But didn't Battle Royale rip off all those WWF Battle Royales I used to watch as a kid?

Ha, sorry…Drop On Request, like from when Louis Gossett Jr. Tries to get Richard Gere to quit OCS and like Quarles he responds, "I got nowhere else to go!"

Zombie thread!  Uh, yeah, despite my off-handed comment about the Thing having ship trouble, I'm not at all wedded to the idea that it was The Thing's ship.  It's fun to think about, it either could be or it couldn't be, but the important part is that the ship crashed somehow or other.  Or maybe it didn't…maybe it was…

Nope, you're not the only one.  I wrote similar above before I saw your comment.  The speech had the feel of a script-within-a-script and I think Quarles just came up with a supervillian origin story/rationalization for the F'd up stuff he does.  We all do it, albeit thankfully on a smaller scale.

I agree; although I did think there was a fairly decent chance that the  story was more or less BS in order to (literally and figuratively) disarm the kid looking for his buddy.  Doubt we'll find out for sure unless there's a "story reason" for it.

And yet, and yet…I think Duffy slithers out of this one, too.

Wynn's timid attempt to D.O.R. Quarles was a great low-key moment.

This is the sort of thing that should get an "F+".

This game isn't bad for a jump-fest.

I saw 50 Cent fairly early on and he was pretty tight, but yeah…every other rap act I've seen live has been fucking terrible.  So I stopped.

I dunno, it didn't indicate that there would be a scene with Limehouse butchering swine.  I need those because I'm working on a YouTube bit called "All the Limehouse Swine Butchering Scenes", and it's going to be about 3.5 hours long.

I come here for the Strudel.

We had a similar situation come up and Street Trash was on the docket.  Which the dude knew in advance, so he really did it to himself.

I've walked out of a couple, sometimes you just want to cut your losses. It was my decision to leave Christmas Vacation, for some reason it really grated in the theater, but I can tolerate it now as background noise. And somehow I talked my parents into taking me to Wizards when I was about 8, I don't think we…

Hell yeah, downfall, and being a woman driver she probably got in a wreck on the way home giving our boy up there brain damage and totally derailing his sociology thesis.

Funny this should come up, I showed my 11 y.o. the pilot last night and she loved it.

Pretty sure she's a vegetarian.

This reminds me that I haven't used the Criminal video in a while.

Hell, he'll be ok.  It's not like he got stuck playing T-Dog.

This was a fun one, no doubt.  When he told that college chick there was nothing she could do to help the cause or whatever, I was like "Cool, I've got that covered!"