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Finally! The Rock! Has Come Back!
To below-medocrity!

We don't need another workplace comedy, but it is helpful to know where these characters' incomes come from. Law school, really?

Buttsy

Ah … my favorite Kevin episode
Dwight Schrute: Have you been introduced to Kevin?
Holly: Which one's Kevin?
Dwight Schrute: He's here on a special work program. He's slow, you know, in his brain.
Holly: Oh. Good for you guys.
Dwight Schrute: Yeah.

Trading Places
The whole scene on the floor of the commodities exchange doesn't make sense without Winthore's voiceover explanation of how the market works, of what the Dukes are going to do and how they're going to counter. TURN THOSE MACHINES BACK ON!

Indeed. Robin Thicke's the one who figured out that what Beethoven's 5th was missing was words.

Tom Sawyer Island
Is only Pirates-themed in Anaheim; WDW Orlando still has the Tom Sawyer theme.

It was a parody of the NickJr show Yo Gabba Gabba, actually.

Jeff Bridges
If there's anyone in Hollywood who deserves the Career Achievement Oscar already to make up for lost time, it's him.

Ah, yes, the "naturally athletic" Running Rebels against the "gritty, hard-working" Bobby Hurley and Christian Laettner …

Loved This Documentary
But man, did it make me miss the late Jerome Brown.

That said, my favorite Keaton stunt at all is the waterfall jump at the end of Our Hospitality, which The Simpsons stole for the Sideshow Bob-at-the-dam episode. Except he really did it.

What's in the box?
WHAT'S IN THE BOX?

Unbreakable doesn't have a twist. There's really nothing surprising about it at all. It's a Marketing FAIL that people expected one to be there.

Big defender of Unbreakable, but it needed to be 10 minutes longer. Rather than the freeze-frame explainer ending, there needed to be something more … Hollywood. Bombs set to explode under Franklin Field, Mr. Glass insisting that no one would believe Bruce Willis' tale, etc.

C'mon, it's the "How do you fuck THAT up?" scene with William Hurt doing his best Tony Kornheiser impression.

Not only that, but an inside baseball movie about journalism in which almost everyone knows the ending before the movie starts, but it's still suspenseful and awesome. There's nothing quite like the anticipation for Lane's turn against little Anakin.

Travolta's best acting? PRIMARY COLORS.

the underpaid list makes no sense
It's basically, "People you can throw in a movie that's being sold based on other stars or the concept." It's not "Shia the Beef puts asses in seats."

Hung was part of the 2008 Bocuse d''Or team, actually. So, yeah.