What is your favorite underrated movie and why? What makes it underrated? How did you find it?

“Mumford”, the story of a drug addict who cleans up and creates the identity of a psychologist in a small town where he makes many friends. It’s an incredible all star cast with all kinds of sub plots and plots twists.

I can’t speak highly enough of “The Salton Sea”, the Val Kilmer black comedy that is sad, hilarious, incredibly violent and has multiple surprise twist endings.

“A Very Good Year” with Russell Crowe and Marillon Cotillard, it’s his only comedy and she never looked sexier than in this movie. It was gentle and funny and not life changing but always worth a watch.

If there is an abandoned house with no owner, can I live in it?

“Mumford, why does everyone in this town like you?” “I don’t know. Why do you like me?”

You know, there are so many.

“The magic isn’t in what gets you together. The magic is in what keeps you together.”

What was the worst decision you ever did?

“McDonald’s is down the street. Now get out of my restaurant!”

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“Have you ever gotten laid by a… you know… normal sized woman?”

Why do people see porn pics when they can watch porn videos instead?

“Am I Danny Parker, meth freak or Tom Allen, trumpet player? What am I? Husband? Druggie? Judas Iscariot? Friend? Enemy? I don’t know anymore. Maybe you can tell me who I am, friend.”

Also, the “Station Agent” which is a perfect slice of life that could be maudlin but never panders or falls into melodrama. A tour de force.

“Last Stop Wonderland” about a hopeless romantic seeking love through the Personals in the Boston Herald while well-meaning but hopeless plumber seeking to change his life crosses her path again and again and neigther notice. One of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s first movies.

What are some ways to identify and avoid logical fallacies, such as straw man and red herring, in an argument?

“Winter’s Bone” - Jennifer Lawrence’s first movie as the star and she carries the movie. This is one of my all time favorite movies about death and desperation and violence and meth.

“October Sky” the under-rated true story about how Homer Hickam overcame his start in a coal town in W. Virginia to become a rocket scientist along with his doomed poverty-stricken friends. The haunting soundtrack will get you.

“Stir of Echoes” - this was the competition for “Sixth Sense” and came out the same time. I think it’s darker and much better than that movie and never gets credit for how good it is. It’s about and average guy and his average wife and their young son who sees dead people and how it impacts the entire nieghborhood. You don’t really see the end coming.

Will you share your wife? Can she take both of us at the same time?

“The voices told me to dig, so I’m digging!”

“I’m never going down in that mine again!”

“you gotta cut both your daddy’s hands off, child. If you only cut one off, the cops know that trick.”

How do I become an intelligent man?