Pleased with the hating on Departed, and even though I’ve never seen (nor will I ever see ) Matrix 2 & 3, pleased with dumping on those too.

I was shocked- SHOCKED!- at the quality of “Gone Baby Gone”. Good call.

Which reminds me, the biggest theme of this decade, besides men becoming whimpering boys, is the bloated lengths of movies in all genres. Comedies used to top out at 1.5 hours tops, they now routinely burst past 2.

Your calling TWBB a “banal mess” understates its comedic qualities, which I didn’t really touch on, but that doesn’t forgive you.

I guess we’ll have to do the decade over.

“The Hangover” was unwatchable. Granted, it was a screener on a laptop on a flight to Moscow that made me get that impression, but I stand by it. I liked that movie more when it was called Eurotrip. Or was it Roadtrip. Or was it Swingers.

“Crash” is on your list JUST SINCE IT PISSES PEOPLE OFF by SUCKING? Yor crazy.

The comedy section in general remains a mess, though your ahistorical willingness to slander Seth Rogen in silence hasn’t gone unnoticed. “Superbad” was better than anything Will Farrell has touched in his lifetime. Maybe even better than anything Ben Stiller has touched (and, yes, I know that this means your precious (too precious) Tanenbaums and even “Your Friends and Neighbors”).

“Burn after Reading” is the first good post-Bush movie, and, as such, deserves more from you. In the same vein, I’d want to hear more about a movie like “25th Hour.” If you fantasize that “Crash” is doing its work here, you’re insane.

Somehow you managed to turn “The Class” into a movie I’d never want to see, which is a shame, since it’s not that bad. Otoh, it’s definitely not as good as “La Heine,” but that’s ok, since that’s not a movie of the last decade. I think your token western European movie could have been something that was actually great, like “Good-bye Lenin!,” but we don’t choose these things. They choose us.

As for your two westerns that are “impossible” to separate, that’s not true. One is a banal mess, and the other is by the Coen brothers.

Of course, this being us, I couldn’t disagree more with some of the movies on your list. The Hangover, on paper, sure, great premise, but the whole movie was just kind of a bumout, with little humor and Zack’s dry Will Ferrell impersonation (i’m just going to say a bunch of outrageous things and maybe some will stick). I want the party, not the hurt.

Ricky Bobby as Ferrell’s best movie? I suspect it’s only because of the Bush parallel you draw.

And the Royal Tenenbaums, for the same reason as Zoolander, Ben Stiller is an awful, awful, awful actor.

Synecdoche, well, I appreciate his ruminations but a movie must tell a story. Science of Sleep, truth in advertising, put me to sleep.