Surely you don't call a scene in which a naked Tom Hardy is being lavishly slathered with vaseline by a prison guard, "boring?"

"Seriously lovely folk, when they aren't trying to chop you up with a machete."

Maybe it was just symbolic of the son's failed ambitions to be a surgeon specializing in gastroenterology.

The Straight Story … breaking out of the mold in a big way.

Green Lantern? After Earth?

This is what happens when you eff a friend in the a!

Joyless and grim … Refn's a Scandanavian so that's sort of par for the course isn't it?

And while you're inwardly freaking out every time you go to a theater, someone is probably thinking about blasting away in a totally different venue like a mall or office complex or whatever, because crazy people are known for varying their tactics randomly.  So it's best to be freaked out all the time, or none of the…

He also better not be selling any sodas larger than 16 ounces in NYC, either.

Yeah because nobody does dumb things anywhere else in the world.

Technically you can only slow something down (and/or reduce the pitch) 100% right?  If it's slowed down to 1/8th of the original, which seems to be more accurate, it would be at 12.5%.

Oops, almost forgot the obligatory links to a random nutty site to substantiate my Randinoia …

They actually believe printing $85 billion a month in funny money to buy increasingly worthless bonds and artificially maintain a near-zero interest rate for the indefinite future might possibly lead to some sort of fiscal disaster?  Sheer paranoia!

Also a great old Gore Vidal novel, "Messiah," written during the very early years of Scientology.  It depicts a literal suicide cult whose charismatic leader is able to rationalize listeners at his many lecture tours into signing up for voluntary euthanasia (at special cult centers) purely based on his rhetorical…

So violent video games & movies are so popular because all those people *don't* like violence?

So violent video games & movies are so popular because all those people *don't* like violence?

It's a trap!

It's a trap!

"And yet these walkways NEVER HAVE HANDRAILS! What the fuck is up with that?"

"And yet these walkways NEVER HAVE HANDRAILS! What the fuck is up with that?"