<![CDATA[Comments from moff]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Comments from moff]]> http://gawker.com/people/grandmoffbastard http://gawker.com/people/grandmoffbastard moff commented on One More Thing @HeyThatsMyBike: I don't understand (and this applies to the first FF, too) who researches Doctor Doom for even fifteen seconds and then writes him as a dickhead fratboy whose every other line is something along the line of, "Nyeh-nyeh!"

It was just bad. I thought in the first one Jessica Alba's hotness was sufficient to compensate for her acting, but in this one, it wasn't enough. The part where the Surfer just grabs the Human Torch by the throat and then drops him from the upper reaches of the atmosphere was cool. (But then, it was just as cool in the trailer.)

[IRON MAN SPOILERS BELOW]

@Helman: No. I mean, yes, I deny it. The dancing flight attendants were in the first thirty minutes, weren't they? And I thought Jeff Bridges was perfect! Actually, I totally didn't even realize that was him -- I kept thinking, "That actor looks so familiar!" But I thought he was quite effective as an apparent good guy and equally menacing once the switch was revealed.

I was just so wowed, though, that it's possible my objectivity has been affected. I'll totally invite you out with Rob, but you have to promise to BE COOL.

[IRON MAN SPOILERS ABOVE]

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5639586 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5639586 Sun, 11 May 2008 16:26:25 EDT moff commented on How Web 3.0 Will Work @valarmorghulis: I recommend (as I usually do, for anything) a steady diet of beer. That should provide the "all I did was sit down, and my ass dropped out from beneath me" feeling you're looking for.

If history is any indicator, the first thing Web 3.0 is gonna tackle will be a workable Casual Encounters. Something like this (EXCEPT WITHOUT THE SAD GIRLS):

("How do we filter out the teases? We don't let them in.")

]]> http://gawker.com/5008611/how-web-30-will-work#c5638586 http://gawker.com/5008611/how-web-30-will-work#c5638586 Sun, 11 May 2008 12:51:08 EDT moff commented on One More Thing @Helman: Sorry, I was out with Robert Downey Jr. last night, and I'm still coming down. I need to figure out whose house I'm in, too.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5638452 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5638452 Sun, 11 May 2008 12:24:49 EDT moff commented on One More Thing @Helman: You're really good and kind of boring at parts! Iron Man WAS PERFECT!!!

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5638446 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5638446 Sun, 11 May 2008 12:23:51 EDT moff commented on How Web 3.0 Will Work @Lymed: Yeah, it's gonna be uncomfortable when the lady and I ask our shared browser to come up with something we can watch together when we're feeling a little frisky. 'Cause she is way into dudes.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008611/how-web-30-will-work#c5638428 http://gawker.com/5008611/how-web-30-will-work#c5638428 Sun, 11 May 2008 12:22:21 EDT moff commented on How Web 3.0 Will Work @valarmorghulis: Never. If there's one worldly pleasure I'm not going to give up, it's throne-time.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008611/how-web-30-will-work#c5638419 http://gawker.com/5008611/how-web-30-will-work#c5638419 Sun, 11 May 2008 12:20:08 EDT moff commented on One More Thing

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637516 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637516 Sun, 11 May 2008 03:33:34 EDT moff commented on One More Thing @Spirit Fingers: And I think Hunter was going for a slightly different tone!

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637512 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637512 Sun, 11 May 2008 03:31:55 EDT moff commented on One More Thing @Spirit Fingers: My dear. Ari Meyers...

...and Allison Smith...

...sharing a bedroom. That was the substance of the bulk of my first three-way fantasies, back when I was young enough to think girls would taste like cotton candy. (Penthouse Letters always used the word "sweet"!)

Until I got older and decided I was ready to take on Simone, Maria, and Robin Givens from Head of the Class ALL AT ONCE.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637510 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637510 Sun, 11 May 2008 03:31:16 EDT moff commented on One More Thing

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637370 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637370 Sun, 11 May 2008 02:11:27 EDT moff commented on One More Thing I don't have the Sledge Hammer DVD set, but I got it for my brother last Christmas, and holy shit, that show holds the fuck up. I mean, straight-up genius satire. The first season ends with Los Angeles getting nuked!

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637365 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637365 Sun, 11 May 2008 02:09:02 EDT moff commented on One More Thing @BeRightBack: It was on for, like, what, a season? My brother and I always wish we could see it again. THEY HAD A RAVEN NAMED QUOTH.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637357 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637357 Sun, 11 May 2008 02:05:33 EDT moff commented on One More Thing @rosaluxembourgeoise: I was a little too young -- I remember watching it but never understanding what was going on. And the little ginger kid freaked me out. (I think jackvinyl was alluding to the same thing on the Indy thread, actually.)

