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by Richard Ayoade


  Badlands, 1

  Bakula, Scott, 1

  balls, 1, 2, 3, 4

  balls, hot wax on, 1

  banana polish, 1

  bangers, 1

  Barb Wire, 1

  BARE HANDS, 1

  BARS SUDDENLY GOING SILENT, 1

  Basic Instinct, 1

  BASICALLY DECENT MEN, 1

  Bat Out of Hell, 1

  beast, confounded, 1

  beef, peppery, 1

  BEEFY BOTS, 1

  behavior, normal male, 1

  behemoths, make-up-caked, 1

  BEING A COP, 1

  BELIEVABILITY, 1

  bellows, copper-nozzled, 1

  Bennett, Tony, 1

  Bergman, Ingmar, 1, 2

  BETRAYAL, 1

  Beverly Hills Cop, 1

  Bible, Vol. 1, The, 1

  BIG-DECISION STARES, 1

  BIOPICS, 1

  biscuits, air, 1

  blacks, ninja, 1

  bladder, fighting one’s, 1

  blades, girlish shoulder, 1

  blaming, lycanthropic, 1

  bod, rock-hard, 1

  bod, rocking, 1, 2

  Body of Evidence, 1

  Bond films (various), 1

  boners, moments that make, 1

  boners, sudden, 1

  BONERS, UNSQUASHABLE, 1

  BOOM-BOOM, LIFE-GIVING, 1

  BORDERLESS ASS, 1

  bottom, rock, 1

  BRAWN, 1

  breakfast roll, 1

  BREAKING THINGS OFF MEANINGFULLY WITH FINANCIAL SWEETENERS, 1

  brine, back tacky with, 1

  Briskman, Skippy, 1, 2

  BRITISH CINEMA, 1

  British Films, 1, 2

  British food, 1

  Bronson, Charles, 1

  brutality, prolonged, 1

  buddies, butt-ton of, 1

  buddy, bunk-up, 1

  BUMMERS, 1

  bums, despicable, 1

  BURNT-OUT HOMES, 1

  burritos, last few, 1

  butane, lawyer high on, 1

  butt, butt to, 1

  butt, skin of, 1

  Cage, Nicolas, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Cagney, Jimmy, 1

  CALL, REFUSAL OF THE, 1

  CALL, REFUSING THE REFUSAL OF THE, 1

  CALL TO ACTION, 1

  CALL TO ACTION (AS AN ACTUAL CALL), 1

  Campbell, Joseph, 1

  casino, secret basement, 1

  Cassavetes, John, 1

  CASTING, 1

  CATHARSIS, 1

  Chan, Jackie, 1

  CHANGE, 1

  change, chump, 1

  CHANGES THAT ARE ACTUALLY PRETTY MAJOR, HUGE, 1

  CHARACTER, 1

  CHARACTER, SUPPORTING, 1

  CHARACTER STUDIES, 1

  Charlie’s Angels II: Full Throttle, 1

  CHECKS IN EXCESS OF [ONE’S] ASS’S CREDIT ALLOWANCE, MOUTH-WRITING OF, 1

  cheese, unweaponized, 1

  CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLOSION, FAKING DEATH BY PRECIPITATING A, 1

