I also just wanted to point out to him with this movie and a few others I railed against recently, that even though I disliked it immensely, I still advocated people to go out and see it

anyways, re Zack and Miri, I think there are a number of people who dont want to tell their parents or girlfriends or whatever they are going to see a movie called Zack and Miri Make A Porno, so that may have had a tiny dent – but really aside from the release bungling, I think there is a Rogen pushback under way already, and even though you guys liked it, a lot of people were underwhelmed by Pineapple Express, so maybe people were not ready to go check out another Rogen movie at the time.

Just a quick note that I agree as well that foreign films get away with overt sentimentality and American films get raked over the coals for them. That includes Kurt, who has a hate on over and over again and will call ‘pander’ at anything sentimental/sympathetic (ie. Lars and the Real Girl) but seems to make excuses for a number of other films that didn’t come from Hollywood, or didn’t start known actors/writers.

Peace