Oh, and also: Perfect Strangers. "Cousin Larry App-la-ton!" A lot of people don't remember that Urkel was a spin-off of Perfect Strangers. But he was.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637353 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637353 Sun, 11 May 2008 02:04:15 EDT moff commented on One More Thing @moff: And Green Acres.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637327 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637327 Sun, 11 May 2008 01:52:04 EDT moff commented on One More Thing I don't want to ruin the love vibe, but I just got done watching Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (WOW THAT WAS NOT GOOD, NOT THAT I EXPECTED IT TO BE BUT STILL), and here are ten sitcoms I can think of off the top of my head that I like better than Scrubs:

1. Arrested Development
2. 30 Rock
3. The Office
4. the British Office
5. Extras
6. Who's the Boss
7. The Dick Van Dyke Show
8. Sledge Hammer
9. The Charmings
10. Kate & Allie

Honorable Mentions: Head of the Class, Just the 10 of Us

]]> http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637319 http://gawker.com/5008575/one-more-thing#c5637319 Sun, 11 May 2008 01:49:29 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @DonPardoCalrissian: Wow. I feel like I saw that a long time ago and then purposely forgot about it. "Carbunkles." Ewwww.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633176 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633176 Sat, 10 May 2008 12:47:34 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @SarahHeartburn: Yes. And the kneeling for communion could be tough for the people waiting behind him, too.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633116 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633116 Sat, 10 May 2008 12:36:15 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @jackvinyl: That was my first shot, but I'm not sure they were. I mean, if Jason Segel was willing to do full-frontal, I feel like she might have been game enough. Anyway, I'd like confirmation either way.

And anyway, whaddya mean they don't count? Photoshopped or not, they suited me fine for looking at.

@Obviously Not Omniscient: We're simple beasts.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633109 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633109 Sat, 10 May 2008 12:34:52 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @DonPardoCalrissian: Almost. Everything is spot-on except that my dad never wore pants. Church was really uncomfortable.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633084 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633084 Sat, 10 May 2008 12:31:18 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @jackvinyl: Mila Kunis's boobs are in there, dude. How could you forget? HOW COULD ANYONE FORGET?

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633072 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633072 Sat, 10 May 2008 12:28:38 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @Zorica: Yikes. Yeah, that would make it tough to enjoy. The main character is a pretty accurate rendition of more than a few men out there; apparently, the breakup scene with Sarah was taken from the actor/writer's real-life experience.

I'm in love with "but there were lots of feelings and justifiable responses" as a point of criticism now.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633063 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633063 Sat, 10 May 2008 12:27:34 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @Zorica: Uh, no. I was actually making all that up.

[Uncomfortable silence]

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633030 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5633030 Sat, 10 May 2008 12:21:31 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @koala325: Sarah Marshall was a little too long (I know, a Judd Apatow production -- who'd have guessed?), but it was consistently very funny. A little too raunchy to be a first-eHarmony-date movie, but worth your time.

@DocGratis: Perfect analysis. That's what's bugging me about Crystal Skull -- after you've gone after the Holy Grail, how does anything else top that? Also, the trailer was just boring for some reason I can't pin down.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5632988 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5632988 Sat, 10 May 2008 12:14:30 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @Spirit Fingers: Toddler? No, I was like 15 at the time.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5632895 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5632895 Sat, 10 May 2008 12:00:08 EDT moff commented on The Week Obama Won the Internet @CodePink: EXACTLY. But I'm a lot more taken with all the over-the-topness now than I was during the too-cool '90s. Kind of like how there are some massive buildings in New York that I know were built by the titans of industry as monuments to their own greatness with no regard for the working folk who gave their labor and sometimes even their lives for the construction, and even though I know that's bad, I'm still impressed by their audacity. Kind of like that.

]]> http://gawker.com/389209/the-week-obama-won-the-internet#c5632886 http://gawker.com/389209/the-week-obama-won-the-internet#c5632886 Sat, 10 May 2008 11:58:38 EDT moff commented on Soak Your Head With The Greatest Cocktails From Science Fiction @Jeff-Minor: Gratuitous discussion of women's nipples, among other parts, however, was not only condoned but endorsed.

]]> http://io9.com/388323/soak-your-head-with-the-greatest-cocktails-from-science-fiction#c5632771 http://io9.com/388323/soak-your-head-with-the-greatest-cocktails-from-science-fiction#c5632771 Sat, 10 May 2008 11:37:14 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @Spirit Fingers: There'll only ever be one true Superman for me, and it's either Christopher Reeve or my dad, late at night, wearing my Underoos and running around my room with his arms outstretched like he was flying, screaming, his breath reeking of bourbon. I don't even know how he fit into them.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5632761 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5632761 Sat, 10 May 2008 11:35:12 EDT moff commented on The Dangers of Electricity Addiction @DocGratis: My dear Doctor, you need to break out of that old-school, linear, hierarchical, a-place-for-everything-and-everything-in-its-right-place mode of thought. It's the 21st century! This is the Internet! New media! The consumers are also the producers!

