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• Claire K. says:

  March 22, 2011 at 2:47 pm

  what a face! what a voice! what an enga­ging manner!

• Matthias Galvin says:

  March 22, 2011 at 5:26 pm

  +1 for no maroon sweatervest.

• bill says:

  March 22, 2011 at 6:04 pm

  I thought you were going to teach me how to pro­nounce Apichatpong Weerasethakul. What a rip off.
  I liked your Loony Tunes (I believe) gasp when faced with the pro­spect of nam­ing qual­ity main­stream movies.

• Tony Dayoub says:

  March 22, 2011 at 6:49 pm

  Excellent sum­mary of the year thus far. I agree with much of what you said, espe­cially with the bit on CAPTAIN AMERICA. Despite being a “risky” pro­pos­i­tion for main­stream audi­ences (as risky as one can get in that genre… WWII peri­od piece–whaa?), I think it will be the most reward­ing of this year’s com­ic book films.
  Now when is any­one going to adapt Kirby’s NEW GODS?

• Kevyn Knox says:

  March 22, 2011 at 11:32 pm

  Great show­ing. Whole-heartedly agree on Captain America. He has always been one of my favour­ite com­ic char­ac­ters (and the bit on the REd Skull – mock­ing or not – was fantastic).
  No men­tion of Red Riding Hood in the worst cat­egory though? I know you were pressed for time, but I think its bad­ness deserved at least a mention.
  Here’s look­ing for­ward to Meek’s Cutoff. I still haven’t seen the damned thing.

• Lex says:

  March 23, 2011 at 2:39 am

  Glenn, if it’s out of line to ask or you don’t feel like answer­ing, totally under­stood, though you’re usu­ally (right­fully) proud about your awe­some diet res­ults: How much have you lost now, total? And over how much time are we talk­ing? That’s ser­i­ously impress­ive. And I don’t say that in a back­han­ded way; I don’t really think of your Girlfriend Experience build as par­tic­u­larly John Pinette-esque or any­thing– it was prob­ably in the neigh­bor­hood of where I am.
  Last sum­mer I swore to lose 50–60 pounds. At one point I lost 23 pounds, then hit THE WALL where it would­n’t budge, then winter hit and run­ning went out the win­dow… Now I’m back where I star­ted, all dejec­ted and dis­ap­poin­ted in myself. Are you allowed to drink 10 beers a night on a diet?

• Glenn Kenny says:

  March 23, 2011 at 6:13 am

  @ Lex: I don’t mind answer­ing, but the answer is kind of bor­ing. in January of 2010 I was about 300 pounds, now I’m hov­er­ing between 210 and 220, and am look­ing to make 200 this sum­mer. And essen­tially I lost the weight through the usu­al, that is, diet and exer­cise. It’s not exactly a secret that last year I stopped drink­ing, peri­od; when you factor in the data that I was a boil­er­maker guy, and that at the height of my con­sump­tion I could down five to ten whiskey-and-beer com­bos a day, well, that’s a lot of cal­or­ies right there. As for oth­er aspects of diet, I found that select­ively apply­ing South Beach, or at least some of the prin­ciples of South Beach, really helps kick-start things, par­tic­u­larly at those points where one feels one has “plat­eaued” and hit that wall you refer to. As for exer­cise, I star­ted walk­ing two miles a day and even­tu­ally built to the point of doing six miles in an hour. You’re right, though; even if you run indoors, on a tread­mill, as I tend to, winter can really mess up your run­ning. I talked to a run­ning expert on this and he told me the import­ant thing is just to keep doing some­thing if run­ning itself is an issue: strength train­ing, get­ting on an ellipt­ic­al, that kind of thing.
  The thing is, I actu­ally DID IT, and I did it at a point in my life where I hon­estly thought I would nev­er be able to. I can­’t stress how down in the dumps and pess­im­ist­ic I was about my pro­spects before I actu­ally star­ted to work on it. My feel­ing is, if I can do it, any­body can, so give it anoth­er shot.

• James Keepnews says:

  March 23, 2011 at 9:03 am

  Tony, sure do hope King Jack’s chef d’oeuvre makes it on-screen via anim­a­tion, G‑d (or Highfather) will­ing 2D/hand-drawn anim­a­tion. Yeah, dream on, right? G‑d &c. knows they have and hun­dreds of pages worth of the plot­line and story­boards good to go.
  & yeah, CA looks dope, don’t it? Here’s, once more, to war­ran­ted buzz.

• atk says:

  March 23, 2011 at 9:55 am

  Look great sound great, love the mug­ging at the end

• Michael Adams says:

  March 23, 2011 at 11:52 am

  Very enter­tain­ing. If GK wants to con­tin­ue his act­ing career, I sug­gest a remake of Preminger’s Whirlpool with Glenn in the Jose Ferrer role.
  “I thought you were going to teach me how to pro­nounce Apichatpong Weerasethakul.” I hear his friends call him Bubba.

• bill says:

  March 23, 2011 at 12:11 pm

  Well, it’s really his last name that I trip over. “Bubba” I can man­age, though.

• Zach says:

  March 23, 2011 at 10:29 pm

  I think the mug­ging mix is about right. Overall, you did well in what seems like a dif­fi­cult format – sound­bytes, but artic­u­late and cogent. It would be cool if this thing gets you a wider readership.

• Tom Russell says:

  March 23, 2011 at 11:00 pm

  “I thought you were going to teach me how to pro­nounce Apichatpong Weerasethakul.”
  He did, how­ever, teach us how to pro­nounce Statham, which I had always pro­nounced Stayth-um.

• Oliver_C says:

  March 24, 2011 at 6:08 am

  Kirby’s actu­al life, begin­ning in poverty and cul­min­at­ing with his long leg­al struggle for recog­ni­tion and renu­mer­a­tion, would be worthy of a movie in itself. I think William Gaines’ bio­graphy – the boat­ing acci­dent, the EC hor­ror com­ics, the HUAC hear­ings – lends itself more to ‘cine­m­at­iz­ing’, though.

• Henry T. says:

  March 24, 2011 at 2:19 pm

  I noticed that the FilmFan link now defaults to their most recent seg­ment. In case any­one wants a short­cut to Glenn’s “Best & Worst of 2011 so far” appear­ance, here it is: http://tinyurl.com/4n5933d

• jbryant says:

  March 24, 2011 at 2:48 pm

  Tom: I’m afraid Glenn has actu­ally taught us how to MISpronounce Statham, but we for­give him because he’s right about everything else. It’s STAY-thum.
  Here’s the proof, because you know Jason would’ve kicked Kathie Lee and Hoda’s butts if they got it wrong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD7qdNqozOs