You're kidding right? That was one of Ebert's best reviews.

It is cute! Again I like it entirely for such personal reasons I wouldn't trust my own recommendation of it, but god that was a fun movie.

His politics are fairly reprehensible, at that.

I read Milton in secondary school too.

Paradise Regained is one of the canonical lame, disappointing sequels. Even if they ever make a proper movie out of Paradise Lost, that one is just not happening.

Pretty sure Winston should be a minus percent. Like if that happens the laws of probability will shatter.

So what you're saying is film is Gesamtkunstwerk?

The director of Baraka actually was the cinematographer Koyaaniqatsi IIRC, it's what got him interested in this kind of movie.

Here are some movies I saw. Not in any significant order, they are mostly chosen for not being on other people's lists. So not necessarily a best of… but sort of?

Firstly don't worry about disagreeing with me. Want to call a movie trash go right ahead. Ad hominems are the only no-no.

The pro-marine message is explicitly in the movie. Cameron's discussed it in interviews (his brother, IIRC, was a marine) and it is embodied in Jake Sully.

Probably the most succinct scene in the movie is the art gallery, where the camera just spends the whole time leering at statues and paintings, as if to say art is just another kind of porn.

Mud and Bernie are two of the best movies of 2013 for me, both with stellar McConaughey performances (and before someone says 'but Bernie was an earlier year!' I'll be all 'different zone of distribution, which is why I got Berberian Sound Studio in 2012!')

Oh if we're including that sort of thing,. then the best I went to was Return of the King, with the film's entire score performed live by the RTE Concert Orchestra. They did the previous Lord of the Rings films the years before (and also did Vertigo and Wizard of Oz this year, which, alas, I didn't have tie to get to.)

I'm not a lawyer either but you have to bypass Netflix's region restrictions on purpose to get to their non-your-country content. That would seem to place the onus of blame on you.

That would be sweet. Come to think of it, if she's going to be on New Girl for an arc, what are the chances she'll hook up with one of the male regulars? That seems like the classic sitcom plot.

I've only ever seen her on Mad Men, but she was great on that.

I just want to switch to the new reviewers at Roger Ebert's website. It's like changing your TV, but for movies.

Right, I think it's fair to criticize the film for not taking Earth's economic crisis as seriously (and it'll be interesting to see how or if the sequels address this), but that's not the same as saying humans are evil. If anything, Cameron is extremely careful at where he positions audience sympathies - he manages to…

I still say Fair dues all the time because I knew this one guy in secondary school who always said Fair dues.