You gave three correct answers. Also, ughhhh.

Also, this. Some time in late high school. I have no idea what the fuck. This is not what I was asking for.

You have permission to brag in the following response: what single thing that you've been responsible for impressed you the most?

Depends on how you mean. I've "met" much more famous people than I've met. I've been in the same room as Samuel L. Jackson, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman.

Of the ones I've actually met-met, though, most famous is probably Neil Patrick Harris or George Takei. Maybe Shia.

Grossest bodily experience you've had?

By the way, if you haven't seen all of David Fincher's '90s movies, read no further.

*blink*

This is a weird forum.

Welcome Kevin!

I was on your side. Listen to the episode.

I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts afterward.

I agree that that's the theme, but it doesn't seem to be well supported by the events. (Namely, if the idea was for him to teach everyone that being special is okay, why does he tell Dash to slow down and why are his activities at the end of the movie still illegal?)

I'm almost certain I'm wrong about this, but I'm still not quite convinced it's water-tight.

2013 bump.

I was watching this last night, and god damn is it amazing and all, yeah yeah, but I noticed something.

This isn't actually a perfect movie. Not in the Dorkmanic sense of the word, anyway. There is one thread at the beginning of the movie that isn't actually paid off at the end.

What is Mr. Incredible's problem at the beginning of the movie? It's twofold, obviously, it's partially that he's not much of a family man because he's obsessed with the past, but also - importantly - that Bob can't accept the fact that he has to hide what makes him special. His whole problem stems from the fact that what he needs to do is learn to put the past away and live in the moment. He keeps getting into trouble because he wants to re-live his past.

At the end of the movie, the story and his arc have beautifully brought him into a place where he's a dedicated father and (presumably) understands the importance of family and all that, but he has decidedly not learned to put the past away and hide what makes him special. He's superheroing his ass off. He hasn't learned to hide what makes him special, he's just dragged his family into it with him. That solves one of the two problems, but not both.

Now, obviously the theme of the movie is "you're special and you shouldn't ever try to hide it," but that's simultaneously not what the movie is saying. At the end, not only are The Incredibles are in violation of federal law - which you could say is the movie's way of suggesting sometimes the world won't be accepting of your specialness, but you should be special anyway - but Bob is also telling his son not to be too special at the track meet. He's saying "don't be too special in their faces, hide it and let someone else win."

I know this is a point that could be argued back and forth, and I'd love to hear it, I just thought it was odd that I hadn't seen this argument at all before.

I'm the Sir Digby Chicken Caesar of DIF.

Just me, really. You know when Mike says me and Princess Bride need to bang and get it over with? That's in response to typical drunk-person "ohmygodIloveyouman, noyouarethebest, noyou, ohmygodIloveyou."

Why do you do this to yourself, man.

Great review, but, what about your soul?