The only other director I'm aware of who doesn't use second units is Edgar Wright, whose films are on a much smaller scale but probably have just as many or more setups in them.

Except those series are pretty explicitly based on the films in question, and not the original novels. I don't think that anyone could really argue that Batman TAS is based explicitly on the Burton movies; it might have drawn some inspiration from them (in addition to copping the theme song), but it drew much more…

And if you make it all the way to end, you can hear whoever was doing the farts crack themselves up and giggle like children (I assume it was Wain and Show, how do you delegate a task like that?).

I saw Catfish pretty soon after I saw Exit Through the Gift Shop and I couldn't believe it was that one that everyone was doubting. To this day I can't see Catfish as anything less than complete and utter bullshit from start to finish.

"If you've got a history book at home, take it out and throw it in the bin, it's WORTHLESS. The history books, now, will have to be rewritten."

I see a lot of people talking about preferring shorter seasons and I have to disagree. Some of the best character moments happened in the early seasons because they had to pad out to 24. Even though some characters' flashbacks got SUPER repetitive by season 3 (Kate: "My name's not _____!" Every damn time.), it was…

I really hope Burr is a regular on Better Caul Saul

I think that kind of is the evidence of a diverse range. Those characters couldn't be more different from each other, even though they sound exactly the same.

You're right, I'll just go back in time and see True Grit in a theater.

I have and it definitely holds up as a great piece of work. I also just remembered at the time I was down on it because it was getting most of the attention over my two other favorite films of the year, There Will Be Blood and Zodiac, so that colored my perception of it at the time, Obviously now, with the benefit of…

I think Deakins is just really busy right now. I know he couldn't shoot Burn After Reading and it was the first film of theirs he didn't shoot since Miller's Crossing. Also the first they shot digitally.

I'm gonna really go against the grain here:
1. The Hudsucker Proxy
2. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Fargo
4. Miller's Crossing
5. Raising Arizona

Maybe disappointed is the wrong word. I really liked No Country a lot, but it had been built up so much before I saw it (on opening weekend, not that long to get overhyped) I was underwhelmed. And a lot of my unenjoyment of True Grit was technical, because I couldn't understand anything anyone in that movie said on my…

Very true. I have been somewhat disappointed with all of their recent films (including No Country) but I still know that no matter what every film they make is more interesting than almost anything made these days.

He also allegedly wrote Hungry Heart with the intent of giving it to the Ramones, but Jon Landau convinced him to record it himself.

I remember as a budding comedy fan in the late 90s I got my mom to buy me a copy of Seinlanguage and was very disappointed that it was basically the exact same thing as I'm Telling You for the Last Time, which I had been playing nonstop for a few months. It took me a while to trust a book by a comedian again (come to…

Diamonds have about as much "inherent" value as gold or silver. The only reason the latter have been traditionally used as currency is because they are shiny and easier to tote around than five pound sacks of grain. So, to me, diamonds make as much sense as any other shiny/sparkly thing you dig out of the ground. I'm…

I'm a fan of their comedy shows too, but I wish they would still show an actual independent film every once in a while. I saw a lot of interesting shit on there back in the day.

I was at a midnight showing with only about 6 other people in the theater and the hand through the glass got such a big laugh I thought the theater had filled up behind me (it hadn't).

I went to see Meat Puppets Saturday and I'm only 26 and now I'm thinking I should shave my beard.