Jupiter 2: BEEFCAKE BOOGALOO

Can I just say how awesome it was to see that RDJ episode before SNL? Even though the Spartans sketch was one of the weaker efforts, it was a fairly great episode; the best was the West Side Story riff, where an increasingly exasperated Norm is trying to get his gang to stop dance-fighting and get ready to rumble…

You're not wrong, though I would maybe temper that assessment by noting that the First Five Years were charting new territory. There were some boring, bad, godawful skits back then too ("Child Abusers", anyone?); however - and this sometimes is used too often for material from a benighted time - "they didn't know…

The comments on his YouTube uploads are hilarious- "Dude, stop chatting with her and get off the computer- she's fifteen".

A Lifetime movie.

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Yeah, I call bullshit on this list. Also, Adams was way off on Vito: it wasn't "ancient Sicilian bullshit" that led to Vito's doom- it was the lure of easy money being a gangster, instead of working carpentry in an idyllic town in New Hampshire.

Nooooo, everybody's terrible. Check your lens.

What kills me about this show is that, like you say, the creators know what they're writing about. Aaron Ross Sorkin knows the financial market beat inside and out, writing about quants, analysts, and traders for a living; David Levien knows his way around a crime thriller, writing a series based on a detective in a…

AND HE CAN'T DRAW FEET!

Miami Blues is GREAT- it's a shame that it didn't do better in the box office (the story goes that Fred Ward apparently put up a lot of his own money in order to get it financed, and while it wasn't a bomb, it didn't do great), but it's a right cult film.

Tom Gordon is one of my favorite King novellas- maybe I read it at the right time in my life, but it still stuck with me all these years.

Yeah, I really wanted to like this movie more, because the time and place of the setting (the borderlands of Manchuria and Korea, in the post-Warlord era) lends itself to an awesome entry in the Spaghetti Western canon, and while it had some great set-pieces (the Good pretty much single-handedly taking out the…

The version I first saw on Netflix ended on a bleak note, with the three leads gunning each other down on top of the site of the "treasure".

That's a paddlin'.

I think that's the American version (at least it was when I saw it a few years ago); the Korean ending is on YouTube.

Downvoted for using a Simpsons quote for a cheap pop.

BTW: The Good, the Bad, and the Weird - did you see the Western cut, or the domestic Korean cut? Because the endings are different and that can lend itself to the downgrade (let's just say I liked the K-version better).

Season 2 was where Chase, et.al., realized that they couldn't make Tony too likable. After the groundswell of acclaim that S1 brought, showing Tony in a more venial light, especially with regards to a man who was his friend (David Scatino) and whose family was close to Tony's, showed that they were OK with making him…

She was really good in The Ruins, and I'm sort of surprised that she hasn't gotten bigger, though like you said, she seems to be OK with how things are going.