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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 09:37 PM
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J K Simmons is magnificent in Burn After Reading
And David Rasche is so good in it that I can finally forgive him for starring in ABC's awful Sledgehammer! program.
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deucemagnet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 09:47 PM
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1. I've heard so many good things about that movie.
Edited on Sun Aug-16-09 09:49 PM by deucemagnet
I'll have to download the torr...errr...put that in my Netflix queue, yeah, that's it. :blush:

On edit: dumbass typo. I mean *really* dumbass typo.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 09:49 PM
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2. I liked it the first time I saw it, but...
Beginning with the second viewing, I realized what a brilliantly dark comedy it really is.

Honestly, I can't think of a single weak spot. Truly excllent. So excellent, in fact, that I don't even care about my typo.
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deucemagnet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 09:54 PM
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3. I wasn't referring to your typo, but rather the one I committed in post 2.
Edited on Sun Aug-16-09 10:13 PM by deucemagnet
It's really embarrassing to a spelling Nazi like me. But it's deleted, and committed to the netherworld now, and we shall never speak of it again.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 09:58 PM
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6. Didn't even notice yours--I was referring to mine.
I misspelled "excellent" and, rather than correcting it, thought I'd have a joke at my own expense!
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deucemagnet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 10:11 PM
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9. I fear that the offense of not correcting your spelling error,
then committing a heinous spelling error myself may endanger my status as a spelling Nazi and potentially cause the universe to implode. BTW, I really respect your ability to make a joke at your own expense, and I'm really sorry about the universe. :)
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 09:55 PM
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4. One of my favorite actors
Can't beat his subtle facial expressions. He was great in "Juno", funny as hell in the "Spiderman" franchise, and steals scenes in "The Closer" series on TNT.

Deserves any accolades coming his way.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 09:55 PM
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5. Everyone was fantastic in that movie.
You don't realize how great it is til you think about it later.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 09:59 PM
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7. That was my experience with it as well!
Laughed a fair amount the first time I saw it, then thought about it afterwards, and cried laughing the second time!
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 10:03 PM
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8. I keep seeing Brad Pitts face in the closet before the big surprise.
I'm laughing now thinking about it.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 10:11 PM
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10. For me, that was about the all-time biggest surprise in film
That goofy grin! Love it!

:rofl:
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 10:12 PM
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11. Everything he did prior to that led up to that grin.
God, it was so great.
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jonnyblitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 10:16 PM
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12. He played the neo-nazi prisoner in the HBO series OZ, the same
Edited on Sun Aug-16-09 10:16 PM by jonnyblitz
show that Edie Falco played a prison guard in. That's what I remember him from.
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 10:18 PM
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13. JK Simmons is one bad mother fucker
He knocks it out of the park in anything he does. I just saw him in I Love You Man that was great.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 10:28 PM
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14. I can't see him in anything without thinking of Verne Schillinger.
He was just so believably evil in that role I really can't see him and not expect to see him flanked by neo-nazi goons or dysfunctional adult children.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 10:33 PM
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15. I never saw him in Oz, actually, though everyone says he was astonishing in it
AFAIK, the first time I saw him onscreen was in Spiderman, but the character was so deliberately over the top that it spared me from forming a default expectation of him.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 10:39 PM
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16. Oz was probably the best drama ever made for American television.
If you haven't seen it you really owe it to yourself to download Netflix it. At times the social commentary can be a touch heavy-handed, but it's head and shoulders above most anything currently on TV, and was so far ahead of contemporaneous programming it wasn't even funny.
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