Here it is at last, the first 150-minute trailer. Armageddon is cut together like its own highlights. Take almost any 30 seconds at random, and you'd have a TV ad. The movie is an assault on the eyes, the ears, the brain, common sense, and the human desire to be entertained. No matter what they're charging to get in, it's worth more to get out.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.

It is not enough for a movie to be righteous. It must also be watchable.

One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

There must be a better reason to have a baby than to provide a plot point in a rom-com. Don't you think?