Oh, and when I read the "anti- Gump" thing, I knew this would be the film I was after. Hooray!

I know you'll be back from time to time anyway, you can't stay away from the troll infested swamp of the AICN talkbacks. oh and your decades-long friendships as well...but mostly it'll be us, I'm pretty sure...

if the dick move fits, brother...

Welcome to Chamberlain country, Drew. It suits you.

Thanks for the review, Mori. Although I didn't read much more than the first two paragraphs (I want this flick as fresh as possible), the fact that you loved it bodes very well indeed.

Sorry to see you go, Mori.

Now, I understand that you are probably keeping things close to the vest but what sort of direction will your website branch out? Will it have talkback threads? Will you still be known as Moriarty? ;)

BTW, I hope you'll still be in the chatroom everyday.

p.s. Great review BTW.

So I just want to wish you all the best man, I'll definitely look you up at hitfix.com

I remember back a bit after episode 2 when Episode 3 rumors were running about and a piece of concept art supposedly of Vader right after he was burned and turned into something "more machine than man" was hitting the web. You ran a story about it but had decided not to show it. I was incensed, and I railed LOUDLY int he talkbacks about what a sell out you were and how this is the death of what aint it cool news stands for. its hilarious now, your explaination that you were gonna sit on it to allow better info int eh future to come out rather than put Lucasfilm on lockdown for a tiny shred of info was more than reasonable, but this was like 5 years ago and believe it or not I was even more fiery than I am now. but, lo and behold, and hour later the picture showed up in my e-mail, my punk rock ethos had struck a nerve (no matter how unreasonable) OR, and more likely, you just wanted to shut me up. Either way you could have knocked me over with a feather. At the time this seemed like really important info and Star Wars back then meant EVERYTHING to me so to have something that not many others were seeing was like heaven. It really truly meant the world to me, and it pretty much got me on your side forever.

Cut to present day, I live in LA now following my dream, which seems about a bazillion miles from where I was when I discovered this site. We've corresponded informally over the years since and it was a real treat meeting you at the Trick or Treat Screening a month back. I had sort of figured, given your advanced stage of family and career, that your days here may have been numbered but I didnt really want to think about it so when I read the end of this review it pretty much made me go numb I was so shocked. As I read those sentences I knew what you were getting at and thinking "Say it aint so!" the whole time. But, as you said, nothing lasts, and I suppose its a natural progression. But I will say, you're still my favorite film critic, period, and whatever you get payed here it probably isnt what you deserve in an age when Ben Lyons can talk completely out of his ass in front of a camera and disgustingly get a lot more. I've already signed up at hitfix and Ill be checking out what you got there. But I just want to say, thank you. Your work, when I agree with it and when I don't, has meant something to me and has made a mark on my own personally journey, and hopefully that wont change with the scenery. Here's to putting our futures behind us.

The farewell Drew talkback is going to arrive sooner than I would want it to, but I think I'll have to wait untill then to say thank ye's,farewells and good doins. Nothing ever lasts, but it lasts untill it's time for something new, hmm?

Corny is as corny does.

Just don't ever give up writing about films online, Mori. You're a sane voice and we need that.

I wish you much success at hitfix and will definitely look for ya there. But stay on as a talkbacker. Please. With a blackbox. The fun must not die.

I'll hold off on the good-byes until the Official Farewell Drew/Moriarty Talkback is posted. In the meantime, I wish you much success at your new online home. AICN (and Talkback) won't be the same without you.

MNG for Mod '08!

The "MNG for Mod-thing" started with some fun zingers between me and Gus Van Rant. Much like you Zoners, we here in Talkback know how to have fun.

Someone should make a list of these things one of these days.

And you wondered why Harry called you a clown?!

Heh.

zfisk/homewrecker is one crazy bitch. Yet, he is always good for a few laughs.

it really hurts to think they won't be around some day.... sometimes it makes you want to ask why... smh...

BlackCrippler
BraneRobot
AnimalStructure
ThunderBalls?

It was only a matter of time before your lunatic ass showed up. Remember kids, RowdyAnimalBraneBalls is the guy who alleges to know Moriarty in person while hiding behind his TB anonymity. A coward who is also responsible for one of the creepiest statements ever posted on AICN. It's so creepy I can't even bring myself to repeat it. Just know that he's a man-sniffer...

You my friend....need help.

I wonder if he still thinks we're all just one guy in a basement somewhere?

How have you been, man? It's been awhile. I hope you were able to enjoy Thanksgiving in good company!

Was your Thanksgiving good?

Thanksgiving was low key for me as well. Just some quality time with a few family members living out of state. I ate extremely well and may have even gained a few pounds. With my metabolism, that's not easy to do!

Good luck!!!

This was a great review and I am just as excited now as ever. It's gonna be a better Christmas for movies than I thought.

You are a grea sport with all our TB bull shit, a great writer, and it's gonna be lame not having you around as much. Good luck in he future!

Mori is pathetic because he is an internet critic? Uhhhh. Okay than what does that make the guy with the blog where he jerks off to Superman and is read by about a dozen TB'ers that merely visit the blog for a good laugh. Yeah. Thats fucking pathetic.

Good luck with the flop sweat fantasies you lame ass piece of dog shit.

