bias update

Here's hoping you're wrong about Terminator. It looks fantastic.

wow! your boyfriend was a surprise -- since i thought i knew who it was going to be (i mean, you told me on sunday it was going to be someone else...). but i have to say, ZQ totally deserves to be your boyfriend. he was awesome!

So am I right that "McG" is pronounced "Mick-Gee?" Because if so... that's just hilariously bad.

Is there any pronounciation that would make it LESS bad? :)

bronxbee: Oooo, now the speculation can begin ... Was it originally Jamie Foxx in "The Soloist"?

'Was it originally Jamie Foxx in "The Soloist"?'

no. and that's all i'm allowed to say on the matter.

Originally, I thought you pronounced each letter, as in "Emm-Cee-Gee." That was bad enough, but then I noticed the lower-case C, and realized I'd missed the joke. Now my heart is full of hatred.

I'm clearly missing something. What's the joke involving McG? For the record, I'd pronounce this like the Scottish 'Mac', where the 'a' is swallowed so it's 'Mk', and then tack on a 'G'.

Who cares how you pronounce it (though it is the Scottish "Mc") let's just be glad his version of Spaced fell apart... that would have been terrible.

Why does he always want to mess geek things up anyway?

Okay - I'm still none the wiser. Who is
McG and what is the significance?

Dude puts "McG" as his official name in film credits, and you ask what the joke is?

It was the 'hilariously bad' comment that confused me. I've never heard of McG before. I thought it might be some kind of wordplay on McDonald's (seeing as how they like to put Mac in front of everything!) Now I see it's the nickname of a director.

Not just the nickname. That's what I thought, too, at first, but if you go to his listing at IMDB.com, or look at the credits of his movies, he is officially listed as "McG" - as if he changed his legal name to that, or something.

That's what makes it hilariously bad.

Aha! Gotcha! Sorry for being so slow :-) and thanks for explaining.

Prior to just recently, I, too, was dreading Terminator: Salvation, but the recent TV spots have greatly piqued my interest. It looks good from those views. (As a point of reference, I had also been dreading Star Trek, though even more, being more emotionally invested in that franchise; but for the most recent trailers/spots, and, since its release, the couple of reviews I have partially read).
Star Trek, Terminator: Salvation, and Sam Raimi's upcoming new film Drag Me to Hell, are the ONLY films for which I have been able to muster any excitement so far this year.
I feel really good about the Trek film (though I won't be able to see it until Monday morning), given its positive reception among those whom I trust; and I'm simply a Raimi Junkie (though I have not yet seen Spider-Man 3); I have faith that Sam will over-deliver with another horror film. I feel good about Salvation, as well. I believe in Bale, and the glimpses of the film I have seen, so far.