I think this is part of the gamble with mystery films. I'm a very passive viewer when it comes to trying to figure out whatever is being intentionally kept secret, but sometimes you just happen to click with whatever you're watching and what's obvious to you isn't obvious to 95% of smart, engaged viewers. On the next…

Like I always say, I wanna see a Batman movie where he's the world's greatest detective, dammit. Match tire treads to stolen vehicle reports. Solve complicated clues.

No.

Yes, in the end it's revealed that, as hinted at the beginning of the movie, the twins dedicated their lives to the power of this one illusion, and Jackman was so driven to match them (not knowing what they did) that he was willing to, well, you know, hundreds of times.

I still need to get around to watching his space jail movie.

"Bad philosophizing" is definitely one of my quibbles, along with "tangled mess of plotting," "Nolan can't shoot action," "wasted Two Face," "overbearing score," and the dark horse contender, "can't believe I'm saying this, but Gyllenhaal was not an upgrade over Holmes."

I'm not going to pretend to know who does what inside the Nolan shop, but I think Person of Interest winds up being a miracle for how it didn't fall into those traps for me.

I think … ok. I think Heath Ledger gives a perfect performance, and I think there's a hundred other actors his age who could've done the same. I respect the professionalism involved in doing a great crazy person, but I don't think it's great acting. What Anthony Hopkins did as Hannibal Lecter, to me, isn't a hundredth…

I loved Memento enough to go back to see it a second time in theaters, and I left wishing I hadn't; knowing what was going on basically ruined the film for me. Not saying there's anything wrong with the film for that, but I'm always surprised other people find it rewatchable.

For once this will be totally 100% on topic:

In a commercial sense it's true. In an artistic sense I'd rather watch Insomnia than most of his other films. (I'd also rather not rewatch Insomnia, all else being equal.)

Not wearying at all:

The horror. The horror.

I called one once, for a game nobody seems to remember called Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri*, and I was embarrassed and trying to rush through it quickly.

I remember an eighth grade classmate very briefly getting in trouble with his dad because the phone bill (or credit card? can't remember quite how it worked) recorded charges for calling "Virgin Interactive" to get tips for beating games published by that company, which is not what the dad originally thought that was…

Seemed to me that everybody on up to Irons is perfectly smart and knowledgeable about finance, they just don't have the math to do the statistical modeling for risk projections and the like, so there are specialists for that. As we see in The Big Short when Gosling points at "my quant". If/when today's young quants…

I will bet you all the money in my pocket that the cutesy-ridiculous "bastard names" convention GRRM came up with was 100% driven by wanting to have a hero named Snow from the North.

I wouldn't tell this to an Irish or Australian person a few pints into the evening.

One third of the actors who have played James Bond were not British (Lazenby is Australian, Brosnan is Irish).

Well, he might have assholes in his life. But I think this is actually sort of an important thing, much as it pains me to say that buried under a pile of his typical bullshit David Brooks might have found himself next to a good point recently: there are people, particularly but not only with food, who are basically…