Ah, fair enough. Don't know if I caught that one.

"What so wrong with having a hurricane for president? It'll run the country like a business!"

True, Pence and Ryan will probably be pushing the same tax cuts and deregulations, and Trump's unpredictability isn't great for those trying to gauge market trends. In the short term, though, he's definitely their friend.

Sandler is one of the few people who might legitimately have a case against the elitists, at least in the respect that critics and internet commenters treat every new movie he makes like it's a crime against humanity. But I've never gotten the impression that he's particularly bitter or vindictive about these things,…

He also wrote and directed a great (and seriously underrated) Of Mice and Men adaptation.

And something like 5 million votes went to third party candidates. So that's like seventy million people who voted against Trump compared to the sixty-two who wanted him. And that was before this absolute trainwreck of a presidency.

I mean, Sanders didn't come that close.

It's like the line "The media is clearly out to get Trump!" Well no shit, he's a fucking psychopath, they should be trying to take him down.

Sandler strikes me as more apolitical than conservative. I'm not sure I've ever heard him express any beliefs favoring one side over the other.

It has a lot to do with most of Hollywood being liberal. Conservatives tend to cling to minor celebrities who agree with them the same way they do their guns and bibles - like the rest of the world is trying to take these things away from them.

You forgot the uber-rich.

I remember it being fun if you like stuff like The Thomas Crown Affair. The two leads actually have pretty good chemistry. I liked the ending scene, too, which at the moment is the only thing I remember besides the scene you mentioned. They don't really make capers anymore, so maybe I'm remembering it more fondly…

Not to be that guy grumbling about grades, but it was weird reading that headline and then discovering the film got a B- after clicking. That seems to happen a lot, where the both the headline and the review itself are mostly negative but the grade is positive. I know, I know, ignore the grade and read the review. …

Surprised to hear you call Toad the Wet Sprocket an REM ripoff. Toad has much more of a jangly adult alternative thing going than REM, imo. They're pretty different bands.

I'd put Rivers Cuomo up there, though he's a decidedly a different brand of rock star than the cocksure and sweaty standard of Cornell or Grohl.

So is Rated R. They're both fantastic albums.

Damn double post!

I didn't see that one, but I remember Ignatiy describing Cranston's performance as kind of all over the place (he was pretty harsh on the movie in general, to be fair). I'll have to check it out for myself at some point.

"Hammy" is an apt descriptor of just about every Cranston performance. He's a ton of fun to watch, and he seems awesome in real life, but subtlety is not his strong suit.

Agreed completely. Was just playing devil's advocate for a moment and pointing out that the fact that GWB still won doesn’t necessarily mean Moore's film had no impact.