This complaint's a pretty valid one, but if you think about it, he HAS been getting more adventurous. Stop-motion animated movie aside, Darjeeling and Life Aquatic were pretty different. Compare those movies to Rushmore and tell me he hasn't gotten a little weirder.

Well, both are illegal and both turn a profit. Just because weed has become socially acceptable for you doesn't mean it's not still a big deal for those who traffic it and those who police it. Would it surprise you to hear that people do still get murdered over marijuana?

I'm also kinda disappointed to hear the girl jumper didn't make it, but I guess I can understand why if they were shooting for PG. Still, if you talk to anybody who's read A-SS, that scene always comes up - probably the most memorable part of the series.

Nor is that "meeting." You got a lot to answer for, Tanguy.

Mmm… there is "craft," and there are more traditional narrative structures, comedic devices, etc., but they take more attention and thought to find than anybody who dislikes T&E is willing to put up with. Not that I hold it against 'em - there's no way I'd want to take a real close, analytical look at something I…

Also, no love for From Dusk Till Dawn? Probably my favourite "nonessential" Tarantino.

NBK is a weird case in that I can see both Stone's and Tarantino's visions in the final product. I mean there are pieces of dialogue and things that happen that seem totally incongruous with the kind of movie Stone is trying to make. It feels like Stone either didn't understand the source material, or he tried to…

"John Krakinsky, glancing over to viewer in commiseration, during public floggings"

Am I the only one who actually kinda likes the Mike Myers scene? It was necessary exposition, and I thought Myers was pretty funny. I mean, he comes off as goofy, but for Mike Myers, it was pretty dialed down. And then you've got Churchill in the corner, who looks like he's thinking "why am I not in bed?" Nah, fuck…

Fuck yeah I'd see a Robocop re-release, probably more than once. Aronofsky's name being attached to the remake (sequel?) had me interested, but even then I was expecting it to be pretty tone-deaf as to what made the original great.

Ha Ha! You a funny guy, J!

No, it wouldn't be a good fit. But it is one of those things that I'd be curious about, despite it being such a bad idea.

@ZMF and Blurry Innervision: I do think that Tarantino likes to have violence in his movies because it's entertaining, but I also think it was supposed to be ironic that we come to hate the Nazis for laughing at a violent propaganda film, and then in the next scene we cheer on their over-the-top cathartic slaughter.…

Yeah, I think that after Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, a lot of critics expected him to move past the fascination with pulpy genre stuff. Also those movies are a little more grounded, being dissections of the crime genre, so Kill Bill, Grindhouse and IB seem a little outlandish. Of course, if you look at those…

@Authentic Remains: Sure it can. Lots of great movies have boring or sucky parts.

1984
Wait a minute. Employment might be guaranteed for the 15% of the population that make up the inner and outer parties, but are you sure that's the case for the proles? Been a while since I've read 1984, but I got the impression that they were just sorta left to their own devices gambling, drinking, fighting, being…

Haven't read the new one yet, but I was kind of hoping he'd get back to doing the tighter, one-off stuff you find in the Sleepwalk and Summer Blonde collections.

Revise your scriptures accordingly.

Or maybe a wizard did it, but this show does seem to have its shit together down to the minutest details.

Another Late Comment
When Moriarty enters the pool, he identifies Sherlock's handgun as an L9A1, a steel-framed Browning Hi-Power. However, if I remember clearly, I thought the gun was Watson's plastic-framed Sig Sauer. Now as far as I know, both sidearms are issued to the British army, so that jibes with Watson's…