Can't help wondering if she'll run into Angel Heart's Mickey Rourke in the elevator lobby.

I can see that. There have certainly been some enjoyable & competent ones (Spanish Prisoner & Confidence come to mind) but neither of them has the power and originality.

Also useful if they get called in for a case of scurvy.

I've only gotten conned a couple times but it very quickly put me to the point that if I get approached by someone who just needs a little money to tow his car / get a cab / go back and get his girlfriend / whatever open-ended situation will let him scale his take to what I can give, I turn into a screaming,…

mandatory Red Rock West mention. Not to say it's better than Last Seduction (or Grifters), but I've never known anyone who loved one and didn't like the other.

@WelcomeShaqKotter:disqus : It may be that I've often hung out with people a couple years younger than myself (and got taken to the movies earlier) but I've always liked Sure Thing when everyone was talking about Say Anything. Or Stripes when everyone was talking about Ghostbusters (I still remember the commercials…

Correct on both counts.

Das Boot + Cellular = Das Booty Call

@avclub-7e72b5fe1ad8fd5b388a5260ba7c07fe:disqus : Didn't help that her character was basically the third incarnation of Mandy.

Actually he never changed…out of those jean shorts.

Should we still tip our servers and waitstaff or not bother?

I think the whole "cowards" thing, much like the whole "evil" thing, was largely W and others trying to come up with things that absolutely everyone would be against, in a way that even "terrorists" wouldn't do (since there were varying levels of sympathy for the PLO, IRA, and for that matter pre-1948 Israelis out…

I spent the entire 80s thinking that we were going to die on basically  a moment's notice from nuclear war.

He's got a condition. Sometimes he imagines things.

Yeah, as much as people like to say that world tragedies can ennoble people, for the most part they make things worse both in terms of actual damage and what they do to people's priorities (which I imagine is why the stories of things or people that seemed to get better have so much appeal).

@olivececile:disqus  : Plus the hair.

My God, how depressing. And regardless of political stance, a theoretically smart comedian shouldn't be thinking: "Wow, Muslims of the middle east have no idea what indiscriminate violence is like."

DO EET. The resolution(s) of the plot(s) are about the most Le Carre-y things ever put on film. Brilliantly depressing.

I hear the new one will have Fast Iranians.

@avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus : I didn't hate it as much, but I can see your point. And the kicker is that unlike say B&R's Bane, Freeze and Ivy one could easily imagine TLJ doing a really good job with it. For what they got they might as well have let Lando do it.