STOP! THAT! TRAAIIN!!!

This seems to beg the question: who would you most want to see a scandal happen to?

This seems to beg the question: who would you most want to see a scandal happen to?

Milton Friedman as Bilbo's Economist

Milton Friedman as Bilbo's Economist

Tim Daly is also available.

Tim Daly is also available.

No, I'm just speaking hypothetically, more's the pity.  Last I heard it was Todd Field who was attached.

No, I'm just speaking hypothetically, more's the pity.  Last I heard it was Todd Field who was attached.

@nikleary23:disqus It's good to see a showing, yes, though still, out of 1000 people polled, that's a fairly small showing for someone who's putatively "the most overrated living director."  Notice he doesn't crack the top 100 for the critics, and doesn't come in until the 70s on the directors' lists.  I honestly…

@nikleary23:disqus It's good to see a showing, yes, though still, out of 1000 people polled, that's a fairly small showing for someone who's putatively "the most overrated living director."  Notice he doesn't crack the top 100 for the critics, and doesn't come in until the 70s on the directors' lists.  I honestly…

Speaking as an actor though, we get paid either way.  Sure, we'd all like to be in the final cut, and have our names mentioned in the reviews, but the director's vision is what it is, and ultimately the movie is his or hers to shape.

Speaking as an actor though, we get paid either way.  Sure, we'd all like to be in the final cut, and have our names mentioned in the reviews, but the director's vision is what it is, and ultimately the movie is his or hers to shape.

Ha!  Posted this first!

Ha!  Posted this first!

See, this is why I don't see Malick's vision as "blissful."  And why I think he should be the one directing the film version of Blood Meridian.

See, this is why I don't see Malick's vision as "blissful."  And why I think he should be the one directing the film version of Blood Meridian.

Not totally impossible, though— I attended a screening a few years back in DC that Malick himself introduced (an extreme rarity), and if I remember correctly the museum in question had managed to borrow a 70mm print from, I think they said, the New York Public Library in honor of the occasion.

Not totally impossible, though— I attended a screening a few years back in DC that Malick himself introduced (an extreme rarity), and if I remember correctly the museum in question had managed to borrow a 70mm print from, I think they said, the New York Public Library in honor of the occasion.

I say neither.