Every time I see…
…Timothy Geithner in a picture, I get the unnerving feeling that we're in some kind of bizarro universe where the treasury is being run by Vigo the Carpathian…

Gets me every time. When Illinoise first came out, I had to stop listening to KEXP on my drive to work, because there was no way I was going to risk showing up and blubbering like an idiot…

Outta mom's house for 16 years, married, two kids - sorry to disappoint!

More interested in the show than comic
I've tried a number of times to get into the comics, but I ultimately find them to be incredibely flawed, and not in the "this would be great, except…" way, but instead in the "maybe if I get past this next few pages, it will get better" vein. At least it manages to be flawed in…

Although a quick search on Wikipedia sez I'm wrong on two counts - it isn't (AC Newman supports the Imamura claim) and it was Jimmy Swaggart, not Jessie Helms…double fail…

Huh
"which has insisted in the past that it takes its name from the Japanese film The Pornographers"

I had a very similar reaction as ZH & others about DMtH…the thing that aggrivates me most about the setup (and Raimi's quote) is that he goes out of his way to make the old woman seem not only grotesque (which, if she denied the loan on that basis, would make her more deserving) but also irresponsible (IIRC, she's…

I know the stated topic is movies…
…but I've got to put a book on this list: Neil Stephenson's Snowcrash is great for the first 9/10ths, but then…it's like all of a sudden he freaked out and realized he needed to wrap it up SOMEHOW and so he tacked on a bland, Hollyw00d-style action ending. Its been a while since I've…

Oh man, I hate Tik Tok, but I'm pretty glad I clicked through to the SNL presentation…the lights coming up with the spacemen everywhere? that shit was funnier than 90% of the intentional humor that show tries for…

Yeah, I agree with you pretty much 100% - good rape humor is pretty hard to find, and the lazy stuff is just infuriating.

Leonard Pierce speaks the truth…
…about these jackasses, especially Garth Ennis. I've suffered through every last one of my comic-obsessed friends rave about his work, and had volumes of Preacher shoved in my hands more times that I can count…and every single time I gave him a shot, I just became more convinced that…

although also sort of great (Daniel Day Lewis!)

A few of my favorites…
Carpenter's The Thing, when they're testing each other's blood to see who the impostor is

IIRC, there have been rumblings that relations between the city, the chamber of commerce & the con have been rocky. Even though the con draws more annual attendees than most other annual events at the convention center, area merchants are upset that these are not the type of folks that come and spend tourist dollars…

Huzzah for Carter!
I'm thrilled to see that Carter Beats the Devil made it on this list. There were lots of others which didn't surprise me - not to say I was disappointed, but it was a very sedate pleasure to see Empire Falls, The Corrections, etc. make the cut - but Carter was one of my absolute favorites of the…

Like many others, I also saw this in a film studies class. The emotional weight of the film, however, was shattered in a most awesome way by another student. He had sat through the bulk of the film, sometimes sleepy, sometimes squirmy up until (what we shortly knew to be) the very end. When it seemed like things would…

Mike Lowry - badass or governor?
My favorite detail about Bad Boys was the fact that, when it came out, the governor of Washington state was a Rodney Dangerfield-esque dude who also happened to be named Mike Lowry. Our post-screening drinking binge (required to calm the mind after Bay-o-vision) was filled with…

This does put a wrinkle…
…in my "buy everything (except TV shows) from Hollywood Video during their seemingly never-ending used product clearance sales" plan. The only thing I hadn't been able to get via a BE(ETVS)fHVDTSN-EUPCS purchase thus far was The Life Aquatic, for which they only stocked the first idsc of the…

Llama, that sounds shockingly familiar to something that happened to a member of one of my large group trips to the Cinerama, but I can't for the life of me remember if it was for Clones or another big release. Just in case I do know you and this was my fault, J. Brian says "Sorry about that"

As for actual worst movie experiences, I haven't had anything THAT horrendious - they're mostly just petty or comical, like the time I went to 8 Mile and some idiot screamed that Eminem should "Beat that bitch!" every time Brittany Murphy came on screen. This guy was huge and I'm basically a pasty geek who's never won…