Ahem!
Ever try doing it with a toddler around?

I almost hate to tell you this, but as a former retail serf, I can assure you that the 75% off Easter candy (or whatever seasonal merchandise you love) is actually being sold AT COST, not below.  Seasonal items are marked up 300% at the beginning of the season so that when they sell the excess at the end of the…

There was a joke about a pool on top of our gym building at my high school as well, nowhere near anywhere this movie could have been made.  I guess it must have been a common thing.  I mean, if the pool were where you'd expect it to be (like, the ground floor of the gym), then it's presence or absence could be…

Yet another reason to add this movie to my "never in a million years" pile.  Thanks!

What about the cat-killing scene in Ju-On?  I didn't look closely, but it sure didn't appear to be CGI…

You're saying "The Good The Bad and The Weird" should be part of this inventory?  I had no idea.  And I loved that movie.

This comment had no right to be so funny!

Thanks for the recommendation.  Always on the lookout for good-quality toddler entertainment.

@avclub-f44ea3289d6cc6b6870fbd84a0f1b2d9:disqus I'm sort of surprised that you managed to make friends with a Neuroscientist who does this kind of research and was willing to tell you about it in spite of the fact that you do not approve.  Maybe it's a cultural difference, but here in the states, animal researchers…

Replying to the one who said Choi should have turned down the part: I'm disappointed that he compromised his real-life values to do a despicable thing in real life for the sake of a movie.
Having said that, his performance is what "made" Oldboy, so I wish he had just refused to film that scene rather than turn down the…

Did anyone reading this article watch any of the embedded clips?  This is the first article I've ever read here that had clips and I didn't even feel the slightest inclination to click on even one of them.  Nobody in the 1200+ comments previously said they watched the clips either (I think).

Did you ever see Hotel Rwanda?  The image that stuck with me was of the women naked or in underwear in the outdoor dog-kennel enclosure.
There were probably hand-chopping scenes as well, but I looked away for those.

I think that I was more bothered by the fact that, you know, the actor REALLY ATE A LIVE OCTOPUS.  I IMDB'd it and discovered that he actually had to do it FOUR TIMES to get the scene right.  And apparently, Choi Min-Sik is a vegetarian.  But, as much as all of the above upset me, I'm really glad he did the movie…

I somehow liked that movie, in spite of how gross it was.  "Fucking prawns!!!"  aliens eating cat food and trading arms, nouveau-Apartheid.  Well, it was different!

I thought I had read Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, but since I don't remember a skin-flaying scene (or, well, anything else for that matter) perhaps it was some other Murakami novel that I read and completely forgot until just now.  Which is odd because I distinctly remember liking it.  Whatever it was. 

Wow!  That sounds like how my family and I felt when we watched the Tim Burton version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Noted.  To answer the below comment RE: Miike movies in general: 13 Assassins is an awesome movie and not that gross.  It's probably going to be the only movie of his that I see, but it was definitely worth it.  I mean, I think there's a lot of blood-spurting when people get cut, but that's the extent of it and that…

I searched fruitlessly for Birthday Cake Oreos at two of my local Publix.  Why can't I have the new flavor?

I believe it's a toddler thing.  You let them do it or you don't depending largely on whether you are concerned about their being underweight…
Or you let them do it because you can't watch them literally every minute of every day.  Folks who don't have kids think toddlers are dumb, but they can be sneaky!

I wish that happened to me.  That damn movie scared me so bad I wish I'd never watched it!