Jingus

I dread asking if you're joking, because odds are you're not and have some incredibly sordid story to back it up.

Golden awesomeness. It can take a few episodes to understand the show's groove, but by "Ballad of Fallen Angels" you should be loving it like a fat girl loves cake. I'm only a casual fan of anime, and don't care for much of the kiddier Dragonball/Inuyasha/whatever type stuff, but Bebop is just fucking amazing. Plus the entire series is a slim trim 26 episodes (plus an optional feature film which is pretty cool, but not mandatory), so you don't have to watch for three years straight to find out why Vegeta hates Goku.

Yeah, AVP:R is definitely worth mentioning, they kill off a kid in like the first five minutes. But other horror flicks? Not many I can think of. Slither, Mimic, Darabont's aforementioned Blob remake. Several zombie movies where they had kid zombies, but I don't know if that technically counts.

I'm amazed that it took so long for someone to say this. If at 14 years old I'd been seduced by a gorgeous rich woman who was twice my age, I would've been walkin' on sunshine, whoa-a-whoa-o. That's not abuse, that's a miracle handed down directly from God. (Although to really impress me at the time, the talk would've been less about Greek philosophy and more about X-Men, but still, basic point stands.)

Nobody else has ever heard of the damn thing, but it's worth it. The budget is kinda low, and it gets a little goofy in its interpretation at times, but it takes the Book itself completely straight-faced serious. It's what permanently made me a Mimi Rogers fan, too, and not just talking about her amazing mammaries.

Tek, you've at least seen Cowboy Bebop, right? Just gotta make sure on that one.

Same here. That "Kevin Smith and Joss Whedon had a mutant BUTT baby together" dialogue did not deserve a frigging Oscar. Yeah, come the fuck on. I was a firmly established member of the daydreaming supergeek posse at 16, and I'd barely even heard of Juno's alleged favorite director Dario Argento, let alone actually seen any of his movies. And I can guarantee that none of the girls in the nerd clique had ever heard the dude's name. This bugs the SHIT out of me. Because 90% of the time, it guarantees a horrible movie which is trying to piggyback on the success of others; the other 10%, it's a case of a horrible advertising campaign which completely misrepresents the movie's content. My favorite example of the first kind was that piece of shit Fear Dot Com, which on the box was compared to The Ring; that's like comparing Texas Chainsaw Massacre with Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. And one of the second kind: a great obscure flick called The Rapture. The movie was a fairly serious, literal adaptation of the Book of Revelation and focused on the spiritual agony of a woman who doubted God; the description on the box compared it to some forgotten religious horror flick and played up the shocking sex orgies and murders which made up about two minutes of the film. I was about to say that I'd pay to see that, until I remembered that I'd already attended a showing of Miss Saigon. The hell kind of answer do you want from freaking Marvin?

To the best of my recollection, I have never, ever seen someone riding those things around town anywhere I have ever lived in my entire life. From all I've heard from people who've been there, Portland is a very unusual place. You try that recumbent bike shit back in Tennessee, and you'd get treated like a kid on the playground who's half the size of everyone else and named Gaylord Assman. Possibly so. But since I also have several metastatic cancers as well as radiation sickness I believe my weight is the least of my worries. Vitamin got chemowned. Fuck you. Aw come on, that was gold. A real softball setup, but still.

Same here. And I think even that may be a bit high, since the website said it was counting gas stations as "grocery stores". If you don't have a ride and wanna buy so much as a pack of cigarettes, you gotta walk for over an hour. Lots of that on the side of a road with a deep ditch and no sidewalk. You said it, bud. Now if we could only get other road users to share the road better, especially in more car-centric places the roads completely rebuilt so that they actually accomodate bikes, not to mention invent some affordable bikes for the millions of people who can't ride regular ones. EFA. You too, huh? Where all are you talking about where biking or mass transit is a safe and easy option, exactly? I've lived in almost a dozen different towns in three different states. I'd only say that one of them was safe for biking anywhere outside your own subdivision; in all of the rest, the roads simply aren't designed for it and biking would be hazardous at best. And only one of them (not the same one) had any form of public transportation whatsoever. Plus, I can't ride a bike. Physically, I mean. I've got cerebral palsy, a mild case, but just enough to fuck up my balance and coordination enough that bicycling is an impossibility. And don't say "sure you could if you tried", I tried plenty, and am still amazed that I don't have scars or broken bones from the results. There are countless people with various problems and disabilities who can't ride a bike. I lol'd at "perceived social status" of owning a car. In most places, it's a practical necessity. What happens when you stumble into a 40 Year Old Virgin situation where someone wants you to pick them up? What about when you have to carry stuff? How the hell do you bring home groceries or anything like that? Would it be nice for society to figure out a way to be more accomodating to cyclists? Sure, since it is good exercise and can provide transportation without pollution. But only to certain people, in certain areas. It's not the cure for society's problems.