Who cares if the post is yet another thinly veiled plea from Newitz for someone to hypnotize her and share her private netherbits with all their friends? What, the cyberpolice are gonna knock on your door if you just turn the comments into a "BSG WTF?" festival? It's like George Michael (the singer/songwriter, not the frozen-banana stand manager) said: "All we have to see / Is that I don't belong to you / And you don't belong to me / FREEDOM!"

Just don't mention if the Cylons are still the bad guys in Season Four or if they're still on the Enterprise. I HAVEN'T WATCHED THAT FAR YET.

(Now I'm gonna get myself happy...)

]]> http://io9.com/389228/the-dangers-of-electricity-addiction#c5632747 http://io9.com/389228/the-dangers-of-electricity-addiction#c5632747 Sat, 10 May 2008 11:32:01 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @dandles: I know I was big after I saw her in Iron Man.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5632666 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5632666 Sat, 10 May 2008 11:17:06 EDT moff commented on Is the New <i>Indiana Jones</i> Going to Suck? @spiegelman: Was that Daredevil crack aimed at anyone in particular?

@Obviously Not Omniscient: It was a perfectly good movie, and you, as I have always suspected, are possessed of particularly discriminating taste.

]]> http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5632656 http://gawker.com/5008531/is-the-new-indiana-jones-going-to-suck#c5632656 Sat, 10 May 2008 11:16:16 EDT moff commented on The Week Obama Won the Internet @CodePink: I think it's like, back when she was younger, there was a boy in her life who wasn't much older than the boys who are about to start at the school, and now it's over and ended badly, and she can't help but be overcome with sadness and nostalgia and yet it's so achingly beautiful, too, because it happened, and she wouldn't give it up for the world. And she catches something about the boy at the end that reminds her so strongly and suddenly of her lost love that it makes her heart stop for a second.

@mydeadgayson: But it's kind of really amazing, too.

]]> http://gawker.com/389209/the-week-obama-won-the-internet#c5632598 http://gawker.com/389209/the-week-obama-won-the-internet#c5632598 Sat, 10 May 2008 11:07:00 EDT moff commented on "You Bite the Very Short Asian Girl On the Neck..." Nice job, everyone, but WOW, Pink.

]]> http://gawker.com/389155/you-bite-the-very-short-asian-girl-on-the-neck#c5626827 http://gawker.com/389155/you-bite-the-very-short-asian-girl-on-the-neck#c5626827 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:14:40 EDT moff commented on The "End of Williamsburg"? @MisterHippity: Oh, man. And only six hours before Bono's birthday, that.

]]> http://gawker.com/389148/the-end-of-williamsburg#c5626762 http://gawker.com/389148/the-end-of-williamsburg#c5626762 Fri, 09 May 2008 18:11:04 EDT moff commented on The "End of Williamsburg"? Josh, dude, you moved to a different borough, not a different city.

]]> http://gawker.com/389148/the-end-of-williamsburg#c5625469 http://gawker.com/389148/the-end-of-williamsburg#c5625469 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:06:19 EDT moff commented on First Look At New Batmobile @Miranda Kali: You might get better results if you go with apricot jelly. Anti-British sentiment has been running rampant since the Suez Crisis.

]]> http://io9.com/389099/first-look-at-new-batmobile#c5625251 http://io9.com/389099/first-look-at-new-batmobile#c5625251 Fri, 09 May 2008 16:57:01 EDT moff commented on An Ugly Business @Theda_Bara: Ha! In my house, we say, "Welcome, morning."

]]> http://gawker.com/389089/an-ugly-business#c5625221 http://gawker.com/389089/an-ugly-business#c5625221 Fri, 09 May 2008 16:55:53 EDT moff commented on An Ugly Business @Helman: Oh, well done.

@Bell County & Helman: As I think I've made it abundantly clear that I have the sense of humor of an eighth-grader, I must confess that every time I read that name, I giggled just a little at the awfulness of it. But I felt bad about it.

]]> http://gawker.com/389089/an-ugly-business#c5625200 http://gawker.com/389089/an-ugly-business#c5625200 Fri, 09 May 2008 16:55:09 EDT moff commented on An Ugly Business @Helman: You're very pretty, though!

]]> http://gawker.com/389089/an-ugly-business#c5624854 http://gawker.com/389089/an-ugly-business#c5624854 Fri, 09 May 2008 16:42:39 EDT