Frankenbuddha is dead on about the Bugs-ness of Clive Owen, though.

It's completely intentional! He even says, "What's up, Doc?" And he calls himself a wascally wabbit! And then Paul Giamatti says that he's NOT WASCALLY ENOUGH.

HOW DID THEY GET THROUGH THIS MOVIE WITHOUT CRACKING UP? Is there a gag reel? There must be so many takes of Clive Owen not being able to make it through one of his one-liners.

I like Shoot 'Em Up as long as I remember to turn off my critical-thinking and feminist modules first. Then, it's freakin' AWESOME.

Yeah, it's a very MANLY MOVIE ABOUT MEN YEAH MEN ARE AWESOME YEEEEEAH PUSSY.

Watching Shoot 'Em Up back-to-back with Children of Men is a real mind-fuck. It's the same actor, with the same plot! Except that one of them is one of the best films of the decade, and the other isn't.

Tom, yes, I was thinking the same thing! It's like he was trying to balance out Children of Men. In one, he protects a baby while never shooting a gun, and in the other, he protects a baby while shooting lots and lots of guns.

Strega, have you seen Shoot 'Em Up ? I think you'd love it since you loved the similarly awesomely ridiculous Crank.

No. I'm aware of it, but I didn't notice it getting the same love it/hate it reactions that Crank did, so it didn't intrigue me as much.

Well, and I haven't been at a friend's place when it was available on cable, which was sorta key for seeing Crank.

I haven't deleted it from my DVR. Come on by.

It's pretty thoroughly an insane movie. Sadly, somewhere near the end, they tried to actually graft on the semblance of a plot, which took a lot of the nitrous out of the equation.

ION, saw The Hurt Locker today. OMG just amazing. Best movie I've seen this year (though my actual trips to the movies have been severely limited). It is an amazing war movie, but, although there are a few combat scenes, it's not that kind of war movie. It's Iraq, but it could be anywhere that there are hidden bombs that need to be disabled. And while a few characters do spout a bit on war is noble, it feels as anti-war, in the largest sense, of any movie on the subject i've seen in recent years.

I like Shoot 'Em Up as long as I remember to turn off my critical-thinking and feminist modules first. Then, it's freakin' AWESOME.

Yeah, this. Even I thought Shoot 'Em Up was ridiculous silly fun. Death by carrot!

Death by carrot!

I'd like to point out that Colin Farrell killed somebody with a peanut in Daredevil.

Was it a flaming peanut? Did he shoot it out of a gun?

I haven't seen Daredevil, so feel free to make shit up and embellish as much as possible.

It was a peanut that was heated up to the temperature of the sun's core with lasers, then teleported into the brain of the bad guy, killing everyone within a ten-mile radius.

eta: Or maybe the peanut was compressed until it turned into a black hole, and then it was shoved up the bad guy's ass.