No but Rourke has some choice words for the good doctor, even though he doesn't seem to remember his name. At one point he says something like "I think she (Lisa Bonet) was on some kind of TV show at the time, right?".

That logic doesn't hold water. It's akin to saying that Michael Bay is a better director than Speilberg based on 'Hook'.

I think that's true of 'Follow The Leader' but not 'Paid in Full'. I think Migrant makes an interesting point though. Some of the pre-Golden Age Hip Hop I have on my iPod holds up ('Roxanne, Roxanne', 'La Di Da Di') and some are practically novelty tunes ('Leader of the Pack', 'The Show') that I probably ought to…

"can't wait to revisit Angel Heart"

Sly Stone did some of his best work in the 70's—the first half anyway.

If you take offense at anything Seth McFarlane does you are

4 out of 5 dentists surveyed recommend Trident to their patients who chew gum
What gets me is how many commentors are calling for or advocating some kind of "critical consensus" either for or against the film or its methods, or the article and its author. Is there anything more detrimental to critical thinking than…

ZMF as averb? Why not?

All jokes aside, English is "the world's best language"—It is indeed strong and durable, yet soft and absorbent—

But clearly this one long take is not intended as an imitation or an approximation of human vision—to do that you'd use a hand-held whose movement mirrors that of a human P.O.V. (and because we don't take any one character's position—rather we assume some detached 6th position in the car dead center of the action).…

Also—to quote Bill Slowsky:
"Why don't you like fun?"

Exactly. You have this sense 0f being in the car. It's not a hand held jerky POV shot either, but a very deliberate movement, that never cheats on who is where—a thing most contemporary action movies do not do well at all. Consider the later sequence where they are trying to get the car started and the dogs and…

"every cut as a little lie"
No—but it is a "technical event" every bit as intrusive as a camera movement to our preception of events. The very fact that most people don't notice that it's one long take is because, even though we ellide over the spaces between when looking left and right, the eye does see them, we edit…

Frito—they're not just 'Wild Boys', they're 'Hungry Like the Wolf' in part because they're not allowed to make the 'Union of the Snake'.

AMC showed a letterboxed 'Mad Max' marathon, which I watched intermittently. Yeah, they finally got the letterboxing, but commercial breaks during the last half hour of 'The Road Warrior'? It hurts.

That was kind of my point—her relationship with Tom, like NIcole Kidman's before it, reeked of Hollywood promotional synergy and the opportunity to promote his latest project.

You'd better believe English is "the world's best language"—It's strong and durable, yet soft and absorbent. It's perfect for cleaning up even your toughest household messes. No wait, that's Bounty paper towels.

Something appropriate about being a grammar Nazi where German is concerned.

Not directly—unless you are part of some educational or charity organization—but you can get in through Mexico. For what it's worth, my exwife's mother was the Ugandan ambassador to Canada and Cuba for several years when we we together, and I always wanted to get t0 tag along on a trip to Cuba when she went (she was…

I took Japanese in college, after I had been an exchange student in high school, so I know enough to embarrass myself—When I watch Japanese movies I regularly recognize words or phrases but I could never summon them up on my own, and I would still be lost in most cases. Samurai films though, all share at least one…