On it!  Thanks.

Welcome!  You'll love it, we are a friendly bunch. I've been commenting here for almost six years, but not that frequently (still under 5000 comments).

@avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus , stop using the comment sections to pitch your porn films.

I'm exactly with you on the Bruce Laddie whatever.  It was good enough, but didn't make want to investigate anything higher end from them.  Probably the best scotch I had all year was a sampler of four Glenmorangie.  (I'll just assume the plural and singular forms are the same.)

A.  I had heard that going in, and isn't there a massive title with the date at the beginning?

Down in the streets of Honolu-lu,
Just booking folks and being patched through, what a
Lu-wow!  Hawa-
Ii Five-O!

Hey @avclub-02c1dd6ad234773aeffd7f7067784d58:disqus !  (swings ax)

I tried Redemption, a "high-rye" bourbon (so it's a mix of rye and corn whiskey).  Actually liked it a lot, I enjoy bourbon/sour mash but occasionally find it a little too sweet.

Booze thread!

Gin omelettes!  (I use this one disturbingly often.)

Great MST3K Quotes for Everyday Life Thread

Also the greatest use of morphing in all of film.  Like Kubrick and Fincher, Mann makes technology do what he wants it to do, he doesn't use it because it's a new shiny effect.

If Ridley Scott ever tries (and possibly fails) to make Blood Meridian, I would enjoy the resulting Hearts of Darkness/Lost in La Mancha-style documentary.

Aw thanks, and thanks to @avclub-81571cc3429054b5f70ed1b15df4cf72:disqus and @avclub-d2883cc21428e523fff0e72f8c0fc7b6:disqus as well.  Gotta say that although writing these comments has helped me understand why this series so totally owns all our asses, getting into these discussions has made me understand even more.…

Yes indeed.  The Shield has always been about moral complexity instead of psychological complexity.  Psychologically, its characters are pretty simple—Vic's drive is for power and control, Shane is chronically impulsive, Lem instinctively tries to help people—but there is a lot of moral complexity there in how they…

Seasons 3 and 5 both need to be there, because they reverse different original actions.  Season 3 reverses the money train, and season 5 reverses the killing of Terry.  What season 4 makes clear is that these are different; there is a long, painful, risky way back from the fallout of the money train, but there is no…

As a geology geek, I approve of this username.

The Shield, and I think there are two reasons.

I agree with that.  I said that Vic is putting Corinne first, not his kids as he usually does.  At that point, Vic knows that he's not coming home again—the next thing he does is to tell Corinne to get in touch with his lawyer so they can work out the separation.  On some level, at that moment, I think he gets exactly…

The Shield was always good at giving the sense of the everyday life of cops like Danny, Julien, etc., as people who are doing a job, and that job is enforcing laws someone else made.  (Soderbergh's Traffic was good at this too; so was the original miniseries.) Edit: it's not like Danny sets American antiterrorism…