I flat-out fucking loved the first hour of Funny People, more than enough to forgive the second half as well as purchase a ticket for This is the End whenever that comes out.

Fargo is perhaps the best example of a Coen Brothers movie that isn't nihilistic (which explains why it's the only one the Academy really warmed to, up until the undeniable mastery of No Country that is). Goodness triumphs over evil in Fargo, whereas of late the Coens are in favor of endings that impose not so much a…

It is probably Twilight, now that you mention it.

I loathe both Moulin Rouge and Boondock, but I wonder what the equivalent of Boondock Saints is for women. Not being a woman, I'm unsure of what it might be. I guess with it's amped-up-to-11 intensity, terrible feints at depth, and reckless pandering, it's as good a candidate as any - more so than Eat Pray Love or…

This is how the Simpsons should have ended. As a mission statement about our culture and how we reward idiocy, it's fantastic. It does Seinfeld's "You realize, these are shitty people" finale one better (more like ten better). And then the show would never have gone on to totally suck.

I mean, I get that one can hate MST3K because they don't seem to appreciate the hard work that honest, nice, not-so-talented people put into some of those flicks (though I'd argue Joel definitely appreciated their spirit even if Mike definitely didn't). It's sort of like kicking someone while they're down, only…

It's a weird franchise in general: Your relative tolerance for Tom Cruise may not matter at all, because each director brings something different to the series and basically shows the world what their James Bond movie would have been if the Broccoli family weren't so choosy.

The pace of the movies is totally glacial, the sound is fuzzy, and the jokes come at an insanely rhythmic pace. I scrub ahead on the youtube browser to the hallway sequence, listen to the soothing sounds of the doors unlocking, and I'm already 15% on my way to slumberland.

I heard "When The Levees Break" at least three times a week when I would listen to my hometown's classic rock station back in high school. And the attendant conversational tidbit about how the drums were recorded in a super-echoey house, as well.

50 Cent's "Get Rich or Die Tryin" didn't have any skits (unless you count the sound of a coin spinning to the ground for 6 seconds as a skit). No interludes, no interminable answering machine sketches, no Def Comedy Jam washups. That's something, at least, right?

Same. It's my favorite TV show ever and it puts me out like a light.

SCCD&CJKP (Sterling Cooper Chaugh Draper & Cambell Just Kidding Pete)

Man oh man oh man did I hate that miniseries The 60's. That might be one of the worst things I've ever seen.

Bleh indeed. Studios have no reason to stop doing what they're doing, particularly in an age where piracy and mobile distribution are ascendant. Their profits are legion. The public will literally bitch, whine and moan about a new Transformers movie and then go pay $15 to see it. They are bulletproof.

Bart's cockteasing skateboard sequence got the biggest laugh in my theater. That and Otto about to perform a bong rip.

They can't all be (insert bulletproof kickass radi-cool show you love here). My girlfriend really loves Awkward, in addition to Arrow and Vampire Diaries and Orphan Black and Game of Thrones and Mad Men and Breaking Bad and Doctor Who and Arrested Development and Better Off Ted and Red Dwarf. It occupies its own…

Rape. The word rape.

The best scene in "The Dark Knight" is any scene with The Joker. Seriously, every time that movie goes off the rails (or threatens to), he comes in like a tube of fucking Movie Glue and makes the whole thing fun, unpredictable and thrilling to watch - everything "Rises" wasn't.

Agreed. The opening is light-speed funny, but then the movie goes on and on, in really low-budget, really low-interest directions, mostly involving Mr. Freedom speechifying quite a bit. It all gets really old, really fast.

MTV's Twitter account takes this remarkably peppy-yet-blase attitude to the stop-and-stare-at-the-freaks stuff they peddle like "Buckwild" and "Teen Mom." Obviously they're running a business here, so there's not much time for somber reflection on "Teen Mom" and its place in society, but it's weird to see addiction,…