(No) Sex, (No) Lies, and Videotape

A few follow-ups on previous entries with a lengthier post coming later:

--A few of you mentioned that you hadn't heard of the "backlash" against Dane Cook that I alluded to two posts ago. The same number of you told me that you didn't know who Dane was. For both of your edifications, here is an article from Rolling Stone that pretty clearly explains the most common complaits against him. Another article, this one from Pajiba, lets him off the hook moreso than Rolling Stone, but it provides a different (less angry) view of my man Dane.

--A couple people told me that they didn't appreciate Bottle Rocket upon their first viewing. While Bottle Rocket is certainly the type of movie that is appreciated more when viewed with friends (preferably ones that have seen the movie already), I wrote at the time that you have to let those films grow on you. You can't tell me that reading Dignan's 10- and 20-year plans aren't hilarious or that robbing one's own mother for "practice" isn't comic gold.

--"Boom goes the dynamite" isn't, as far as I know, staged. I am pretty sure that it is one guy's worst nightmare caught on tape for the whole world to see. If only he was born 5 years earlier, when YouTube wasn't there to show everyone what a doofus he is. At least he spawned a catchprase, which is more than I can say for myself.