I'm am here to kick ass and demonstrate sincerity. And I'm all out of sincerity.

Agreed. He NAILS this character like nothing else. That whole Christmas morning scene is fantastic.

I got caught shopliftin' at the Chevy dealership!

I've never even been to Europe.

Thanks everybody. My church experience as a kid had 0 of the "listen to rock music and go to hell" bullshit but I ended up pretty contemptuous of religion anyway. I do remember a sermon that was anti-gambling…

"This was a Methodist church, in case that's not obvious."
I was raised Methodist and this is the first I've seen any reference to it having any kind of stereotype associated with it or any presence in the larger consciousness at all (except for the non-sequitur in Blazing Saddles). Is there such a thing as a…

Pro wrestling, probably
My friends would be kind of into it but they'd change the channel to baseball or some shit if they got the chance. I wanted to watch the whole ridiculous 3-hour show. It got bad.

Billy Wilder uses narration well, and with style.

If this movie were Alec Baldwin's 30 Rock character in a movie setting I would want to see it.

It was a lighter in my reality!

See also: The Road to Perdition. And The Big Red One, even though I love it anyway - cut out the narration and it's a 10/10.

Bug and Before The Devil Knows Your Dead
are enough to make me a fan of this guy. I need to see Missing Person ASAP. Please don't listen to Tasha Robinson - Bug is a great movie and Michael Shannon is great in it.

He's gonna fuck the robot.

Dead Ringers might be one of mine too. I don't know if that was this year or last though.

I hope
someone does a post like this about movies. Most of the best movies I've seen this year were not from this year. A few examples:

Buster Keaton
one my Movie Heroes. The reason he's aged so well I think is because what used to be comical deadpan in the silent days now registers as realism while the rest of the players seem like insane clowns. This puts Buster in the role of the only sane guy in an insane world - there's a paradox though: He's…

The famous shot when he's sitting on the side of the train all sad, and then train leaves and him with it and he doesn't even notice.

"Clinton Clinton"

I didn't know
that The Onion at one point paid people just to write headlines. It sounds easy but it's really the most important part of the article.

You're all a bunch of fags.