Hmmm, I see your point.

We are woefully behind on Westerns, and I think Unforgiven is as good a place to start as any.

As I just IM'd Teague (name drop!) I look forward to this.

I'm still waiting for our six month long celebration of Bruce Dern, Dern In Front.

Mileage varies, but the first red flag for me was the toxicity level reveal in the first 5 minutes.  Second one was the congressional hearing at the ten minute mark.  Third was the Monaco sequence.  The issues pile was gathering long before any Avengers made the screen.  In fact, if you know nothing of the characters, than you wouldn't know ScarJo is an Avenger until the scene where Nick Fury appears, which is over halfway through the movie.  If little bothered you before that, awesome.  But in my mind the Avengers was the least of that movie's problems.

WIsh I had been on this one.   I used to train with Joe Rogan quite a bit, and while I love the man, he is an absurd conspiracy theorist.

For the record, Terra Nova is MUCH more expensive than GoT.  thrones is a lesser known cast, with less vfx, and less expensive producers.

I can tel you that when Grayson hits three, he will get a steady diet of The Muppet Show on DVD.  Equally important is Sesame Street, which had muppett crossovers from time to time.  I was that age when I started watching both, and it instantly connected.  Same with my nieces and nephews. 

I can't stress the importance of Jim Henson's creations on my life.  I taught myself to read at age 3 by watching Sesame Street regularly.  I always felt like Walt Disney was this wizard who lived to create this magical empire.  It was okay that he was dead, because I had Jim Henson, who was as brilliant in my mind as Walt, and he was going to be the caretaker of my generation.  I was 12 when he died, and that was the first time where I was deeply saddened by the death of someone I did not know.  It really wasn't until Pixar came along that I felt like something was at least attempting to fill that gap.

We discuss Shane Black quite a bit in the upcoming Iron Man 2 commentary.  We will discuss Nolan quite a bit when we go screaming through the Batman filmography, though I will say its not enough to just say "Nolan's batman is badly written," you have to be a bit more specific if you make that claim.  The notion you propose that comic books and superheroes is inherently unrealistic is a bit of a straw man, bordering on ad hominem.  Is Maus, the only comic to ever win a Pulitzer, unrealistic because it anthropomorphizes mice in lieu of holocaust survivors?  Technically yes,  but I would submit that it gets at a deeper truth.  This is to say nothing of comics like Pedro and Me, Don't Go Where I Can't Follow, Daytripper, Pride of Baghdad, and Strangers in Paradise which portray relationships in as real of a way as any other medium.  If you don't cotton up to capes and cowls too much, I understand, but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

...and by the way, as a new father, can I just say what an awful expression that is?

Heh, don't just wish me luck.  YOU'RE doing the score.

Disclaimer:  I am totally Eddie

Dorkman has it mostly right.  The thing to keep in mind is that there is not one docu/reality series on the air that doesn't have some kind of trade out with some company for something.  For instance when I was working on Real World 9, we had what we call a "trade out" with Snapple and Dr. pepper.  Cast got free beverages, and we just simply had to show them drinking it several times a season.

I bring this up because the main reason we blur logos is to not piss off the PAID advertisers by allowing logos on that have no trade outs.  A recent, famous example of this is on John and Kate.  When their marriage was in its death rattle, John went out and got an endorsement deal with Ed Hardy.  He swaddled himself in a cocoon of douche whereever he went, including and especially taping days for his show.  Except, surprise, he didn't clear it with TLC, so my good buddy John spent most of that summer turning John Gosselin into a blurry cloud.