I also wish to mock some famous person for have a serious mental problem, but I don't know enough about Gucci.

Do you find it takes you longer and longer to finish up as you age?

Jaws would have been in pre-production at the time Taking was in production.

This reminds about an anecdote about Steven Spielberg. Spielberg was suppose to direct "The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three" when one of the powers that be (can't remember who) stated the movie was "director proof" and they passed it off to journeyman Joseph Sargent. Spielberg went off to direct Jaws (Sargent would…

I'm interested in how they're going to mess up the original theme song in end credits. 

I love this movie so much.

Zodiac owes a lot of the great procedurals of the 70s, but I wouldn't say it's very similar to Jackal. Zodiac is about a puzzle that lasts decades, where life moves at its regular constant while the case only moves at random intervals at the whims of a madman. Day of the Jackal is about policemen moving bureaucratic…

I hate it when a tv show/movie reuses an urban legend. It's like hearing a joke you already know but it goes on for 30 minutes.

Ken Jennings is such an obvious replacement that I wouldn't even have guessed there was anyone else on the shortlist. I mean, Jeopardy doesn't need a good host as Trebek proves on a smarmy, awkward daily basis. But Jennings is the most recognizable figure of Jeopardy outside of Trebek, great personality and attitude,…

I found the first one to be a nice glossy action movie, even though they found the idea of a foul mouth 9-year-old  girl more interesting than I (The sequel should probably know a foul mouth 15-year-old teen is even less interesting.)

As a twentysomething I don't relate to the show at all. I would venture to suggest that this show makes more sense for events before The Great Recession, when parents would support you (up to a point) to live in New York City. There's probably still twentysomethings like that in NYC, I wouldn't know, but it's far away…

MacGyver's biggest problem it takes place in the most boring universe for such a character- the 80s A-Team/Knight Rider world where there's always a rec center about to be closed down for nebulous reasons and counterfeiters always keep kidnapping someone's grandpa. In pretty much any other fictional universe MacGyver…

The Hammett-stylized dialogue everyone is quoting is amazing. But my favorite lines of the movie are very muted:
The Pin: You read Tolkein?
Brendan: What?
The Pin: You know, the Hobbit books?
Brendan: Yeah
The Pin: His descriptions of things are really good. He makes you wanna be there.

I figured out Bale's version of the trick very quickly which makes for some tough sledding during the first viewing.

Because if he was a mere comedian, it makes him less responsible for his material. If he's running a serious news show about media hypocrisy, then he's open to the same criticism that…. well, he supplies.

When I originally read "a man is someone good as a job" I thought that was one of the dumbest things I ever heard about manliness. It doesn't mean anything and takes up a lot of space not meaning anything. The little respect I had about LeBeouf's intelligence disappeared, no matter his verbiage.

I'm worried Jon Stewart is starting to take himself too seriously. Being able to recognize cable news and political theater is bullshit isn't very difficult. Don't get me wrong, making a funny show every night about the bullshit is VERY difficult. But being able to produce satire daily doesn't make you an expert on…

Pinpointing the season where The Simpsons started going downhill, the biggest philosophical question of my lifetime, tends to focus too much on an overall narrative. People want to be able to blame ONE guy for destroying the greatest TV show of all time with ONE season. This is sort of ridiculous- a show as sublime as…

Well, it's not like baseball where bad pull down from your overall value. There could have been 100 bad seasons of The West Wing but the 2 great seasons will always be great.

Woo perfectly separates the credit "Wilford Brimley" (Hey!  Wilford Brimley is in this movie!) from the actual Wilford Brimley who shows up the last minute for the big showstopper at the end. The viewer is given enough time to completely forget Wilford Brimley is in the movie just to make it all the more insane when…