  chest, hot wax on, 1

  Chinatown, 1

  CHOPPPERS, 1

  Christ, Jesus, 1

  cirrus, shifting, 1

  CITIES, IDEAL HEIGHTS FOR, 1

  CITIES AS CHARACTERS, 1

  Citizen Kane, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Click, 1, 2

  CLINGY DRESSES, 1, 2

  Cluedo, 1

  Cocktail, 1

  COLONICS, FLOWING, 1

  COMMANDS, AMBIGUOUS, 1

  complex, father, 1

  CONFISCATION, HERO’S IMPLICITLY WIDE-RANGING POWERS OF, 1

  conflict, bar-based, 1

  congress, fatally potent, 1

  congress, physical, 1

  Connery, Sean, 1

  Cop and a Half, 1

  Cop Out, 1

  Costner, Kevin, 1, 2, 3, 4

  COSTUME, 1

  COUNTDOWNS, 1

  COUNTING ON PEOPLE, 1

  COWARDLY PISTOL-PULLS, 1

  creative well, aridity of, 1

  crevice, cowering in a, 1

  CRIME SYNDICATES, BUILDING SELF-ESTEEM WITHIN, 1

  Cronenberg, David, 1

  CRUELTY, 1

  Cruise, Tom, 1, 2

  Crystal, Billy, 1

  Curb Your Enthusiasm, 1

  CURLY HAIR, 1

  Curse of the She-Wolf, 1

  CURSES, 1

  CUTS, 1

  CUTTING TO THE CHASE, 1

  Dafoe, Willem, 1

  DARK CONTINENT, IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING A FIRM HAND ON THE TILLER W/R/T, 1

  Darwin, Chuck, 1

  DAUGHTERS, 1

  Dawkins, Dickie, 1

  dead non-Asian actors, prohibitive cost of revivifying, 1

  DEALING WITH IT RODEO-STYLE, 1

  DEATH THREATS AUDIBLE ONLY TO THE PROTAGONIST, 1

  deep, ass, 1

  deltoids, 1

  demons, 1, 2

  DEVIANCY, GLASSES AS INCONTROVERTIBLE SIGNIFIER OF, 1

  DeVito, Danny, 1

  DIALOGUE, 1

  DIALOGUE WITH THEM, CHARACTERS HAVING A NAME AS PREREQUISITE FOR ENGAGING IN, 1

  Diaz, Cameron, 1, 2

  DiCaprio, Leonardo, 1

  Die Hard, 1

  DIPLOMAS, NON-DIDDLY, 1

  DIRECTRESSES, 1

  Dirty Harry, 1

  Disney, 1, 2

  distance, spitting from, 1

  DON’T HATE THE PLAYER, HATE THE PLAY, 1

  dramedy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35

  dramedy, brain-tumor, 1, 2

  dramedy, cabin-crew, 1

  dramedy, counter-communist, 1

  dramedy, counter-insurgency, 1

  dramedy, doorman, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  dramedy, home-depot, 1

  dramedy, hostage, 1

  dramedy, house invasion, 1

  dramedy, Mafia, 1, 2

  dramedy, medieval, 1, 2

  dramedy, newspaper, 1

  dramedy, space-vampire, 1, 2

  dramedy, terminal illness, 1

  dramedy, time-travel, 1

  dresses, hot chicks in clingy, 1, 2, 3

  DRIVING CARS THROUGH WALLS/WIRE FENCES/SHOP WINDOWS, 1

  drowning, rectally resuscitating the near-victims of, 1

  drug dealers, scumbag, 1

  drum brushes, 1

  dude, ethnically non-diverse cisgender, 1

  dudes, butt-load, 1

  dump, giant, 1

  DUTY, 1

  Dyson, the guy who invented the, 1

  Eastwood, Clint, 1, 2, 3

  EDUCATION, 1

  empathy, people for whom we have no narrative, 1

  EMPATHY, WITHHOLDING, 1

  ENJOYMENT, WHAT IS, 1

  Equalizer, The, 1

  ETHNICITY VS

  RELATABILITY, 1

  evil, actual face of, 1

  expectations, lifetime of tearing down, 1

  EXPRESSIONS, 1

  EYES, 1

  eyes, fishermen w/sad, 1

  fads, boner-killing, 1

  FAITH, 1

  fajita, chicken, 1

  FAMILY, 1

  FAT-CAT TYPES, REFUSING CIGARS FROM, 1

  fecundity, 1

  FEMALE DOCTORS/SCIENTISTS, 1

  FEMINISM, 1

  FEMMES FATALES, 1

  fetish, sled, 1

  FIGHT, MAN-ON-MAN, 1

  FILM THEORY, 1

  filmmaker, Ayoade as visionary, 1

  Fincher, David, 1

  finitude, whole continuum of, 1

  Fire Down Below, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  FIRST LINES, 1

