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Vince Gilligan in an interview with Digital Spy said this: Click on this link for the entire interview: http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/s166/breaking-bad/interviews/a510056/breaking-bad-creator-vince-gilligan-talks-final-season-fan-theories.html Gilligan comes off much better in interviews and other media than most of the other showrunners from tv shows I've watched (I'm looking at you Mad Men and LOST dudes). He could be a dick for all I know, but he handles the circus around his show well.

My head was so far up my ass back then that I think I just drooled over Gwen Stefani and barely even notice how the Harajuku Girls were being treated. Looking back, the whole thing is off-putting. Stefani trotted them around in matching outfits to all sorts of events, but I don't remember them ever speaking in her presence. Weird. I'm sure someone has written a much more insightful view on this than me, but I don't think she could do the same thing now and have it go as smoothly as it did in 2006.

I thought Middle America would at least still remember the Ying Yang Twins' songs. Oh, and I think people are having issues with Miley's use of black backup dancers because they think she is using them(intentionally or not) more as props and/or toys to legitmatize her current act instead of dancers who enhance her choreography and show. Similar criticisms were made at Gwen Stefani for her use of the Harajuku Girls, the Japanese American backup dancer team she used during her solo era. I don't know either individuals' intentions or what's in their hearts, but I think it's always good to discuss legit concerns and criticism.

This topic has been talked about on almost every pop culture website I frequent (thank you for the insight on twerking ABC News), so I guess it shouldn't surprise me there's a multiple page thread about it on this wrestling forum. Miley has more name cache than Pitbull at least. I am getting a kick out of some people saying their earliest experiences with "twerking", the word and action, has been through Miley Cyrus' recent escapades. Miley Cyrus is really going to be the one to popularize twerking to the general public, despite it being around for years? Of course.

I saw about six "Definitive Collection Volumes" of the POWERS series at the library and I was tempted to start the series with them. I held off on grabbing them because I wanted to look up and see if Bendis/Oeming had an ending set in mind. So what do you think of the series? I've heard some of the arcs aren't perfect, but the majority of the series is a good read. I also picked up the first volume of The Manhattan Projects on a whim. I want to see if I'm into Jonathan Hickman's writing style since I hear a fair amount of praise for his comics.

When they eventually pull the trigger on a Daniel Bryan Vs. CM Punk feud, which I assume is going to happen by next year, these threads are going to be miserably entertaining.

Never has the demand for an extended cut of Jersey Girl been at a greater high than now. A nation waits.

Thank my spirit animal you kept R.I.P.D. in, SKoS. It was easily the most predictable bad movie of the summer, and it's not even close. One view of the trailer and I knew the critics would loathe it. I wasn't so sure about the box-office but I didn't think it would have that much appeal. I thought the studio might just leave it for dead right before its release. It got more promotion than I thought it would in the week it came out.

Yeah, Snyder's direction and the writing for this thing is a bigger issue to me than Ben Affleck's Batman. There's going to be a lot to handle in this movie. Basically, there are going to be many opportunities to fuck things up. I hope it's not 3 hours.

I just want to finish in the top 6 so RossWB won't overtake me in the Summer Blockbuster Pool Hall of Fame. I see you. The damn tiebreakers might actually end up being significant this year. I didn't play the game in 2012 but I'm not surprise to see it's the outlier year. I suspect the same will happen in 2015 if all the big releases stay on track.

I knew this would quickly turn into "Ben Affleck was awful/great in this-or-that movie so this won't work/this might work". Lets just say his performance in Gigli isn't a deal breaker for me in this role. It's cliche, but put me with the "wait and see" crowd. I don't have anything against Affleck. He's been apart of some movies I didn't care for, but he's done some enjoyable stuff too. I actually think a lot rides on what type of chemistry Affleck and Henry Cavill will have in the movie. The Batman and Superman dynamic depends on how they work together and their interactions. A good dynamic could carry this teamup. I am surprise WB went with such a big name actor only because there are so many hardline perceived notions and opinions on him. Just reading the last few pages and you can see people bringing up baggage outside of his acting career. Even an outstanding performance might not convince some people. Then again, the publicity and hype for this film just went up a notch or two so maybe they feel it's worth it.

