I just think it's odd that they decided to import an entire replica of Colorado St. in Eagle Rock all the way to Portland (as seen in the still photo above), instead of just filming it in Eagle Rock. Hollyweird, is right.

The General and Deliverance deserve mention in the top tier too, don't you think?

One of the great, bent, geniuses of modern times. Just how Nick Weilliver knows Southern and then screwed up the nerve to ask him to be a godfather and THEN Southern saying yes (and then the kid turning out to be a top notch character actor and plainly a character overall as well) — you must have wanted to go down…

Terry Southern is his godfather?!? Jesus hell, how in the fuck…I mean…I don't even know why I'm so taken by that idea, but that's about the coolest possible godfather you could have ever had, even if you never really talked to him and he was probably high at your Christening.

It's interesting because, as an artist, he's actually humane with his characters (and makes crowd-pleasing movies). Like the exact opposite of Lars Von Trier as a storyteller who clearly hates his characters (and holds his audience in contempt), yet both are famous for treating their actors like shit.

I doubt it. That was most likely Ken Livingston, the previous (and first) mayor, who was a communist. Boris is a Tory, and even if he did say it, he's balls deep with David Cameron and the "special relationship" anyway.

Yes. That makes him more enlightened than most Americans at the time.

They should call it Always Lost then

Deadwood. Obviously not a film. But it's perfect. And better.

Hackman has been in some crap movies. A lot of them. You might be only remembering the great ones and not, say, Absolute Power, Extreme Measures or three dozen or so other not-great ones.

Depends on what version you mean. The Pleased to Meet Me album version had a horn section. The Tim version was all ragged and broken (and great). This one sounds like if they put one out for the All Shook Down sessions.

the album which was named after a Big Star song.

Good point.

True that. He's a good guy too — his comic strip for the University newspaper was cute and he was easy to work with — but the movies…he aspires to Corman with a million times the resources.

The Grinch is going to be in Freak Show? Cool!

Until the Nazi General vampire bites Hitler in the neck so Der Furher can live forever until the undercover-spy-dressed-in-leather-lederhosen Jessica Alba shoots wooden stakes from her tits to end the threat.

I'll admit to never getting the love for Rodriguez, outside of El Mariachi. Usually people get better after their gritty no-budget indy flick, not think, you know what I should do? Ironic shlock for all eternity!

I'm going to say that Married With Children got there a lot earlier, better and funnier than Natural Born Killers.

I think in both of those movies, he took a dive so that he wouldn't be considered a "serious" filmmaker. Both of them had gorgeous moments of sincerity, love, tension and actual drama — only then to jerk back into moments of slapstick violence that lets us know it's not only OK to not get emotionally invested in his…

They were necessary for the context of the "business" side of the families and to give the viewer the understanding of where the mob stood in Batista's Cuba circa 1958 — as respectable as ITT. It was one of the major themes of the movie, how everyone is "part of the same hypocrisy", big business, politicians, the mob.…