  flak jacket, spew-flecked, 1

  FLOPS, 1

  flunky, felled, 1

  flunky, top-level, 1

  Fly, The, 1

  foreign, tragedy of being born, 1

  FOREIGN FILMS, 1

  FOREIGN NATIONALS, 1

  F
oreign Nationals, incomprehensible shrieks of, 1

  FOULING FURROWS, 1

  fountains, decaf mochaccino, 1

  fracture, penile, 1

  Fraggle Rock, 1

  Freeman, Morgan, 1

  frog, associated limitations of being, 1

  FUCK, 1

  fuck, plagiarizing stack of, 1

  FUCKEDUPNESS, MID-POINT AS APEX OF, 1

  fuckery, dumb, 1

  FUCKS, IMPLIED, 1

  fucks, lucky, 1

  Gandhi, 1

  GAPS IN THE MARKET, FINDING/EXPLOITING, 1

  Garden, Tibetan Peace, 1

  Gazzara, Ben, 1, 2, 3

  gear (selection), 1

  GENRE, 1

  geometry, making time for, 1

  gestures, sarcastic, 1

  GETTING OFF YOUR ASS, 1

  GETTING SHIT RIGHT UP TOP, 1

  Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, 1

  Glasgow, 1, 2, 3

  glockenspiel, waiting-room, 1

  GOALS, USING MEMORIES OF A DECEASED RELATIVE TO HELP FOCUS ON ONE’S, 1

  Godard, Jean-Luc, 1

  Godfather, The, 1

  GOING TO CHARACTER UNIVERSITY AS A MATURE STUDENT, 1

  Goldblum, Jeff, 1

  goon, Mob, 1

  GRACIOUSNESS, UNIQUELY AMERICAN MODES OF, 1

  Great Men (so-called), 1

  Greggs, 1

  ground, ass halfway to the, 1

  ground, four mugs smashing to the, 1

  guilt, hosing off, 1

  gun, son of, 1

  GUN-BARREL COOLING TIMES, APPROXIMATE, 1

  gut, shooting from, 1

  GUT TALK, 1

  Guy, Non-Face, 1

  GUY RITCHIE, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF, 1

  Guys, Go-To, 1

  HAILS OF EMPTY BULLET SHELLS, 1

  hair, nasal, 1

  Hamill, Mark, 1, 2, 3

  hand sanitizer, 1, 2

  HANDING OUT DIFFERENT THINGS, VARYING DIFFICULTY OF, 1

  handjob, sarcasm during, 1

  hands, bare, 1

  Hard to Kill, 1

  Harrison, George, 1

  Hart, Kevin, 1

  heart, the, 1, 2, 3, 4

  heart, blue whale’s, 1

  heat, putty gone soft in, 1

  Hefner, Hugh, 1

  ‘HELL’ AS MINIMUM REQUIRED EFFORT LEVEL, 1

  HELL DEPTHS, DIFFICULTY OF ACCURATELY MEASURING, 1

  HERO, THE, 1

  HERO’S INHERENT SUPERIORITY, CAMERA’S LOVING GAZE AS INDICATION OF, 1

  He’s Just Not That into You, 1

  HIGH-QUALITY BEEF, WOMAN’S INTUITIVE APPRECIATION OF, 1

  Highlander, 1

  hip, shooting from the, 1

  history, poor credit, 1

  Hitchcock, Alfie, 1

  HOMELY WIVES, 1

  HORACE AND PETE, 1

  horseshit, sugared, 1

  HOT GIRLS, 1

  HOT TAMALES, PRIME PIECE OF BEEF’S ABILITY TO EASILY HANDLE, 1

  HOT WAX ON BALLS, 1

  HOTNESS, 1

  HOTNESS, HOMELY, 1

  HOTNESS, OVERWHELMING, 1

  Hour of the Wolf, 1

  house, your momma’s, 1

  HOUSING, 1

  HUMANITY, 1

  hurt, swallowing, 1

  hype, shrill hiss of, 1

  IBS, persistent, 1

  iCAL ALERTS, KILLING MACHINE’S INSOUCIANCE W/R/T, 1

  ideas, lack of any real, 1

  ILLITERACY, 1

  ILLNESS, 1

  IMPOSSIBILITY OF REMAINING PRESENT, THE, 1

  impotence (as curse), 1

  INDEPENDENT FILM, 1

  INHERENT MORAL SUPERIORITY OF THE HERO, THE, 1

  INHERENT UNBREAKABILITY OF GRUNTS, THE, 1

  INIQUITY, REFRESHMENTS FILLED WITH, 1

  Inside Out, 1

  insight, forehead rammed full of, 1

  INTERPRETATION, 1

  ire, quelling, 1

  IS IT ACTUALLY COMPLICATED, OR ARE YOU JUST MAKING A MEAL OF IT?, 1

  IT, DEALING WITH, 1

  It’s a Wonderful Life, 1

  jacket, ass, 1, 2

  Jagger, Mick, 1, 2

  Jaws, 1

  Jaws: The Revenge, 1

  jeep, 1, 2, 3, 4

  JESUS, 1

  JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, 1

  jodhpurs, 1

  Jovi, Jon Bon, 1

  JUNGLE, DIFFICULTY OF NARRATIVELY TOPPING NAPALMING A, 1

  JUSTICE, 1

  justice, using kung fu to deliver on-the-spot corrective, 1

  Kael, Pauline, 1

  Kelly, Grace, 1, 2

  KILL OPPORTUNITIES, MAKING THE MOST OF, 1

  KILLING, 1

  killing, small items that facilitate, 1

  KILLING SPREE, SETTING THE RIGHT ATMOSPHERE ON A, 1

  Kindergarten Cop, 1

  Kingsley, Sir Benny, 1

  KISSING, 1

  KNOWING YOUR ASS, 1

  Kristofferson, Kris, 1, 2, 3

  Kutcher, Ashton, 1

  Lambert, Christopher, 1, 2

  LANGUAGE, 1

  LaSure, Gordy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  Lawrence, Jennifer, 1

