"Beef jerky time!"

Probably not, but I'm guessing Adam Sandler will have the grace to bow out when he starts to make the same film over and over again.

"Lionel Joseph from Cameroon?"

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Can't these formerly great/hilarious actors who clearly have no interest in being creative any longer just go quietly into the night?

Excellent movie. This is a great example of a film where every detail in the frame seems to matter.

"Flames. Flames, on the side of my face"

Jerry watches Louie.
Kramer gets put on the No-Fly List.
George's girlfriend makes him check in everywhere with Foursquare.
Elaine's twerking video goes viral.

I agree that it's a downbeat ending, but I'd also say that it's an inevitable ending. Some films tack on a downbeat ending just to do so, rather than having it make sense. In the case of The Conversation, it couldn't have ended any differently, and that's part of what makes it Coppola's true masterpiece.

The A.V. Club is all kinds of fucked up, and I love it.

PG in the 70s is completely different than PG is now. Jaws was PG, Airplane was PG. They'd be PG-13 or maybe even R now, considering the nudity.

This is really getting into a whole new topic (what else is the internet for?), but I think most people don't want to be bothered by all of that. As long as there are no more attacks, and they can get the latest Gaga single on their phone, they're blissfully oblivious. It is disturbing.

I would disagree with that as well. The lengths that Harry goes to to ensure his privacy (way before all of our NSA nonsense) is extraordinary because he knows that he should be that paranoid. I get that he's the extreme example, but they really were out to get him.

I think The A.V. Club is going for the same number of articles about the new Evil Dead 2 as there are DVD versions of the original Evil Dead 2.

"More so than The Conversation or All The President’s Men or any of those Watergate-era milestones, this is the great paranoid thriller of the 1970s."

I dress up as Shaun of the Dead occasionally as I resemble Simon Pegg, and the year that District 9 came out, I had a friend make a Prawn hand and I wore that with my Shaun costume to Dragon*Con. I got asked about the hand a ridiculous number of times, and exactly one person didn't have to ask to get Prawn of the…

I would say you're past its prime. I thought the drop in quality was noticeable towards the end of Season 3, and stopped watching altogether a couple of seasons later. I guess it's decent for a network sitcom past that point, but it doesn't live up to its initial promise.

How can I tell if one of my moms is a lesbian?

Isn't Star Wars "Harry Potter meets Star Wars"?

That's Scott. Steve's alive.