At some point, he kills Patricia Arquette.

I'd prefer to use the term economical… You could say the characters in a Melville or Walter Hill film are equally "paper thin", and you'd be wrong.

I love Jeselnik, but the show definitely isn't there yet.  It still is like any other panel show, just with funnier people. Hard to keep up weekly analysis on such things. To me, the bizarre non-sequiturs (Latino Voices, the "wah-waaaaah" sound bit) are the show's saving grace, and if he could develop and integrate…

So the pro-black position is anti-gun control now? Because that definitely doesn't promote negative black stereotypes…

But was the sucker simple and/or plain?

"Do you know that woman over there, the one with a young child's body?"

I was about to call you all crazy and say The Ben Show was clearly better…. but then Jon Benjamin showed up (and in a van!) and Nathan for You had me in tears.

One of the local newspapers around here basically said that this was what Burton's Dark Shadow should have been, so there's that connection.

My favorite stray observation was George nonchantantly asking:

Red Cliff is nice, but it really doesn't convince me if he still has it. Too big, too FX heavy and big HK epics like that practically direct themselves if you have the right collaborators. Hell, one of Woo's Assistant-Director's was Corey Yuen!

The workprint is awesome, maybe better than Face/Off, but it's hard to see Lionsgate ponying up the cash to restore it and finish the effects.

And while the scene with motorcycle and gas can posted above is awesome as is, one of the strengths of CYF is he could have pulled it off without looking like cheesy macho action-film posturing.

Fritz Lang did pretty good, but it is kind of amazing he wasn't immediately thrown onto every big fx-heavy blockbuster of the day.

Oh man, you gotta get ABT II! It may not be his best film, but that last reel may be the greatest action scene he ever filmed. Just ridiculously violent and over-the-top, with maybe the single best Mexican standoff in a HK film, and a samurai sword thrown in among the guns for good measure.

@avclub-380d43c0c4a3888641d86c7ab30f989b:disqus I think Blue Collar is a great film, although I also feel it's largely anti-union.

I believe Lindsay Anderson even went as far as to call the ending "fascist", as the dock workers don't reach any sort of self-actualization, they just blindly replace one authority figure with another.

Academy 4 Life!!!!

I just don't get that. Films of that era are precisely why I finally made the leap to blu-ray. The film had a texture then which is amazing when properly transferred. While on the other hand, I think Blu just emphasizes how plastic most movies have looked in the last decade (as movies still shot on film have long used…

Unless its a new transfer that's been botched or an old-transfer that's been "polished"(which is not the case here), there's absolutely no reason to NOT buy the Blu-Ray if you can.

And I still don't think he gets enough damn credit for how completely transformative he was as Vito.  Brando was not old and fat when he made that film. That was still a few years away. He was still a very fit and handsome and completely unlike the character he was playing.