If that means Nolan hasn't been aware of what's going on with the interwebs the past few days, it's probably better for his peace of mind.

My favourite recent piece of news: apparently some people used the White House petition website to request that Obama pass a law making it illegal for Ben Affleck to play Batman.

that is hilarious, billytea.

I'm never sure about Our Valued Customers, but I did like this: [link] (re:BatAffleck).

I remembered the song lyric that I noticed in World's End--Gary says "I'm free to do what I want, any old time." I don't think he used any more of the song than that, or even that it was related to anything else--but I'm not up on the genre.

Ermagerd.

I'm proud to say, this was my first impulse!

Now I'm ashamed I resisted it.

Question--was the scene near the start of the movie where Gary was telling his story to the circle of people AA or a psychiatric facility?

I thought the latter, my sister thinks the former.

eta:

Did anyone here catch *all* the quintet's surnames? I sure didn't.

I thought the former until the reveal at The World's End when Gary shows Andy his bandages. Then I agreed with you.

That's when I switched too, but my sister said the room was wrong. I have to admit--I don't remember the room.

The latter was my take.

ita, I have read a review that it was a AA meeting (but everyone was in institutional green), but the bandages seem to indicate to me that while he has a substance abuse problem, his crisis was a suicide attempt .

It was definitely not an AA meeting. AA meetings have very distinctive twelve-step literature on the walls, which if you know what to look for you'll see in movies as well as real life. It was definitely a suicide attempt support group of some kind.