  Lawrence of Arabia, 1, 2

  Legally Blonde, 1

  Leigh, Mike, 1

  Lennon, John, 1, 2

  lids, best time to flip, 1

  LIFE, SCHOOL OF, 1

  LIFE, STUPID, 1

  linchpin, Mob, 1

  LINES, STRIDING FORWARD PURPOSEFULLY IN, 1

  ‘Livin’ on a Prayer’, 1

  LOGLINE, 1

  logs, Yule, 1

  lonely, lubed up and, 1

  LONG PRE-TRIGGER-PULL GLOATS, 1

  LONG ROUSING SPEECHES, THE PYRRHIC CONSOLATIONS OF, 1

  LONG-TERM RENTAL AGREEMENTS, UNHEROIC NATURE OF, 1

  Look Who’s Talking, 1

  love, absolutely conditional nature of, 1

  LOVE INTEREST, FAILURES OF COMPREHENSION WITHIN THE, 1

  LOVEMAKING, 1

  loyalty, blind, 1

  Lundgren, Dolph, 1, 2, 3, 4

  McCartney, Paul, 1

  McConaughey, Matthew, 1, 2

  McG, 1, 2, 3, 4

  McGUFFIN, 1

  McQueen, Steve (actor), 1

  McQueen, Steve (not actor), 1

  Mad Max, 1

  Madonna, 1, 2, 3

  majesty, masculine, 1

  MAKING LOVE AL FRESCO ON AN INCLINE, 1

  Malick, Terry, 1, 2

  Mall Cop, 1

  Man from U.N.C.L.E., The (Guy Ritchie version), 1

  Man, Man’s, 1, 2

  maniacs, importance of refusing cigars proffered by genocidal, 1

  MANNING UP, ACTING LIKE A BOSS AS A WAY OF, 1

  MAN’S BUSINESS, 1

  MANUAL STIMULATION, SARCASM DURING, 1

  Marked for Death, 1

  Martin, George, 1

  Marvel, 1

  MASSIVE LOVELY ARMS, 1

  master, private fountain of a, 1

  mat, splash, 1

  match, squash, 1

  matriarchy, the prevailing, 1

  meat, shimmering pool of, 1

  meatus, urinary, 1

  MEDIEVAL DRAMA, 1

  MEDIEVAL DRAMA SCRIPTS: BEGETTING THEM RIGHT, 1

  MENTORS, 1

  mépris, Le, 1

  mercy, withholding, 1

  mescaline, 1

  META, 1

  MEXICAN GANG MEMBERS, 1

  Michael, George, 1

  MINIATURE PIGS, INCREASED RISK OF DEATH W/R/T, 1

  MINOR VILLAINS, 1

  modesty sheet, 1

  MOMMAS, VARYING META LEVELS OF, 1

  money, butt-load, 1

  montage, diarrhea, 1

  Montana, taco tour of, 1

  MORE THAN ONE ASIAN PERSON, 1

  MOTHERFUCKERS, ILLITERATE-CALLIN’, 1

  MOVEMENT, 1

  MOVIE, IS IT A, 1

  Mrs Henderson Presents, 1

  mugs, peri
lously overfilled, 1

  MULTIPLE NARRATIVE, 1

  multiverse, 1

  MUSICAL JUXTAPOSITIONS, TOTALLY RADICAL, 1

  MUSTACHES, 1

  mustaches/beards, the HERO’s cavalier attitude w/r/t reusing fake, 1

