Okay, forgive my mistake. I meant social democracy, what they have in Finland. I’ve heard both used interchangably in the US, and haven’t seen anyone make that correction before. My apologies. I am advocating the nordic model, and saying that that’s what Sanders is a proponent of.

And was also a criminal for Iran-Contra, helped kick off the crack epidemic, stalled on dealing with HIV/AIDS, deregulated the economy which led to the Great Recession, and dismantled the New Deal programs that helped the country.

Communism does not equal socialism does not equal democratic-socialism. Democratic socialism is what you’ll find in Finland, Denmark, Norway, etc. Countries that have some of the best standards of living, education, and happiest citizens. It’s not pure socialism, which doesn’t really work.

It’s been a long time since I saw this scene. I always remembered it as good, but I’d forgotten just how good. Vietnam was a mess on all sides, but leaving broken people to be abused was just as atrocious. Stallone’s best acting. That was riveting.

Okay, that bugged me for ages when I first saw the Departed. I haven’t watched it in a year or two, so I forgot that, but now it’s bugging me again. Was Costello’s mistress the teen girl from the beginning? It wasn’t confirmed, but it had to be, right?

Seriously. I hear the rumors about Captain Marvel casting (Ferguson who would be good, Rousey who would be good for action but not acting), and I just want Blunt confirmed for the role. She didn’t get to be Black Widow, she didn’t get a role in Iron Man 3, and since both she’s become an action hero badass on top of…

Exactly! He basically just played it smart and competent against Palin (which worked, deflating — at least for the moment — her rise with some just pure intelligence and experience) but when he faced off against Ryan? I was not expecting to be that entertained.

I’m with the Valets. Neeson not having an Oscar is an affront to humanity. Schindler’s List, Five Minutes of Heaven, pretty much everything he’s done, he’s amazing. Rob Roy was way better than Braveheart. Even Taken is elevated by his talent. Imagine, I don’t know, some B-movie action guy giving the famous speech. It…

I had no idea he directed Red Eye or did a segment in Paris, Je T’Aime. Wow. He really the kind of professorial philosophical person with a hidden depths who could turn schlock into subversion.

Exactly. Apparently Moore was hesitant about doing the kick. That’s the thing, Moore was entirely capable of going Dalton or Craig on Bond and making it work really well, selling every moment, he just chose not to, preferring his lighthearted playboy who happened to deal in death. But man, FYEO is so good.

My mistake! Sorry. I think it deserves a spot on the list though. Goldeneye, Casino Royale, From Russia With Love (Connery’s best, very Hitchcockian, not campy), and of course, the best Bond flick: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Hell, EON’s even said it’s the one they’d preserve for the future if they had to choose…

No mention of the AWESOME fight between Bond and Necros while hanging out of a cargo plane?

I love how it kept which one was Bond kind of a mystery at first. Some say the other two were made to look like Lazenby and Moore; never quite saw that, but loved the idea that these guys are all tough, but Bond’s the most efficient.

It’s a great movie. Kind of a proto-Casino Royale; it came after an over the top, excessive gadget filled movie, and went with a stripped-down spy thriller approach. The plot is solid and tense, there are good twists, and great action. Moore gets to shake up his performance with a more hard-edged, Hitchcockian Bond.…

I kind of feel bad for Dalton. He was a great Bond, a precursor to the truer-to-the-text Bond Craig gave us, but both of his films hit every 80s cliche you can think of (Soviets! Afghanistan! The Muhjahadeen! here, Central America! Drug lords! Stinger missiles! The DEA! in License to Kill). Put him in, say, For Your…

The pacing, tonal set-up, and using action to tell the story rather than simply fill time makes me wish Wingard would get on a Marvel property. Maybe Iron Fist or Defenders (although I’d love the John Wick team to direct all 8 episodes of Defenders, like Fukunaga did for True Detective season one).

Well they do, just not seriously.

I was really wowed by the movie. I had to wait basically a year for it to hit Netflix, so I had enough spoiled just to know that David’s the villain. In fact, my one big complaint with the movie is those staring scenes. The music turns foreboding, it’s like a giant neon sign screaming “HE IS EVIL!” Which sucks,…

The new one isn’t terrible. Momoa and the plot adhere more to Howard’s smart, lithe badass. The problem is a limited budget and a distinct sense of modern Hollywood and knowing it would be a B-Movie. Less intense score too. But Momoa captures Howard’s Conan well.

I do see your point here, and I agree Schwarzenegger is at his best when he’s at his darkest, but I’d say that film and performance would be Predator.