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Who the fuck doesn't like Short Round?

A discussion popped up on a Canadian message board I read about where's the cutoff in the States for "Meh, it's winter" to "Holy shit, what's all this white stuff?" Like, I imagine Chicago and New York are used to this kind of weather (albeit not quite this bad), but how far south does that extend? As some primer questions... do cars have block heaters where you live? Is there regular plowing of roads? Do you own a snow shovel, and are you required to shovel your sidewalk?

Continuing the women on the scrapheap theme... Veronica Lake - 38 Judy Garland - 38 Annette Bening - 36 Bette Midler - 36 Marilyn Monroe - 33 Goldie Hawn - 32 Audrey Hepburn - 31 Ali MacGraw - 16

A 9 minute trailer? No thanks.

Check out Cracker if you haven't already. Very gritty. I also used to enjoy A Touch of Frost. Not sure how well it's held up. Also, holy shit at the Moyes/Taggart conversation. Stunning.

You have it easy, dude. Snow days don't exist in Canada, or at least I've never come across them. So, regardless of the weather, if you can work from home, great. Otherwise, get your ass to work.

Looking on IMDB lately, I've noticed that some actors and actresses have much less credits than you would imagine. Some of this is due to early death (James Dean - 31, Heath Ledger - 23, John Cazale - 7), some due to early retirement (Grace Kelly - 30), but some others seem inexplicable. For instance, Warren Beatty has had a long career, yet only 31 credits. For the sake of this thread, let's use a maximum of 40 credits, people who aren't relative newcomers, and let's limit it to mainstream names. I'll start things off. Geena Davis has 37. Rene Russo has only 25 credits. Can anyone get lower than that? I'd imagine quite a few women will feature here, as it seems once they get older, the roles dry up for them. EDIT: Phoebe Cates has 18.

I've personally never cared for Adam Sandler movies, but there's a huge market out there for them. As per boxofficemojo, Grown Ups cost $80m to make and grossed $271m, Just Go With It also cost $80m and made $215m, Jack and Jill cost $79m and made $150m and Grown Ups 2 cost $80 and made $247m. The only misfire was That's My Boy which cost $70m and only made back $57m. I don't believe any of these numbers include DVD sales and rentals and the like.

Aspas reminds me of Sheldon from Big Bang Theory. Therefore, I can't take him seriously.

Some completely random movie thoughts... 1. Watched Pickpocket yesterday, and there's an actress in there named Marika Green. Completely gorgeous, with a huge resemblance to a fuller Natalie Portman. Doing a Google search, it turns out she was also this woman in Emmanuelle. She gets very naked, but I guess she never looked as good as she did in Pickpocket. She is also Eva Green's aunt. 2. Felicity Jones is adorable. She's going to be making a bigger splash in Hollywood this year with Spiderman 2, and I predict a lot of guys falling for her. 3. How come in multi-million dollar effects films, when they show a photograph of characters who knew each other 10 years ago, it always, always looks badly photoshopped? They seem to spend huge amounts of money on special effects, but farm out the photo job to some 15 year old high school kid.

Rock The Boat. 3 or 4 times a day. 25 years after it was relevant.

I've never bothered with New Year's resolutions, but last year I made some vague promises to sort my life out. So, I forced myself to go to a doctor regularly, get some tests done, figured out what was wrong with me, educated myself on it, changed my diet and am now able to manage it much better than I was. I also finally forced myself to try for my driver's license until I got it. Took 3 attempts, but I bought myself a car within hours of passing. Best thing ever, because it allowed me much more freedom in my life. It's kind of amazing what sheer willpower can do for you. Anyway, after seeing how well last year's "resolutions" went, I figured I'd make some plans for this year too. 1. I've already put away my credit cards, so that I'm not carrying them with me and being tempted to use them when out and about. I've racked up silly amounts of debt in the last couple of years, so now I'm limiting the cards use to only necessary, online purchases. 2. After losing 10-15 pounds due to my change in diet, I became really trim (165 pounds or so). I started working out recently, literally a few pushups/situps etc here and there around the house, and have found that I can build muscle fairly easily. So my goal there is to improve on that. 3. I need to do something about my work situation. I like the company I'm at, and the benefits/flexibility are awesome, but I don't make enough money. So I need to work my way into a new position there.

It wasn't actually Dafoe's junk. They hired porn actors for that specific shot. Also, Von Trier is awesome, so fuck you guys. Whether I like his films or not, I value his bravery in pushing the envelope.

Olympus Has Fallen Shockingly violent. I mean, that whole storming the White House sequence was genuinely terrifying because of it. It felt as though these random people's deaths were real because of the blood, rather than just some extras falling to the ground because they were supposed to. A mostly worthwhile movie, until it dropped off a cliff in the last 15 minutes... Lethal Weapon movies It's a pity Mel Gibson went off the rails, because I forgot how likeable and funny he is as an on screen presence. He and Glover have some great chemistry too. But for me, the star of these films is Joe Pesci. It's amazing to think that he's this hilarious guy here, a bumbling fool in the Home Alone movies, and a scary motherfucker in Scorsese's movies. Poor Leo Getz though. He's so eager to help out and does everything they ask (even breaking a couple of leads for them) and they treat him like crap throughout. Richard Donner sure liked to publicize issues he felt strongly about - the first movie has anti-Apartheid stickers in the background, the second deals with South African bad guys, the third has anti-fur slogans, and the fourth has anti-NRA sentiments. Crazy moment of casual racism in the fourth movie - a Chinese bad guy dies, and Gibson's character, who up til this point has befriended Asian characters, says "I sure will miss the old gook" We Bought A Zoo Completely formulaic movie, and it knows how to tug at the heartstrings and yet it worked completely for me. Really enjoyed it, though it may have had something to do with the Jonsi/Sigur Ros soundtrack.

I don`believe you`ve seen it, but she does exactly this in Blue Jasmine.

How has nobody mentioned Derek Jacobi, Peter Lorre, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Rachel McAdams, Lillian Gish, Gary Cooper and Ricky Gervais?

No mentions of Yoshihiko?? The backdrop driver is a thing of beauty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybFjynJvfzY

Oh, you old romantic...

Recorded all 4 Lethal Weapon movies on the box yesterday. Haven't seen any of them in 15-20 years. Probably gonna make a run at watching all of them this week. Anyway, watched the first one. Riggs busts out a triangle choke on Gary Busey's bad guy for the win.

I'm still waiting on a Bulldog Drummond reboot.

Zues' beard, who the fuck thought that delivering already filled waterbeds is a good idea, and what damn company is insuring your workplace so I can sell them a bridge in Brooklyn? uhhh...

Some favourites... (Silent Night in Irish) and pretty much any version of O Holy Night, but here's a particularly good one... but most of all, this...

Let's hear you say something in German. I for one can't pronounce any words with a "th" in them. Last year I was in the States and wanted to order three hot dogs at a hot dog stand and the guy got all angry at me, because he understood I wanted free hot dogs. As an Irishman, I sympathise.