Yes, but the look on his face when he admitted he stole your cane was the greatest thing in the history of everything.

The Continental Op, and the Hammettian notion of a lone warrior pitting two rival gangs against each other, has left a huge footprint on pop culture, influencing Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, Last Man Standing, Miller's Crossing, and, yes, Lucky Number Slevin, among many, many others.

This is the correct response to "America's Sweethearts," drunk or sober.

See you in the next life, Martin.

Do me a favor: Throw it hard.

My favorite sentence in this article: "That means this is a rumor at best, but unless the studio announces a new Terminator movie in the next couple years, it seems pretty accurate."

…not realizing that the phone company cut him off long ago.

I noticed this as well. A few cuts didn't match, with people's positions and facial expressions changing dramatically between cuts.

I was right there with Shutter Island, staying up late into the night to finish the thing, and when I got to the end, I threw the book across the room (the first and only time I have ever done this). If Lehane thought he was being clever with his big twist, he was wrong (imo, obviously).

I think the straight-up genre books he wrote out of the gate (the Kenzie & Gennaro series) were pretty good. Then came Mystic River and Clint Eastwood and Oscars and respectability. His move to "serious" fiction did not portend better books, and his last Kenzie & Gennaro novel (which reads like it was written by…

Lenny Bruce deep cut!

Came here to post this. Best line reading in the movie.

I believe that's Grumby.

She was a tad overwrought, but it was an overwrought situation and believable for someone that age, someone who will turn every situation into an overwrought situation about themselves.

Lists like these are subjective, of course, and designed to generate arguments, but the omission of "Quiet, Please" (and specifically TTOTFB) seems particularly egregious. Writer Wyllis Cooper and actor Ernest Chappell were a brilliant combination, serving up episode after episode of uncanny chillers. The Thing on…

There's a science fiction short story called "Melancholy Elephants," by Spider Robinson, which makes the argument for a forced cultural amnesia when it comes to creative copyrights. Here's a quote: "There are eighty-eight notes. One hundred and
seventy-six, if your ear is good enough to pick out quarter tones. Add
in…

I have a foggy memory that the original title of "The Jerk" was "The Asshole," but there was no way to get that one past the MPAA.

The late Steve Tesich ("Breaking Away") wrote the screenplay to Garp. Irving did not co-write it — or at least, he's not credited as having co-written it. And his public statements about the movie certainly don't indicate that he had anything to do with the screenplay. Personally, I think Tesich did a superb job…

I see this has already been addressed downthread. The system works!

So, are we all just pretending that Schweddy Balls didn't happen?