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Since season 1 was horrible I'd say so. I thought season 3 was the best of the series. How anyone can call a season horrible when it brought us this... is beyond me!

I must be the be the only one that loved the last season of 'Newsradio', I loved the first few seasons and the tone was completely different in the last but it was a totally weird but still hilarious show (Much like how 'Seinfeld' and 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' have evolved into being crazy but still hilarious): Smatthew, Johnny Johnson, Stinkbutt, Matthew accusing Lisa of ritual satanic abuse, Matthew as a punk rocker (getting admonished by Dave for listening to Stryper), Tiffani Amber Thiessen (!!!), Joe-jitsu, and the perfect ending with Dave and Matthew (Even if it was techinically supposed to be a springboard for the next season). As much as I loved the dinner party episode of 'The Office', the show had a perfect ending in the palm of its hands with 'Goodbye Toby', Jim proposes to Pam, Michael meets his soul mate, and at the end we catch Dwight and Angela together. Show is wrapped up nice and neat, without wrapping it all up. I would've been much happier with 'Parks and Recreation' if it was only Seasons 1 and 2, but I'm likely in the minority on that one.

Loved this episode with Kenny slowly losing it, until the big blowoff with the street race. "It's not nice to call people faggots...faggots." I'm not sure there's a more perfect actor to add to the series than Ken Marino. I imagine he'll end up Kenny's running buddy for a while, before he runs afoul of Kenny. Love the final visual of him smoking and digging his own pool.

I know I've seen 'Menace II Society', I know I enjoyed it and was affected by it (The guy randomly shooting that shopkeeper for no reason pretty much haunted me for weeks after I saw it) but I'll be damned if I can't remember a single thing about it. Well, except for this.

Such a great little movie about what an absolute nutcase Klaus Kinski was. Note: I saw this before recent allegations from his daughter/stepdaughter that he repeatedly raped/molested her which would probably change the tone of the film. I've seen some of this, but I have a good memory of it: we were supposed to watch this in class one year in Grade 10 and our teacher just did not show up for class, thinking we would watch it without fast-forwarding/walking out. And one guy decided to fast-forward past some talking and when he played it, there was this abrupt cut, followed by black screen, followed by a short typed message that said "The previous scene contained fornication" and then the movie played just fine and there were no edits of arrows going into necks. Odd. I kinda thought I might end up the high vote on this one. I still sing 'The Brack Show' theme from this all the time. Back when it came out, we had scrambled PPV channels, and I figured out that at Thursday at 3am when the movies switched over, they all became de-scrambled, so I would set my alarm for 3am and turn on the TV and see what movies were on and randomly tape them. One night I decided to give this a go, having never seen an ep. of the series before. I LOVED it. I used to put it on, watch it straight through, rewind back to the start and watch all over again. The only problem is it basically made it impossible for me to ever watch another movie in class without riffing on it, though. Sorta like 'Chungking Express', the companion piece to this one (He had planned on doing three vignettes for one movie, found he had too much, so he shot a 4th vignette and did two 2-piece movies), I LOVE one of the two stories (The mute guy who breaks into businesses and operates them in the middle of the night) and am kinda bored with the other, hence why it dropped a little bit on my list this time. That ending, though! Pure bliss.

Dear Pittsburgh, please title your tweets better. sincerely me. "Sid playing catcher. #BurghProud #Buctober http://instagram.com/p/e7neSiupIH/ " I mean, your average hockey fan is pretty homophobic already, don't make it so easy! To me, Kessel is making way too much money, he's just not a franchise player, I don't think. Yeah, yeah, I've heard the stuff about him being one of the few players to be in the Top 10 of goals and points in the last two seasons, he's also a streaky scorer who disappears for stretches and doesn't do a whole besides score (Not generally on the PK, doesn't do much defensively, has no physical game to speak of etc. etc.). And, I know all about undeserved extensions: I'm an Oilers fan.

This however is awesome, and proves what a nutcase Shane is.

Uh-huh.

Watched Five Minutes to Lie (AKA 'Door to Door Maniac') the other night. It stars Johnny Cash (!) as a bad guy who teams up with Vic Tayback to rob a bank. The plot's actually sorta clever with Cash holding up the bank manager's wife at gunpoint in their house, while Tayback blackmail/ransoms the manager into cashing a $70,000 cheque, promising Cash will shoot his wife if he doesn't do it and that it he's interecepted on the way out of the bank and the call doesn't come through, Cash is under strict orders to plug her. It's too bad it's a rather lousy screenplay with some awful dialogue and horrible performances (Ronnie Howard is in the cast as the manager's son and he just acts CIRCLES around the rest of the cast). Cash is clearly no actor whatosever, often having to look away from the people he's talking to (presumably to check his script) with a weird delivery of his lines (At one point he says "Wait in the car!" and it sounds like the start of a song). Also, the woman who wrote the screenplay co-stars so the movie goes out of its way to praise her looks repeatedly. I thought the idea of Cash in a movie was a great one before i watched it. I no longer feel the same way.

