIS SITE AGAIN!!! (Refreshes site 1000 times)

I should have put "" around white in my previous post. I don't think that the values of Walt are inherently White (as the Hwong and Walt's family have proved).

I think it depends on your personal definition of racism. If you mean the literal dictionary definition (to think that ones race is superior to another) then I have to disagree with you. Walt doesn't dislike the Hwong because they are replacing White people (that's not to say that he isn't more comfortable around white people). He dislikes them because they are replacing what he believes are traditional, white values (his, specifically). It's only through his relationship with Sue and Thau that he realizes that the Hwong actually possess his traditional values a lot more than his own (white) family. So I don't believe that Walt is racist. I believe that he is simply stuck to his old values and dislikes people who he believes are completely breaking them (for example, he disliked the black gangsters because they were antagonizing Sue (and in a more general sense, treating a woman with disrespect).

Wiki states that it made 263 Million in it's theatrical run and Rotten Tomatoes has it running at 79%. I think that certainly qualifies as a hit.

Oh, Yes! I know Kevin Smith is a love his movies or hate his movies kind of director. But even as a guy who likes some of his movies, I fucking hate Dogma! His attempts at interpreting religion aren't offensive as much as very stupid. The guy had no idea what he was doing. Also, it's not funny in the least (not even much of his classic rapid-fire, crude dialogue (which is the reason I can enjoy Clerks 1/2, Mallrats, and Jay and Silent Bob) makes much of a presence here.Tear this one apart. Also, Chasing Amy sucks for similar reasons (but for how it treats gays instead). And still, I'm sorry to nominate Little Nicky. This is anti-comedy in every way.

what Gabe thinks.

I'm glad to see some Gran Turino defending on this post. I have no idea why some people hate it so. Who knew that Clint Eastwood was such a great comedic actor (other than Every Which Way But Loose)? Outside of the great Comedy, I think it works great as a Father-Son (unconventional) tale and as a culture shock tale (Walt isn't racists (at least in the bad way), just from an older time. It's like the same people who think that All in the Family's Archie Bunker was racist's. Both characters had more to do with being annoyed at the fact that they were being fazed out, rather than actual hate against what/who was fazing them out). The entire point of his relationship with Thau is to pass off his manliness to a younger, pussier generation (you gonna disagree with CLINT EASTWOOD!?) and the point of his relationship with the Hwong family (and Sue, mainly) wasfor him to realize he had more in common with the Foreign Hwong than with his own family. I'll be interested to see what game thinks.

Wild Wild West should be left out solely because of Loveless and his Giant, Mechanical Spider. The entire movie should have been about them.

Spoken by the character Steve Castle (who is only referred to as "That Guy" within the episode) in episode 321, "Future Stock" in response to Planet Express being compared to Switzerland (which is Small and Neutral). Your move, "Nerd". P.S. Wooooooo! Season 6! Thank you, CC!

That monkey made out with a couple of Cocks in college (experimenting).

I still don't understand why this movie is disliked. It's not one of Eastwood's best, but it's a perfectly good Father-Son film for him to end his acting career on.

Gabe, I'm really sorry. Little Nicky.This movie will eat your soul. P.S. Finally August Rush gets the pinning it deserves. A friend of my brother's lent it to him because it inspired him. I ended up spending the entire running time riffing on it, MST3K style. He was pissed at first, but a fewweeks later he told me he wished he joined in. After that one, I assume you'll make a rule of "No More Prodigy Movies".

Really, you guys? Gran Torino is bad? I quite liked the movie. I don't think "race relations" was the point of the story. I think the point of the story was twofold: For Walt to realize that his values were a lot closer to the Hmong family than to his own family, and to have a Father-Son relationship with Thao (Teach him what it means to be a Man). I felt the movie did great on both accounts. Hell, one reviewer (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/755-Up) even likened Up as Pixar's take on the same concept (the Father-Son Part). Well, with like 5 of you suggesting it it seems that Gran Torino will be nominated. It'll be interesting to hear what Gabe thinks (Gabe, would you take what I thought the movie was about into account before you go after it for "race", which I already stated wasn't the point of it anyway.)

I am so using that line! Great review too. Thanks for directing me to it, dw.

I don't have what it takes in me to spew the necessary amount of hate this movie deserves. I'm emotionally drained from other sites. I promised myself after I saw these reviews (that I'll post) that I'd use them in lieu of a comment since they represent what I think so well: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/797-Transformers-Revenge http://www.spoonyexperiment.com/2009/06/25/transformers-revenge-of-the-fallen-review/ This one is not a review so much as a warning to all of you "turn your brain off" people: http://www.i-mockery.com/visionary/turn-your-brain-off.php

Somebody loves her for who she is inside! Yeah, that's me. Because I like to get all up in them guts.

Fallon is making it really hard to continue disliking him.

