For me, this was the last, best hope for the Farrelly brothers. After Something About Mary, I couldn't wait to see anything they'd put out. A few horrible stinkers later this one again with old Ben Stiller really got me thinking they'd bring the magic again. And then I watched it...

It is terribly unfunny. It drags on with gag after gag that failed to even put a smirk on my face. The first 10 minutes or so kept the full audience I was in utterly silent, save for the old guy a couple seats over, wrestling with his bag of popcorn. No laughs. No giggles. Maybe a few people shedding tears.

It gets just slightly better later, but goes from the unfunny, to the ridiculous, to the stupid. Save your 10 bucks (or your 10 hours, if you go the torrent route .

Also, make sure you miss We Own the Night, but Elizabeth: The Golden Age was good except for its anti-climactic ending.

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I think I'll turn this into a Cinema Talk post.

In reply to this comment by thesnipe:
It was that bad? Maybe I won't pay to see it then.

In reply to this comment by lucky760:
I won't downvote but the actual movie was just too horrific for me to upvote. I think I'm scarred for life.

I have given this some thought and I am wholeheartedly in agreement with the case that Raven has made.

Is is exactly *because* these videos are so horrifying that they should NOT be dis-allowed. There is a human value in showing the true nature of war that far outweighs any upset on the part of the individual viewing the clip.

I agree that a *graphic tag would be needed.

I am completely in favour of allowing Raven to head up a 'War on Terror' channel, I'm totally satisfied by his comments and the way he comes across that he has something to say and has a point to be made, and will approach the subject in a mature and thoughtful manner.

This, friends, is the golden age of the internet, right here, right now. I can forsee a time in years to come when people will not be able to have the same open and honest discourse and free publishing of media that we take for granted here every day on the sift.

Regardless of whether we all agree with each other on the issues and topics that we all discuss and argue about on videosift, we surely must all agree how important it is to have that freedom of speech and expression in the first place.

The War on Terror is the most important thing in all of our lives right now, regardless of your personal feelings on its necessity. It is only right that our online communities reflect that, and more importantly reflect how we feel.

Do it, while we still can.

I think 1stTube would be reserved for the "golden age" of TV the 50's, but if someone thinks differently I wouldn't stop em.

I think he was celebrating a good lift and then head butted the weights... and he hit it hard you can see the rack move... This is kind of stuff is why I could care nothing about modern weightlifting and Bodybuilding... as far as they go... the golden age of the 1950's can't be beat. Long live the memory of John Grimek and Steve Reeves.

That's exactly the line that tipped me over to downvoting. We are not TOTALLY ignorant. We are deeply ignorant about most things, but that is fundamentally distinct from being totally ignorant. Just throwing up our hands and saying 'oh fuck it, the universe is just too much of a mystery, let's just sit here and navel gaze instead' is the worst type of willful ignorance there is. The fact that we are living in a golden age of astronomy and computers is alone proof enough that the mystery ISN'T too big. The universe IS understandable if you study it rationally. Einstein had it precisely right when he said "One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.". The mystery of the cosmos is not that it is so complicated that we may not be able to FULLY understand it but rather the mystery is that we can understand it at all.

He started off well enough, making pretty challenging music that commented on pop culture and on rock music as live theater. But this song just sounds like $dollar signs$ to me... a repetitive, standard (inst-intro, verse1, chorus1, bridge into chorus2, verse2, chorus2, bridge back to chorus1, alternate-chorus, chorus1, outro) progression track with distortion on the vocals and guitar, and lyrics about being a rock star and how old people are tools (and he is not).

I guess I'm still upset that The Fragile never ushered in a golden age of heady, anti-pop rock like it was supposed to. Does this not sound like a distorted Blur track from, like, 1994?

great first post , justinianrex.

And the questions that you raise about the effect of legal immigration or the importing of foreign talent on the national economy are very good ones. I do not think that the federal government begins to solve the problem by merely readjusting the quotas; American corporations will merely be further isolated in an artifical way from the realities of the global market. The problem to me seems to be inherent in corporate form. A few persons (Dick Grasso, anyone?) are rewarded beyond any measure of reality for promoting a sort of efficiency that does not realistically reward the worker. I would love to see aggressive executive compensation caps in this country.

As far as illegal immigration goes . . .

Full disclosure: I have done work for the Office of Immigration Litigation (writing briefs and kicking people out of the country). From that perspective, I can tell you that enforcement alone (fences,laws that are impossible for poor immigrants to navigate, border armies) particularly in the piecemeal and uncoordinated way that it is done, is not a complete or even beneficial answer to the illegal immigration policy problem. It is a loose band-aid.

As other posters in this thread have pointed out, NumbersUSA's view of a golden age of immigration history is very, very strange. If the speaker had lived in a port city in the early part of the century, I would bet that he may not have been so sunny and sanguine.

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Vintage would be cool - and we could break out the old sifter in a nod to the Sift's golden age of yore. (6 months ago?)

But isn't NOW the golden age of the Simpsons? I think they're still amazingly consistent and funny for, what is it, 17 seasons now?

So many good quotes in this one.

God I miss the golden age of The Simpsons =(

This is indeed a golden age in which we live. The future looks very bright!