When it comes to historical inaccuracy and ancient Rome, nothing in recent times holds a candle to "Gladiator".

Rome is no "I Claudius", but its better that Todd not get his paws on that one anyway.

That show is OK - but is kind of ruined by the fact that the leading actor is completely miscast as a wild man and the leading actress (his wife in real life) has zero charisma.

I voted for Rome.

I think "About Schmidt" is Payne's best movie - it is a rare American film that reminds me a little of Ozu in its willingness to embrace life's sadness. I like Election and Ruth but both strike me as a bit too facile (not a fan at all of Sideways).

So I saw this

Me too!

I wonder if all the people blasting Shutter Island saw it on a big screen.

I think Shutter Island is Scorcese's 2nd best film after Raging Bull - but then I'm not generally a big fan of his either.

Have only seen the trailer thus far, but the main actresses looks are ALL wrong for the type who became movie stars in the late 20's/early 30's.

Dinosaurs was terrible. It was a lame Honeymooners ripoff ( a la The Flintstones) and the puppets were creepy.

In the trial scenes, the indication was that under current military law (which is not the same thing as civilian law), a certain amount of civilian casualties are legally acceptable in drone strikes according to some sort of complex algorithm.

The Good Wife is essentially a traditional lawyer show - where it stands apart from the others is most lawyer shows establish a predictable simple formula (usually good guy/bad guy) and then never break away from it.

I've been thinking about the judge's final speech to Alicia - and in retrospect her argument was complete BS.

So I went back and watched the first sequence in the show and there were some interesting things I didn't pick up on initially:

I hope you will keep us posted as to when it's OK to start being angry again.

I think the point was she was being put on trial not because she killed innocent bystanders, but that she killed more than an 'acceptable' limit.

Kalinda finds out the night before - considering the importance of the DA change of plans you'd think she would have called Will immediately instead of waiting till regular business hours the next day.

The Wire  was very sociology-oriented - it had a much broader canvas than most TV shows - kind of like a Dickens novel.

What about all the stuff with Amy Sedaris?