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I don't know what you're talking about....Now please kindly fist yourself. Thanks.

Oh, looks like Saniss tackled May while I was in the bathroom or something. Never mind then.

Instead, how about you add Michelle Trachtenberg to the cast and everyone can carry on and act as if she's been here the whole time? #buffyseasonfive #hashtaggingoutsidetwitter

Teague, given all the photoshop and audio goodies I've done in relation to this podcast in the past, you should have already e-mailed me with assignments. Seriously, hit me up. I am so redacted.

I already suggested this one. See my list on page 8 of this thread.

I'm just throwing these out there, off the top of my head as they come to me in succession:

The Nerdsmiths
Occam's Blazer
Going To The Mansion
Open Dialogue
The Sync Point
Roll Credits
Story Breakers
The System Purge
Nerds Of A Feather
Geek Sauce
Nerds Of Wisdom
Geek Salad
Popcornadoes
The Screen Berets
The Talking Couch
Nerder Convictions
Scruffy Nerd Herders
The Ventertainers
The Seat Warmers
The Projectionists
The Vomit Draft
The Perfect Movie Podcast
The Concession Stand
Geek Now Or Later
On Screen Dissection
Nerd Alert
Scene Stealers
Chewing The Screenery
Frame Raters
Scene and Nerd
Surround Sound Geekers
The Geeker Box

For what it's worth, when I was around 12 or 13, my first girlfriend was the one who got me into comics. Mostly, we were big fans of The X-Men. In fact, she gave me the Milestone Issue of X-Men #1, with Cyclops and Wolverine on the cover. I still have it. Back then, I was all about Marvel and The X-Men. Today, I prefer Dark Horse and Buffy.

Thanks so much, everyone. Sorry to bring the thread down in the dumps. Things are kind of hectic right now and I may be staying with my Sister for a bit, until I'm ready and able to resume my normal routines in life. I've added a "Donate" button to the Sofa Dogs podcast page (top right, in the sidebar), to help keep the site going. As Teague would say, "Not askin'. Just sayin'." http://www.sofadogs.libsyn.com

Back on topic: Personally, I've always hated this "holiday", although Teague's two YouTube vids made all that clicking worthwhile.

Marty J hyper-linked to this above, but I think it's worth embedding here out in the open, so more people will notice it and take a look.

Even after all the point-by-point explanations, I still don't much care for the movie for 2 big reasons:

1. I find much of the movie badly directed/acted. It's just so damn self-important and kind of melodramatic to the point of unintentional comedy.

2. Almost all of these "explanations" are the result of external research and homework outside of the film itself we're expected to do. To me, that's a massive failing of the movie. If the film can't stand on its own as a single story with all the necessary contexts contained within the running time, then that's bad storytelling. What you're left with is a paper with all of the math problems completed, and you expect me to go through the books and work out the equations for myself to see how you got there. Basically, I'm showing your work. Screw that!

Having said all that, I'm very interested in these statements at the beginning of the video: "Is Damon Lindelof just a bad writer who expects everyone to fill in the plot holes for him? No. The original writer was Jon Spaihts. Lindelof was brought in for rewrites, and Ridley Scott was involved from beginning to end with a specific vision in mind. People are only targeting Lindelof because they don't like Lost, which was one of the best TV Shows ever made. He knew the whole plot on that one, too. And just so you know, a Plot Hole is when something in the movie contradicts something else, not when something is left open."

I'd like to see these guys make one of these videos for Lost, specifically. I'm a fan of that show and would want to see them back up their statement.

Hey Teague, could you edit your main post here to include links to the sites and materials mentioned in the episode? I think it would be really helpful for folks to have all that info in one spot.

That isn't particularly apt, since A) Confused Matthew has never offended me personally, mainly because he doesn't even know who I am and B) Similar to his review for The Dark Knight, CM has many more reviews like it for other films, wherein he takes something he loves and makes a strong case for it. It's when he's just being a narrow-minded, Negative Nancy that I tend to scowl at and shake my head (or in terms of his review for The Avengers, laugh hysterically at and shake my head).

So, what you're basically telling me is, if Confused Matthew reviews upset me and I disagree with them sometimes, I should stop paying attention to him and his hate speech?

Well, you called Felicia Day ugly in so many words (lots of people look like Monkeys, and for good reason!). Does my strong opposition to your opinion of her dictate we can't "hang out" anymore?

That was an interesting read, but it doesn't really tell me how you feel about the video. Though you did express that you think the guy (Adam) didn't state his case well, I'm curious to know why you feel that way, or what you think is wrong with his assessment/explanation?

Judging by the IM chat, your statement (twice made) seems to be, "If the movie needs to be explained outside itself, then it's a failure, or not good." While I think that could possibly be applied to certain movies, I disagree with it as a blanket statement. Sometimes, a movie does need to be explained after the fact. That doesn't necessarily make it fundamentally broken, it's just not everyone will understand it right away, which I think is more often than not, a "fault" of the audience, not the movie.

Personally, I sometimes really like it when something is pointed out to me that makes me look at or appreciate a movie in a different light. It doesn't make me go, "Oh, well I didn't get that watching the movie, therefore it either doesn't exist in the context of the movie, thus making it still bad or my not catching it somehow made it bad." Instead, I usually respond with, "Oh, wow! I totally missed that! Please tell me more so I can either like a movie I already liked even more or possibly come around on a movie that I initially didn't like."