The araber killed Adena, Frank. And you just can't admit I'm right.

Heard that. Haven't seen it.

Martin Campbell
Am I the only person who thinks it's ridiculous that this franchise's producers let anyone other than Martin Campbell direct new Bond movies? The guy resurrected the series from the dead once ("GoldenEye"), then saw that flushed away in a series of mediocre-to-horrible movies by directors who clearly…

For me, A- at the very least. I can't think of a better vampire movie [cue: everyone lists their "better" vampire movie], or a better movie of any kind I've seen this year.

Oh, it's well worth $12, especially to see it in a place with a good sound system. Richard McGuire's was my favorite for sheer scariness (it's kind of a straight-up haunted house story, but I'd never seen anything quite like it), and the sound design is essential in that one, especially since half the screen is black…

oh man
I love this movie. Saw it in the theater, bought the dvd as soon as it came out. It's like Jacques Tati, plus the apocalypse. A brilliant summation of a nation hopelessly lost in the world, yet even more hopelessly lost in its own delusional self-identity fantasy (which is to say, despite the subtitles, it…

please tell me that…
…it turns out De Niro is confessing to the murders because Pacino committed them. That would be the homoerotic icing on the cop-buddy cliche cake.

"Hmm. This man needs…what's Spanish for 'CPR'?"

Shredder: No no, today is the day you were a CONDESCENDING dick to a stranger on the internet for no good reason.

"Just because the funeral home is in a bad, predominantly black neighbor doesn't mean everyone who is dead in there is black."

It was empty of mourners, but the staff and the people outside were African American. I also got the impression that the idea was "this is a lower-class neighborhood", so maybe I'm just used to network TV dramas making sure to include extras of every racial and ethnic minority in every urban scene, regardless of…

intentional misdirection, or re-write?
Did anyone else notice that, in the final episode of season three, it was heavily implied that the dead character with whom Jack was obsessed was African-American? There was nary a white face to be seen at or around the funeral home, and the shots when he drove up seemed…

Jerry: I am so ashamed I get that reference. I have to tape up my glasses and hang my "i want to believe" poster now.

I'm afraid that I, too, am totally confused about the Daniel raft. And I'm not confused in a "wow, they're going to explain this in a cool way" way; more in a "why didn't they address this plot hole?" way.

Matt3—
Yeah, I really don't get why his fans wants to compare PT Anderson to Kubrick (yeah, I get the Kubrick references in TWBB; so what?). Comparing Anderson to cinema's most meticulous craftsman seems pretty self-evidently foolish.

Agreed, although when you do 300+ scores, you're gonna have a couple that aren't…well, let me ask: ever see "Wolf"?

i gotta give it up to pta…
…I usually don't spend this much time thinking about movies I loath. In the case of the music, it simultaneously made lots of weak aspects work better than they had any right to (to paraphrase mmy), and nearly ruined those same moments (I spent the first half-hour thinking, "wait, would I…

Oh, and I meant to say, "Kubrick who? Is he some kind of director? I've never heard of him. Please explain your obscure reference, lest I be proven the true idiot king."

I like a lot of Kubrick films; they are meticulously-crafted, intelligent, cinematic gems. I'm not sure I understand why anyone would compare this movie to Kubrick, except that it is long and aspires to his level of greatness. I certainly understand why critics—who have to sit through hundreds of movies like, oh,…

I can't believe…
…how overrated this movie is. I would give it a "B" for the fantastic opening half-hour, the bravura setpieces, and the general scope of ambition, but…as a whole, it's just not very good storytelling. There's ultimately nothing more meaningful than the sturm and drang, like the Cliffs Notes version…