I had a similar moment I remember vividly, too: "Wait a minute, the pompous ass is just trying to do his job and Bueller is a little crap." Once you see it, there's no unseeing it.

"Diamond often permits his self-pity to get the best of him, endlessly recounting moments of rejection—from editors, agents, parents, friends—which finally wear the reader down."

I had the same thought. Talking about what a guy did until he was a teenager seems like it's leaving something out of the obituary.

I do not wish you distress, but I do especially wish to hear about the more "colorful" sidelines in a famous actor's career. I had already guessed that Nighy got along with Curtis, given how often they've worked together.

My joy's name is Air Bud! *sob*

I liked it better than that, but it did feel like it flinched a bit for sure. It's interesting to wonder what Kubrick would've done with the material.

I watched part of it, asked my then-girlfriend if any of it wasn't Top Gun only on the ground, and then watched something else. I have no idea if that was a fair assessment, in retrospect.

I thought so too. It had that vaguely perfunctory stink to it that kills excitement, but I thought if I hadn't seen Verhoeven's craziness and was a few years younger, I probably would've enjoyed it.

KillReginald = KILLING MY JOY

I'm still partial to "Yippee ki yay, Mister Falcon" from Die Hard 2.

…based on the book from 1980? I figured he just meant more for public visibility in general than to imply that anyone took anyone else's ideas.

It's interesting to read both of your comments on him, because literally the only thing I've heard about him is what a giant tool he is to his castmates. I'm not serious about the martial arts at all, but I've certainly noticed that his supposed-lethal adversaries attack him by doing things like grabbing his shoulder…

Ever since that movie, to this very day, I have a running inside joke with a few family members and old friends where all we do is imitate the sounds Arnie made as he fell down the mountainside. GEeughAHLuhAHLughyAHL…

Ooo, I love M&B mods. I'll be interested to hear if that one is worth the time and effort. (I still play the Star Wars Conquest mod for the first M&B sometimes, actually.)

Yeah, that's a fair point. I appreciate that the Psilons don't just eat everyone, but I also find my species-specific runthroughs aren't nearly as varied as they are in, say, Endless "Chuck Norris" Legends. (Pretty sure that's actually that game's middle name, but I haven't had the temerity to ask it yet.) But now…

Holy crap did I love Wolfenstein: New Order. It seemed like they really thought about a lot of details that the series runs on and tweaked and played with them up and down.

I thought they were trying to change genres on us in different sections of the game. Everything on the station is supposed to be like atmospheric J-horror or something, then it turns into a yay-Star-Wars fun action thing for awhile before descending into a sort of mindtrip (insofar as they finished it.)

I went ten-pin bowling (with, umm, a three-year-old) a couple months ago and I was amazed at how quickly my wrists complained about it. That was never a problem for me when I was a teenager.

May your return to gainful employment be swift and fulfilling!

I adored SR4 to a nearly unhealthy degree but I had the same experience: I needed to walk away from it for awhile. I got GooH months later and quite enjoyed it, but unlike, say, Just Cause 2, I've never once felt the urge to go back to any of them.