"the U.S army doesn't intend to kill civilians"

Filthy hot Eva Green sex scene and it not being a ludicrous neo-con parable (well not as much) say you're wrong.

The 300 sequel is far better than Snyder's original.

I dare ya.

Ricky Jay for me.

Thanks very much, it always bugged me and at least I know the answer even if it isn't as cool as I imagined.

Because, with that reasoning, you're a hipster.

Oh yes very much skewed that way. Don't get me wrong I don't think the film is some work of prescient genius but Stone takes enough swings he definitely hits something.

Thanks very much, always bugged me when I watched it, never actually bought the DVD. Is he someone they know or just some random character?

oops, missed it, Thanks.

And not magical or only there to serve Andy's character either! It's just the wrong description on all counts apart from negro, which, if you were feeling cuntish, you could turn around to make the person who said there was a MN sound racist by pointing out they only made that erroneous connection because of Freeman's…

To be fair he doesn't take the opposing view so it's a little odd to respond in that way. But media saturated idiots engaging in violence and media engaging in saturating even more people with images of said violence is definitely here.

"But the movie treats its borrowed plot parts and banal themes as though they were freshly minted nuggets of wisdom."

Seriously, it's not just me. He's there at the diner at the start and helps them out and he helps them escape prison too, but it's never mentioned or anything. It kinda has to be significant.

No magic negro character in Shawshank.

No mention of Hollyoaks, which, shit as it is, still came up with the speech bubble/pop-up style in something like 2006.

What the fuck is going on with Arliss Howard being M&M's guardian angel in NBK and why does it never get mentioned?,

Indeed. It's from the Seinfeld apple eating school of nonchalant. Incidentally in the first JJ Abrams Star Trek Kirk is eating an apple during the Kobayashi Maru scene and me and my mate both started laughing our asses off, not one other person seemed to get the joke.

Epsiode 5 might be one of the best episodes of a HBO show ever, though there's obviously tough competition. The series whittles down to a "standard" good vs evil confrontation but it's the verve and grace that it does it with that makes the whole miniseries very very good indeed.

It's not clear though, Ligotti isn't stoned teenage bullshit, neither is what Cohle says, if you think it is you don't really understand the philosophy, that's not to say it's correct or that if you disagree with it you must think it's stoned teenage poetry, just that classifying it as such is ignorant.