I was wrong about the waivers, but right about Vancouver picking up guys. Canucks trade Kellan Tochkin and a 4th for Zac Dalpe and Jeremy Welsh from the Hurricanes. Sounds like Dalpe will get a chance and they just took Welsh because they can afford to bury his contract while Carolina can't. Welsh was pretty sought after coming out of college, I know the Oilers were in on him at the time, I wonder if the Canucks were as well.

I was wrong about the waivers, but right about Vancouver picking up guys. Canucks trade Kellan Tochkin and a 4th for Zac Dalpe and Jeremy Welsh from the Hurricanes.

My friend said he went to 'Snakes on a Plane' and there was this big group of loud drunk dudes in the back row who erupted into applause when the "Motherfuking snakes on the motherfucking plane" line was said, then stood up in unison and walked out.

I loved this show. -Enzo-Cass really dominate on the mic like...no one in WWE I can currently think of. I think Cass needs to wear different tights, something like Kevin Nash's to make him look bigger. I'd like to see them keep Breeze/Parker together as a team for a while, and sort-of build up a Goldust/Booker T Raven/Dreamer kind of thing where Breeze keeps brushing off Parker, then finally helps him out. The pop will be huge. I'd like to see Lefort's Legionnaires add one more member to team up Dawson (Maybe the jobber guy that English faced), and keep Russev as an enforcer and singles guy. I still see something (however small) in O'Brien but I think he needs a name change/gimmick change and to be someone on the main roster's bodyguard. Visually, he's totally impressive. -English-Guy was totally entertaining. I actually really like the no-name guy (I seriously can't remember his name) as he bumped well, threw some okay moves, he's like a better Michael Elgin. English is totally perfect. He could probably use a manager/agent/director. -Bayley-Banks was entertaining but the ending came out of nowhere. I loved Renee Young correcting the PBP guy by mentioning it was the Hug-Plex and Regal said "Renee Young corrected you. Aren't you just withering in shame? You're such a sad little man, aren't you?" Also, loved Regal's story about his girlfriend with the 40 inch in-seam on one side, with 36 on the other. -Zayn-Local was a bit abrupt. The Dallas-Zayn feud is so good. Dallas is just nailing it now. -JBL as the boss was good. I hope some time in the next little while he interrupts the show and reminds Renee that a woman's place is not behind the microphone. I love the way JBL and Triple H bothh such gravitas that they can just shut a crowd down/turn heel on a dime. Triple H correcting the 'Yes' chants was good, JBL telling the chanting fan "It's not sing-a-long with the Wrestling God" and making fun of the Rhodes family was better.

Awesome. Reminds me of seeing 'Apocalypto' in theaters and there was a family behind us who were fairly uncomfortable the whole way through, then when the jaguar pretty much rips that one dude's face-off, without a word (at least an audible one), they stood up in unison and walked out of the theater.

Reminds me of when a bunch of them started doing this during Bo Dallas' appearance a couple weeks back, only to turn around when they realized he was intentionally heeling it up.

Some just staggering footage on this one (If you don't know, Werner Herzog goes into Iraq and films the burning oil wells, then edits the footage into a narrative from the viewpoint of a sort-of alien coming across these scenes). This is about as experimental as I get these days, but the footage is just staggering, like getting a guided tour of hell. This movie is so good, and so real, and so, so sad. I hadn't rewatched it before the countdown, hence why I dropped it some, but when the main guy basically finds his soulmate in a 14-year-old girl then has to say goodbye to her it's so good and sad (And not creepy at all, which is how it sounds when I describe it). Plus that cast: Dillon, Hutton, Emmerich, Natalie Portman, Michael Rappaport, Martha Plimpton, Lauren Holly, Uma Thurman, Mira Sorivno, Pruitt Taylor Vance, Annabeth Gish, and even not-annoying performances from Rosie O'Donnell and David Arquette!