And iirc, Raven wanted to shave his head as part of his feud with CM Punk in ROH, but TNA put the kibosh on that.

You seriously don't remember Milky? He was a mod at the Pit for a little while.

Got nothing but motherfucking respect for Cabin Boy, that movie is an unfairly underrated and forgotten modern classic. I've always liked Elliott, I was a fan of Get A Life back in the day. But... Scary Movie 2? Never understood the one for that one. When it came out, me and my brother went to the movies and both of us forced the other to watch a movie they didn't want to see: I picked Moulin Rouge, he picked SM2. I still maintain that I won that battle.

Meh. Didn't care about the parodies, and felt like there just weren't enough jokes. South Park has always had a tendency to endlessly repeat their jokes until they're run into the ground, but it's felt worse than usual this season. Randy covered in "ectoplasm" was gold, but for everything else I pretty much just sat there stone-faced.

I'd volunteer for it, just to shut people up. Waterboarding is an unpleasant interrogation technique, and the public hasn't been shown much proof that it's actually helped the war effort in concrete ways, but it's not torture. Torture involves violent physical damage, causes excruciating pain, and typically leaves permenent scars or deformities. I'd rather be waterboarded a hundred times than undergo the kind of torture which the Geneva Convention actually set out to ban in the first place.

Obviously, it failed the test for its Breathing License.

Words cannot express how much I hate this fucking company. Going from the fine wrestling show that was Lockdown to bullshit like this?! They can somehow snatch defeat from the jaws of victory every goddamn time. I hate them with every inch of my body, from my balls up. I HATE THEM FROM MY BALLS. Shaving a woman's head is never funny, or cute, and it never leads to anything worth watching (unless it involves Nagayo/Matsumoto). It was horrible when WWE did it, it was horrible when WOW did it, and it's gonna suck big floppy donkey dick here. Especially since I truly like most of the women in the division, and defacing pretty much any of them is guaranteed to piss me off. ...well, unless it's one of the Amateur Porn Twins, Angelina or Velvet. They're useless. If TNA actually goes through with this offenseive bullshit, hopefully one of them will be taking the bullet.

Wait one fucking minute. I did a wiki search, and Commerce City, Colorado is a midsized town based around a couple of oil refineries. It's way up in the mountains, and the total population is less than forty thousand people. What the hell would it be doing with not one, but two different street gangs? Sweet Christ did we ever, and it was sickeningly painful that time too. Invader, just drop it. You're starting to get like the Prime Guy with your obsession on this one issue.

I actually liked it better than Foley Is Good. It had less filler thrown in to pad stuff out (Top 10 Roller Coasters, the endless PTC diatribe, etc), and Bitter Mick tends to write more entertaining and personal stuff than Content Mick does, and you could tell in Hardcore Diaries that he definitely had some bitterness to work out.

James "Spike" Marsters is cast as Piccolo. That's kinda weird. As someone who has seen a lot of the show (I even had one ubernerd friend of mine in college show me some imported DBZ movie which had no English translation whatsoever, with him giving me a rough description of what everyone was saying), but never really got into it... what's so appealling about it anyway? At heart it's kind of the He-Man to Sailor Moon's She-Ra. The artwork and animation is pretty average, and the storylines all seem to be slight variations on "villain kicks hero's ass, hero Mega-Powers-Up, hero kicks villain's ass" and yet it takes them a month to tell it all. Some of the fight scenes are cool, but it's dragged out over such a long period, with so many breaks for talking, grunting, and fist-tightening that it never builds much momentum until the last few episodes of the season. And then they do the anime equivalent of two wrestlers trading finishers and kicking out of everything, with a lot of "nobody's ever gotten to this power level before!" type pronouncements. It's sort of the same thing with Inuyasha, another show whose popularity mystifies me. On the issue of dubbing: murdertrain is right about anime dubbing getting much better over the past ten or fifteen years. As to the earlier stuff, I understand not wanting dubbed dialogue in something like a serious live-action foreign film, but never really understood what the difference was if you're watching a goofy action cartoon like DNZ. Hell, the subtitles were often just as bad, just terribly done and full of mistakes. One of my favorites was an imported VHS of Bullet In the Head, where at one point there were Americans speaking English, and the subtitles mistranslated what they were saying!

