more revealing comment than meant to be for you, I'm sure.

So your system is just as flawed as the Academy's?

Eh, give it a reread. It's still good, but the movie really cuts a lot of the obfuscating fat. And at least 5 tangentially related homicide cases mostly involving "fridged" women. (I can't believe I'm using that term but there it is).

Last time I watched Volcano that scene particularly stuck out to me. As in, "This scene appears to have been imported from a MUCH better movie."

He was 3rd Lead in The Founder…

The slow motion scene of Costner turning around on his horse to double back and grab the little farm girl's letter…. all magic hour backlighting, swirling music ala Robin Hood Prince of Thieves…. wonderful stuff. As in I still haven't stopped giggling.

Funnily enough, I was getting pissed off until that ending, which made the film for me. I bet you hate the ending of the Sixth Sense, too.

A man so muscular in one book his pectoral stops a bullet.

It's like a Stephen King adaptation: It draws light on the story's inherent flaws that are baked into the novel but go down easier because novels are digested slower.

Especially The Big Nowhere. Until I reread that one I thought Ellroy was just cynical. After that I realize (not a criticism, just an observation) that he is a Bonafide Misanthrope in his view of humanity and the world we live in.

Yeah, can we talk about how Jeff Bridges seemed to step through The Purple Rose of Cairo screen and let his doppelganger "The Dude" take over in the real world for the past 20 years?

I tried to watch it again and failed. Strange, as I adore Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Wild at Heart, and Fire Walk With Me. But Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive are two big misses for me.

It's good to know what kind of people aren't you kind of people. See, people that dismiss Nicolas Cage's acting as "self indulgent bullshit" are NOT my kind of people. These are people that state the obvious. The people that hate fun, that judge the merit of something based solely on the sum of its parts, that only a…

Damn, Harrison Ford in Face Off? No amount of skin can hide the shape of that man's manly brow and chin.

So basically laughing at nudity or nudity as a comedic premise is considered offensive? Because a naked guy makes you think of a naked woman and somehow your brain crosswires to sexual exploitation? Where does it end?

Just because your masturbation fantasy is the sound of Celine Dion warbling. doesn't mean we all agree…

It usually is.

(Wags finger around ear, rolls eyes)

You once again demonstrate how misguided you are. I'm surprised you haven't come on here claiming that Hannibal is clearly the superior work, and you don't mean the television show.

It was your generally poor taste in entertainment, I believe.