I love Pelham 123.  It also doesn't get enough love.  Robert Shaw is such a great villain in that movie.  And I love the music that plays over the opening credits, it doesn't get much better than that.

It's the car chase, yes.  But, for me, the greatness is the culmination of everything: the man at the top of the building shooting down at you (that's terrifying); you chasing the man only to have the man escape into a train; you racing the train while the vehicular hijinks ensue; and finally you shoot the man in the…

Maybe it's not so much he's ashamed of writing sci-fi as being associated with sci-fi.  Sci-fi was probably more nerdy in its connotation back then versus now?  I'm thinking of Marty McFly from Back to the Future (that's the dad, right?).  And the fellas at the firm are a decidedly un-nerdy bunch.

It's telling that as Pete gets more and more he is less and less happy.  And it's inline with his entitled nature.

I actually watched S1 twice before moving on to S2.  It was so different from anything I've seen before.  Not much plot.  Every episode felt like a mood piece.  When I try to sell the show to friends who haven't watched it before, I tell them that the first two seasons are mostly exposition.  They set up the world,…

"I don't get the feeling that one damn thing we saw tonight will be addressed again in any upcoming episode."

He does a really great job with physical aspects of acting too.  Like, last wk when he was sick, there was a sort of expression that he was wearing in his more pathetic/ill scenes that is quite different from the Draper that runs a meeting or pitches to clients, which is different from the Draper expression he wore…

"It's fantastic work by Todd again; the reviews are worth looking forward to almost as much as the episodes."  Absolutely.  Best TV reviews I've read of any show at any time.  Really nice work, Todd.

That line was fine.  But Megan's CYNTHIA at dinner was a bit too much for me.  Anyone else feel like they overplayed this tiny detail too much?

So, what now for Lane?  Is he done?  He seemed to say, last night for the second time, that Joan can do his job.  Which would be a wonderful development for Joan's character and inline with what the show has done with its female characters.  Pete's line of "I have nothing" sounds like it could also apply to Lane,…

Pete's had this asskicking coming for a long time for so many reasons.  It was a great moment of catharsis for the show, its characters, and its fans.

Agree completely.  This episode had so many great moments: Don the plumber, Roger giving Lane advice about how to handle the dinner meeting, the awkward dinner party out in the country, and of course the smackdown.

And who knows how Pete twisted it when he mentioned it to Roger?  Pete, the guy who considers Ken a rival (despite Pete's own protesting just recently about how he shouldn't have to view Roger as a rival since they are in the same firm)?  Pete, the guy who is jealous of Ken's writing skills?  I'm sure, in spilling the…

Haha I want to hear him proclaim that he is the "cock of the walk."

@avclub-782066c88e9c574d6085f3ddfc7032e4:disqus You're not wrong in your rephrasing.  But I'm okay with that.  Don shouldn't be the same person now, let alone the person he will be when the show finally bows out, that he was earlier in S1.  That's part of the magic of the show for me: the building of these characters…

I'm in agreement.  Everything is done well enough but the story is a bit off.  Clooney's character could have been a little more fleshed out?  There are signals that he's not a perfect husband, dad, etc. but they are all shorthand basically and delivered via lines of dialog from the father-in-law, daughter, etc.  It…

I'm excited at how positive the film's reception has been so far.  In the horror genre, it seems like you only get a movie like that once every two or three yrs?

Cool story incoming: One of my fonder memories from college was watching Rejected for the first time at Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted animation film festival at the Alamo Drafthouse.  Afterwards, one of my buddies bought the DVD and some yrs later we killed an hour at his place watching it over and over again.  Those…

It's so true though.  I think I was one of maybe only 3 ppl in my senior yr english class who actually read Pride and Prejudice.  I think everyone else was busy with other stuff and hit up the Cliff Notes.  Honestly, I don't remember it very well (and haven't seen any of the film adaptations) and I should maybe go…

I really like Children of Men quite a bit.  One of the things that really sticks out for me is when they make a pitstop at the abandoned school that is then in ruins.  It's a haunting scene that gives the movie the right break at the right time from the characters' flight.  It also serves to underline how sad a world…