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I think Demolition showed up with Crush one week, then the next week they did an interview with Mean Gene where they basically told the fans to go to hell. Yeah, I always thought Austin should have shown up as well. At the time I thought Backlash was everything Wrestlemania 2000 should have been. I think WM 2000 and the unsatisfying resolution to the HHH-Steph-Kurt lone triangle were the early signals of the downward path creative was headed.

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I remember around the last season of Mad About You they hyped a very special episode where Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt were going to let their baby cry in order to try and get it to learn how to sleep through the night. I remember they hyped it as the most dramtic thing ever and went all out, NBC let them go about twenty minutes without cutting to commercial and those twenty minutes were just one shot, Paul and Helen sitting outside their baby's door agonizing over wether or not to go in there and help their baby.

I didn't think the Matrix movies were that bad, just overated (including the first one, even though it's better than the sequals) and I loved V for Vendetta. I'm just trying to point out that I'm someone who's not a Matrix fan, but loved V for Vendetta

Yeah, there's a scene at the beginning of the movie where he gives a speech like that. I thought the movie was great. Somewhat suprised that Warner hasn't caught more flack from right wing types over it.

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2.15: Maternity Leave (Claire II) airdate: 3/1/2006 2.16: The Whole Truth (Jin and Sun IV) airdate: 3/22/2006 2.17: Lockdown (Locke IV) airdate: 3/29/2006 2.18: Hurley III airdate: ???

I loved them the first time I had some (at a resturant called Pappa's Seafood). None of the one's I've tried since have been as good.

It aired on Cuban's TV Network (HD Net) around the time it was released in theaters, but it wasn't released on DVD until January.

Another update 2.13 - The Long Con (Sawyer III) airdate: 2/8/2006 2.14 - One of Them (Sayid III) airdate: 2/15/2006 2.15 - Maternity Leave (Claire II)

http://www.youtube.com/?v=oMC26mvwQHM This was on SNL back in the fall, but it was the last skit of the night and I don't think many people saw it. I thought it was funny. Anyone else have thoughts on it?

I think the hype is a detriment the movie. It makes people go into the theater and mentally fold their arms and say "C'mon, impress me". Which just leads to the sentiment of "people, it's not that good". Concerning the ending :

It's a good movie, but it does seem to follow the "Sports Movie Cliche Formula" a little too closely. Granted, if a movie works then it can be as formulaic as it want and still entertain. But for whatever reason, the feeling of "I've seen this before and I know exactly how it'll end" was enought to not put this over the top as far as great sports movies are concerned. I thought Seabiscuit was much better in the depression era sports star who lifts america's spirit genre.

Earliest memories are of Snow White, Pinnochio, and Return of the Jedi. According to my mother, the first movie I saw in a theater was The Rescuers. Actually we were there for Mickey's Christmas Carol which was showing before and Disney used as the selling point in all of the ads (see Mickey's Christmas Carol in theaters and stay for The Rescuers)

The Writers Guild announced their nominations yesterday, the Directors Guild announces their's today. I'll update this with the Directors nominations later. Writer's Guild Nominations Movies Best Original Screenplay Cinderella Man - Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman Crash - Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco The 40 Year-Old Virgin - Judd Apatow & Steve Carell Good Night, and Good Luck - George Clooney & Grant Heslov The Squid and the Whale - Noah Baumbach Best Adapted Screenplay Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry & Diana Ossana (based on the short story by Annie Proulx) Capote - Dan Futterman (based on the book by Gerald Clarke) The Constant Gardener - Jeffrey Caine (based on the novel by John le Carré) A History of Violence - Josh Olson (based on the graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke) Syriana - Stephen Gaghan (based on the book "See No Evil" by Robert Baer) Television This year the Writers Guild instituted Best Series and Best New Series awards that go to a show's entire writing staff.(Similar to the ensemble awards that SAG gives out). Best Drama Deadwood Grey's Anatomy Lost Six Feet Under The West Wing Best Comedy Arrested Development Curb Your Enthusiasm Entourage My Name Is Earl The Office Best New series Everybody Hates Chris Grey's Anatomy My Name Is Earl The Office Rome Best Drama Episode House - Autopsy The West Wing - A Good Day CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Grave Danger Veronica Mars - Normal is the Watchword Nip/Tuck - Rhea Reynold Six Feet Under - Singing for Our Lives Best Comedy Episode The Office - Diversity Day Kitchen Confidential - Pilot Malcolm in the Middle - Motivational Speaker Desperate Housewives - Next My Name is Earl - Pilot Weeds - Pilot Edit: Here are the directors guild nominations. The winner of this almost always goes on to win the Oscar for Best Director. Its something like 50 out of 57 years. Best Director George Clooney - Good Night, and Good Luck Paul Haggis - Crash Ang Lee - Brokeback Mountain Bennett Miller - Capote Steven Spielberg - Munich