I laughed more at Superbad than any other movie mentioned anywhere in this thread. Comedy = incredibly subjective.

Dude, what the fuck? Did USA just stomp on UK in a soccer game or something? And what the hell were you talking about when you mentioned how Britain only exports its dumbest comedy? Pretty much the only English comedy that your average Joe American has probably heard of is Monty Python anyway. As for Ferrell, meh. I actually liked his work on SNL the best, as I think he does way better in a five-minute skit than in a two-hour movie. I liked Anchorman a lot, but the great supporting cast there didn't hurt; Talledega's wasn't quite so good, and I thought it was sorta forgettable. Bewitched was a little better than expected, I thought it was gonna suck hard, it just turned out to be generic. And while I liked Stranger Than Fiction, I couldn't help but have this feeling that this was an Early Jim Carrey Serious Role, kinda like Truman Show, which let Ferrell play a more ordinary leading role but still do a lot of his usual broad schtick. As long as we're naming comedians that we hate, I've never, ever understood the appeal of Adam Sandler. In just about everything I've seen him in, I just sit there in pain, imagining someone else playing his part and doing it much better. (With the odd exception of Anger Management, which by some bizarre satanic miracle I actually enjoyed.) Another one: Tim Meadows. Never once laughed at the Ladies Man or anything else he's ever done.

Dude, these pricks protest funerals of soldiers killed in action. And when I say "protest", I mean "stand around the cemetery yelling that they love how God killed this sinner". Whaddya expect?

If people are so worried about videos of crime being posted on Youtube, why not just make it illegal to knowingly videotape a criminal incident (and not hand it in to the police)? Of course, the cops and courts would hate that, since these dumbasses who record their own felonious activities make it easier for them to be caught and convicted. But hey, society loves blaming the symptoms as if they're the cause of the problem. Ripper, this wasn't a fight. "She shoulda fought back!" isn't an excuse. First of all, she was living with one of these people, clearly this was some kind of shocking heel turn which caught her by surprise. Then she gets a concussion, which plays havoc with her thinking processes even more. And considering she's a pretty white girl, this very well may be the first time in her entire life that anybody's ever hit her, so it wouldn't be surprising that she'd just freeze up like a deer in the headlights. And on top of all that, maybe she's just such a weakling or idiot that she never even thought about defending herself. If she were capable of fighting back, she would've done it. But still, underage minors getting life in prison for an unarmed beatdown? "Overreaction" doesn't begin to cover it. That's appalling. Give 'em three-to-five, they get out in twelve or eighteen months (and meanwhile get raped a few times as commonly happens in our penal system). If they didn't repent and rehabilitate after that, then a longer sentence isn't going to do them any good either.

Did you like how his "retirement" was handled? Mostly, yeah. He got to go out in a relatively classy, hi-profile manner, and help cement the new rising star's main event status. (Of course hindsight would show that to be maybe not such a good thing, especially how ungrateful HHH seems about it.) The Wrestlemania thing was kind of cheating, but it was basically a going-away present to Mick, and he really did retire afterwards, so I don't have a big problem with that. How'd you like his run as commissioner? Of what I remember, it was pretty amusing. Funny skit stuff with Edge, Christian, Angle, etcetera. Didn't like it so much when he tried to get involved with serious angles like Who Ran Over Austin and such. Did you like his short run with Randy Orton in 2004? Brilliant shit. It pissed me off so bad when they first had Orton spit in his face and Foley just walked away, but it was just part of one long awesome buildup. The Evolution/Rock&Sock match was a hundred kinds of fun, and the sickening Backlash bloodbath imho got fans to really take Orton seriously as a top guy for the first time. Did you enjoy his 2006 work? Hells ya. It seemed like Foley went a decade back in time and was the old ECW Cactus Jack once again. Not one, not two, but three classic insane brawls (Mania, ONS, and Summerslam) and a whole lot of great promos thrown in for free. Would you be interested in a more serious Foley if he wanted to come back ever full-time or close to it? No. He's so physically beaten up, he should never ever come back fulltime. Just let him do his couple matches per year, and everything will be fine. Someone mentioned how Foley's returns are only really worthwhile as long as he's seriously feuding with someone, and not just showing up for the hell of it, and they're right. Foley in an vicious blood feud with Orton, Flair, or whomever is great, but Foley just showing up to pointlessly squash Carlito or get killed by Umaga or engage in shenanigans with the midget... who cares. It makes his occasional appearances less special when they're wasted on crap like that.

Even though the angle was beyond retarded, go back and watch some of those "You fucked my daddy to death!" grudge matches with Dawn Marie. Those two beat the dogshit out of each other.