guess i might have to see zohan now.

But even she's not enough to make me shell out actual money for this.

The intro is painful, and the first laugh didn't come for me until he starts cutting hair in America.

The climax is ridiculous, though mariah carey made me laugh a bit with her "Horny little man" line.

There is way to much ham-handed middle east propaganda. For a movie that is SO shallow, it feels beyond out of place.

Honestly, I'm not a movie snob, and I frequently like silly, stupid comedies... This one was just beyond weak. It boggles my fucking mind that anyone could like it... Though the audience did clap at the end (then again, most of them were teenagers). 34% on RT.com should give you a bit of a clue, regardless.

the term "celebrity" is being redefined, one review at a time...

That is the only truth of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

And where is MorbidObesity to bring this talkback to another level??

The theme of sex with older ladies made me slightly uncomfortable sitting next to my mom, but we both just rolled with it and she laughed her head off at The Zohan's ever present massive bulge.

The non-stop hummus jokes made the movie for me, along with the very few times The Zohan pulls a Balki Bartokamus, mangling common aphorisms like "It's not over until there is a fork stuck in the fat lady. She is not done eating." The single funniest moment is from Turturo's character at the end of the movie. When I saw how he fights fire, I almost died laughing.

I consider a comedy worth my money if it provides three or four good laughs. I laughed out loud about a dozen times to this. My mom found it pretty funny and the rest of the audience seemed to be cracking up as well.

The movie is about 20 minutes too long and convoluted at the end. I was a bit letdown not to get a big action climax too, because I was looking forward to what kind of gags they would pull with the crazy logic and physics.

So, overall I guess I'd recommend it if you have any fondness for Sandler. Otherwise, avoid!

Do it for the love of what AICN was, or should be. If everyone knows what's been going on, then maybe it will force Harry to start fresh and try to win back credibility. After all, isn't that what this site needs the most?

If it takes a former staff member going public to get the site back on track, then it can only be a good thing.

The site and staff need a drastic change of direction and attitude...or else it needs to be shut down. It can't survive on its current, destructive path.

I know you don't want to go public with everything because you love the site, but that's exactly the reason why you SHOULD go public. It might be the only way to save it.

Headgeek posts review after review, gushing uncontrollably over every film that he sees (I know his spastic weeping during Indy 4 is still fresh in all your minds), and yet he still has the balls to fire people nonchalantly for such nebulous reasons as those described by Mira.

P.S. I wonder what two of our more prolific brethren have to say about this. Weigh in BSB and DGDB!

For example, if you walked out of a screening of Spider-Man 3 in real life and heard someone raving about it, you'd roll your eyes and exit. If, however, someone on these boards were to defend it (though I can't see anyone around these parts doing that) there would be multiple posts letting that person know that they are the product of incestuous relations between livestock and that their most redeeming feature is that they will one day die.

It's an anonymous message board, and far from being the worst thing about the site. It is the one reason why I come here. So yeah...fuck you too. Cheers!

If AICN has a problem, it's in the declining quality of it's 'cool' news. Too many staffers here have been attempting to slide into the film business (fair enough - good luck to them), meaning they have ditched their outsider status and drastically reduced the site's stock in trade (insider scoops, spoilers and whatnot). This site used to have balls, but now it barely even has teeth. I used to lap up all the news at AICN, but these days I hardly bother with it at all. What that means is I come here more for the Talkbacks than for anything else. It's the one remaining idiosynracy of a site that's lost its way. Hanging out here, trading sarcastic riffs, talking about films we've seen, continuing in my Quixotic quest to promote the genius of the Fantastic Four films - that is the COOL in Ain't It Cool News as far as I'm concerned. So, MiraJeff, how about you set aside those sour grapes you appear to be carrying and fuck yourself, buddy.

There's another 11 chapters of this...the talkbackers don't like it, it's turning out to be terrible publicity for both the book and AICN and if what you say is true, and there is no deals or contracts, then it should be pulled for the sake of the site.

I think what pisses people off the most is that articles like this are being posted while dozens of movie news stories don't get a mention.

I remember sending you Dragonball pictures a while back, I'm sure you got a few emails about it from other people as well. The movie might end up being complete shit, but it's still news, still something that people want to read about.

