Buckle your seatbelt, Amelie
I wonder if the same people who jumped all over me here about a year ago for taking the position that parents who give their children wacky names are setting them up for ridicule and failure are going to take Amelie to task also? Spontaniouse? Whatever happened to good old traditional…

I will never understand the Wayne's World love. I couldn't even understand how those characters merited a recurring sketch, much less two films. I agree that those were probably the only SNL movies (other than Blues Brothers) to achieve any kind of major commercial success or following though.

My brother has the same problem with Larry David… he can't watch Curb Your Enthusiasm because he finds LD so disturbing looking (and he's a huge Seinfeld fan who would totally appreciate the humor of Curb if he gave it a chance).

I actually didn't know you could do that, Evel. I'm going to use the hell out of that application.

I can definitely get behind the proposition that Children of Men > The Departed x 1000.

Two Arsenios enter, one Arsenio leaves!

I'm not on Twitter, but I am on Facebook which seems to bring the same level of "look what I'm up to!" self-absorption out of people. It's not that the worst people I know are on Facebook, it's more like people that I used to be casually acquainted with and had nothing against are now people that I passionately hate…

This is the best multiple-Arsenio performance since Coming To America.

That would have been a great line for the David Caruso commenter. Too early for him on a weekday I guess. I imagine his alarm clock (eternally set to play the intro to "Won't Get Fooled Again") goes off at about 11:30 most days, at which point he waks up and takes off his sunglasses.

I was going to try to come up with something bad about Children of Men just to be contrarian (and to glove slap Warren Perso), but I couldn't come up with anything specific. This is not to say that I thought it was a perfect movie though, and I think the praise being lavished on it here is going a bit too far. I…

I remember feeling the same way about it as a kid, Bronco. I would see that horrible, cheap opening sequence (I think I remember something having to do with a raft going over a waterfall) and switch right over to Scooby Doo or whatever else was on.

You must have thought it was white boy day.

Falling Down
Just what we need in a time when white anger is already being stoked to dangerous levels by the Glenn Becks of the world…

Me too, Craig… except I just had one. It wasn't the siren song of that delightful jingle that drew me in though - it's just the closest place to my house to get a quick/cheap meal.

Maximum Overdrive had almost no special effects (other than making that Green Goblin mask on the front of that truck glow) and yet somehow it is a ten-times-better sentient car movie than Transformers. Maybe Transformers could have benefitted from a little AC/DC.

I don't feel tardy.

$5 Footlong
Subway could actually say "suck my $5 foot-long" in a commercial and it still wouldn't be as nauseatingly suggestive as those Quiznos commercials with the horny oven.

A better one would have been

Do you like to blow bubbles? Good, cuz he's back in town and he wants your number.

Fuck! Now the market is saturated with this shit…