High DVD sales or not, I agree with whoever said Kick-Ass didn't need a sequel. One was fine and entertaining enough. The notoriety of seeing an ultra-violence film starring foul-mouth teens has worn-out. Vaughn being a producer doesn't really help Kick-Ass 2's case since a producer's involvement varies depending on the movie. I don't need a third one too. Anyway, I'm sure Mark Millar's shameless ass will jump at the chance to cash in on writing another Kick-Ass comic if he hasn't wrote a third one already.

I didn't even know Paranoid or Jobs were coming out last weekend. Both films were just thrown out there for scraps in the dog movie days of summer. No buzz. Was it a limited released for both, at least?

Hooray for clean table match victories!

I haven't seen the match, but I feel like this is a challenge to find a worse one from Punk.

This is good stuff. If they book this right and they have done so in the past(it's similar to "The Rock keeps get screwed over by Triple-H/McMahons" story from 2000), Bryan is going to be white hot with the crowd especially on RAW tomorrow. We already know Orton is a good at being bad too.

After someone offers to pay for Walt's cancer treatment in the first season and he turns it down(I think due to his disdain for the person and his pride), you get a decent snapshot of what type of person you're dealing with for the series. Joining the drug business was less shameful than taking a loan from someone he didn't like or respect.

That was a grand premiere. No tiptoeing, slow build here. Shit is going down.

The critics didn't love anything this summer and my poor RT list has felt the impact. Taking a quick glance at the current scores, I think only one person has done better on the RT list than the box office list. Interesting. Also, a movie with only a 78% rating is going to end up finishing 3rd on the RT list. Very telling. Star Trek has the highest RT rating, but it didn't seem to blow anyone away. At least not with the people I've talked to who saw it. Hell, I barely hear the movie discussed now.

The brand-split only PPVs might have been awesome for hardcore fans, but I doubt casual fans cared for them.

The Walking Dead is a good start because it's recognizable and the first 50 issues or so are pretty suspenseful and intense. I'm not a big fan of how Kirkman writes dialogue and I haven't kept up with it lately since I thought the plots were starting to get repetitive though. I also think Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O'Malley is a good series to check out if you're just getting into comics. It's not a superhero book, but it's fun. It's a coming-of-age story about a slacker trying to get with what he believes is his "dream girl" with a bit of a twist. It's not as basic as it sounds. You probably heard of Alan Moore's Watchmen with the movie and all. It's an obvious pick and it helped me get into comics. Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughn might be a little intimidating but it's a great book and it's not an ongoing title, which means it has a beginning and end. It's about all the men on Earth suddenly dying except one male and his pet monkey. The surviving females have to deal with what's left of society. Charles Burns' Black Hole is completely out of the superhero realm. It's more graphic novel than comic book series. I still dig it. The story deals with the aftermath of a sexually transmitted disease which causes grotesque mutations in teenagers.

Damn. I was slowly regaining some dignity in this game and then The Wolverine cuts me off at the knees. I don't remember my lists so I don't know where I placed it, but I think I put it pretty low on my RT list. I think it'll move up a few spots on the blockbuster list (at least $100 million), which will help. I think I put 2 Guns too low on my blockbuster list though. They are releasing it at a relatively dull period for mainstream movies. I don't see much overlap between the Smurfs 2 and 2 Guns audiences so they both have an opportunity to make a decent amount($20 to $40 million?) this weekend.

I doubt they'll ever do it, but I think a WWE offseason might be a good idea. Especially back when they took the brand split semi-seriously. Nice break for the wrestlers, writers, and even viewers. Build up intrigue with cliffhangers. Etc. I'm obviously not thinking about the money side of things here, which is why it won't happen.

I don't own PS3 or XBOX so I'm out of touch, but this is suppose to be current system generation graphics? Yikes.

Is the Black Mirror arc good? Not Morrison, but it has Grayson under the Batman mask.