"Don't lie to me like I'm Montel Williams!"

***USC marching band walks around football field***

So much for the wisdom of crowds. That title is one of the best books DC ever did.

DC is really shitty about cancelling or stopping complete TPB runs: Starman (in paperback), original Suicide Squad, even Sandman Mystery Theater. They got through *8* volumes of that last one—they only needed to put out one more to finish the series—and they just quit.

I feel like "Slow Descent into Alcoholism" needs to be on here somewhere.

Yeah, Bale in particular is a weak spot here. I've liked him in almost everything else I've seen him in, but he seemed to be sleepwalking through this one. I would rather have spent more time with Billy Crudup's J. Edgar.

I have not read it, although it sounds interesting. I'll check it out.

As a huge Mann fan, I remember being underwhelmed by this when I saw it in the theater. Except for the lodge shootout and Stephen Lang, everything left me pretty much cold. Maybe it's time to revisit it.

I dunno, that car chase is still pretty boss. And Willem Dafoe is characteristically great and unsettling.

Blackhat inspired me to upgrade all of my Mann DVDs to Blu-ray, something I highly recommend. This one in particular is gorgeous to watch in HD.

Oh, I'm just as shallow, trust me! I take great pains to make clear that I'm making these requests for medical reasons, and not because I'm some high-maintenance twit.

Yes, the problem is when I get mistaken for one of these trendmongering dipshits, and then my (always polite!) requests get taken less seriously, and then I end up shitting blood for the rest of the day.

As someone with actual, diagnosed-by-a-gastroenterologist celiac disease, let me assure you that nobody hates these people more than I do.

Most notably, it excises two of the best lines in the film:

I can relate. I like to drive around at night listening to the Heat soundtrack and pretend my life involves way more bank robberies and downtown shootouts than it does.

Happens to the best of us.

The real Jeffrey Wigand spoke at my college in 2002. I can assure you he looked absolutely nothing like Russell Crowe.

Heat
The Insider
Collateral
Thief
Manhunter
Miami Vice
Last of the Mohicans
Ali
Public Enemies

My incredible love for S-K is colliding with my incredible hatred for Miranda July and provoking an existential crisis right now.

…But Seriously, by Phil Collins, on cassette. Yeah, I was really cool kid.