haha yes the animated cowboy repeatedly getting injured by the cast and crew's names! I just watched that last week, i miss those pink panther-esque style credits.

yea i wasn't as impressed by the ending/plot reveals as i thought i would be.  pretty good game but not as good as the first bioshock

"Scotch Tapes"

Truly, Blackheart is a fortuitous name for an ivory dealer/seal clubber. 

Dennis hopper in True Romance, hands down.

In reference to your follow-up question regarding mid-western accents:

I only know what Tim Horton's is because of How I Met Your Mother.

*plays world's smallest violin with thumb and index finger*

My chick is a linguistics professor and she just shouted from the
living room that Californians are known for “merging our vowels” meaning we form our vowels closer to the front of our mouth (closer than other US accents), especially the “a” vowel.  She said (and as a native Californian, I agree with her), Californians…

that is a great quote! have you seen Hard Times?  Christian Bale really nails the central Los Angeles English with a slight Mexican accent.  couldn't believe how well he hit the exact pronunciation!

fuck yeah, he was the best part of Band of Brothers, such a great portrayal of a midwestern everyman. 

i just wish he could go one scene without pulling on his beard like a goddamn billy goat

Professional athletes, always wantin' more

kinda hard to stop him though, no?  In Reservoir Dogs, his accent kept leaping out and then slinking back into the shadows like a flasher at a baseball game.

deh turk r jahbbbs

fuck, thats a rough one for sure.  You know you have the inner strength to tough it out plus you have a good heart and don't want to fuck over your shitty employer.  that's the way i feel.

foiled, i'm afraid, @avclub-b19005ea98350860fc5dd7dd9ae99be2:disqus .  your hubris was your downfall

do you mean like how Frank the Tank falling in the ring of fire at the end presaged the mysterious death of Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky?  Or how if you freeze frame any of the scenes with Owen Wilson, you will notice a plate of blueberry scones somewhere in the background?

she breezes in once a week, spits on the cover of cosmo and using dragon dictation software, pops this column out.  I really don't see how she finds the time.

a class action lawsuit for causing massive epilepsy fits.  that would seriously have been awesome to see speed racer in imax on some hallucinogens