Nein, Chanancellor Bong!

I haven't seen it since I was a teenager, but I remember it having some really fucking cool scenes - there's a kind of slo-mo car-chase where they're pushing the cars, and the final shootout is super-epic. Definitely worth revisiting to see if it holds up - I would be disappointed if it didn't.

No, me too - spoilers for inconsequential films I will never ever watch exert a strange fascination on me. One review I just read suggested the whole thing was merely a test (whether of ability or loyalty I'm not sure), but I'm gonna go ahead and say that the bag contains a paternity test proving that De Niro is…

Yeah, unfortunately I went into the film knowing it had been really well-received and was hugely disappointed - the plot was like some 80s James Bond fan-fiction, Simon Pegg was acting in an Austin Powers movie, Jeremy Renner is just utterly hopeless, and even most of the action was pretty dull.

Completely agree - I thought GP was utterly cliched, almost every scene was groan-worthy for some reason. I even thought the action was pretty standard fare (the jailbreak, the sandstorm, and the car-park climax are all nothing special), and the stabs at characterization and comic relief were so tonally off it's like…

Nice analogy with the two minutes hate - it's one of those things a society just sort of does, out of tradition, I guess. Perhaps an equivalent American concept would be something like the Superbowl commercials? Shit obviously doesn't actually matter, but everyone (i.e. the media) talks about it, even in they have no…

Yes, I think the "1914 to 1917" joke is probably my favourite ever bit of black humour. Captain Darling's earnest hopefulness sells it so well, and then the punchline is such a sickener - you can even hear the audience half-groaning, half-laughing.

The Elizabethan one is Blackadder II - the first series is set around the time of the War of the Roses, i.e. the end of the medieval period.

Ok, Sean O'Neal's Newswires are of course always just the greatest thing ever, but this one was just so fucking funny - usually I enjoy them with a wry smile, but here, I actually audibly cracked up a couple times. Literally laughed out loud. If only there were some pithy way of describing this experience…

They're all really good, and the first one would be especially interesting. My knowledge of cinema is way short of encyclopedic, but I would imagine Hitchcock would be right up there: the Vertigo zoom-in-zoom-out shot, the train going into a tunnel = sex, maybe the blood going down the drain in Psycho; all surely…

…this 'preserving-pop-culture-for-future-generations' thing reaches a whole 'nother level of meta-greatness if you actually imagine the ghost of a popular television character floating on into eternity documenting trivia and ephemera to mess with future-aliens - I smell another spin-off!

A real dinosaur cage, though - that'd be a different matter! Why, the sky's the limit for your genuine real dinosaur cages, yes sir!

Wrong - thujone, which is the active element of wormwood, is a mild toxin which may be slightly perception-altering, but it is not strong enough to cause hallucinations, and certainly not in the concentrations in which it is found in absinthe. The myth of hallucinogenic absinthe is extraordinarily persistent, but also…

This is artisanal snark.

Wait, I just re-read the article, and I still don't understand the numbers: is the "amount spent" the film's budget (not accounting for the star's wages?), or the film's box office take? In the Jack & Jill example, is the $1 the production costs, or the box office? And is the $3.40 Sandler's personal take-home, or is…

…journey to the Snark Side, surely?

I'm glad someone already mentioned this, 'cause I feel the exact same way: I like Simon Pegg, and I like Mission Impossible - but the combination doesn't work!

I realize that my general outlook on Kanye's music is an unpopular one, but there are many tracks of his that I did like, as long ago as Jesus Walks and as recently as Niggas In Paris - hard to say whether that's because of or despite what I perceive to be his musical shortcomings (the "corny" samples etc. I found…

Even the samples and production are super corny (which I get is his thing - still corny), but his actual rapping (I use the term loosely) on this track is appalling. Hip hop on Ellen - 'nuff said.

I know right? He sounds like Forrest Gump on this track: "But eh, but um, eh eh eh…". Awful.