He is really good in After Dark My Sweet, but it's been about two decades since that came out.

Downloading Nancy
It's up for an Independent Spirit Award. Not that such a thing means the movie's any good, but I was kind of looking forward to it.

About the Smurfs
The actual count of Smurfs should be at 106 - by my count.

How about that live version of FAIL SAFE that Clooney staged?

The fact that Bruce Willis wore a hairpiece throughout The Sixth Sense was not the twist.

I was thinking of Let the Right One In specifically. Also, I'm very partial to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later.

Horror Movies
I'm a little disappointed in the lack of horror movies on this list. Even American Psycho is more of a satire than a horror movie. :(

My pick for funniest scene would probably be the hotel room scene in Borat.

Some comedic performances I liked: Michael Douglas (Wonder Boys), Gene Hackman (The Royal Tenebaums), Kieran Culkin (Igby Goes Down), Sam Rockwell (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind), Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt), Bill Murray, Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean), Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat), Colin Farrel (In Bruges).…

First off, American Pie was 1999! Secondly . . . yeah I guess those performances have some comedy in them.

Bill Murray
I was totally expecting him to be near the top of the list for Lost in Translation. I don't see how this list can possibly be narrowed down to only twenty.

The book I kept thinking of as I was reading this was COLD MOUNTAIN. Any parallels to BLOOD MERIDIAN didn't even occur to me until I read Mr. Tobias' comments.

Two Books I Liked
So I've only read eight of the fiction books and none of the nonfiction books, but I'd like to say that

I saw it in theaters three or four times. I remember that the weekend it came out, original projections for what won the box office that weekend had Fight Club in third place with a dead heat between Double Jeopardy and . . . something else for first place. Then, after everything was counted, Fight Club turned out to…

Where's the Misanthropy?
Part of the reason why I love the original so much is that Patrick McGoohan is a bit of a misanthrope in it. He's raging against a community that seems to have mostly *chosen* to conform. I mean there are those who have been drugged, or tricked, or threatened. But they haven't forgotten that…

Los Lobotomy, every single one of those does just that. In Ratatouille, the rats, the humans and the critic open up a restaurant together. In WALL-E, the humans and robots come together to rebuild Earth. In a Bug's Life, all the different bugs learn to work together. In both Toy Story movies, new toys and old toys and…

OhNoNotAgain, the precedent I was thinking of was Nick Park and his winning the Animated Feature Oscar for the Wallace and Gromit movie. So, it's not that far out of the realm of possibility.

Mary and Max, which is claymation, is directed by the guy who did Harvie Krumpet, which won an Oscar for Best Short Animated Film a few years ago. So that director is on the Academy's radar. But it recycles a lot of stuff from HK, so it might have that going against it. But I think it has a shot at a nomination if the…

The first season of SPACED was 99, but the second was in 2001.

On the special features for EXTRAS, Gervaise describes the McKellan episode as the most sitcom-like. He thought there was a bit of WHEN THE WHISTLE BLOWS in it.