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Another great running bit is their constant amazement/envy at the utter ubiquity of Frank Welker. The guy voiced a dog - Not a cartoon character, not a talking dog, but just an ordinary dog - in Space Jam. .I also believe he's credited with "Spock Screams" for the Pon Farr scene in ST III. The man knows how to find

I love that they posted a pouty group selfie on facebook right after seeing Batman V Superman. From the picture, you'd think the movie had aged them twenty years.

Sorry I was a bit brusque there. I haven't seen the performances being discussed so I have no input as to whether or not they're racist (and therefore I shouldn't be posting here, but it's been a long day and I feel like asserting myself in any dumb way I can).

I love the clarinet, but accusing people who hate it of anti-semitism seems a bit rash. Isn't Scharpling Jewish?

In general, if you're white, and can do a good imitation of a specific black person, no one can fairly criticize you for it. I've heard a bunch of white guys imitating Obama and Morgan Freeman, for example, and no one really cares.

Yeah, Ali sure was shy about speaking his mind.

I don't get the hate for Cinema Sins. Jeremy's voice can be a hurdle (I actually had to stop listening to one of the videos because I was irritable already and his timbre was too much for me to handle), but most of their nitpicks aren't meant to be serious criticism. They sin the hell out of movies that they love.

"I just remembered Family Circus was really funny today."

Even better is when the girl gets her trucker friends to box the guy in on an empty road, and then proceed to beat the shit out of him…all based on a false allegation, and all played for laughs. 80's kids movies had some great lessons for the young audience.

*cue WOMEN AND WOMEN FIRST flute solo*

I also first saw him in those crazy dinosaur shows as a child. In one of them, he was turned into a dinosaur and was forced to live out his days as a museum exhibit. In the next one, he was back to normal without a word of explanation.

Remember when "overgrown" was considered a legit insult? You hardly ever hear that anymore.

"AVC: But it was written before Nevermind even came out.

*eventually set up a cockblock by knocking over a picture*

HOW ABOUT WE JUST HAVE MICHAEL CERA PLAY SHAFT!!11

In the foreward to the 1990 edition of the book, King mentions Clint Eastwood and Christopher Walken as being candidates to play Flagg in a movie adaptation. No disrespect to Sheridan (who I've liked in other things, like Homeland), but damn, this thing could have been so much better with more appropriate casting.

The best part is that according to his other tweets on the subject, he hasn't even seen the video. It's like in the 50's, when the Catholic Legion of Decency would assume a film was obscene simply because it was a religious film made by Frenchmen.

Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black. A straight-up revenge movie from a French New Wave legend! Not one of Truffaut's best, but the Bernard Herrmann score is great, and the basic premise is identical to Kill Bill.

From today's perspective, Returns seems like an unlikely amalgam of the wackiness of the Schumacher movies and the pervasive dread of Nolan's movies. I love it, but it's not a movie I can recommend without making huge reservations. It's like Fellini directing a Jerry Bruckheimer film.

Another good one is Larry David continuing to use "The Stare-Down" to evaluate someone's honesty, even though the result is always the same and it never works.