Very, very bad
Peter Berg wrote and directed "Very Bad Things." After sitting through that wretched exercise in stupidity and corruption, I'd rather pull out my own fingernails than give him another dime of my money.

Crazy weather in California
In that first clip, with the guy on the motorcycle, I love how the weather goes from "sunny and bright" to "overcast and wet because the rain just stopped" in approximately zero seconds. Right about 25 seconds into the clip is the change.

Cold Fever!
I loved her character in Cold Fever. As well as everything else about that movie.

I'm still trying to get my head around how someone can dislike Sam Rockwell. "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind"? Seriously? But I guess if someone didn't like "Moon" and refers to "my beloved Charlie's Angels" we really don't have much to talk about anyway.

Bobo
Since Harlan T. Bobo released "Too Much Love," there's really not much left to say about divorce.

Amen. I watched the Criterion disc with a friend about a year ago. That was so, so awesomely bleak.

Yikers: I have no education in music. I don't dislike her voice because of her failure to adhere to some arbitrary standard that was handed down in a textbook; I dislike her voice because IT SOUNDS BAD.

Seriously?
Am I the only person who's made the trip to Vernon, Florida?

I don't get it.
Why is she famous? Never mind the 9.5 cheese-factor of the songs; she is a TERRIBLE SINGER. Am I the only person who hears this? She's off key, she can't project, and she's got this weird warbling effect that seems to be an attempt at vibrato. It's like listening to one of those nasal little brats…

Marley & Me
The dog DIES at the end? Man, I'm glad you posted that. The trailers were so insanely adorable that I considered renting it sometime when my girlfriend's out of town, but if the dog dies, forget it. I'd be reduced to a sobbing puddle.

How to watch movies
"Obviously, I disagree, since the camera constantly moving into a position where one of the characters ought to be doesn't scream 'untampered' to my eye."

Are you kidding?
Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax" is nowhere to be found on this list, and yet it is pretty much the most suicide-inducingly awful song ever recorded…

I'd have asked
about playing Rollie Totheroh in "Chaplin."

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED
to mention Fisher Stevens without mentioning "Cold Fever."

Guess I am getting old
because her diction drove me insane. "They were like, 'you're dating?' and I was like, 'no,' and then they were like, 'how old are you?'…"

This is a GREAT
idea for a series of articles. Scene-by-scene is, to me, the ideal way to parse a movie.

Geography
I love the title card near the beginning, as the camera pans over a vaguely Arabian-looking city. First pops up one word:

Dorff was also in
the totally underrated "Blood and Wine," with Nicholson, Michael Caine, Judy Davis, and Jennifer Lopez before she got all terrible.

A roller derby game…
is called a "bout."

AV Club should
make Dan Savage a "special guest" movie critic. I'd like to hear his take on this movie.