The title is actually the pharmacological prerequisite for enjoying this one.  It's just a dumb action flick with a few gimmicks and a premise that you'd have to be dumber than the characters to believe for the duration of the film.

Honestly, almost nothing happens in any given episode, but they milk the drama off every scrap of information they reveal.  These guys are so much better at this than the Bush administration, and the girls on the island are good-enough looking that I don't mind being teased.

Here we have a great cast conglomerating around a script that never gels.  You'll forget about this movie afterward in less time than you'd take to smoke that many cigarettes even if you were Denis Leary.

Cute movie about John Malcovitch playing a real-life con artist pretending to be Stanley Kubrick.  It isn't bad, but it would have been so much better if it was about Katherine Keener inside John Malcovitch playing a real-life con artist pretending to be Stanley Kubrick.

Another Dirty Harry movie, and one that basically could have been an episode of Hill Street Blues if they'd edited down the unnecessarily long shots of people driving places and cut the scene of a then-unknown Suzanne Sommers topless.  Then again, the latter is the only reason this is worth watching.

What did I say I was going to tell you about fucking awesome movies from now on?  GO SEE THIS FUCKING MOVIE!!!

Everyone considers The Searchers a classic (except for me), but here we have essentially the same story, only this one is at least ten times better for reasons of a great cast, script, and a couple good-lookin' rough-n-tumble gals.

Cute BBC sitcom about what Dani and I will be like when we're old.  Yes, seriously.  I really enjoyed it, but I realize it isn't for everyone.  For one thing, Dani wasn't crazy about it, pretty much the same as her character wouldn't be.

Man, this is awful, even with lots of extras on the disc.  I mean, I love Pink Floyd, but watching them flounder through the early "classic" (<--sarcasm!) material is kind of painful.  It's a talent show that happened to have been filmed professionally.  You'd have to be on the same drugs they were on back then to imagine they'd be a success within a couple years of this.

The second part of a trilogy contrasting post-industrialized Western culture and contemporary agrarian societies elsewhere in the world.  It's pure cinema verite, but if you're me, you'll probably be distracted by the annoying soundtrack by Phillip Glass even though the footage is fantastic.  Note: If you hated Disney's EPCOT, then just skip this.

This is about as even as a road full of pot holes.  Sure, there are even spots, but you wouldn't want to drive over it.  Robert Altman's wild approach doesn't always work, and in this, frankly, it looks like amateur hour with some of the incredibly awful subplots.

Another early gay movie.  It's an indy film that tries to take on too much in too short a piece, but you have to forgive these guys since there was so much no one else had been talking about openly in cinema since, well, forever.

Whoa.  I'm not sure where to begin with this one.  I'll guardedly recommend it to readers here who enjoy challenging films.  If you dug Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse, then you may in fact find this is your thing, although it does go deeper and stranger places than any of his other work.

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