I like to think that if the Founders could have envisioned one person having the equivalent or better arsenal of an entire army (of their time) the wording of that amendment might have been a little more obvious. It’s maddening to know that the current keepers of that document are well aware of that fact and couldn’t…

The reason may not amount to more than opportunity and relative ease. Chicago would have required a multi-state road trip, Vegas was just down the road. Most crimes are a matter of opportunity. In any case, it’s another matter of a murderously unhinged mind and a country all too willing and eager to provide it with…

I saw it on VHS a few years later. Bad version of it and not the right format for that movie, to say the least. Saw the first director’s cut in a big theater years later and it was a “holy shit!” moment.

(America starts to agree and then remembers Weinstein is Jewish and says, “Oh, don’t worry about that.”)

I tried to care about Rodriguez for a long time, but he finally convinced me it wasn’t worth the effort.

Yeah, I don’t see any metric by which Battle Royale is sci-fi.

He IS Superman!!

By the apparent stringent rules governing this list (/sarcasm), Get Out has as much right to be on it as anything else.

I remember the barely-a-blip the original BR made when it was released. But I also remember visiting an effects house in New York a couple years later and the techs there saying, “Hands down the best effects in film are in Blade Runner. We went over that with a fine-tooth comb. It’s flawless.” It was just a matter…

Oh, I hear you.

One reason we can lay off the “well, it’s about fucking time” stuff. It really doesn’t matter why or how someone comes around to reason, it’s enough that they do. Everything else is just patting yourself on the back for seeing it earlier. (Not saying “you” as in you, BO, just in general.) Someone recently said that…

You’re pretty much right. In general, his speeches are probably just suggestions and jumping-off points before he riffs. I think Kelly must have put it in no uncertain terms that the Vegas speech was not a time for free-styling and to stick to the script.

I bought the greatest hits album when it came out and spent weeks marveling over how consistently fantastic it was. Every hits package contains at least one or two clinkers or a song they try to shoehorn in. Not that one.

“Wait. There are presidents who don’t use every line that passes through their head?”

Huss’ delivery of “They have a real... hard time” was beautiful. Then again, Toby Huss is a national treasure.

To revive a ghost from the former state of this site: It can definitely be two things.

Yeah, he was a pretty easy get so it seems like the escorts etc were a bit of overkill.

According to the friends who supplied the stories, who I think are reliable, the supply was definite. Whether it was studios or producers, who can say for sure. No one was checking contracts in the hot tub.

He should have been booted for his use of “pwesents” ages ago.

Basically 100% accurate. There are stories going back 20+ years. And that doesn’t even include the for-hire stuff studios threw his way to get him on their side.