Gettin' with the Inter-times

Signs that Buena Vista Entertainment, which hosts the newly-launched, searchable archive of many (but not all of) Siskel & Ebert (& Roeper)'s reviews, has just discovered this thing called the Inter-Web:

1. No embedding option on the site. How else can I embed the hilarious video of Roger Ebert completely misreading Blue Velvet because he's too busy defending Isabella Rossellini's honour?

2. No "link to this" option on the site so that I can link to specific videos. Cutting and pasting only works if you link to the "Search Results" page instead of the video page itself. Ugh!

3. The site's atrocous, impossible to remember URL: http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/ebertandroeper.

4. When you forget the URL but want to find the site, the fact that it appears third (not first?) when you Google "Siskel and Ebert online".

5. The 15-second commercial that plays before each and every clip.
a) First of all, if you want to gorge and look up what Gene & Roger thought about all of Martin Sorcesce movies, you'd have to endure the same commercial before every review.
b) Secondly, the ads are composed of fancy shots of the video viewer itself. The box-within-a-box aesthetic is compounded by the screens in the background of the TV show's set (see image below), resulting in a hell of a lot of ugly screen action.


c) The ad is for the archive itself. Not only is the commercial redundant (there is a huge banner link right above the "screen") but also totally unnecessary. The only time an ad for the archive would be needed is if an individual clip of a review appeared on its own somewhere. But wait—see point #1.
d) The commercial provides a different link to the archive than what appears on the browser. However, it is only somewhat easy to remember: www.atthemoviestv.com. I mean, come on, guys. Believe it or not, www.thumbsup.com is not spoken for!

6. Finally: the rounded corners! Aaaahhh!! The rounded corners! (Okay, this last one is personal. Stop rounded corner abuse!).