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Whether you wanted to or not, you probably learned a lot of people’s seven favorite films yesterday. #fav7films was the hashtag du jour, presumably because a standard top 10 would have been more likely to go over Twitter’s 140-character limit, and among the many civvies chiming in were a number of actors and filmmakers. Here, for your perusing pleasure, is a sampling of their favorites.

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#fav7films

(I can’t resist)

24 hr Party People

The Man Who Would Be King

Diner

Sound of Music

Office Space

Kung Fu Hustle

La Dolce Vita

— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) August 16, 2016

#fav7films Jesus’s son. Shortcuts. Royal tenenbaums. Best in show. City of God. Personal Velocity. The big Lebowski.

— Amy Schumer (@amyschumer) August 16, 2016

#fav7films

Singin’ in the Rain

Squid and the Whale

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Hannah and Her Sisters

Bob & Carol...

King of the Jungle, am I right?

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With the E*Trade babies headed for the big screen, it's surely only a matter of time before the singing car insurance middle man gets a bigger vehicle. What other 30 seconds have you wished were an hour and a half longer?

The worst thing, obviously, about television commercials is their brevity. Sure, the webuyanycar.com advert is fun, but just imagine how incredible it'd be if it was extended into a feature-length version. Two hours of that jingle, repeated relentlessly over and over like some sort of dotcom-era Clockwork Orange rehabilitation video. It would be a stone-cold sensation. Watch out, Avatar.

Fortunately, 20th Century Fox has picked up on the public's desire to see unnecessarily long television commercials, which is why it has just hired a writer to pen a screenplay based on the E*Trade baby advertising campaign. If you're unfamiliar with the E*Trade babies, they're basically some...