“The Board of Zoning and Resources did this? Huh. I love their setback requirements.”

I think the fourth cut might be a European version? I also have the boxed set, but it’s downstairs, and I am also too lazy to go look at it.

“Before Star Wars, what successful film series even existed? Godzilla? James Bond?”

But Vision is only a few years old. Now who’s creepy?

I was skeptical too, but I’ve really enjoyed it. It’s not great, but it’s surprisingly good, especially for a show made for YouTube. And Zabka is hilarious in it.

“Magoo got ya in. Magoo’ll get ya out.”

I understand your view of Man Who Came to Dinner. Sheridan Whiteside is horrible (and funny), especially early in the film, but he softens—to some of the Ohioans, at least—by the end. I don’t like the regional prejudice either, but I feel like it’s mixed in with an anti-bourgeois attitude that’s a bit easier to take.

Remember the Night is a favorite Christmas movie in our house. It’s a tighter story than Christmas in Connecticut (although we love that too), mostly because it’s not a screwball comedy. But it’s still funny, and Stanwyck and MacMurray are great together.

Good deal! I love those library sales.

My wife loved that Adams biography. I’ve been meaning to read it myself.

I’ve long thought that “Ellington” would make a nice first name.

I agree!

Yeah, I remembered that wrong. Should’ve checked IMDB. But my point is, Crowe was already a famous and respected actor when he made Gladiator.

Ooops, you’re right. Well, he was robbed of the Oscar for The Insider the previous year!

Wow, yeah, I really remembered that wrong.

Crowe won the best actor Oscar f0r 1999. People knew who he was. 

Well, Crowe won his Best Actor Oscar for The Insider before Gladiator came out, so he was famous and well regarded already. And he hadn’t starred in anything that could be considered a major blockbuster (I think The Insider even lost money), but L.A. Confidential was a real success: it grossed 3 times its budget…

We were all just so tired of the Vancouver public library.

She doesn’t try to speak English with a Russian accent, but she actually speaks a little Russian in the interrogation scene in Avengers. And it really isn’t that bad, it’s just not convincingly native. But on the Russian accent scale of Scarlett to Clint, her end is the better one.