It's kind of a shame that "Welcome to the OC, bitch" was the high water mark for that show. It never really topped that moment, although it certainly tried.

I always saw Ritchie more as "The UK's Joe Carnahan" - a stylish but slight Tarantino wannabe.

It was on the other day, and I started watching it. I remember really enjoying it back in the day, and it is a fun movie, but damn if it isn't really dumb. When the fingerprint tech hands Tommy Lee Jones a stack of photos and says, "He looked through all of these, but then he paused on THIS ONE!" I just busted out…

I'm not sure it is possible to underrate RocknRolla.

No. Armand Hammer did eventually own the company that made Arm & Hammer, but the brand name was around decades before he was born.

And never mind that the original show was fairly popular, in the middle of the Cold War. Heck, Arnold played a heroic Russian buddy-copping with an American in Red Heat, right in the middle of the Reagan Administration.

Yeah, there is no reliable source for that Socrates quote. Remember that Socrates never wrote anything down (at least in part, as noted in Platos dialogue Phaedrus, because he believed writing was making people dumber). I've seen that quote attributed to Plato's Republic, but I'll be darned if anyone has ever pointed…

My generation was accused of just as much narcissism and
self-indulgence, without having smartphones available. Being able to
roll the same old condemnations of youth into the same old condemnations
of technology is just a bonus.

I'm old enough that I have now experienced people younger than me complaining about today's youth.

"Millennial Culture". Ugh. I despise this idea that everyone born during a certain period share a universal culture, which always seems to be represented entirely by a small group of well-to-do people from one small geographic region. For "Gen X", everyone was just like those slackers in southern California, talking…

In fairness, a Buzzfeed listicle wouldn't have bothered with the fake movie plots, so this was definitely more effort.

Tell everyone I'm a billionaire supermodel. As long as we are spreading lies, might as well go big.

I always got a strong Robert Downey, Jr. vibe from Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Maybe Downey & Bardem can play a couple who have their DNA artificially combined to produce a son, played by Morgan (who is grown super fast in a lab).

Rogen is a year and a half older, but they certainly seem farther apart in age than that.

"The bad guys won" felt a lot more like "we need to set up our sequel", nothing more and nothing less.

Haley Joel Osment has emerged as a strong contender

Wow. Having seen some ads, I thought this was about a former military dog who is adopted by a family, and helps them grow emotionally or some such, like some sort of military-themed Marley & Me. I had no idea it involved……gun runners stealing weapons from Afghanistan so they could ship them to America & sell them to…

The night my youngest daughter was born, I watched Battle Dome in the hospital. It was 2:00 in the morning (the kid just didn't want to come out) and this is what was on. It was the only time I ever saw the show. I wasn't even sure it was a real thing, and not some weird dream, until I looked it up a couple of weeks…

Why hasn't his face gotten any bigger? The rest of his head grew, but that tiny, tiny child face remains! What sort of evil sorcery is this?

First thing I noticed. No way anyone can walk around in a 90-lb helmet. Modern soldiers carry in the neighborhood of 100 lbs. of total gear - that's body armor, weapons, comm, the whole thing. If they could figure out a way to keep them equipped, the army would love to have that number cut in half.