I had a bad experience at 'AHoV', too! First of all, the theater employees decided to start vacuuming the back hallway while the movie was going on and it took me forever to figure out it wasn't some weird Cronenberg background noise and actually a goddamn vacuum! The, at the end, and if you've seen the film it's wrapped up into a little bow pretty much as neatly as one can get, there is pretty much total closure, and some woman behind us went "THAT's it?!" like she was expecting the film to detail the rest of their lives. Other good ones -Went and saw 'Quarantine' opening night because I thought it looked scary (I was wrong) and the audience was loud and fairly into it, but in one scene when a zombified old lady attacks someone and the guy caves in her skull with a sledgehammer, one dude stood up, pumped his fist and yelled "YEAAAAAAAAAAH!" I'm guessing he had a lot of issues with his grandmother. -Saw 'Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy" with two then-high-school friends and we were just in tears laughing throughout the entire movie while the rest of the audience sat in silence. As we walked out we were repeating our favourite lines to each other and still laughing as everyone went "That was the worst movie I've ever seen." To this day, I'm not sure who was right, us or them?! -I saw 'Sideways' with my brother and when there's a shot of Hitler on the TV, the entire audience, save us, broke into uproarious laughter. I looked at my brother, who shrugged, and we thought nothing of it. A couple weeks later, we decided to see the movie again, went, and, again, when Hitler was on, the audience broke into huge laughs again and I looked at my brother and he said "Man, Hitler kills in this town!"

I get the feeling, and this is completely me going by my gut (who is often wrong), that the Canucks are going to be keeping their eye on the waiver wire this weekend and possibly grabbing a guy or two off there and sending Horvat and Shinkaruk back, but that's just me.

I'm just happy it wasn't me!

But did your first high vote go to a slasher?

Did you try the impound lot? I get periodic messages about cars being impounded all the time as I'm constantly leaving them behind to steal cabs, chase fat guys with my golf club, get pulled into missions.

Honestly, I rarely ever have good reactions from crowds (My friends have come to refer to my family as being cursed as everytime they attend a movie with me, my sister, my brother they always end up with the worst crowds ever). My personal fave "bad" crowds. -Seeing 'The Fountain' and 'The New World' in big megaplexes with your typical movie-going (read: not artsy-fartsy) crowd and the genuine feeling of anger and confusion after they were over. 'The New World', I get, because it was advertised as a sorta of romantic new world 'Braveheart' and audiences were not expecting a 2.5 hour meditation on life, love and nature. 'The Fountain' baffled me because the trailer showed you just how non-traditional it was gonna be, but people still went. Heard quite a few "What the fuck was that?"s after that one ended. -Seeing 'The Medallion' with my dad and brother and one guy felt the need to bring his 5-year-old. I was willing to ignore it when the kid asked questions about what was going on and the father answered. I got fed up when the dad began supplying answers to questions the kid didn't ask. Finally, when the dad said "He's eating kiwi fruit!" really loudly to an unasked question I went "OHHHH!" really loudly as if I needed the explanation and he piped down for the rest of the film. Thankfully, the film was shitty. -Seeing the first showing of Ang Lee's 'Hulk' was pretty much the worst crowd I've ever seen/heard, it's pretty much legendary amongst my group of friends. The writing was on the wall when the lights went down and some guy made a huge fart sound to make all his friends laugh. There was shouting, heckling, cellphones. The guy down from me was particularly puzzlingly critical, going "That is SO fake" when the Hulk jumps but having no problem with him being a giant green man who can throw tanks?! Then, during the part where Hulk saves Jennifer Connelly from the giant mutated dogs and she calls the cops which, you know, pretty much everyone would do if they were just menaced by giant dogs and saved by a giant green man the guy got really mad and called Jennifer Connelly a "Bitch!"

By the way, the soundtracks are available for purchase now. I'm currently picking up the Original Soundtrack one (There are three: Vol 1 is all-new music featured on the radio, Vol. 2 is the original soundtrack and Vol. 3 is a sampler of all the different stations). I had no idea the original score was co-produced by Tangerine Dream but it makes SO much sense as I've been getting a real 'Thief' vibe from this game. So awesome!

My favourite film I saw this time around that I hadn't seen before. Just ridiculous. I can't even begin to explain it...just see it.

Man, The Wild One is a weird one. Marlon Brandon's accent vacillates between Southern, Italian, New Yahk and somewhere else and changes repeatedly, sometimes within a sentence. The movie starts out as an indictment against vicious motorcycle gangs (Though this has to be the most lackluster 'vicious' gang ever, as all they do is drink, dance, hit on women, cause minor vehicular damage, and fight each other) but halfway through it's more like an indictment of smalltown mob mentality with Marlon Brando as the tragic antihero. Anyways, it's mostly silly (Why does Lee Marvin's rival gang wear silly hats (One guy has ribbons on his hat!)?), over-the-top and nothing special. Also, Marlon Brando is not very convincing as a biker, Lee Marvin comes along and out-menaces him in a very minor role.