Alright TalkingStove, I know we started off on the wrong foot in the Star Trek comments so I'm going to try to explain why I liked this remake and not Star Trek (or at least why I'm not against all the changes that this one did while being against the changes that Star Trek did). My post will probably be filled with bias and contradictory statements but that's what happens when feelings and logic fight. I think it has most to do with legacy. Star Trek is massive franchise with years of built up storylines while Land of the Lost had only two short-lived T.V. series and thus had plenty of wiggle room. Also, for all their names Rick, Holly, and Will are so far removed from their original versions (not being a family for one) that I don't think of them as the original characters. Continuity for me could go like this: 1974 series - 1991 series - 2009 movie. Umm... That's about it. Outside of that I realize that it looks like (looks like!?) I'm full of shit. I can't help my feelings (not gay. Love the pussy). It's so hard to explain why I like this one and why I don't like Star Trek outside of I just do. Sorry.

Oh Come on! Why does Videogum require me to hit Enter 3 TIMES in order to space my paragraphs? It's hard to remember that when EVERY OTHER SITE lets me do it in 2. Is there a way to at least edit my comments?

I'm seriously sad this movie is doing so badly. I absolutely loved the film and thought it did a pretty good job representing the series with the basic elements of it. Sure, it changed several things (characters no longer family, only Holly acts anything like her original counterpart, Enik made Villain, Zarn made Altrusian (originally a bored hyper-advanced energy being), Grumpy far more intelligent than he was) but I saw it as carving it's own story with the basic elements. I don't want to say I enjoyed it more having become a fan of the 1974 series through Sci-Fi's marathons for the past 2 weeks, but it certainly helped. This movie is getting far too ravaged. This is no Paul Blart or G-Force. This is a damn fine lighthearted adventure for a moviegoer and a nice tribute to a fan (this guy). Check it out if you have the chance and give me a sequel or new T.V. Series. You wouldn't want to make me sad, would you? (You know me, I'm that guy who ravaged Star Trek without having seen it).

Agreed. Pierre Bernard's fury is necessary for all our entertainment needs. He's the nerd in us all unleashed with no restraint. PIERRE BERNARD IS PART OF MY PANTHEON OF GODS!!!

I'll never be able to see that set differently again. My childhood immortalized in a late-night show backdrop. P.S. Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pWgEp86cM Yay!

So Eminem heard that he could have a man's nethers near his face and agreed? Sounds right.

If he doesn't make a rule of "No Videogame Movies" then I second Street Fighter. Although I second Legend of Chun-Li over the JCVD movie. The JCVD movie is bad but it's too cheesily awesome to be a worst movie of all time. Raul Julia is the man in it. He knows he's in a bad movie and turns in a cheesily fun performance that along with JCVD's mispronunciation makes the movie too funny. This is in direct contrast to Legend Of Chun-Li which is awful. Despite focusing on a select few characters (Chun-Li probably has the richest story in the SF franchise) they still screwed up all the details, didn't bother hiring any actual fighters for the parts, and aside from Chris Kline's hilariously bad performance it isn't fun to watch. Gabe, if you want to save yourself a lot of pain you'll take telmovera's advice. Otherwise, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

It's not working for me man. I'm going to be a douche and say that the rock at the end killed it for me. But I do think that it had to much Grrrr! Hardcore! Awesome! going for it for me to care. This looks like what would happen if you recorded Michael Bay playing with toys, added some effects, and released it as a movie

How long ago did Mike Tyson become The Best. In the last couple years he's become endearing to me. This movie is looking to be fantastic. There is a fantastic cast (which I like better than Funny People's. Nothing wrong with those guys (except Sandler) but I've had too much of Rogen and Hill), absurd events, and a good premise to drive those absurd events. Man, this better not suck or I'll lose my hope for comedy this year.

Agreed. I'd like to add that Conan is fantastic at skits and Letterman turns into a badass when he has a shitty guest (or when he's bored (blowjob jokes at Jennifer Gardner (she had a skinned knee) and acting like a dick when Regis Philbin was there dressed as Shrek). Parentheses Man away!

You give me far too much credit. I'm more of a blowhard.

I can't. Mine is higher than yours. You should be helping me down. I think the writers have done a pretty bad job at what you stated, Whit. The lesson delivery (the future bits) feel tacked on. You could have Ted Danson right now record nine seasons of dialogue about how he learned to shit standing up and put that in Cheers and it would make about as much sense as Ted's Future bits (dirty?). By the way, even if they did to a good job with the story it's kinda strange that they would make the Father a 3-D character and leave the Mother 1-D. P.S. If I seem insufferable I apologize. I write down what's on my mind and I make no concessions to be polite.

