And it was so great the way they got there: by Jake rather straightforwardly appealing to Holt as a cop. And Braugher killed it as usual. Epic indeed. Or should I say, "Bingpot!"

I just love the looks Andy Samberg makes when Holt joins his cop-action-movie world. His look when he said "Velvet Thunder" was great, his open mouth smile of joy when Holt said "BINGPOT" was even better.

I love Jake's obsession with cop-action film cliches:

Of course he did, they were too perilous.

It does not have MIGHTY WINGS.

Yeah, if any film needed some spiffing up of the print, it's Holy Grail.

I think the idea was that it was a bit of both, at least according to various interviews with Jones and Gilliam, who co-directed. There are some great shots in and around Doune Castle, as well as a conscious effort to show the dirt and mud and squalor (the "Bring out your dead" scene, for instance.)

Yup. It's classic Boorman, definitely worth a look.

It was Katrine Boorman's film debut as well. I can only imagine how that conversation went.

It was American Airlines flight 587, November 12, 2011. Took off from JFK and crashed in Queens, NY, freaking everyone the hell out. The cause was not terrorism but it was still devastating, killing everyone on board and 5 on the ground.

I know this is a rather light and amusing story worthy of some flippancy, but I really don't get the amazingly hostile tone of the article.

Shatner saves the film for me. It pretty much drags along, mostly rehashing the first film with a decent gag or two along the way, and then lo and behold, Shatner shows up (in a part that was intended to be Kramer again) and Shatners it up as only Shatner can.

"Lieutenant, how would you handle this? "
"We could try ignoring it, Sir."
"I see. Pretend nothing has happened and hope everything's all right in the morning?"
"Just a thought, Sir."
"I've considered that. There's got to be a better angle."

Couldn't be any worse that Ben Affleck.

"No, the white phone."

And that bit is immediately followed by the shit literally hitting the fan. I wish I could describe what the audience reaction to that was when I saw it in the theater. The best I could describe it is there was a quick sense of, "oh no, they're not really going to… AAAAH! Gross!!" followed by hysterics. (If your first…

She is married to Kaptain Kool of Kaptain Kool and the Kongs, so she has that going for her. Which is nice.

I loved how Stack played the one time Kramer breaks during the film:

"Things change, people change, hairstyles change, interest rates fluctuate…"

Yawn. If Colbert starts doing game shows I'm giving up on late night TV forever.