Ang Lee won the Directors Guild Award. The track record is 51 out of 57 years the DGA winner goes on to win the Oscar for Best Director. Here are my predictions for tomorrow's nomination. If anybody else wants to post predictions, let's put them in this thread. ******************** Best Picture Brokeback Mountain Capote Crash Good Night, and Good Luck Walk The Line Best Director Woody Allen; Match Point George Clooney; Good Night, and Good Luck Paul Haggis; Crash Ang Lee; Brokeback Mountain Bennett Miller; Capote Best Actor Terrence Howard; Hustle & Flow Phillip Seymour Hoffman; Capote Heath Ledger; Brokeback Mountain Joaquin Phoenix; Walk The Line David Strathairn; Good Night, and Good Luck Best Actress Felicity Huffman; Transamerica Keira Knightley; Pride & Prejudice Charlize Theron; North Country Reese Witherspoon; Walk the Line Ziyi Zhang; Memoirs of a Geisha Best Supporting Actor Paul Giamatti; Cinderella Man Matt Dillon; Crash George Clooney; Syriana Jake Gyllenhaal; Brokeback Mountain Don Cheadle; Crash Best Supporting Actress Amy Adams, Junebug Catherine Keener, Capote Frances McDormand, North Country Rachel Weisz, The Constant Gardener Michelle Williams, Brokeback Mountain Best Original Screenplay Crash Good Night, and Good Luck The Squid and the Whale Match Point Syrianna Best Adapted Screenplay Brokeback Mountain Capote The Constant Gardener A History of Violence Munich ******************** The Acadamy decided to put Syrianna in the Original Screenplay catagory and didn't tell anyone until the last minute, so that might have derailed its chances.

Hell, Hogan once beat Vader in a leather srap match by dragging Flair around to all four corners.

On another issue, a better name for the site would be popuptorch.com

Vince got nervious about business being down, so he thought putting "big guys" in the WM main event would boot buisness. He decided that Shawn would lose the title to Sid and the WM 13 main event would be Undertaker vs Sid for the title with Bret vs Shawn (no titles, just a one on one match) on the undercard. The night Shawn was going to lose to Sid, he suffered a "career ending knee injury" and "lost his smile". Therefore, getting out of dropping the title to Sid and jobbing to Bret at WM.

But then he got distracted and missed it. His friends tried to tell him about it but it wasn't the same.

Peter was also in Shattered Glass, about a reporter at The New Republic who makes up stories. Hayden Christansen played the reporter and Sarsgaard played the edtor. That's what the Cat Fancy skit was supposed to be a take off of.

My choice for best President would be Lincoln. My favorite response to this type of question was from Stephen Ambrose when he was asked to name the best and worst presidents of all time: "The best was Lyndon Johnson, because he told the truth about civil rights. The worst was Lyndon Johnson, because he lied about Vietnam."

Yeah, I also had a problem with the show trying to get the audience to feel bad for Rick after he had beaten Teri. Also thought the shooting storyline would have been more effective if they had killed off somebody. If they didn't want to get rid of one of the regulars, they could have killed off Ms. Kwan or someone else on that level.

For anyone who cares. At a midseaon presentation to critics, FOX revealed who the killer was. I don't want to hear any complaining about spoilers. They didn't film the solution. So even if there's a DVD, the reveal won't be on it.