Yeah, Ochoa's son being Lydia's baby daddy would've been interesting.

It looks like she's gone downhill since leaving Sammy - she looked pretty strung out.

Yeah, good call on the "oh, another cop show" bias….this one is SOOOO not a procedural, though. It's almost anti-procedural, in that you RARELY follow any of the cases all the way through.

Are you kidding? That first shot was through at least one fence, from a couple hundred yards away, with nothing that even resembles a hunting/sniper rifle. Helluva shot.

The fact that Axel's motivations were up for debate was interesting.

If you don't give a crap about the characters, I'd suggest that those scenes obviously AREN'T "great character-building"

A "<"/">" argument in this case is like asking me to pick which of my children I love the most.

Excellent observation, I was thinking the same thing.

Tropic Thunder manages to be less than the sum of its parts, but it's got some pretty great parts, so it holds together.

You donate your blood to blood banks; you can sell plasma to companies who remove the plasma and re-insert the red blood cells back in. #shitpoorpeoplegottado

Is it the same guy who kept selling "Lust for Life" to non-heroin related products?

"Shane MacGowan new teeth" popped up IMMEDIATELY when I Google'd (well, technically "binged") it.

The moral of this story? EVERYBODY LOVES THE POGUES.

Let me redact my previous comment to read "…brilliantly PUT TOGETHER" as opposed to directed.

That's easy to say, but I think that a good, if not great, director can capture a performance in a way that some hack cannot.

I'd say Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii also does what D'Angelo lauds Stop Making Sense for doing, with the caveat that there *were* no concertgoers to observe PF's performance in that film (4-5 kids who were allowed into the amphitheater excepted)

Yeah, those stealth-cool Halloween outfits are the best. I went as a Fury (from The Warriors) one year, and for every 3-4 people who were wondering "WTF is with that dude?" there was one who came up and went nuts.

Buscemi's animal is "lemur" 

I am assuming that group is neither small nor select.

I am assuming that group is neither small nor select.