It could've been, and it might've been good, but I'm glad it's Frankenheimer.

Light is a fucking pretty big deal to a film. It's basically what the DoP is there for (camera stuff too). It's an audiovisual medium. Light will always be a huge deal to anything visual. Use of light can make or destroy a film's aesthetic, and if he feels it gets in the way or it's excessive, even if in the end I…

I'll just post something I said about Cosmopolis again and adapt it for here, because that's how I roll:

I'd call it divisive rather than panned. The defenders really love it, and there's some very few in the middle ground that seem to like it.

"Ronin is one of the greatest movies ever made, trailing closely behind Conan the Barbarian and Highlander."

Later, one year yes.

I really like all of the suggestions this week a lot. The Fast and Furious films continues to bless us in so many different ways.

Really? Only now that americans found out that Kanye and Will Smith might be doing a track together? Sure took long for the american press to find out.

OCD Monica along with pathetic Ross ruined later seasons Friends. It really wasn't funnier.

I knew God Only Forgives would be so divisive among critics, which is partially the reason I'm so excited for it.

Sucking cock and put dicks in the mouth is to me much more masculine than drinking beer or watching sports. All a matter of perspective, isn't it?

I haven't watched The Middle in a while, but I remember I really liked Neil Flynn in it. But I remember not being motivated to come back.

TOTORO! I just want to hug Sam Adams for giving it an A!

I don't even OWN a pretension.

I actually fell like Inception would improve a lot with LESS exposition, or at least make it more dynamic instead of simply explaining the premise and what's happening in the scene over and over again. The film could use leaving some mystery to the imagination and making things vaguer and less centered on dialogue and…

I didn't mean that you precisely did that, but that the comparison sorta came off from that, from people who didn't like The Matrix and went to the similar film that came before as an example. I think everyone who says they prefer Dark City truly do, but that the direct comparison originated like that.

Yes, it's made quite clear that if they die in The Matrix, they die in the real world, because whether the world itself is real or not, the death is real to the mind.

The "exposition is elaborated along with the film" approach of the first film is a class act example of how to deal with ambitious action scripts. If exposition comes too early or right before, it can feel tacked on and affect the general rhythm of scenes. If it comes too late or right after it can feel either…

I'd love to watch a Matrix-like film that went deep into that problematic ethic and moral standpoint you said. For all the philosophic babble in The Matrix, the actual risks and repercussions of those acts are interesting to explore, and yet the film never takes the chance. I'm fine with it, because I can enjoy The…

I never bought that comparison. Not only is The Matrix extremely superior in several factors that matter when it comes to film (like directing, cinematography and editing), but Dark City is actually quite different in plot and even themes than The Matrix. It just feels like every sci-fi film with some thin…