I feel like Ignatiy's review would have had the same headline: "Fellini Satyricon is the Italian director at his most decadent and tedious.

"Grade: A"

"Needs more ellipses."

Me, too. And there will be great confusion when they find me next to the note, dead from hanging.

Or try Against the Day. It also has loads of characters, including Vibes all over the place. (A terrible pun seemed appropriate for a Pynchon comment section.)

If he had sex with Christian Black, would their child be Christian Grey from 50 Shades?

I've never really thought about Elba-as-Bond—is that something that's happening?—but I think Moore, Dalton, and Brosnan were all in their forties at the start of their respective Bond careers.

And all this after he saved Christmas! No good deed goes unpunished, I guess.

Agreed. A close second is Oliver Platt in The Ice Harvest, but of course that movie's not quite the classic that Philadelphia Story is.

I imagine everyone below is already complaining about Henry Fonda's absence. I was assured, in the comments for Part 1, that he would probably be in Part 2. I was lied to.

So was my sister! I would have been, too, but I was only 8 and they decided they didn't want any young kids.

His loss for Malcolm X was regrettable.

Wayne should have definitely won for most of his Ford performances, but my favorite is Fort Apache, especially the intense disgust he expresses in his great final scene. For that matter, Henry Fonda should be on this list. Not only Fort Apache; if he couldn't win for The Lady Eve, then what the hell are the Oscars…

I have visited the set of the final There Will Be Blood scene—years later, on a tour of the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills. The tour guide (actually a park ranger nice enough to let us see the bowling alley) did not want to re-enact the scene with me.

Why is a PR person voting on the Oscars?

(To clarify: I thought all the Academy members were people who made movies. I didn't know that people who are not creatively involved in production vote on the Oscars.)

Stop right now, Ignatiy, and tell us the "fucking Polak" story. No, I don't care how important the rest of your life is. We need to hear it now.

McGregor really just wants to direct a short documentary about glove manufacturing. He's indifferent to two hours of narrative feature that will surround it.

"Who dares to accuse of such unthinking crimes the husband of Anne Frank?" One of the funniest lines in all his novels.

How would a Counterlife movie look? That would not be easy to adapt.

There is a pipe bomb.

One of Thomas Pynchon's favorite bands! (At least according to The John Larroquette Show.)