Joey's completely falling apart.  http://www3.pictures.zimbio…

Nothing wrong with the last shot of "The Departed."  It's a joke.

@avclub-c9ed368c657cf1624c9faa25fac0b914:disqus  I'm an "Arise" fan but it certainly backs off on the unrelenting aggression of "Beneath the Remains" and "Schizophrenia," no doubt about that.  Shameless plug: if you are as big of a fan of those albums as it sounds like, my label just reissued Besieged's "Victims…

@Marshall_Applewhite:disqus  - There's a difference between a redneck burnout and a kid who happens to have a hick accent but is good-looking, ripped, and popular in his small-town school.  I didn't mean to suggest that metal was ONLY for D&D nerds (even beyond the fact that, as I mentioned before, I was exaggerating…

So, are you gazing into your navel on this one, or have you somehow vanished deep inside of it and are instead suspiciously peering back out THROUGH the navel?

It's a bit confusing, but that is a pre-production, full-length demo that the band recorded in preparation for an actual studio session for their 2nd album.  Then their drummer died of cancer rapidly and unexpectedly and it threw them for a big loop.  Album recording plans kept getting put off while they figured…

The extra H is for Hummel figurines.  Why?  I have no clue.

@avclub-f12ce3c3e209d66563bd3220dd9d82a7:disqus - the tragic loss of Sepultura broke my heart, too.  They were one of my favorite metal bands.  Which probably explains my over-the-top enthusiasm for one of the bands on my label, because they've clearly studied "Beneath the Remains" closely.

Well - to a very large extent here I'm creating a dichotomy I don't fully believe in just to get a point across. But I do think metal is basically music that appealed to outcasts, until it became (at least in its most commercially successful form) music that appealed to people who weren't outcasts in any way, shape…

Your mom sucks.  What a weiner.

Basically what atomicfun said.  "Walk" created groove metal, which played a large role in killing thrash and replacing it with something awful (the only bands I have much interest in that played around with this style were Prong and Helmet; countless others were just godawful).  Groove metal also damaged and…

Also makes me happy somehow that the same band recorded this: http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Ah yes, the song that nearly ruined metal.   That it's kind of an enjoyable song is beside the point; my objection is strictly philosophical.

Counterpoint: Catwoman was a complete piece of shit that was miscast, badly directed, terribly scripted, ludicrously costumed, and in general such a laughable mess that I found it hard to look away even as the movie sucked my soul out of my very body.

I'm actually fond of several of the "Ross is pathetic on dates, or leading up to dates" episodes - the teeth, the leather pants, and the spray tan were all some of the funniest material they had later on.

THIS is your least favorite movie of all time?  What a weird choice.  I remember not liking it as much as I thought I would, and finding the plot incomprehensible, but there are so many better choices for the least enjoyable movie ever made.  Like "Catwoman."

I actually like pathetic Ross - one of the most reliable sources of humor in the often-humorless later years.  But it did undermine the Ross/Rachel arc as that limped to the finish line, because the new pathetic Ross was impossible to buy as any kind of rootable romantic hero.

Yup.  I really dislike the super-shrill Monica of later seasons - partly because she's basically reduced to one joke, and partly because the otherwise-reliable Courtney Cox seems to be bored of playing the character.  She suffered worst out of the entire cast except for Chandler, who was completely neutered.

Yeah, they ruined him.  Between the death of Chandler and the increasingly desperate attempts of the writers to wring some long-term drama out of Ross and Rachel (or, ugh, the Ross/Rachel/Joey triangle) the final seasons were really pretty bad.  Thankfully Joey was in peak form and there was, for some reason, a minor…

Whedon definitely has a wisecrack-overreliance problem.