It's a good flick; way better than the last two, not quite as good as 1 and 3. IIRC, it had a pre-T2 Robert Patrick as one of the guys McClane gets into the firefight with in baggage handling.

Hey, back off on Lutz, okay? He's just trying to burnish his demo reel for "Lutz 2.0: Younger, Cheaper Chris Pratt. Hire me"

Will, I bet you're hands were tied about this interview, but I would've loved more on the Cosby experience. Godfrey seemed to mention it, leave it out there, then go on to racism and hacky sacks. I'm sure there was a nearby FOX flack who wanted to nip anything like that in the bud (and probably breathed an audible…

As someone with neither of those names, I feel quite confident in saying

The Cupboard books were great, and a highpoint in my YA reading list growing up; I never really felt that it needed to be adapted to the screen, and I guess I aged-out of it by the time it was made into a movie. It's just odd to see it in this list, compared to the rest of the post-2000 films, when YA franchise…

"From the mind of Bob Guccione….Caligula!"- that pretty much says it all.

MIS. TER….. TAM…BOREE……..NNNNNN…….MAN!!

Huh….that..kind of takes the mystique out of it all. Oh well….

It was a pretty big hit on the radio, IIRC (DJs always found a way to comment on the "love grunts" as the chorus, which as a pre-teen I thought was both hilarious and confusing).

According to the book, he was fond of saying that he was a product of going to college in the 60's like a lot of the peer group he wanted to be a part of. Only thing is, he graduated from Yale in either 1960 or '61- so technically, yes he was in collegein the 60's- but that was a pretty big gap between when he…

Yeah, but those guys are all talented. From what "Final Cut" said, Cimino was trying to be identified as one of the Raging Bulls, when he was actually a late-bloomer. By trying to cast himself as the hot kid in the film business, he was essentially trading on his work with Eastwood to be a peer of the Zoetrope crew.…

True- though I still think Year of the Dragon is one of the better crime thrillers from the 80's and still holds up, despite Mickey Rourke (he was too young for his character- Harrison Ford or Kurt Russell would've been perfect in it).

IIRC, the book mentioned how Cimino effectively lied about his age so that he would be looked upon as a peer of Coppola, De Palma, Scorsese, and Lucas, when in reality he had almost a decade on the directors that he wanted to be associated with. That, and someone likened Isabelle Huppert's face to a potato.

If ever a show deserved a second life on Hulu or Yahoo, this was it. Truthfully, I could even see it on TBS- it would fit in pretty well, I think.

Apparently Larry Cohen had the idea to do that scene before the actual movie started filming; the story goes that a lot of the footage of the parade, especially centering on the grandstand with then-mayor John Lindsay, was filmed before principal photography commenced, given the timing of the studio greenlight.

Tell 'em, Steve-Lack of Name!

RACIST

No, no…that's only if you leave in the car on a really hot day.

It is for film subsidies and gov't credits, i.e., the third lead (and/or multiple 4th and downward leads) must be Canadian in order to qualify, in addition to the crew, locations, and services provided.

Yep. They've danced around it; in Season 1, Beth's driver's license is an Ontario license, they've referred to where Alison lives as Scarburbia (for Scarborough, ON), most of the license plates are Ontario plates, and the money shown is explicitly Canadian. Season 2 really went away from that, dropping more American…