You come at me with Kurosawa? That's where we're starting? :-)
I too must have seen that film 20 times. Unimpeachable. I see that and raise you Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia'.
I'd tell you my inspirational films but that would peg my age just a little too closely.
I did my Masters on paranoid films of the 1970s so I have…

Sounds good. There's a new 70mm print of the Agony and the Ecstasy playing up the street, but probably best to start with something a touch lighter.

I look forward to it!

She is, isn't she?

Oh, and Toni Collette is a genius.

Being a lowly minion in the industry myself I know exactly what film creatives get up to in their downtime. I do also read a lot of 'Deadline' though!
Yes, the 'working" was a bit of a copout, I'll admit to that. I forgot Tarantino, to whom Will's first sentence would also apply. And I could wax on about how he's more…

Wow, well isn't this ironic. Now Douglas is like my Uncle Tom, who's an unemployed alcoholic.

Ha! I said "working".

The scenes in the White House with the Presidents are ultimately sort of gimmicky

I get what this is about, but as a mixed race person, I don't think keeping the battle lines drawn is a good thing. This is White. This is Black. And never the twain shall meet! If you are White and do a Black thing, I shall tear you down! If you are Black and do a White thing, I shall tear you down! All that ends…

Also, to go on top of this our caterer went out of business on Monday. Two local news crews came to the wedding to interview us. Drunkenly during the second interview I told them we had to cut it short to dance to "Livin on a Prayer"...

I didn't know there were people so concerned with preserving the Smurfs canon.

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, OXYGEN.

Taking revenge on people who fat-shamed you is bad and doesn't solve anything, blah blah blah yada yada yada. But seriously, where do i sign up?

You want thirst for the game? The entire Blue Jays pitching staff spends their off days at Blue Jays games.

I don't understand. Is using only oblique references part of the "acceptance" phase?

Not 1, but 2 people have explained it to you. Let it go.