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I can't imagine it's going to be as hilarious as the time some kid on "Law & Order: SVU" was made to say with a straight face, " "

Dangit! Just as it leaves my local second-run theater and I missed it yet again!

I'd be tempted to recommend just about any season of "American Horror Story," but that would probably require me to start watching the show again, and words cannot express how much I don't want to do that.

Especially since A. Paul Scheer has worked with Adult Swim ("NTSF:SD:SUV::"), and while he may not work for them anymore, he might not want to burn the bridge, and B. Being weird and insane is the whole point. I mean, it's a mystery show starring Mike Tyson; the people making it knew what they were doing.

Any movie whose hero threatens to "make more noise than two skeletons making love in a tin coffin" is worth considering!

A while back, Nintendo announced that they were going to hold World Championships June 14, around the time of E3. Fred Savage had a great response:

Everybody says that "Jem" looks like a worse version of "Josie and the Pussycats," but I didn't really get that. I mean, it had the girl being plucked from obscurity, blowing up overnight and becoming distant from her friends, but those are just music-industry movie cliches. It's not like there was any brainwashing in the trailer for "Jem."

As I was reading the HDTGM All-Stars thread, I suddenly realized that the show has never done a Madonna movie. How can this be?! I'll admit, I've never actually seen any movies where she's the lead (I saw "Dick Tracy," "Shadows and Fog" and parts of "A League of Their Own"), but seeing as how she has six "BOMB" ratings on Leonard Maltin's guide, how can you resist?

Every time I saw the poster for this, I kept thinking, "I bet Idris Elba took this movie just so he could have top billing in a thriller after Beyonce took it the last time."

I recall reading that this movie happened to air on ABC a few weeks after she was arrested for like the billionth time, for something like drunk driving. Which makes a scene where Lindsay's character meets her favorite celebrity, discovers he's an alcoholic and denounces him as a drunk all the more hilarious.

It's a raunchy sex comedy where James Gandolfini has somehow married Susan Sarandon, has daughters played by Mary-Louise Parker, Mandy Moore and Aida Turturro (well, that one's sort of believable), and is having an affair with Kate Winslet. Already you may be drooling, and then you find out... it's a musical! With songs from Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, Janis Joplin/Dusty Springfield and Cyndi Lauper! Sadly not on NetFlix. Needs to be seen anyway.

That was a different movie. But don't worry, this movie has James Gandolfini and Kate Winslet messily eating fried chicken in bed just after fucking, so it's still got plenty of horrifying imagery. Also, Christopher Walken sings about catching his girlfriend cheating on him and then stabbing her.

Both were released around the same time ("Eraser" came out one month later), so it's really just a coincidence.

First "Grizzly Man," now this? Are you brain-damaged or just a troll?

I recall an entry in Roger Ebert's Little Movie Glossary about this movie's bland title, and how it was originally the more interesting "Cloak and Diaper."

Just because there have been like half a million "found footage" horror movies released in the past decade doesn't mean that anything using footage somebody shot before they died is fake. Timothy Treadwell had access to cheap video cameras, like pretty much anybody with a few hundred dollars in the 1990s and early 2000s did, and he used it to document himself for whatever reason. The sad thing is that, if this were any other Werner Herzog documentary, accusations of fakery wouldn't be out of line; he's admitted that he'll sometimes fake something to get to a more "emotional" truth. But in this case, there's pretty much no reason to doubt what's on screen.

Dude, if nobody's replying, let it go. Though, I do feel bad about not contributing, so I will say I've only seen a bit of the beginning of the movie. I recall that every time there was an establishing shot of their house, a semi-truck would pass by on the road, making it seem like they lived on a road mostly used by commercial truckers rather than someplace sensible like a suburban neighborhood.

He later said:

One of the most hilarious things I've heard about this movie is that, in her neighbor's attempt to get her to like him, and seeing as how she's an English teacher, he gives her a first-edition copy of... "The Iliad." (One he bought at a garage sale, no less.) Lots of people on the AV Club were joking that this must mean he gives her Homer's skull.

Isn't this the one from Seltzer and Friedberg? They opened it the weekend "Furious 7" opened, because apparently they knew nobody was going to see it anyway and wanted to make sure people had as many reasons to do so as possible. I recall seeing the poster on IMDb and thinking, "It has to be from those guys. It has to." So I went to its page, and saw that it had one single Trivia entry: "Too soon for a parody of Paul Walker." It's not wrong.

Supposedly, David Cronenberg claimed that a faithful adaptation of the book would cost tens of millions of dollars, be four hours long and get banned in every country.

I recall reading a review that talked about how weird it was that they kept avoiding cliches in the most awful ways. Like apparently there's this kid that supports the main dancers in that little-kid-in-the-movies way, and you think this kid's going to be important in one of the dance-offs. Then the kid is killed off in a drive-by shooting, as though somebody involved briefly thought a movie called "You Got Served" was going to be the 2000s version of "Boyz n the Hood."

Dangit, jarry, nobody needed to see that! But yeah, it's one thing to talk about romantic comedies that don't acknowledge how disturbed the main character is or a video game adaptation that barely resembles the original source. But stuff like "Naked Lunch" is meant to be weird and bizarre; people trying to figure out what was going through the filmmakers' heads when they made it is what they were going for.

All of this and you've barely even touched on the whole "David Arquette becomes the WCW champion for five minutes" debacle, a fiasco so infamous that I know about it even though I don't think I've watched five minutes of wrestling in my life.

I think the best burn was the opening of the Variety review: "Nothing aired by WikiLeaks could possibly be more destructive to Sony’s reputation than the release of 'Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2.'"