And that sax line from Rumpshaker is 50% of the sax line taken from N2Deep's "Back to the Hotel." Which I guess makes that song pure sex times 2.

Oh hold on, I'm not letting this slide. Guns crafted from merely index fingers and thumbs?! Your gun barrel needs to be index AND middle fingers if you're to be taken seriously. Do it and look at your hand - that is high caliber right there. Now do it with just an index finger - weak! You're not taking anyone's money…

Um, I believe that's "GREAT ASS."

I second Larry on this. If by "cadence," you mean the two names have one of three words in common, then yeah, I guess you're really on to something. Spooky.

Hartnett is the poor man's Keanu; Paul Walker is the homeless man's Keanu.

Apocalypto is pretty awesome. Totally crazy, but awesome. My thought when watching it is that it's a movie that Eli Roth would have made if he had the budget and the ego.

I'll be really interested to see the discussion of Morvern Callar. I saw it, and I love Samantha Morton, but I confess to having no idea it was a "cult film."

I'll qualify by saying I'm not a musician and I'm not a "drums guy" who especially notices what is going on back there, but for what it's worth, my favorite band is probably Joy Division, and there aren't too many songs of theirs I can listen to WITHOUT marveling at Stephen Morris's style. Alternatively, I also love…

The new Michael-Pitt-starring version of Funny Games gives me strong apprehension of a Spoorlos/Vanishing situation, i.e., this new one has "American debacle" written all over it. Judging by the trailer, though, the remake at least retains the absurd wardrobe of the antagonists. I'm not a fan of the original, but I'll…

The book is one of my favorite books; the film was definitely my favorite of the last year. McCandless was a unique and special human being and I feel indebted to Krakauer for his tireless reconstruction of a life whose record would have otherwise been lost. And I am vastly impressed by Sean Penn's ability to distill…

I urge everyone to keep an eye out for Stacy512's posts. She's the Jonathan Swift of AVClub commenters.

Hmmm, MBS, I haven't watched Kissing a Fool in many years, and I admit to being afraid that I was wrong about it. I'll reserve final judgment until I see it again, but for now I still have a fondness for it, mostly because I remember being impressed with Schwimmer's performance (in fact I think he's underrated all…

Ah, you know I'd forgotten Threesome. I like that one too - Baldwin was genuinely funny in that. But the plot is totally different from Kissing a Fool. In Threesome, Josh Charles is in love with Baldwin, Baldwin is in love with L. Flynn Boyle (suspend disbelief as necessary), and she loves Josh Charles. In KaF, Lee…

Worst and Best Rom-Coms
I count Serendipity as one of the worst movies I have ever seen. And I have seen Simply Irresistable, which features a crab wearing a tuxedo. There aren't a lot of movies that I'm still angry about having watched after five-plus years, but Serendipity is one. The premise alone makes me want to…

I guess I'm implying that the world is an unprincipled place, which makes Matheson's cold turkey decision kind of weird and remarkable. I don't know; it's just an anecdote I find interesting, that's all. Kind of like how you can't hear Cat Stevens without thinking of the radical change he underwent and how he…

Love this Thread
There are a lot of Matheson fans here, or at least a lot of Matheson readers, and no one has mentioned what I have always thought to be the most fascinating aspect of Matheson (because certainly his prose is not…fascinating): that he woke up one day and decided the real world had enough horror in it,…

M1ngle, thanks for giving me the best laughter of my whole day.

I wish I would have seen this review and thread sooner. Now I am leaving a t comment so late as to be irrelevanthat and no one will ever read it.