It’s too bad, though, that most people won’t see it on a giant screen with a loud crowd. It was really made for that.

“Where are you from originally?” is one of the greatest line-readings ever.

I think it’s neck-and-neck with the cut from O’Toole snuffing out a match to a desert sunrise in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.

It’s my understanding that Kubrick wanted the classical needle-drops all along, and only engaged North (while cruelly leaving him in the dark) in order to satisfy MGM execs. And North probably did hear the “temp” tracks- his opening title hits the same beats as ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’ and almost plays like a…

I forget who it was, but someone pointed out that the flaw in MP’s model was that they thought members would treat their service like a gym membership— sign up, and then forget about it for months at a time. They forgot to factor in that people LIKE going to the movies.

I saw it when it came out, never for a minute bought what it was selling. Except for Thomas Newman’s score, which deserved a better film.

You sound like someone unfamiliar with the greatest AV Club interview ever conducted:

“Maybe it’s because he fears death?”

Poonstruck, obviously.

Pulling off MOONSTRUCK and RAISING ARIZONA in the same year is the best argument Cage ever made for himself as an actor.

The Waponis sing “Hava Nagila” and “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” Remember, they’re a mix of Romans, Celts, and Jews, basically replicating the culture of the New York Joe left behind.

“May you live to be a thousand years old, sir.”

Agreed. It feels like they didn’t have time to finish writing before they had to start shooting. I still love the cast and the incidental details, but since Season 4 (at least) the long-term storylines have suffered for coherence and pacing. Part of this seems to have been due to actor availability, with new…

Also, finding out that Harlin didn’t understand that his movie was funny makes perfect sense. I’ve always said DBS was his best work because his cold-blooded handling of action scenes worked better with sharks than with humans.

Three things I remember about this movie (four if you include the knowledge that it sat on the shelf for at least a year): SLJ’s interrupted speech, Safron in her underwear BECAUSE PLOT AND SCIENCE, and the bit where they think they can trap the sharks because sharks can’t swim backward and then there’s an FX shot of…

I’m no expert but you may be thinking of the Flying Wedge, notable as an outlawed football tactic.

A blink-and-you’ll-miss-it in-joke: “Bounty Law” is identified in its main titles as coming from “Running W Productions.” The Running W was an arrangement of cables employed to trip galloping horses for stunt scenes in war movies and Westerns. It was notoriously inhumane, and deadly for the horses, and has since been…

“Spondoolie” has had a different reading not just here, but on every episode of iZombie since it started. I’m pretty sure it’s Daran Norris on all of them.

“After the wife murder?” We don’t see anything that clarifies that. Pitt is holding an unloaded sperargun while the woman we assume is his wife rants and complains, and the scene ends there.

Dakota Fanning isn’t getting enough praise for her spooky turn as Squeaky Fromme.