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"Sherlock Jr." is a fantastic film. The stunts are amazing, especially the motorcycle sequence, and the ending manages to be sweet but not cloying.

Castiel = Holly Martins?
Wow, plotwise that turned out to be a straight-up homage to the Carol Reed film. Balthazar isn't quite as cool as Harry Lime, but hell, who is? I look forward to seeing him again — he could be the celestial counterpart to the demon Crowley.

I agree with spicoli323: John de Lancie featured in some of the funniest scenes of ST:TNG. I'm particularly fond of "Deja Q" — "Au contraire, mon capitane, heeeee's BACK!" *cue mariachi band*

You're joking, right?
And unlike with Musketeers, [The Prisoner of Zenda] hasn't wormed its way into the general culture…

The Great Stone Face
There are magnificent silent performances, of course: Lillian Gish in The Wind, Emil Jannings in The Last Laugh, Buster Keaton in anything.

I'll concede that compared to other Keaton films, THE GENERAL gets off to a slow start (though there are small, quiet gags like the little boys who follow Keaton to his girlfriend's house, the absurd portrait he gives the girl, his foiled attempts to enlist, and his ride on the connecting rod), but once he takes off

I knew there was no way we could have a bad movie discussion without "Shark Attack 3: Megalodon" coming up. Its awfulness is transcendent. Even the title font sucks. And whenever I run across it I CANNOT STOP WATCHING.

Best ad for NINE so far…
…was the one that aired during "Project Runway" a couple weeks ago, which had no lyrics.

"…does it ever really address the setting that much?"
There are some New York jokes that I didn't realize were NY jokes until I moved here. Exhibit A: Joe Franklin. How many people outside the tri-state would've know who he was in the 80s?

Kind of an old fashioned childhood…
Itching powder? Really? I could buy Jesse knowing and Pop Rocks and cola, or the hand buzzer, but itching powder?

My favorite bit…
…aside from Castiel's priceless spooked-horse expression in the brothel, was the exchange between Rafael and Dean:

"Peeping Tom"…
…has some hilarious film-making sequences, thanks to the protagonist's day job as a focus puller at a studio. Supposedly they were inspired by director Powell's experiences filming "The Red Shoes" with Moira Shearer — who is *in* those scenes, playing a stand-in for the leading lady.

And he's appeared on "Torchwood" and "Smallville," and will be in "Caprica."

I got to see Theodora Goes Wild in a theater with an audience last year and I loved it — probably because it fulfilled my lifelong dream to see a rom-com in which the heroine, after undergoing the usual enlightenment-through-embarrassment routine, turned around and proceeded to dish out the same treatment to the hero.