The Game is a fantastic film, IMO.

Christ, what a fucking psychopath. Get a grip, crazy pants.

Drew, looks like someone just don't know how ta quit ya.

What a fucking creep.

Toadkillaz - Morbid disappeared many moons ago, and his last words here were "the economy is just fine".

I think he's since lost his job and can't afford Internet access. Poor schmuck. At least he has his Zohan DVD to keep him amused.

Also Moriarty, though one of the more capable writers technically on this site, seemed to have more of a superiority complex than anyone else. I appreciated his willingness to mix it up with TBers at times but he came off as condescending in many of those instances.

Also Moriarty, though one of the more capable writers technically on this site, seemed to have more of a superiority complex than anyone else. I appreciated his willingness to mix it up with TBers at times but he came off as condescending in many of those instances.

As for Fincher's latest? Can't wait.

All the power to you on the new place.

Personally me... I think this Internet Review and Inside look stuff is coming to an end.

Everything has a phase. Someone corporate someone who knows how to push smallers down. Someone like that is going to get in get bigger access, and independent places like this will lose the traffic and die. Walmart theory my man. There will be a Walmart review site one day mark my words! IGN sold out and really they are the kings of video game reviews. Sure not everyone favors them, but they get the most traffic. If there was an IGN like AICN site- This place would be in trouble. Yes IGN does the movie thing, but it doesn't do it exclusively. All I'm trying to say is Walmarts, and Kurt Cobain are on the way to kill the Big hair days.

But It would be Hallenbeck you'd be replacing, not Mori. Remember old Joe?

NOT eluding my interest is the news of Mori leaving. Holy shitballs!

I've always liked the way he would pick up on stuff that nobody else mentions. A great example is the recent Summer Heights High Review.

And along with Harry's Rolling Road Show review of Once upon a time in the west, Mori presents 25 years ago is the single best writing this site has seen. The E.T. review was something special. Nordling take a bow and Mori thanks for presenting it.

But was it ever finished?

And I'd appreciate SG leaving too. Oh wait, she's not really a part of AICN, so WTF is she doing here again?

Godspeed Mori.

Mori was the best thing about this site. This is a sad week for all of us.

Sorry to see you go but I wish you all the luck in the world in your new thing.

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Now his hobby is hurling whenever he gets into a threatening situation.

Also, I've enjoyed your scoops, reviews, and articles on AICN for many years. Good luck with your new fixins! I'll check it out when I'm not on AICN.

Were the email addresses of AICN talkbackers copied over to the HitFix beta list?

And it's also fair enough to say fuck anyone who spoils the ending before the bloody thing has even come out just in general. You're just so cooler-than-thou.

Kids, you'll prolly get fired/forced out of a job sometime in your life - just walk away - going out in a blaze of petulant glory ain't worth it - it comes across as rather pathetic.

That's right. The spoiler tag was on the article. I already said that and admitted that if you read it you deserved what you got. Remember? However Mori did NOT spoil the ending and reveal what happens specifically to BB. Right? And neither did you. I was actually talking about fuckholes like Rowdy Roddy Striper. No spoiler warning on HIS post, was there? That cooler-than-thou crack was aimed at fuckwits like him, not you. Why would you take offence?? Can you see how I'm getting at separate things here? Spoiler tag on the article. No spoiler warning on arsehole TB post. With me? It's one thing if people discuss what has been revealed in the article, fair game. This was something else. Then there's the separate thing of me positing a theory about Bear to you because I didn't think it could possibly mean what you thought it did. Cheers.

I'm shocked that anyone here believed I thought I had even a shred of authority on AICN to command that TBers stop talking about Benjamin Button. I wrote what I wrote. That's my post. Interpret it as a serious demand if you so choose.

half vader, it's a pleasure, sir.

I recently wrote a post in Latauro's Australia review TB and said, "Hugh Jackman's Australian accent is SO phony! I can do better than that!" and wouldn't you believe that I got rebuked and impugned by a few TBers. One guy was so upset that I wasn't being attacked left and right for my idiocy. Maybe he was the one left out of the joke. There are no refunds, folks. They're not always gold. Hot damn, I've become a lightning rod!

As for italics and edit function, it just gets more blatant by the day with the way Harry won't even offer an explanation as to why he will update the site but still not something so basic. Makes it a bit of a laughing-stock actually. In over 10 years of coming here I've never seen him defend it. Maybe I missed it...

Which leads me to: Mori, will the new site have these basic mod-cons? If so, count me in.

I'm saying that those things are awful no matter WHERE they happen, and your average American Joe being completely unaware that the same and worse is happening elsewhere is a bit galling. Then when Joe watches stuff like this it seems to tell him that it happened in (America's) microcosm. I think it's fair to be at odds about that. Especially when such a specific thing is built into - a fable/allegory. It's not like Greengrass' movie, that's another thing entirely. Surely it would work as well for it to just be the metaphorical storm without actually being specific? I don't see why it needs to be in there as it also implies that it's a moment in international history on the same level as say, WW2. I know the "less people died" thing is a slippery argument that probably should be steered clear of, but hopefully people will get what I'm trying to articulate without a kneejerk flamejob coming back at me. Just for your info, I have American family but don't live there at the moment.

And what WAS that cop show called? I think it got cancelled.