I'm not a fan of Ted and I thought for the most part when Robin was dating him she was less funny than when she is single. For the most part I think that Lily/Marshall and Barney have better mostly self-contained stories as well. As for Ted's story, I find the whole thing pointless. Seriously, take out all the narration and cuts to future Ted and it doesn't affect the story at all. I think the show would have been better off without those bits. I don't think that Ted's story is good for the show. As Lindsay said the Barney focused story "Meet The Stinsons" was a self-contained episode and one of the show's best. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a Top-Ten list of the show's best didn't contain a single Ted's Quest centered story. It isn't interesting. A central story is good but only if it doesn't affect the shows quality. Remember in the X-Files how they had that long-running story about Mulder trying to find out what happened to his Sister? Remember how episodes revolving around that mystery were far less interesting than the monster-of-the-week stories the majority of the episodes were? That's how I feel about Ted's Quest. On the side stories: I like side-stories. I was pointing out that in terms of context it doesn't make sense why Ted is telling these side stories to his kids (doubly so if you take Lindsay's explanation into account). P.S. There were two shows that handled running stories in ways I liked. Star Trek TNG and the Q stories and Borg stories being one. Futurama and it's Fry's Past/The Mighty One/Fry and Leela's Romance being the other.

I press Enter on the comment box but it doesn't show up on the post. I guess I'm supposed to press it twice.

I really do like this show except for Ted. I don't know if it's the actor or the writers but his character drags down the whole show. I wish he missed that leap. Screw it! I'm posting this bit about my problem with Ted from another site: The thing that pisses me off about Ted the most isn?t the fact that his story results in the loss of funny (he is unfunny enough on his own). It?s that it serves no point. As soon as Robin was detailed as not the mother of his children then it didn?t matter who was because it would just be some character written into the last few episodes (somebody who the audience wouldn?t have enough time to care about). Not only that but certain episodes don?t even make sense as something his kids (who never look interested and realistically would have told him to fuck off after the first 5 minutes) would have asked. Remember that one where Lily moves in with Barney but by the end of the episode she scares him into kicking her out but with her getting a bunch of furniture as a prize? How the fuck does that relate to Ted?s kids learning about their Mother? Ted?s entire story is pointless (and by association the title of the fucking show is also pointless) and worse than that limits the comic scope of the show. I pray that the writers decide to drop this idea they have going on right now that Barney should chase after Robyn lest we lose the funniest character on the show to likely another pointless, unfunny storyline. P.S. Damn it! I can't believe they are actually going through with Barney and Robin. Way to repeat the crap of Ted and Robin HIMYM writers. Is there two different groups writing this show? One group who are funny and craft enjoyable situations for the characters and have them react based on their personalities and another who watched too many Zack Braff movies (read: Any). GRRRRRR!

These openings are the best. I did find it a little distracting that the puppets still had their gangster clothes from the last opening. They should have put silver fabric or something of the sort to reflect back-up dancers.

What the hell? That second Untouchables is supposed to be The Postman. I must of had a brain fart.

I second The Postman. What happened to Kevin Costner after The Untouchables? He makes a good movie like that that gets him recognition and then he has to start doing stuff like Pay it Forward and The Untouchables that have to repeatedly hit you with their "subtle" messages. On Wild Wild West: This is a guilty pleasure to me. While I'll never stop reminding people that Will Smith peaked when he rapped while wearing a sideways baseball hat and became The Worst after that I still like Wild Wild West. Not because of him, Kline, or even Hayek's boobies (though they never did anything wrong) but because of Loveless. Man, that guy is a badass. The entire movie should have been about him riding around his gigantic robot spider shooting the shit out of whatever while Hayek jump-roped in the background. Oscar earned!

It turns out that "listen to this band" thing I was referring to was A Pretty Good Kisser's post on the One Year Anniversary of The Juno Backlash story. It is the 35th (or close) post here: http://videogum.com/archives/backlashes/the-one-year-anniversary-of-th_040181.html All credit for that bit to him. P.S. I referenced the Sonic Youth because for some reason I remember Rezpect's post (#43?) where he described the scene in Juno where Juno tells Jason Bateman's character that the Sonic Youth suck. I guess I thought that related to the "listen to this band" thing for some reason.

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It was worse before that. The entire scene sucks but specifically it is the pie. They try to make it some message about life that the other pies get eaten and the Blueberry Pie doesn't and they can't because it is a Pie. All these types of movies do it like in August Rush (nominate please) where it's all about his songs that make everyone make the same face a person would if they were crapping their pants in public and shamefully enjoying the warmth or in Zach Braff movies where it's the soundtrack. You can't condense life down to these things because they don't truly matter. I don't remember where I read this (it was either a Gabe Hunt post or a Cracked article) but this one article said that all these movies have a moment where somebody says something to the effect of "You need to listen to this indie band's album. It'll change your life" except it won't unless your life is pointless. That describes my problem and I think the major problem of these movies. Life isn't about Blueberry Pies or the Sonic Youth and you can't condense it down to those things unless you're stupid.

It didn't work. Whatever. This show sucks. Seth Mrfarlane sucks. The guy who voices Cleveland is white so look forward to more uncomfortable racist statements (I refuse to call them jokes). We lose.