Hell, Loaded Weapon I was worth it just for putting Samuel L. Jackson on my radar. It's awesome that they gave this little-known character actor a leading role and above-the-title billing. (Also, the movie made me laugh.)

Yep, the other parking attendant was Larry Flash Jenkins, who I will always remember as "Wordell Stone" in The White Shadow (as well as for his awesome real name).

Listen to Brainlock. Southland was the finest police show I ever watched. Just skip the final two episodes of the series (which brought in a Whedon as writer, and completely changed the tone and plausibility of the entire preceding series).

I checked the best (or at least most fun) source of LA history I know, and didn't find anything on "your" Fleur des Lis (there was another, more well-known building with the same name on old Bunker Hill). I know they have posted stuff on the Fontenoy, though — see link below. That post also has links to other cool…

OMG, I love this movie, but your post reminded me that the airline pilot was played by the founder and CEO of the company I was working for when it was released. He owned the Santa Monica Museum of Flying, and most of the properties at Santa Monica Airport (where I believe that scene was filmed).

LA history geek here. Signed in just to say that both of those buildings are awesome.

YOU'RE NOT YEE-YEE!!

We can tell you're from the South, because look how thin-skinned you are!

George Carlin addressed this as succinctly as anyone:

I was going to bring up Franklin from "Peanuts" in relation to this discussion. As I remember reading about it, Schulz was perplexed that Franklin would even be an issue.

Except that Marty will NOT be coming back.

I do not know whether I was then a writer dreaming I was a Ghostbuster, or whether I am now a Ghostbuster dreaming I am a writer.

I thought all of the above. Also, Mimic (although it wasn't a superhero lair, unless you consider the giant cockroaches to be superheroes, which is actually kind of an intriguing thought, so bravo to you!)

But The Machine now exists "everywhere". Remember, it had its own government-owned servers removed, and then copied itself to the ether, such that a part of it exists in every node. It just focuses on NYC numbers because that is where both its analog assets and direct threats exist.

You could very well be right regarding the hunting scene. It was reminiscent of similar scenes in Paul Schrader's "Mishima", so the artifice may very well have been intentional.

Yeah, frankly I'm surprised at the amount of hate in here. I thought DeVito's directing was fantastic, and he managed to make the film into an epic despite the shoestring budget (the cracks only show occasionally, such as in the aforementioned soundstage hunting scene). I also thought that Nicholson's performance…

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I loved the film as a work of cinema (even as a kid), but HATED that Popeye only got to punch Bluto ONE time! ONE FUCKING TIME!!

I liked so much of this movie, but I always thought that "Flopeye" was one of MAD's most brilliant satires, because they highlighted the things that did bother me about the film (through the use of occasional interjections by the "real" cartoon Popeye).

I'm gutted. Mork & Mindy and Popeye from my childhood; Comic Relief 1 from my adolescence; Jumanji, The Birdcage and The Fisher King from my young adulthood; World's Greatest Dad from my middle age… The guy had so many roles that were iconic to me, for so many disparate and often unrelated reasons. That is a…