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The psychically damaged characters in Shutter Island / Inception weren't really that engaging, it was mostly crazy freaking-out DiCaprio. But I like him as a villain, all his roles lately give his character way too many conflicting, man-apart motivations. If he can just focus on being as evil as he can be, that'd be

Is it just a coincidence that Chris Tucker and the guy who plays Deebo have been in at least 3 movies together than I can think of (Friday, Fifth Element and Jackie Brown).

Ethan Cohen
Coen?

Ethan Cohen
Coen?

Franco might actually be becoming Himself from Infinite Jest.

Is that an against the day reference?

Pat Reilly
uses AXE as body spray, hair gel, and substitute for milk in his cereal.

How many teams are in that league? Seems like you shouldn't have been able to assemble a squad like that, unless people weren't high on Bautista repeating this year. Did you go Votto / Cargo 1/2, or JJ as 2? Either way, that's a fun lineup to set every day.

Samuel L. Jackson's shark-crushed spinal cord says "wha??"

Esquire
had an article about him a few years ago, calling him the "leading man of the future". I thought it was kind of odd, cause he was already late 30's probably, and it looked like his next release was "Stealth". Anyways, I liked him in A Beautiful Mind and American Psycho. Entitled seems to come naturally to

@Loblaw: With 10 best picture nominees, this is definitely a contender. In the last two years some of the nominees have been: District 9, Up, Toy Story 3, Inception, Avatar… All those movies have their merits and I wouldn't begrudge them their inclusion, but if stuff like animated movies and action movies get

13 Billion years of beautiful tradition, from the Big Bang to Sean Penn, you're god damn right we're making a movie about the past!

O is the One
that is real.

Don't worry, we're gonna clean it up. See?

@Senator: I have two points about your take on FMJ. 1) I may be not remembering, but is the first half really that brutal? The only tough bit of the conditioning I recall is the sock-soap beatdown in the middle of the night (admittedly, that's pretty disturbing to watch), but everything else I feel is pretty

Demon Possesing = jumping the shark? Are you saying Twin Peaks jumped the shark right off the bat?

I don't know if it's too obvious, but David Lynch? In Dreams pretty much owns Blue Velvet, the Spanish rendition of Crying in Mulholland Dr. is devastating, and mahybe scores are too slippery to pinpoint awesome points, but all the Badalamenti stuff in Twin Peaks is ace.

A Means To An End
I'm surprised this one isn't on there. If you slow it down a bit you can definitely hear some Blue Monday going on there, it's certainly got more New Order DNA than Transmission, but if they're using Transmission as the Joy Division Pole on the scale, then that's fine. This is not an important

I actually kind of like the song, I was just pointing out it's "All My Love" instead of "All Of My Love".

Zeppelin Song
= All My Love.