We love the fact that EricDSnider.com readers are able to post comments on the reviews, columns, and blog entries. It lets us know what you think about the issues addressed by the articles, and about the articles themselves. It also gives us a chance to laugh at how bad a lot of you are with spelling and grammar.

There are just a couple things I want to mention that perhaps you will keep in mind as you go about your comment-posting.

- If someone posts something ridiculously illiterate or dumb — e.g., “OMG, the Covenant is teh best movie evar and u only don like it cuz ur jelous” — just let it go. In 99.9 percent of those cases, the idiocy of the comment is self-evident. We don’t need to have 10 comments immediately following it in which the person who wrote it — who probably is not even a regular visitor to this site and won’t see your responses anyway — is torn apart for being so bad with spelling and grammar. Yes, yes, we all weep for the future generation. We don’t need to say it every time.

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With his “Hostel Part II” having done poorly since its June 8 release, writer-director Eli Roth is pulling a Homer Simpson: “This is everybody’s fault but mine!”

And the primary reason for the film’s failure? Not its general lack of quality, or the fact that it’s an unimaginative rehash of the movie it’s a sequel to, or the fact that it wasn’t screened for critics (which drastically reduced the amount of opening-day publicity). No, Roth has determined that piracy is the reason “Hostel Part II” is flopping.

He writes on his MySpace page:

I want to thank all of you for your kind e-mails and incredible support for the film. However, piracy has become worse than ever now, and a stolen workprint (with uninished music, no sound effects, and no VFX [visual effects]) leaked out on line before the release, and is really hurting us, especially internationally. Piracy will be the death of the film industry, as it killed the music industry, and while it makes a smaller dent in huge movies like Spider Man 3, it really hurts films like mine, which have far less of an advertising and production budget.

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This week’s “Snide Remarks,” entitled “Sein of the Times,” is now available for viewing. Usually there’s a Snidecast® recording of me reading the column aloud, but since this week’s is in script format — and since the characters are established characters with famous voices, rather than new fictions devised by me — I have forgone the recording this time. It would have required doing impersonations of all four “Seinfeld” characters, or reuniting the actors in my apartment, and neither scenario was feasible this weekend.