I checked out The Wolf of Wall Street yesterday. It's good and perfectly watchable. I don't get the 4 star reviews, though. It's funny and all. I mean, I get it. They partied and nailed all kinds of hot chicks and did cocaine off of hookers' asses and did enormous amounts of ludes and other drugs. I...

I like it, Monte. Mostly because I'd like to keep my job for another decade.

Monte Smith wrote:LennyH, I hope you don't work for Epic because if you do then my wife hates you.

I don't, Monte. Epic is killing us, though. We've lost an absurd amount of business to them over the past few years.

Why does she hate Epic?

I hear you, Coda. I work in healthcare. We're one of the biggest healthcare software providers in the world. I'm working on a new product now that, hopefully, will help more successfully manage the way people need to be cared for over time. People are starting to think a lot more about preventive an...

Coda,

You're being serious?

Just checking.

I'm pretty irritated that I can't find Inside Llewyn Davis anywhere around here. I've got lots of multiplexes and can see Thor in about 5 places and some Justin Bieber hunk of shit. Even Nebraska is showing somewhere, but no Inside Llewyn Davis. I think they were going to expand the release but have...

The End didn't do much for me. I liked Pineapple Express WAY more. I saw American Hustle on Friday. A very fun movie. David O. Russell is not a subtle writer or director (for example: I cringe when I think of Melissa Leo's hammy performance in The Fighter and didn't care much for that film in genera...

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Scott Dolan wrote:I've actively avoided all things zombie since this bullshit began. It's really annoying.

I feel the same way but two good takes on it are Zombieland and Shaun Of The Dead.

Both great fun.

Bill Murray's cameo in Zombieland was brilliant.

The recent zombie fetish completely eludes my comprehension. It does surprise me that there seems to be an insatiable appetite for them. For me, it's kind of like when there seemed to be an endless supply of period pieces; I'll watch anything that's good. There's a film podcast I like and they seem...

Saturday night, the wife went to bed early and I found myself with nothing to watch so I figured it was a good time to watch some entertaining zombie mayhem. Instead, I paid $6 to rent the hunk of shit known as Word War Z. If only I'd have taped $6 to a balloon and released it instead. Or taped it t...

A. Kingstone wrote:Roy Halladay signs a one day contract with the Jays and retires.

Best Jays pitcher ever.

I'm a Phils fan and it was sad to see him deteriorate so quickly. But he sure was a blast to watch and, since he apparently doesn't have a shot to get back to his old self, I'm glad he's hanging them up.

To me, Coltrane made greater, more important music overall but I enjoy listening to Sonny Rollins play the saxophone more.

Brother I am not joking when I say I have to force quit iTunes almost daily. And I figured that was because the Windows version of iTunes particularly sucks. Thought Macs were probably immune. The last few times I shut it down the regular way it actually worked. Let's hope it's a trend. I've had mo...

Gunsmoke, I'm thinking. It was my favorite show as a kid.

I saw Gravity in 3D at an Imax. I liked it. Based on the reviews I expected more but that's how it often works. This film might have been made to be seen in 3D and I might find, when I see it pop up on cable, that it's not the same without 3D but I'm just not sold on 3D as an artistic medium. They'r...

47 in less than two weeks.

sozamora wrote:I'm a big fan Lauren Graham, so...

"Fuck me, Santa! Fuck me, Santa!"

mjb wrote:Agree about that film - The Artist - a one note tedium. I thought I was alone in my irritation.

I made it for about 10 minutes and told my wife that if she wanted to continue she was on her own.

Amazing how the theme for a show you love can give you a Pavlov's dog-like reaction and get you excited and pumped. I remember The Saprano's theme doing that. The short theme for Peep Show works for me too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W2N-H-ESI0

moldyfigg wrote:Anybody know how to disable the goddam cap lock key?

I downloaded software that I can't find right now. But here's another one that should work fine.

http://www.brainsystems.com/capsunlock/

I had a couple of cars that were manual but it became too much of a pain in the ass to me. In traffic especially. I'll never own one again.

The weird thing about "bad words' like "fuck" or "cunt" is that the masses just decide that a word is offensive for certain purposes in a rather arbitrary manner, and then once decided, that decision is treated by many as being of real importance. For instance, there are st...

I was at a media event last year for Matt Berry & Rich Fulcher (of, inter alia, Snuff Box). A question of Matt Berry was along the lines of "What has surprised you most about North America." His answer, "The remarkable effect caused by the use of the word 'cunt.'" I think th...

Nice job, Terry Collins and the Fun Bunch.

Let's go shutdown! Let's go shutdown!

Funny stuff. I can kind of get where everyone is coming from when it comes to the use of the word. You can't just bury it and pretend it doesn't exist and I guess some think you can emasculate it by using it more but it still makes me cringe, especially back when Pulp Fiction came out and QT used it...