+1 internets go to Telepath. Well played.

"Manga-doodle"
Well done.

@idiotking, re: your Welles comparison -

Yeah, Mifune's a giant (and deservedly so), but his go-for-broke theatricality often seems to have overshadowed Shimura, who I think is the better actor overall. He's just so much more subtle and actually disappears into his roles. With Mifune, you never forgot that you were watching Mifune playing a character. Two…

High and Low
Glad to see it finally getting some love. Nobody seems to remember it (or "Red Beard," for that matter) when discussing Kurosawa's greatest films, which is a shame. I've said it before on these boards, but "High and Low" has an absolute gut-punch of an ending. After I saw it for the first time, I had to…

I dunno, I personally find Mifune's antics in "Seven Samurai" to be hilarious.

OH YES FINALLY
I am going be so annoying in this comments section.

astro scientician, are you Patrick Stewart? 'Cause if so, I loved you in that Star Wars thing.

I just don't understand how Shyamalan keeps getting work. Regardless of their quality, his last couple of movies have been financial failures, right? So why do studios keep producing his films even though his name is box office poison?

A third nipple.

"Halfway done"
Sounds suspiciously similar to the sort of thing I tell my boss when he asks me how I'm doing on that project I'm supposed to be working on instead of posting on AV Club.

I don't think DiCaprio's a bad actor. It's just that he's recently been taking the same kinds of roles over and over: a psychologically frayed man whose profession/experiences are taking a greater toll on him than he'd like to admit. See: The Aviator, The Departed, Shutter Island, and now Inception. He does a fine job…

Wow, that second paragraph was pretty nonsensical. Let's try again:

Plugged in a blog post, got DFW, bitches.

Diff'rent strokes, I guess, Andy. I'm not a huge horror fan, so while "Shaun" was enjoyable, it didn't really bowl me over, especially in its last third when the humor got sparser. I thought "Hot Fuzz" was tonally more consistent and full of almost wall-to-wall laughs. Structurally, it's just about perfect, with its…

Dexter's annoying little sister
"(In 2008, it was remade in the U.S. as Quarantine, to substantially less acclaim.)"

Ditto on Bill Murray and Bugs Bunny: excellent analogues to Groucho. The reason "Duck Soup" worked so well for me was the sheer ferocity of its comedy (sort of what LPierce mentioned). I got a sense that the brothers were genuinely worked up about the objects of their satirical jabs; i.e., they weren't just doing it…

Just curious, Mortimer: what three comedies would you place alongside "Duck Soup"? That's some rarefied air they're breathing. For me, only "Blazing Saddles," "Hot Fuzz," and MAYBE "A Fish Called Wanda" have made me laugh as much, and even then I doubt that they'll age as well as the Marx brothers have.

They got guns,
We got guns,
All God's chillun got guns!

Yeah, Penguin, it was pretty much dumb luck that I made it out of that situation relatively unscathed. I can only imagine the stultifying, unhealthy relationship I'd be in now if she'd decided to respond in kind to my advances. Sorry to hear you weren't so fortunate.