When you have the ability to purchase a robot duplicate and send it out in the world, why would you make it look exactly like you, except with a floppy, blonde toupée? Omar G. and Pablo G. -- the Flying Gallaga Bros. -- ask that very question while watching the trailer for Surrogates, Bruce Willis' new actioner about people staying in their apartments while sending robots to do the risky stuff, like shopping and driving and going to work. See vloggers Omar and Pablo dissect the logic of this world (via animated surrogates, of course) in the latest installment of Trailers Without Pity, and weigh the drawbacks/benefits of such a lifestyle. Click the link, or watch it below!

Once upon a time, Jeremy Piven was a humorously welcome presence in our movies and on our televisions. (Remember when he played TV George on Seinfeld?) Then something happened. His rapid-fire conversation style and cocksure bravado went from charming to kinda obnoxious. Maybe it was when he got a regular gig on Ellen, or when he stopped playing the best friend all the time, but whatever it was, his shtick started to get a little old. We're reluctant to go see his new movie The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, because we're worried that partway through we'll hit our capacity for Piven and have to leave the theater. To try and break it down scientifically, we looked back at Piven's body of work to see how much Piven, exactly, is too much Piven.

One of the funniest movies in recent memory (assuming you like Paul Rudd), one of the greatest TV shows ever (depending on how you feel about Southern belles) and one of the awesomest on-demand movies ever (entirely contingent on how you feel about things that are awesome) are all coming out this week, so get to your DVD store or your on-demand TV menu and purchase the following.

We love Eric Bana. The Australian actor has played three major roles this summer, in three different genres -- the villainous Romulan Nero in Star Trek, Leslie Mann's straying husband in Funny People and the titular time traveler in The Time Traveler's Wife -- which leads us to believe that there's nothing the man can't do. Who else could have played Hector, Henry Tudor and Bruce Banner?! While his schedule certainly wouldn't have allowed it, we wish Bana had appeared in more of this summer's movies, since so many of them were miscast or just plain disappointing. Perhaps if he were really a time traveler, he would be able to go back and join the casts of the following films, thereby making them a whole lot better than they came out.

I've figured out what it is about Stephen Sommers' movies that I absolutely despise. It's the fact that at no point in any of his films do I feel like any of what I'm watching is real. And it's not the mummies and the vampires and Sienna Miller's cleavage that make me think that -- it's the way the actors talk to each other, the way the music never stops, and the way that at no point does any character close his mouth. Every last moment is filled with dialogue, which isn't how the world works, and the constant music fills in any scenes they accidentally forgot to record dialogue for. At least Michael Bay had one or two scenes in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with no music or no dialogue, and it seemed to be entirely on purpose. Meanwhile, Sommers has actually made a movie that may be worse than Van Helsing, which is saying something. Specifically, it's saying that there is no slam-dunk movie idea that Sommers cannot ruin, or at least make enjoyable only by slightly dim children.

At the risk of sacrificing any shred of credibility I have left after constantly writing about ABC Family shows, I must admit that I was not even alive when the majority of John Hughes's films came out. But before you start counting back on your fingers in horror, allow me to say that, despite my untimely year of birth, my childhood (and perhaps current life) was filled with longing to be a member of the Brat Pack. Why? Because John Hughes left behind a legacy of teen comedies that even 12-year-olds with cell phones can appreciate. (Sidenote: I didn't have a cell phone until I was 16). Here are five reasons why these movies will stand the test of time:

We were delighted to see that Hulu had a nice variety of John Hughes movie clips posted, so we thought we'd share some with you, today, in this time of mourning. Safe for work, unless you work somewhere where they have no souls. ...Or get uncomfortable when Judd Nelson describes teen sex in intimate detail. Or have a strict anti-Anthony Michael Hall policy. (There's a lot of AMH in these clips.)