Adam Riff™

Cheese pizza pizza

Jon: It was a paper container for food from the hot bar at Whole Foods. So it's paper – recycle. But the inside of the container is coated with something to prevent liquid from seeping through the paper, so….garbage. But the coating might be biodegradable – compost?

Jon: The example items listed on the bins weren't helpful.

Mobile App Idea: You photograph something and it tells you if it's garbage, recycle, or compost.

Imagine a world where Gordon Ramsey has one terrible shithole of a bar/nightclub, but is convinced it will succeed. What would happen if Jon Taffer rescued it? [source]

Story Idea: A man offers food and shelter to homeless veterans, and in exchange, they kill people for him. Experienced expendable assassins.

Idea: A sequel to Sleepaway Camp in which Caitlyn Jenner plays a much older Angela raising the transgender daughter of disapproving parents she killed.

Idea: A slasher film set in the world of alt comedy.

Jon: How would Chelsea Peretti react if her life was in grave danger?
Jon: Picture Chelsea Peretti running scared from a masked person wielding a hatchet.

Mike: Patton Oswalt issues a series of tweets pleading for the lives of his friends, "explaining" why the killer won't win.

Mike: Brett Gelman dies in a strange theatre piece and no one realizes it. He's murdered in front of everyone.
Jon: That's the opening scene. Then… Who dies first – Hannibal Buress or Ron Funches?

Jon: Some try to hide from the killer as characters they play.
Jon: "Huell Howser" running scared.

• An Instagram generated font

Winter is coming…to a city near you!

Announcing the Game of Thrones Season Five and Ice tour, featuring:

Ramsay Bolton

Grey Worm

Bronn

Melisandre

Olly

Daario Naharis

and Ser Jorah Mormont on select dates

Fatheads + porn stars = FapWrap

A mock-up of FapWrap's life-size Kendra Lust "Yummy Down" vinyl wall decal

Also available from FapWrap:

game console skins

and refrigerator wraps

I'm all for entrepreneurship, but who is the market for this? I can't imagine FapWrap appealing to even the most oafish bro, as he would want his home to be at least somewhat inviting to ladies, no?

Oh gawd, phone skins are in development.

• Someone replaced the snare in "Master Of Puppets" with the shitty one from St. Anger

Kids shows these days…

At tonight's Tumblr Fuck Yeah Party Sponsored by Entourage—that is the party's official name— I meet an Entourage fanboy named Jeff. I ask him why he loves the show.

"It's the life I wanted," he says. "I just missed out on it."

Later, I find another fan named Spencer, who's rocking a white satin football jersey. Are you excited for the movie? I ask.

"I'm fuckin' excited as hell. Yeah, to see some titties and see some fuckin' extravagant spending of money." [source]

Previously on Adam Riff™:
21st century mixtape. Our favourite songs. One per year.

I thought it might be fun to do the same exercise with films.

Our favourite films of the 21st century. One per year.

The Participants
A. Me
B. Drew, who is a professional film critic
C. Steven, who runs a film website
D. Adam Robot, who gives this exercise someone native to each direction and time zone of America

Note: If applicable, you could select a film for the year it world premiered, or for the year it opened theatrically in North America.

2000

Drew: American Psycho
Nearly picked Almost Famous because it was the movie that made teenage me want to be a writer. But Bateman has slightly more staying power, overriding nostalgia…and of course it's a better movie overall. It's one of those "comes up multiple times a week" movies.

Steven: Memento [world premiere]
Do I lie to myself to be happy? Yes.

Adam Robot: Snatch

Jon: Chicken Run
I published a list of my favourite films of 2000 on this website in December 2000 —

— and, as I don't feel strongly about any of 2-10, I stand by my 18-year-old self.

2001

Drew: The Devil's Backbone
When people want to talk about movies that make them cry, this is always the one I bring up.

Steven: Bully + In the Bedroom
This was a tie 'cause I think Nick Stahl was incredible in both of these films. First time I heard of Tom Wilkinson and I've kept up ever since.

Adam Robot: Memento [theatrical release]

Jon: The Royal Tenenbaums
To me, Wes Anderson "made the leap" with this film. He has not reached its height since.

2002

Drew: Adaptation
Saw it at the Bala Theatre, a really cool, sadly closed historic cinema just outside Philly, when I was a freshman in college. I start thinking about ghost orchids every time I'm in that part of town.

Steven: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
I felt for both main characters. This is the only movie I'd ever want to remake if I could. I'd want Tom Cruise as the dad.

Adam Robot: City of God [world premiere]

Jon: The Believer
I love films about Nazis or neo-Nazis, and I adore this one. I'm probably the only person who owns a copy of its accompanying book, The Believer: Confronting Jewish Self-Hatred.

