Aren't all those Spring Break movies basically retreads of the old Frankie Avalon/Annette Funicello beach party flicks?

Half-Manatee/half-caribou…this is a documentary, right?

That was a film about gay lumberjacks…oh,no…that was Unnatural Axe…the theme song Fir Yew I Pine is destined to be a classic.

It's those hats…they put 30 years on a guy. Look at Brezhnev; he was only 26 when he died but looked 106.

Couldn't agree more and Gorky Park was a good case in point; it just makes no damn sense when they set in film in, for example, Nazi Germany and everyone's speaking English but with a German Gott in Himmel accent.

*shuts mouth…briefly*

There's a dissertation's worth of material on 'bad accents in movies'. I remember Joe Queenan doing an amusing piece on the subject.

Cryptonomicon! Great book…that and Snow Crash and The Diamond Age…what the fuck happened to Stephenson?

Voyage To The Bottom of The C

@flowsthead that's exactly how I feel about this film: Brando=fantastic, film=not so much.

@Stupendous Fabric HERE'S a handy guide to the advantages/disadvantages…

…and Max Cherry was in Rum Punch and Pronto…

I'd forgotten 52 Pick Up…it was good.

Watched Young Adult for the first time the other day. Terrific film. Theron was great, as was Patton Oswalt. I didn't realize that was Reitman too. Talented guy.

I think you'll enjoy both. I'd read the book already when the film came on one night, late-night TV. It was faithful to the book and the cast were pretty good.

Great anecdote…that's some pathos right there. Still, at least Slater seems to get regular work, which is more than can be said for a lot of his now-you-see-'em/now-you-don't contemporaries…

MJ White plays Donnell, Woody's crooked factotum.

…and it's set in the wrong decade…

Worth a look is Abel Ferrara's film of Cat Chaser with Peter Weller, Frederic Forrest and Charles Durning. As I recall, it wasn't bad at all.

Glover plays Woody, the millionaire drug-and-drink addled doofus. The scene where Michael Jai White types out a new will and gets Woody to sign is pretty funny.