My friends and I still bust this gem out:

Ghost Ship was another one that came out during the early-aughts "haunted house" craze. That opening with the wire is still one of the best horror setpieces ever.

Hey man, he turned two red names black. The rest is up to the lawyers.

And lately we're having the opposite problem: "Limited" TV series that would make crackerjack movies but end up plodding along ridiculously as serialized TV (Hostages, Homeland, to an extent).

Maybe I've been warped by MTV, videogames, etc. but I have no patience for these kinds of things any more. Sure, it's an interesting premise, but that's all there is: the premise. It makes for a fine 5-10 minutes of creepiness before the punchline, but it takes enormous padding to stretch it to feature length.

The poor souls at Sprint stores are always hustling for perfect 5s on satisfaction surveys. Anything less, they don't get paid. Pretty shitty.

They talked about the existence of telekinetics (TKs) very early in the movie, it wasn't a tangent at all. They established a world and then built on it.

Hard livin', man.

Respectfully mock.

George Pelecanos uses it a lot too, these days. I guess some guys just can't bring themselves to write "vagina."

Kinda makes sense, people don't really see the "big city" as the grimy den of vice that they did 10-20 years ago. You can't have your grizzled detective go to the local vegan bakery for inspiration on a case. Crime happens wherever the affluent whites aren't.

Ders and Adam have had multiple roles on other shows, but Blake only had S4 Arrested Development, and that was with the other two plus Montez. Is it the hair?

And now they're playing air hockey in heaven together.

The bit with the big hand that swung around the corner and knocked people over was one of the funniest goddamn things I've ever seen.

You gotta respect holding onto the nordic goth look when you're paunchy and graying.

I did always find it odd that when I would rent DVDs in the early '00s, some of them would use the system's subtitles for translations or even informative titles, like "FBI Headquarters." Very jarring when you're watching a movie and the shitty, yellow, pixelated native subtitles pop in out of nowhere. Shouldn't those…

I misunderstood, you're referring to the actual house-to-house Trick-or-Treating rather than dressing up and celebrating the holiday in general.

So long as Party City sells "sexy _____" outfits, Halloween will have a grownup component.

@avclub-cbe8412e7469c2bba155a2a353401e5b:disqus's not on board.

By this you mean you'd rather eat a whole bunch of Oreos, rather than just one, right?