He was great on Good Wife.

Most people who are really into DePalma seem to love this.  At the very least it is him up to his old tricks for the first time in awhile.  Basically, the way I'm looking at this is….if you like DePalma in DePalma mode, even some of his lesser fare, you will probably get a big kick out of this.

He's the most fun part of MI:3 too.

i LOVE garth

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He punched into her tummy!

Yeah I only noticed the 12 in the 12th and I did not at all notice that the pub's names lined up with what happened within them (except The World's End).

Man, I feel like before Fight Club, this kind of theory never used to happen after movies.

Yeah same for my showing.  My fiancee laughed the hardest when the voice said "fuck it" and when Gary said he was back on the horse and everyone grew concerned for a moment.

About half of my audience laughed.  Not sure how many laughed at 'Ha, he wants ice cream' and how many got the actual reference.  I think quite a few knew the previous films though because many of the call backs to older movies got big guffaws.

Somebody else said to me before I saw it that this bridges the gap between HF and SotD.  More jokes and laugh out loud moments than SotD though not as much as a joke machine as HF but the pathos and personal nature of SotD.  Plut it's got the more professional sheen of Scott Pilgrim. Maybe professional is the wrong…

He's actually got a shitload of range.  the Big Nothing isn't a great flick but his performance in it is very different.

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Supernatural time!We Need to talk About Kevin:

The head crushing in that teenage film is insane.

I think I do actually like Shaun more but I find myself WATCHING Hot Fuzz a bit more because Fuzz is such a joke machine and the action is so fun. Also, Timothy Dalton.

Interesting to hear that perspective on it.  As someone who doesn't practice martial arts, he always looked insanely talented to me.  Perhaps just due to his screen presence which was excellent.

yeah i was amazed by how much my opinion changed on a second watch.  Perhaps because I knew how things were going to progress and was able to just let myself be washed over by the atmosphere/visuals and to allow myself to sink into Ziyi's story which I find to be very emotional and painful.

I have only seen the 130 minute hong kong cut.  And I can say pretty certainly that though it left me cold the first time around, I was insanely moved the second.  Ziyi's story and character arc in that version was beautiful and sad.

I definitely agree on Crowley being the big bad.  The boys kill so many demons all the time with the knife why don't they just KILL HIM lol.

I don't know.  Guys like Denis Johnson and shit have MFAs and teach for MFA programs.  It can't be all bad.