Nah, Ahahah, I was just drunk when I wrote that. But I stand by my cautious pessimism.

A lot about that movie doesn't hold up, but nearly as much does.

It sounds like your mom is way overdue for a sliming. For X amount of years since she started answering you wrongly, your Xmas present to her is a bucket of slime.

The Adventures of Pete and Pete
It was entirely appropriate growing up in the early/mid 90s if you watched or liked The Adventures of Pete and Pete, but I feel like if you LOVED it (hell, why use the past tense - I STILL love it), it set you apart in some indefinable way. My unbridled appreciation for the Wrigleys…

Not Sure
I've been hearing great things about this film, but the ads have me nervous. Isherwood's novel is fantastic, but its beauty is in its simplicity and the way it transcendentally captures the mundaneness, along with a disquieting streak of melancholy, of a single day in a man's life. But the trailer is so…

HEY-O!

A B-? Ah, that's disappointing. Reading the review, it seems like refusing to offer a letter grade would have been entirely appropriate here.

The idea that balloon phobia is a real thing is much less horrifying than the fact that balloon fetishes are a real thing.

Being strangely obsessive about my AAdvantage miles does sound rather ridiculous, but I was able to fly to Belgium, Paris, Italy & Tunisia absolutely free this year on rewards miles. I'm not really one of those "I'm in it for the thrill of the chase!" types that Clooney seems to be in this movie - if I earn miles,…

Me too. Flyertalk.com is my other obsessive time waster besides AV Club, so that I may add to my precious, precious AAdvantage cache.

Surprised
I'm genuinely surprised that there doesn't seem to be a bit of love in any of these Best of the Decade lists (or any of the user comments for that matter) for Ghost World. It's probably my runaway choice for best film of the 00's.

Wait, Wait, Wait
Hold on, I just realized - no Ghost World? Buh?!!?

Burn After Reading gets at the same themes as No Country? I didn't care for Burn After, but I'm genuinely curious to hear an elaboration on that.

Docs
Great list but it would've been nice to see more documentaries find their way onto this list. Fog of War (or anything by Errol Morris) seems like a big omission. Spellbound, besides being terrifically entertaining, had a huge impact both in bringing docs further away from merely late night PBS airings and into…

Someone posted some poetry! Come on guys, let's get him! He took up space that could have been valuably used by someone writing 'firstie'!

Michelle Williams in Wendy & Lucy.

Liev Schreiber in that film turned in the best Orson Welles performance of Hollywood's many attempts to portray him on screen, in part because it was the most comparatively low-key and nuanced. Yes, Welles was prone to bluster and theatricality, but Schreiber unlike others resisted the temptation to play him as ALL…

I think you're taking the concept of 'Brian being a mouthpiece for McFarlane' too literally.

Was he asking US? Or perhaps arguing with himself?

I'm surprised so many people are surprised that Fight Club flopped at the box office. It was a pretty high profile bomb (if not of Ishtar or Delgo proportions). Final domestic gross was $37 million, and even with worldwide totals that's far less than a movie with a production budget of around $65 million plus P & A…