  MUSTY, 1

  MYSTERY, 1

  nail-polish remover, 1

  NAZIS: WHEN FACIAL HAIR FAILS TO HUMANIZE, 1

  Neeson, Liam, 1

  NEXT-LEVEL VIGNETTE, 1

  Nichols, Mike, 1

  NINJA BLACKS, 1

  nips, hot wax on, 1

  NLVs, 1

  NON-AMERICAN MOVIES, 1

  NON-HERO TYPES, CONSISTENT SEXUAL INADEQUACY OF, 1

  NON-VIOLENT MEN, INHERENT CREEPINESS OF, 1

  NON-WHITES, 1

  NOVELS VS MOVIES, 1

  OBLIGATION, PERFUNCTORY CONGRESS WITH NON-HERO TYPE OUT OF A SENSE OF, 1

  OBSTACLE, WOMAN AS, 1

  OLDER MEN, INHERENT COOL OF, 1

  Olympus (salon district), 1

  ONE-TO-ONE FINAL BOSS CONFRONTATIONS, 1

  OPENINGS, 1

  OPPOSITES, 1

  OSCARS, THE, 1

  OWNING YOUR TITS (AS A MAN), 1

  Pacino, Al, 1, 2

  PACKING SMART FOR A REVENGE MISSION, 1

  PAIN, 1

  PAIN-IN-THE-ASS WIVES, 1

  Paltrow, Gwyneth, 1, 2, 3, 4

  panda, kabuki, 1

  pants, camo, 1

  pants, drop-crotch trucker, 1

  PARADOX, 1

  parameters, rejecting, 1

  PARTIES, 1

  PARTY, DOUCHE-Y YOUNG GUY AT THE, 1

  PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON’S MAGNOLIA AND WHY A RAIN OF FROGS CAN’T REALLY BE CONSIDERED ‘RAIN’, 1

  PAY, WHY, 1

  peach cobbler, 1

  PEOPLE, 1

  people, butt-load, 1

  PEOPLE WHO ARE TOO FAT TO CARE ABOUT, 1

  perimeter, wet, 1

  Persaud, Dr Raj, 1

  person, near impossibility of conducting a bank transaction with an actual, 1

  Persona, 1

  perspiration, persistent, 1

  peyote, bellyful, 1

  PHONE THREATS, 1

  pig, miniature, 1

  Pitt, Brad, 1, 2

  PITY LAY, 1

  Plato (Greek philosopher), 1, 2

  POINT OF VIEW, 1

  Polanski, Roman, 1

  policemen, scumbag, 1

  POLO NECKS, 1

  pond, polystyrene crust on a, 1

  Porky’s, 1

  portcullises, rapidly dropping, 1

  portfolio, dwindling property, 1

  POSTERS, 1

  POST-TRAUMA SHOWERS, 1

  POWER, 1

  POWER STRIDES, SLOWMOTION, 1

  POWERFUL MEN VS THEIR WEAK SONS, 1

  Predator, 1

  PRISON RAPE, 1

  PRISON RAPE, HUMOROUS INTIMATIONS OF, 1

  PRIVATE CRIES, 1

  proctologist, favorite, 1

  prose, anachronistic abstraction of, 1

  psychodramas, physicalizing, 1

  pull, locating the ring, 1

 

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