One of the Breakfast Club was named Andrew, but he wasn't any more of an asshole than any of the other whiney over privileged brats or Judd Nelson's character, so… no, not really.
" Andrew" is generally some dude in the background; Hollywood's answer to J. Alfred Pruefrock.

I thought the pearls thing was Frank Miller's invention. They are definitely featured in Dark Knight returns, which came out before Burton's movie.

"Sheldon … immediately changes his mind regarding the coitus…"

"…something like Californication—where you can tell the creator believes his creation is cooler than everyone"

Yes. I apologise. I was… not sober and I chose to take stupid offence at some stranger using the name of a comedian I enjoyed a great deal at one time. I am a truculent asshole when I'm drunk. Sorry.

Really? You're going with that name?
If it isn't the nomenclature to which were born, you have colossal balls, and probably an ego that threatens the galaxy.

I hope you'll forgive my ignorance, but to which Dostoyevsky novel are you referring?
(My knowledge of Russian literature is truly meager ; I know enough to get through a pub quiz and that's about it.)

I'm one of those people. I like the the hard boiled narration and the explanation of why Batty may have saved Deckard, and I'd rather hear all of that than be shown explicitly that Deckard really is a replicant because he had the unicorn dream and hey! check it out : Gaff made an origami unicorn. I also like the…

This was great! It's like a version of Firefly from an alternative universe. I hope they do more.

Ehhhh, Akira, I guess. I've read Domu and the collection Memories (not Legend of Mother Sarah, though : he didn't draw it, so why would I be interested?), and y'know, enjoyed them, but Akira is the only one of Otomo's works that really blew me away. That still blows me away, in fact. It's just so freakin' epic in…

Match Point is a weak remake of the vastly superior Crimes and Misdemeanours, so I have to concur.

I got the impression it was one of those urban legend things, where various people had used and contributed to an idea for quite different ends. There's an episode of Numbers, where there are a whole bunch of people using the story of a sniper as a cover for their own crimes. This felt like that, and the fact that…

There's a fine line sometimes between dark and stupid. I think this episode crossed that line.

Well.. not the only reason, sure.
That movie was the definition of "cluster fuck."

Scott Glenn couldn't be worse than Terence Stamp. As my friend observed, getting Stamp to play a character named for a piece of wood was perfect.

True dat.
I was half of a married couple very much like that. The tragic, fucked up thing was, one other half (my wife) was a grounded, sensible individual who went into the situation on the woeful misapprehension that I was as mature as she was, and not an immature man child. Five years later, the scales fell from…

Me too. In a totally straight way, of course. He's the guy who should have played Ross. He has Schwimmer's vulnerability and sweetness, but he has darkness and edge as well, and never succumbs to the egregious saccharinity that enervated so much of Schwimmer's performance.
( If I could have worked in "puissant" there,…

"solopsism". It's spelled "solipsism" ; a word that could have been invented to describe both lead characters.

Well, of course. You don't just throw something like that away. You don't sell it, either. You stick it in your underwear drawer and (kind of) forget about it. Then a few months later, this woman, who may just be your one and only legitimate salvation from abject solitude finds it by mistake, leaps to the wrong…

People remember enjoying Shutter Island?