Ah, New Mexico. How glad I am that I no longer live there. I left the state for college, and I never looked back.

I just checked out the graph somebody made of the dates mentioned in this thread. Who the hell is the 13-year-old hanging out on these boards? People who are literally half my age aren't allowed here. I forbid it!

I'm only 26, and I'm already beginning to get that way. I don't know whether I should be saddened by this, or if I should call up my parents and tell them I GET IT NOW or what.

Young actresses
I didn't really start having pop-culture-induced age angst until fairly recently, when I realized that all of the hot young actresses, the new talents who are showing up on magazine covers and posters for popcorn movies, are almost all younger than me. Is this weird? When you're going through high…

Wow. So far, I'm actually on the older side of the spectrum for AVC commenters. Now THAT makes me feel old.

Re Kevin Smith's whining about critics "not getting" his movies:

I was merely trying to spare the girl's feelings, you insensitive clod.

I liked "Fantastic Mr. Fox." It was the first Anderson movie I found myself genuinely enjoying (instead of grudgingly convincing myself it was really well-made) since "The Royal Tenenbaums." The animation style fit his sensibilities perfectly.

Another vote for Yojimbo, here. Sanjuro felt like more of a comedy than an asskicking samurai story, and "asskicking samurai story" is what I want when Toshiro Mifune's on board. Sanjuro went too broad for my tastes, like the scenes where Mifune's trying to sneak around and the bumbling idiot samurai behind him screw…

There's a noticeable lack of racial diversity. Improv seems to be, at least in Chicago, an overwhelmingly white art form. I'm pretty immersed in the culture, and I can count on one hand the number of minorities I've seen perform in anything more prestigious than a student show.

You stupid monkey!!

The picture at the top
Wow, that is a LOT of underage wang showing.

I don't really get the hate for Kristen Stewart, especially Nabin's virulent "dead-eyed talent vacuum" swipe. The worst you could say about her is that she has limited range. When she's working within that range, though, she's good. It's not like people take Sam Elliott to task for always taking "grizzled…

Yabels, that's a scarily apt comparison. Honestly, I have no idea how the transition from normal human being to overenthusiastic knife-hawking goon happens, but clearly it does or Cutco wouldn't make any money. Those people are The Stepford Salespeople.

@Right Wingnut-

Spoiler alert?
In the flashback story, is the real murderer the boy's father? I was wondering if this movie kept up Shutter Island's trend of "movies with twists so obvious that you can figure them out from the review alone."

Best movie I saw in 2009
I guess it's technically a 2010 release, but I was lucky enough to see this at CIFF last year and was blown away. I hope the Academy doesn't forget about it between now and the next Oscar ceremony; it deserves just about every award for which it's eligible. And I say this as a non-fanboy (I…

Let the MST3K quote-fest begin … now!

You're jonesing for Battletoads? That's like jonesing for a hot syringe getting stabbed into your tongue.

STOMPING PIRANHA PLANTS, MOTHERFUCKERS