If people come here in the next two weeks and see articles for some book that they don't give a shit about instead of articles on the latest hollywood blockbuster screw up or whatever, then they'll just go elsewhere.

Obviously you guys cant spend every second looking after the site and I know you do your best to get interviews and set visits for movies that we want to know about, and we appreciate that, believe me.

But there's also the daily grind...posting the latest stories to come out of movie and tv land and frankly you guys have dropped way off in that department. If you're too busy doing set visits etc to spend the time needed, that's fine. Maybe Harry should hire a few people to do that job of posting news and nothing else, leaving you and the others free to do what you do best and get the cool interviews etc.

Either way, seems like a slow news week and people are trying to find something to throw shoes at.

Pretty funny flick, though. I laughed out loud many a-time, and that don't happen much no more. The Zohan making the beast with two backs with fat old ladies...a priceless plot twist...

while i know i went overboard in the talkbacks sometimes while i had my black box, i still felt as though that distinguished me as not just another talkbacker. but you can't say i never asked for a job because i have copies of multiple emails I used to send to harry@aintitcool.com, which is copied to both your box and quint's, asking for some small financial consideration considering how often i wrote for the site back in the day. and i was referred to roland, aicn's business manager. and i was told that there was no room on staff. and then shortly after that merrick was brought on board as a full-time editor and i remember feeling slighted until it was revealed that merrick actually pre-dated me on the site, which is fine. i don't know if i was ready for the responsibility of posting stories and such. but don't be like u should've asked and maybe we could've discussed it because i wrote several emails making my feelings known.

i never felt like u guys owed me anything. i was happy just to be writing for you. and yeah, i know how harry and quint felt about me fighting uwe but i did it anyways because i felt like i was fighting for the site's honor. i mean, we could've been the bigger men and walked away but shit, he called us out by name and since none of the Big 3 were going to do it for fear of losing, I stepped up to the plate and willingly took one for the team. it's not like AICN needed the extra attention or anything but it's naive to think that that event didn't bring it any.

i was a kid who was lucky enough to be brought into the fold by Sheldrake, and then when he and Harry had a falling out because of the former's legal problems, it was like, I was the garbage you guys forgot to take out along with him. and i have absolutely no idea what the financial considerations of this site are or who is working on the back-end to make it all happen but i've been approached by numerous smaller sites than AICN who can afford to pay their writers a small stipend or quarterly bonus, or whatever.

and it's not even the amount that matters. it's the principal. i was a kid who you guys took advantage of. i went to screenings, junkets, did interviews, incurring the travel costs of everything as well, all on behalf of the site, and i arranged everything for myself with the exception of The Eye set visit, which I admittedly let you down on by not writing anything, although there was no story there and that movie turned out to be one of the 2-worst films of the year, along with Prom Night, so frankly we were better off distancing ourselves from that crap.

i just feel like i could've been more of a resource here and u guys didn't appreciate the work I did for free. i was ready for more responsibility, ready for you to rely on me, but u guys couldn't commit, at least not financially in any way. (i remember little things nagging at me, like not being asked to contribute to certain review series for which all other aicn contributors wrote stories) and once i started getting paid for my reviews at other sites, it was like, what am i doing this for? why am i busting my ass for no recognition? sure it's great to log on to aicn and see one of my reviews up there but it wasn't helping me pay my bills or anything, so i just stopped contributing, and i made up for that absence by being a more vocal presence in the talkbacks, although clearly that pissed a lot of people of including Head Geek.

