It's called "escalation of force". It's a concept soldiers and police use all the time.

Not to mention, eating burgers and shakes all the time, not playing after school sports, and still not getting fat.

The medical version of "enhance this computer image" is "I'm just going to run a few routine blood tests", and in the next scene, "I'm sorry, but you have fill-in-the-blank-rare/devestating disease. "Routine tests" in medicine will tell you if someone has diabetes, high cholesterol, a urinary tract infection, anemia,…

Advertising, or at least when I grew up in Pennsylvania it was. Perhaps now real life has started to imitate advertising.

Don't go to Ystad, though. According to my sources, people get killed there all the time.

I'd visit if Rufus T. Firefly was still in charge, if only for the comic entertainment. I'd probably leave once the war with Sylvania broke out, though.

Whatever principality Eric ruled from The Little Mermaid. Looks like it escaped the devestation of the Thirty Year's War, the subjects generally seem content, and it has nice beaches. The fresh seafood probably tastes pretty good too. Their navy seems to have a problem with ships-of-the-line blowing up and sinking,…

My brother claimed just that about Hooter's wings. I tried them. They sucked.

Agree with the English Patient, but there's actually a subtle contemporary political subtext in Gladiator that has been lost with time.

Admit, at least it's entertaining.

Shawshank's sin was that it didn't make much money.

Also… Shawshank Redemption may have become a modern classic, but it was basically ignored during it's original theatrical run. People really didn't start to notice it until they started showing it on TV.

No surprise that Shawshank Redemption was by-passed. It really didn't start to get much attention until it entered syndication on TV. I worked at a movie theater that year and I can't even remember it being showed. Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction, though? They packed the house for weeks… actually, months for Pulp…

There's actually a subtle political critique in that movie, but after 9/11 went down about a year or so later, nobody was talking anymore about the worry that America was "entertaining itself to death".

Another injustice for Pulp Fiction. Samuel L Jackson's iconic performance losing to … Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi. Nothing against Martin Landau, but nearly 20 years later, people can still quote Jackson's lines word for word.

Couldn't stand Good Will Hunting then, saw it recently and hated it even more.

My only problem with Forrest Gump is that it beat Pulp Fiction.

Braveheart is a very entertaining movie, but it's unfortunate how many people took that as their first history lesson on the medieval period, not to mention Scotland.

Thanks for reminding me of that crap…

I think this one is actually under-rated in retrospect, because after 9-11, political-cultural conversations of the nation have changed so drastically. There was somewhat of a worry at that time that the US was "entertaining itself to death" at the expense of serious political and civic involvement. This seems to be…