Okay, I cannot say this loudly enough:
THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE REVIEWS ON IMDB ARE F***ING IDIOTS!
Which is why I started writing my own reviews on imdb (The Internet Movie Database).
I just finished glancing (I couldn't bring myself to actually read those atrocities) through the site's reviews for The Shawshank Redemption, which is by all accounts the most overrated movie in the history of film. Okay, I'm exaggerating: one of the most overrated.

Oh yes, and a runner-up to the funniest spam subject line I've gotten (see entry August 12):
AMATEUR WIVES DOING IT ALL AT HOME!
What's an amateur wife?

Almost as soon as I got off the plane in Chicago on Friday (I've just come back from there), I realized something. "So this is where they breed them," I thought. You know, stocky guys with (sometimes without) facial hair. They all come from Chicago. ALL OF THEM.
In unrelated news, I'll be moving to Chicago in the near future.
What else to say about the place... Well, it seems its motto should be "Just Throw It In The Lake". My host and guide during my stay was very knowledgeable about Chicago's history and its architecture, and every second story he would tell about the city seemed to feature the phrase, "...so they dumped it in the lake...". Don't ask me.
Aside from that, I have nothing but praise. Since my friend is an architect, I got an architecture-slanted vacation, and all I could think of while gazing at Chicago's numerous amazing buildings is how bland or ugly most buildings are in Toronto.
Other things I've noticed:
1) It's a macho town. The buildings are masculine, the men are manly (see first item in entry), they have a bunch of those burger-type restaurants with Irish-sounding names, they're very proud of their football (by the way, it now makes sense to me that their team is called the Bears), etc.
2) Chicago is twice the size of Toronto, yet there, strangers on the street say hello to you. Not most of them, but some of them.
3) Chicago drivers sure love their car horns. They'll use them at the slightest excuse.
4) Three of the architects I learned about on my trip (Dankmar Adler, Ken Lyon, and Louis Sullivan) are woofy men. What is it about architects?
5) Chicago is the only city I know that has a street named after itself. Draw your own conclusions...