YOU MANIACS! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all ta HELL!

Brian Williams thanks God for Steve Rannazzisi every night. At least that's what he told me.

Whereas with The Dark Knight Rises, you—

Yes, indeed. Put Garfield's Spider-Man in the Raimi movies and they'd be just perfect. Maguire was too milquetoast.

If he came back just to write Spider-Man's dialogue, I'd be happy with that level of involvement.

No, Russian spies dress like Nash Bridges. Hardest thing to get right is the mini-mullet. And finding a Russian equivalent to Cheech Marin.

Checkpoint Charlie and the Espionage Factory

I wouldn't say he's gotten sappier as he's gotten older. If anything, he's gotten less sentimental. Lincoln was about as clear-eyed a look at the meat-grinder that was 19th century American politics as one could hope for. Just compare it with his own Amistad from almost 20 years earlier.

"Ah. Cuban?" (offers cigar)
"Uh, no, Dutch-Irish; my father was from Wales."

I thought that was kind of the point…he's a smarmy asshole and thinks he knows what humanity needs because he was created by Tony Stark, the smarmiest of assholes who thinks he knows what humanity needs, suffused with the generally dorky vibe of Bruce Banner.

You two stop this right now or I'm turning this car around.

GET OUT.

Sad thing is, I actually know people who say this. Often.

More like my pope-culture weekend, amirite? Sigh.

Racist? How dare you? He gave Jabba the Hutt Dionne Warwick's nostrils.

Hey, now, give him a break, it was a long day on the set with a little too much pharmaceutical grade cocaine. We've all been there. If I had a nickel for every time I accidentally killed some Vietnamese children…I'd have seven nickels.

Hate? As I remember it, the podrace was seen as one of only two worthy sequences in the whole movie, the other being the big lightsaber duel. But oh, the rest of it…

The fuck is wrong with y'all…?

Paramount is pretty much the worst when it comes to catalog titles that aren't Top Gun or Star Trek. I just want another Carpenter/Russell commentary track, myself.

I love that EfLA is finally getting its little reappraisal. I always thought the main point was satirizing Hollywood's ridiculous love of big-budget remakes and sequels. I mean, sure, the CG effects were dodgy as hell, but for 1996 on a medium budget, whaddaya want?