The Pantasm?

The Blues Brothers
is another movie with an undeserved R rating for language.

Perhaps he saw the shit that went down between Shane and Rick's wife on a monitor, and was giving our hero a heads-up?

Speaking of contrivances
I think the CDC could've been the setting of some wonderful plotlines, and it just felt wasted, not to mention contrived, to have the fucker run out of juice about 12 hours after the gang arrived.

ACTUALLY, Latinist, your 'fathers-in-law' example is not apropos, because operandi is not a gerundive ('adjectival modifier') modifying modus, but a gerund in the genitive case.

In Latin the gerund only appears in the neuter singular, motherfuckers!

The Passion?
Anyone else think that the scene where Shirley took the bat to Abed's equipment was supposed to be a parody of The Passion? With Shirley as a Roman soldier, I guess?

But got-damn
that was fast. I'm guessing you have screeners?

What about Battle in Heaven?
That began with an unpleasant blowjob, and then featured several more uncomfortable sex scenes.

Broken Flowers
Yeah, this episode reminded me a lot of Broken Flowers. And I can't decide which had the more depressing ending.

Right there with you on the Katie plot
I think the whole 'will she or won't she cheat' thing is a little bit beneath this show, and I groaned a little when we saw Katie getting blitzed at the bar.

Screeners?
Goddamn you got this up fast. Are you still working off screeners?

Eventually came around to this movie
I think what did it for me was when I realized that my total confusion about what was happening was the point of the movie.

Ah, I'd forgotten about The Bridesmaid, which I have seen. Yes, it was very fine.

A Gateways to Geekery?
Judging by all the comments from people who haven't seen his stuff and don't know where to start, it seems like a Gateways to Geekery wouldn't be inappropriate.

"an extended guitar workout that sends six-string shrapnel in every direction"?!
Vos rockituros salutamus, indeed.

No Fargo?
It features, to quote someone (Ebert?), the warmest possible treatment of suburban domesticity.

Tootsie Townsend.

SPOILERS below
"Tony tells Scatino he let Scatino get so in over his head because he saw an opportunity for profit. When Artie Bucco accuses him of something similar later on, Tony reacts angrily, asking how he could think such a thing."

Your post was full of both studium and ira. I, sir, am most disappointed.