Affleck wasn't terrible in Gone Girl, but a better actor could've actually made Nick interesting, IMO.

The third episode was kind of badly paced and plotted, but I adored the fourth episode. What can I say - I love all the ironic asides and the anachronistic conversations and I'm one who genuinely enjoys the hokey musical numbers they put on at the Oscars and such, so this show truly is just up my alley. I can see why…

"You should be WAILING, you stone cold bitch……….ok, now call my other grandma."

I thought the movie was one giant soppy snoozefest, but Redmayne gave the performance of the year by far IMO. I just wish it was in a better film.

Scorsese pls come and save De Niro from the mess that is his career

Man, I LOVE Moonlighting. As a kid who grew up with stoic, hard-faced Die Hard Bruce Willis, getting to see him emote and be charming and hilarious was a total mindfuck.

Jai Ho is a solid fuckin song man. The 'they just won an award because they're black/gay/a minority' talk is so dumb

Man, David Arnold's Vesper/City of Lovers theme is one of my favorite pieces of orchestration ever in film.

Lana del Rey probably getting nominated for 'Big Eyes' which is lazy dreck she probably wrote while high on peyote but getting snubbed for the genuine masterpiece that is 'Young and Beautiful' will always be confounding to me.

LOL

De Niro's career in the last ten years makes me so depressed. Do you really need the money man?!

It was a sitcommy premise but I don't think it was executed in an especially sitcom-like manner? Like The Party last year was executed very broadly and sitcom-ly, but this episode was far more subdued and much more focused on character beats. Which I have to think was done deliberately seeing as how otherwise…

So this is Schur's West Wing is what you're saying? And instead of putting innocent people in chokeholds, they should be having fire extinguisher races on office chairs?

I still think Parks is pretty consistently funny, but I don't really feel attached to the characters anymore. I'll still watch but like…I won't go comment on AV Club reviews about it.

This whole thread is goddamn CRAZYPANTS. Every single cast member did stellar fuckin' work on this show.

I always find LaToya's grades kind of strange, honestly. (Like she gave the Ed Helms episode an A? Uh…)

Yeah, I'm thinking of recent adversaries like Jamm (cartoonishly evil), Paul Rudd (cartoonishly stupid) or the town of Pawnee (just straight up cartoonish). When Leslie fails, it's never really her fault and when she wins, it feels unearned because her opponents are always so thinly written.

Yeah, that's fair but I also think everything Sorkin does from here on out will be a prestige project until proven otherwise.

Given the super profitability of superhero movies, I wouldn't call TV and Netflix trying to cash in on the phenomenon with their own comic book properties a risky undertaking. And Hollywood producers would absolutely greenlight Arrow and Luke Cage if they got an A-list actor/director on board.

"TV shows are not automatically "prestige" because of the names attached to it, though."