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Bob McLennan
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They're not movies, but you'll never find better adaptations of the Parker stories than Darwyn Cooke's graphic novels of the last six years or so. The latest seemed a little slight, but the first two (based on The Hunter and The Outfit) are masterpieces of design and visual narrative.

Be prepared for a wicked beat-down by Leonard Pierce and ZODIAC MOTHERFUCKER.

It will at least warrant a "Great Job, Internet!" article, right?

Serious question:

Can we just call you "Bruce" instead?

It's a great scene, and a funny moment, but you get tired of anything after you've heard it a thousand billion times.

I'm almost 40 and have had several friends, classmates and co-workers who were also named a variation of Robert (most common: "Robbys") but I've met precious few "Bobs."

I had to change my last name after a Monty Python sketch ruined it.

"What About Bob?" is a really fun movie, and Bill Murray's "Bob" is a goofy, justly enduring character. But for over two decades now, I'd say close to 50% of every single person I meet in a social setting hears my name and immediately says, "hey, what about Bob?" then gives that shit-ass grin that says "get it?" Fuck

He's even better in Mamet's "Spartan."

When it first showed up on home video, I insisted on renting "Do The Right Thing" one weekend. We got maybe fifteen minutes into it before my parents (led by my dad, who swore more per hour than anyone I've met in my life) demanded I turn it off because of all the swearing. For months, I couldn't nominate a movie for

But on the plus side, they're distorted enough that you only catch every fifth word!

You're right that both songs have a lot more going on than their chorus' would suggest, but it's tough to get past the downright oppressive message of "Single Ladies'" refrain. Lyrically, its verses suggest a different song, one about empowerment and feminism: a woman post-breakup starts asserting herself again. Then

Beyonce's "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)"

There's just such goofy joy in his delivery, like he himself is tickled by the jokes and is barely keeping it together enough to tell the audience.

It was for charity!

Yeah, and there's plenty of stuff I loved as a younger kid that I'm fully aware was just absolute shit (Transformers tv show is a great example.) I think one of the reasons I lamented over "The Lion King" is because I thought I was old enough by that point to know better…

I'd kinda like to see "Lion King" again for the first time, if only to remember what I liked so much about it in the first place before I started disliking it. Shit, that sounds incredibly douchey. Let me try again.

This has become known as "the 300 effect."

Check her out in Sam Rami's "A Simple Plan" from the late 90s. It's a nice little crime tale with Bill Paxton, Fonda, and Billy Bob Thornton all giving good performances.