Glad you enjoyed it sir, and thanks for the feedback. I have less of a story problem with HAL now that we've had the conversation we did on the show, but your post actually makes a clearer point for me.

Oh, huh. Need to re-watch with that in mind. Good call sir.

Thanks, magnificent bastards need love too.

Thanks to both of you guys for buying merch. As I point out on the Cafepress site, at this point, we're not even making money off of those, we just wanted to make them available.

Is the hoodie comfy? I'm thinking about getting one for myself, all I have right now is a shirt.

Uh, The Phantom Menace?

/this is not a serious comment

/in the event of a serious comment resembling this, stay calm

If we were to do Big Lebowski, I'd want to do it with Adam Bertocci, but it's totally possible. I actually haven't seen the whole thing.

Back to the Future is definitely on its way, and I'm sure we'll get to The Fifth Element in short order, too.

I really like that definition of exploitation film. I'm not sure if I'll adopt it, but I'd like to bring it up in a future episode and see how the other guys feel about it. At the very least, I like it for this conversation; if we're going to go with that definition, then Avatar definitely qualifies.

I saw the flick with several Down in Fronty people, so they all know my feelings on it. To summarize, clearly the accomplishment of the FX team - in terms of quantity and quality - is what's to be celebrated here. Walking out of the theater, I complained to Dorkman and the others that the movie 'amounts to a failure of filmmaking,' which I may revisit upon future viewings. Every sub-angle of my complaints can be traced back to a script that felt like student work or a second draft, and that felt clunky and awkward even for Cameron.

That's all for now. I'm killing time at the airport on my phone, and this has  taken ten minutes to write.

I feel owned.