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It's been said, but the voice doesn't even come close to what I was imagining when I read ZMF's posts. I had in mind a screechy 17 or 18-year-old metalhead that spits out the word "fuck" like a pissed-off cobra. This guy sounds like the 50-year-old UPS dude that delivers to my office. It's almost like how most people

I find myself singing "Michelle" at odd times during the day. It disturbs me.

60 bucks, though? I mean Christ, they're already rich as fuck, and two of them are dead. How much more do they want from me?

The first three seasons of Moonlighting hold up very well, fashion sense notwithstanding.

Far be it from me to flog a dead horse that's died from a deadly death, but… Johnny Cash's prison albums. Or Sam Cooke's "At The Copa". Or Elvis' first year Vegas stuff. Because suck it, I'm 80 years old.

See also "The Rookie" and—hee hee—"Walk Hard".

I think pop songs used as score are good when done well. The problem is that only a few filmmakers (Scorsese and Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and I would argue for Sofia Coppola) actually do it well. These days we've got a legion of lesser filmmakers who think using pop songs to score their films is simply the "cool"

There's something about that part in the first "Karate Kid" movie where Ralph Macchio goes out and trains himself while Mr. Miyagi is MIA (presumably nursing a hangover from that bitter, drunken bender) that always gets to me. Of course, in the next scene Miyagi is back and Ralph is still a lameass at karate, but

What's good about the "48 HRS." version of that cliche is that Frank McRae (who pretty much cornered the market on frustrated movie police captains) isn't really affected by Nick Nolte at all, even though in other movies the Captain would totally pull an "aw-shucks" and congratulate the loose-cannon. Here, he stands

"The Journey of Natty Gann". Great reunion scene in that.

Clint Eastwood vs. Spike Lee: one of the few times I actively wanted a Republican to win something.

But all he came there to do was kick some ass and drink some beer. That's a hero, right there.

I prefer to remember him as the world's craziest Irishman in "Halloween III: Season of the Witch". Next time you're in line at the supermarket and some bastard kid in front of you is throwing a tantrum because his mom didn't get him that 5th box of "Transformer" pudding pops, remember that Dan O'Herlihy tried to make

Put it this way: if "Teen Wolf" were a blowjob from Alan Alda, "Teen Wolf Too" would be a blowjob from Jamie Farr. Both are equally depressing guilty pleasures, but one's just a little bit classier.

Teen Bad Lieutenant.

I enjoy the snark, but I still stand by what I say. "Rambo 5" could be decent if Stallone chose to go in a new direction with it. In "Cop Land" the man outacted (an admittedly slumming) Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta. And if you don't admit to that, then I can no longer call you my son.

Rambo 5 will not be a good film.
In other news, water is wet and politicians are full of shit.

Being a Philly native and resident, I was automatically prepared to defend our hospitality and tell you to go fuck yourself, but then I saw the irony.

Please murder these cliches, if they haven't been mentioned already:

(straining with last dying breath)