If they'd decided to go with two French leads, the male role probably would've gone to Gerard Depardieu at that time. Then again, if you're going to cast two foreign leads, you might as well just make it as a foreign language film and be done with it.

"Nobb's End" sounds like a Downton porn parody.

Your first argument was better than your second, and I say that as someone who wasn't really moved by Archer's performance (it's not her fault, the character is just pretty vaguely written). Glen Close has been robbed of Oscars often enough that she and Annette Benning must have their own victims support group.

You wisely excised 14 and a half minutes of both of them awkwardly attempting and failing to say something helpful before the inevitable scramble for the scissors begins. You're crediting them with too much self-awareness. I'm sure Yiannopoulos would consider reassuring a trangender teen that the moments before…

Of all people, I think it's richly deserved that he gets the benefit of zero doubts.

Apologies in advance for a long response. I just really like this movie.

On the substance of what you wrote, I don't think that the movie would work at all if Spader was the sub and Gyllenhaal the dom. First of all, I think that such a change would make Spader the protagonist of the movie, since the movie's mainly focused on what motivates the submissive in such a relationship. Most people…

Yeah, to me it's the most romantic movie so far this century. The unconventional elements help highlight all the things that are universal about romance and love.

Virgin Suicides is a better movie, but I think if you want to know who Coppola is as a director, Lost is the signature movie for better and for worse.

As a former attorney, I'll say that that sort of capacity for cruelty does not exactly repel clients from legal counsel.

"Come with me if you want to live!" is an awkward thing to shout during sex. Particularly if it's kinda a one-night stand.

I think you're half-right. I'd place a load of stuff (Do the Right Thing, X, She's Gotta Have It, even Inside Man) between those two movies. Then again, maybe I need to see Summer of Sam again, since I pretty much hated it on contact.

Most of the original Iron Chef is dubbed by some awesome voice talents that just make it delightful—the campy tone the American version strains so hard to find is right up front in the dubbed version. The little guy might get a kick out of it.

I think you're overestimating When Harry Met Sally's influence, and underestimating the extent to which those conventions were codified by rom coms that preceded it. You don't have to go back to the screwball comedies, just look at other rom coms from the 80s. WHMS came out at the end of a decade chock full of movies…

I think the point is that while a lot of subsequent "Modern Rom Coms" look like they're imitating When Harry Met Sally, they're missing the things that really made WHMS groundbreaking. Lots of movies took up something of the movie's tone while still utilizing contrived external obstacles and not even trying to find a…

They're in Jones's fallout bunker, and Trump is trading the medal for the last can of peaches in the free world…

This is the kind of shit that gets the general public cheering for military coups.

"The Stone Cold Stunner is part of an endless chain of catastrophies, the demise of the dinosaurs being just one of these events. We seem to be next."

Actually, with that cast, it's at HBO for Prestige Nudity(tm)—where you have the prospect of A-list stars you really wanted to see naked 10-20 years ago possibly getting naked.

American Iron Chef or Japanese? Because the American one is kind of a snoozefest…