Well Harry, whatever I said, I apologize for, I just wish you could have told me to my face (not literally of course, but in an email or phone call, what your problem with me was). i didn't like coming home and being locked out, so to speak. ultimately, i hope this is just a bad a break up and we can go back to being friends, because let's face it, we here in the online community have to rely and depend on each other. and if u really read between the lines in my comments, i hope you can see that i truly care about the future of aicn. i wasn't writing as a bitter ex-employee (well, maybe a little), but as someone offering you some constructive criticism. i admire that you guys are trying some unorthodox things to drive traffic and maybe reach a little bit younger audience not as familiar with AICN, but i felt like some of those moves were coming at the expense of the site's integrity. maybe you guys didn't receive a penny for this Gone series but you have to be able to see how it looks to the purists on here, the guys who have been reading this site for going on 10 years. it looks like a crass, shameless marketing ploy. i mean, no offense to script girl either, but c'mon, if that was a guy who didn't have mouth-watrering tits, would you really be posting his youtube videos. i highly, highly doubt it.

that's just me speculating though. and ultimately that is where I am at a supreme disadvantage, everything i write here is just pure conjecture. and i apologize if you think it's harmful but that's just the way it looks. i mean, if script girl is still around in a few years, delivering her weekly cleavage reports without you guys having to pay for access to her webcam, then forgive me, i had this site pegged wrong. but i have a feeling she'll eventually get tired of doing lots of research and writing a weekly script and showing off her boobies every week for no pay, call me crazy. i mean, granted, my reviews were never as well-written as Mori's or as well-informed as Harry's, but despite too much plot summation, they were good enough to demand a weekly audience that i spent years trying to build only to be blacklisted for some not-very-good reason that has yet to be explained to be by the man Himself. i mean, i can't say i blame you guys for giving me the cold shoulder but at the same time, you can't say the blame is all on me because there was hardly any communication from your end. you know, as a young journalist finding his way, i've certainly made mistakes (think Grudge II) as I'm sure plenty of people do, but there was never any effort to help me learn from those mistakes. sometimes all a young guy needs is a chance and i felt discouraged at more than one turn during my aicn tenure though i pressed on because i felt like i could've fit in quite comfortably with team AICN. But working against me, i don't live in Texas and I'm not chummy with Harry so I don't get the Massawyrm treatment with the avatar and what not. I just always felt like a second class citizen during my time here, the retard in the back of the class who liked Crash.

i hope you guys can forgive me, i just had to vent my frustrations once and for all rather than allow myself to disappear silently into the night without a fight. as you all know, that's not my style.

my last point goes out to all you talkbackers out there. aicn is a community for movie lovers. not movie haters. i think we've all fallen victim to the hate that seems to have infected these parts. i'm guilty of it. tom bodet's guilty of it. we're all guilty of it. so do me a favor. let my exit unite you all in movie love. choose a random talkback and write a post about your favorite movie or director or writer or actor and just let the love flow. that's how i'd like you guys to honor my fallen screenname. just geek out and express yourself from a place of love, just once today/tomorrow. instead of being defined by what we hate, let us be defined by what we love and what we're all passionate about... movie. Even though I'll have a mouthful of venom for anyone who tries to tell me that The Signal isn't trash, I'd like to remind everyone that all opinions have value and are created equal. there is no right or wrong when it comes to art. and regardless of whether or not you think something like space chimps is art, to the guy who slaved away for years trying to bring it to the bigscreen, it very much is, and before i slag another project, i'll think about how much time, effort, manpower, blood, sweat and tears went into the thing. sometimes on the internet we're too quick to rush to judgment and dismiss a project that took up years of many peoples' lives and is the culmination of many dreams. if there's one thing i most regret about my time at aicn it was the time spent harping on shitty films and not enough time talking up the great ones. and that's why i understand harry when he says that he's selective in the reviews he chooses to write because he finds it depressing to write about films he doesn't love. i wish i hadn't been such a passionate hater and i hope you talkbackers will see the light and change your evil ways.

p.s. if you haven't seen The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, amend your empty lives. you don't know what you're missing... the mirajeff will resurface. you won't know where and you won't know when but when he does, watch out because this writer is a fighter.

Comment as an ordinary user ike the rest of us purple-box plebs if you want, but this whining is demeaning- you've been told, now stop it. I'll bet most that post here have been fired (even though you were never hired etc) at some point in their career, but few will have put in the performance you're doing now.

Grow the fuck up, walk away and stop this horrible performance.

Christ, I actually feel bad for you now. But not because you lost your black box, rather because you clearly do not know when to stop.

The CoC finds this quite amusing.

Well, that donkey done left the shitter, so it is too late for you on that point. But in the future - and I know you are young, just consider that you may not want some things coming back to haunt you.