2003

Drew: Kill Bill: Vol. 1
This is my favorite movie so had to pick it for '03, which is tough since so many other of my favorites came out this year, too…Beat Takeshi's Zatoichi, American Splendor, Shattered Glass…

Steven: City of God [theatrical release]
I knew I was seeing something great when they show the kid crying as they want him to shoot his buddy.

Adam Robot: Oldboy [world premiere]

Jon: [The] School of Rock
Feel good movie of the aughts.

2004

Drew: Shaun of the Dead
Another tough year, since I love both The Incredibles and Eternal Sunshine as well…had to go Shaun, though. I say "you got red on you" to people all the time.

Steven: Undertow
The best dialogue I heard all year.

Adam: Shaun of the Dead + Primer
You'll have to deal with 2004 having two.

Jon: Primer
Shane Carruth took from his surroundings what was needed and made of it something more – mind-bogglingly more.

2005

Drew: A History of Violence
Is this an overrated, underrated or just-right-rated movie? Me, I'd vote for underrated.

Steven: C.R.A.Z.Y.
I have two films that are interchangeable as my favorite film of all time. This is one of them. The dynamics of the mom and her maybe gay son are what get me.

Adam: A History of Violence

Jon: Oldboy [theatrical release]
While Steven was visiting me in Los Angeles, we rented this film on Adam Robot's recommendation, watched it, and then immediately returned to Cinefile to rent another Park Chan-wook film (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance), so impressed were we.

2006

Drew: Children of Men
Could be for cinematography alone but it's also a great/super-depressing movie.

Steven: The Departed
I didn't think Martin Scorcese could remake a great film into something better. He did. Dropkick Murphys in the scene where they are driving was on point.

Adam: Children of Men

Jon: The Descent
This is the last film (and one of only a few films*) to genuinely scare me. To this day, I am uncomfortable driving behind a motor vehicle bearing poles or similar objects on its roof.

* The Descent, Buried Alive (TV Movie 1990), Die Hard 2

2007

Drew: Sunshine
One of the best casts. There Will Be Blood seemed like a strong contender here too, but I consider Sunshine one of my favorite movies pound for pound, sci-fi or otherwise.

Steven: There Will Be Blood
10 minutes into the film, no dialogue. Incredible acting. I'm your brother…from another mother.

Adam: There Will Be Blood

Jon: This Is England
Came for the neo-Nazis, stayed for its (and its two made-for-television sequels') staggering sense of place. I want to live in Shane Meadows' England.

2008

Drew: WALL•E
Another movie that comes up in my life multiple times a week, mostly in reference to humongous people I see in the mall or airport lost in their phones/drinking Slurpees/both.

Steven: Slumdog Millionaire
"Paper Planes" on the train? Danny Boyle hasn't come close to this film.

Adam: The Wrestler

Jon: Hunger
This film floored me. It's a masterpiece in all facets.

2009

Drew: A Serious Man
It's not the Coens' best movie, but I think it's their most original, and it has a really unique sense of time and place.

Steven: A Single Man
My other favorite film of all time. Both involve gay main characters.

Adam: District 9

Jon: Dogtooth
My spirit film.

2010

Drew: Winter's Bone
J-Law + Hawkes + the music.

Steven: The Social Network
This is gonna sound stupid, but I loved this movie for the very end. Just him refreshing the friend request.

Adam: Black Swan

Jon: Four Lions
Truly a film like no other. You can't not admire its audacity.

2011

Drew: Hanna
Tricky because I love Attack the Block and Martha Marcy May Marlene from this year pretty much equally…but Hanna is just so damn cool. One of those movies I still get excited about when I see it pop up on TV even though I've watched it a million times.

Steven: Take Shelter
Michael Shannon going crazy? Sold.

Adam: Drive

Jon: Michael
It's difficult to sell people on a film about a paedophile who holds a 10-year-old boy captive in his home, but imagine if Vince Gilligan made it. EH?

2012

Drew: The Raid: Redemption
What else?!

Steven: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Great soundtrack, great little girl. Great film. This is what Where the Wild Things Are should have been.

Adam: Spring Breakers

Jon: The Imposter
> The Jinx.

2013

Drew: Inside Llewyn Davis
I just love how it looks, feels and sounds. And the supporting cast is incredible.

Steven: Zero Charisma
Doesn't pull any punches. No happy ending. It's exactly how it is to be an outcast.

Adam: Under the Skin

Jon: Tim's Vermeer
An absorbing record of a triumph of the will.

