avclub-f8f8c273f326be25421cc62737d24a9e--disqus
The Narrator Returns
avclub-f8f8c273f326be25421cc62737d24a9e--disqus

That's life for you; from Rian Johnson to Colin Trevorrow.

Can't they just rerelease the cinematic masterpiece Cool as Ice? The Janusz Kaminski cinematography must be seen on the big screen.

Matt Singer: Looking over your IMDb page, I was reminded that you were one of the writers on Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

"I tried to stand up and fly straight, but it wasn't easy with that sumbitch Reagan in the White House. I dunno. They say he's a decent man, so maybe his advisors are confused."

"Me and Dot are swingers, as in, to swing!"

My first exposure to it was the "Black Scientologists" bit, and that made me a fan for life.

Oh shit, I genuinely can't believe I forgot Sunny. For me, it's Dee head-butting a car in "Who Pooped the Bed?" and Dennis's speech to the mirror in "The Aluminum Monster vs. Fatty Magoo".

"One, two, *three* cards!"

Gene Wilder's minute-long pause after being told that his patient is in a relationship with a sheep in Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask.

Actually, I think I like the montage of people going crazy over Pootie's silent song even more, especially Chris Rock at the DJ going maniacally rifling through his CDs and yelling "POOTIE TOO GOOD!!!!! POOTIE TOO GOOD!!!!!!!".

The entirety of the "Bird Up!" episode of The Eric Andre Show.

Bigfoot Bjornsen stomping the shit out of Doc Sportello in Inherent Vice.

The performance of Romeo + Juliet in Hot Fuzz, particularly Simon Pegg's look of simultaneous disbelief and disgust once they start singing "Lovefool".

Obligatory Soderbergh Edition:

"Where'd you get that suit, at the… toilet store?"

I am feeling fat, and sassy!

Also, I want to give a shout-out to the tremendously underrated Pootie Tang, in particular the scene where Chris Rock is suddenly attacked while working at the steel mill by a gorilla ("That was only the third time a man had been mauled by a gorilla at that steel mill!").

I'd actually choose a different Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Big Lebowski moment (unless you're including it with that overall sequence), and that's his oh-so-forced laugh when Bunny offers to suck the Dude's cock. What kills me is the way he looks he's laughing for like five seconds before the laugh actually comes

I was waiting for you to show up. The prospect of Baumbach and Gerwig doing screwball comedy is the very definition of "can't-miss" for me, in that the lens cap would have to be left on for them to screw it up.

It was a Damsels in Distress reference. Would "confidence trickster" have been better?