Agreed. I teach high school. I love my kids dearly … but I want no part of whatever they think is cool or popular these days. Christ, they've made flipping fucking water bottles a thing …

I would not put Collateral in the same league as Die Hard … but I do think that it seems like an oddly forgotten film. I never seem to hear it mentioned in discussion about Mann's better works, yet I think it's dynamite tense. Cruise gives yet another underrated performance, I think.

I think Hanks has been somewhat underrated in Road to Perdition. I know that the general consensus seems to be that he was badly miscast in this role, but I do think that he pulls off the stoic, simmering, Midwest Irish gangster fairly admirably. I think the point was all along that these guys were Midwestern family…

Weren't the latter sequels generic action movie scripts that someone had the bright idea of making into "Die Hard" movies?

Ugh … while the irony of posting this here is not lost on me, I'm really surprised that any organizations and institutions allow any sort of commenting on their online presences anymore. It's apparent that, with a few exceptions, here being one, people really can't be counted on anymore to not be abhorrent racist…

Yeah … this reviewed kinda dismissed the MCU's effects, but I think visuals were used to great effect in Ant-Man.

My wife and I also hit our "early bird special" showings - 11 Am Sunday morning.

Any ad that begins "This fall, on CBS …" should cause your instincts to correctly surmise that …

He pretty much said as much on Colbert the other night: these movies are his Adam Sandler-esque vacations, albeit a touch classier than Sandler's pics …

Yeah - he channeled a bit of my favorite character in a "modern" Western - Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday.

Aren't these movies usually hits? I mean, they're selling to a country where 40% of its citizens apparently think Donald Trump is a good idea …

Man … this episode is really shaping up to be a modern-day classic … Dabid S. Pumpkins, Black Jeopardy, Sully, this Weekend Update, that weird Halloween theater dance skit … all great.

Yeah, if he found his Wes Anderson, as Bill Murray did, I think that he would have had a number of terrific roles by now.

I think his career would be a lot closer, in some ways, to John Goodman, Bill Murray, James Gandolfini or Tom Hanks … I realize none of these of perfect analogies, but my point is that I think his roles would lean a lot more to the serious/melancholy with some smart humor mixed in. I think he was a good enough actor…

I can't quite quote the scenes (and I'm not going to look them up), but I love the part when he's describing to the statey who pulls over their burnt car why he feels that the car is, indeed, still road safe.

I truly believe that Candy's career would have followed Bill Murray's had he lived - his funny-yet-melancholy turns in P,T & A, Uncle Buck, Only the Lonely, as well as his livewire serious bit part in JFK, seem to support that he was a capable of so much more than just broad comedy.

Ugh, sad news. He and Brian Regan were the first two stand-ups who I really got into! Funny guy, and seemed like a really good guy.

"Put your makeup on,
put your hair up pretty …
And meet me tonight,
Diagon Alley …"

Remember post-Pulp Fiction, when he experienced his own "McConnaissance"? And then pissed away that good will with increasingly bad movie choices?

… has 0 pennants or World Series, and 1 postseason series win in the past 16 years, yet he's treated as if he invented baseball.