2014

Drew: Only Lovers Left Alive
Such a cool, stylish, original and singular film…feel like it didn't get the love it deserved.

Steven: The Infinite Man
He knows his wants, he knows his faults, he knows how to overcome, but will any girl wait? I can relate.

Adam: Nightcrawler

Jon: Whiplash
An exhilarating depiction of a triumph of the will.

So.

Drew
2000: American Psycho
2001: The Devil's Backbone
2002: Adaptation
2003: Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2004: Shaun of the Dead
2005: A History of Violence
2006: Children of Men
2007: Sunshine
2008: WALL•E
2009: A Serious Man
2010: Winter's Bone
2011: Hanna
2012: The Raid: Redemption
2013: Inside Llewyn Davis
2014: Only Lovers Left Alive

Steven
2000: Memento
2001: Bully + In the Bedroom
2002: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2003: City of God
2004: Undertow
2005: C.R.A.Z.Y.
2006: The Departed
2007: There Will Be Blood
2008: Slumdog Millionaire
2009: A Single Man
2010: The Social Network
2011: Take Shelter
2012: Beasts of the Southern Wild
2013: Zero Charisma
2014: The Infinite Man

Adam Robot
2000: Snatch
2001: Memento
2002: City of God
2003: Oldboy
2004: Shaun of the Dead + Primer
2005: A History of Violence
2006: Children of Men
2007: There Will Be Blood
2008: The Wrestler
2009: District 9
2010: Black Swan
2011: Drive
2012: Spring Breakers
2013: Under the Skin
2014: Nightcrawler

Jon
2000: Chicken Run
2001: The Royal Tenenbaums
2002: The Believer
2003: [The] School of Rock
2004: Primer
2005: Oldboy
2006: The Descent
2007: This Is England
2008: Hunger
2009: Dogtooth
2010: Four Lions
2011: Michael
2012: The Imposter
2013: Tim's Vermeer
2014: Whiplash

No No Country for Old Men surprised me.

A $56 cheese pizza at the Rock in Rio music festival in Las Vegas (of Anaheim)

Last Call with Carson Daly has been on NBC for 13 years, and I have never seen a single second of it.

Has Late Night with Seth Meyers produced any viral content?

I have seen, like, a minute total of Late Night with Seth Meyers, and it has all been while refueling my car.

CBS is airing reruns of its shows in Letterman's time slot until Colbert premieres in September. I would like to see how reruns of The Big Bang Theory perform against Fallon.

• This guy found the video of Grunge leg-dropping New Jack through a press table!

My first real exposure to David Letterman was in elementary school, when Steve Marsh brought The Late Night with David Letterman Book of Top Ten Lists and The Late Night with David Letterman Book of Top Ten Lists: Roman Numeral Two! to class.

I flipped through them and then expeditiously sought out copies for myself, which I pored over like they were scripture. One listee that I remember just slaying me: Yugo Screw Yourself, from the Top Ten Rejected Model Names for New Cars.

Because I was born the same year that Late Night with David Letterman premiered, most of what I know about his NBC show I gleaned from those books. For me, David Letterman's legacy is the first few years of his CBS show, when Morty was still his producer, when he still did remotes. It was kismet that I discovered him and was an age at which I could appreciate his work at a time when he was playing to win the game.

As time went on, I saw less and less of Dave, until eventually he became just one more face in late night. It happens sometimes. Entertainers come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant.

Although I haven't watched his show regularly in more than ten years, I know I'll miss him forever.

I never had any inspirations later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?

And now, from the home office in Sioux City, Iowa, the Top Ten Things That Come to Mind When I Think of David Letterman:

10. Boutros Boutros-Ghali

9. His championing of Bonnie Hunt, producing not one, but two failed sitcom vehicles for her, and appearing on the former as a thief, albeit clad in a balaclava

8. When Green Day's drummer jumped in the pool behind his desk after performing "86" on Late Show from Los Angeles

7. When he invited John Michael Higgins, who played him in HBO's adaptation of The Late Shift, to be a guest on his show, only to bump Higgins and never ask Higgins back

6. Him spraying Richard Simmons with a fire extinguisher

5. When he donned a suit of chips and was lowered into a tank of dip

4. When he filled his car with 1,200 tacos from Taco Bell

That remote also features a dipstick prank that I wanted to take behind my middle school and get pregnant.

3. This "guy squirts milk out of his eye" Stupid Human Trick

2. "Would you like to buy a monkey?"

1. Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lawler's worked shoot, of which he was oblivious

Kaufman and Lawler were supposed to apologise to each other, followed by Andy singing "What the World Needs Now Is Love." Instead, they fooled the world for 13 years.