Those were $500 sunglasses, asshole.

Yah yah yah yah YAH!

Eesh, occasionally you'll get those games that try way too damn hard to be edgy, dark, and twisted (pun intended? Better launch rockets).

FANGS for the recommendation!

It crystallizes the differences between a hard-edged, defensive Bostonian (although the guy's all about NYC these days) and an affable Midwesterner.

Is that the one that had some 'exclusive' details we'd be seeing in the yet-to-be-released Phantom Menace?

That's one of the only 'origin story' movies where I felt like I really UNDERSTOOD and WITNESSED the transformation that would lead this impressionable youngster into the person he would later become.

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hostage begins to identify with and grow sympathetic to their captor.
Named for an episode that occurred in Stockholm in August, 1973 when an
armed Swedish robber took some bank workers captive, held them for six
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As long as they come with the girly pink handlebars I'm sold.

That little song makes me laugh so damn hard.

I think a lot of shows could benefit from that kind of fat-trimming.

Don't forget your Dramamine though.

Mina Suvari/Mira Sorvino

Fair point, but I think the face-smacking is just a bad example. It's more like a smack on the shoulder.

*AVClub explodes*

Also try looking for alternate audio tracks on the disc. It's possible you're watching it with the 5.1 (or 7.1 or whatever) mix turned on, then everything has to get blasted through your TV's stereo speakers.

Those facts are neither 'epic' nor particularly 'mind-blowing'. And would it kill them to throw in a WWII reference?

It's also the one we're most familiar with. It had BY FAR the greatest hype, and even people who hated it saw it like 3 times. Then bought the DVD.

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The first time I saw that flick I was young enough to have never seen a story that dealt with the disappointing realities of hero worship. I remember thinking it was a really clever spin.