The Two-Face effect didn't take me out of the film at all. I was prepared for a special effect and it was a special effect. Ah, well. That said, I don't think The Dark Knight will rate that highly. It'll be There Will Be Blood or No Country for Old Men.

Aroo?

I once ate caveat emptor after purchasing a ticket to Juno.

Stacy512 is quickly becoming my favorite poster on this site. You're much better now than when you were trolling the site's writers, Stacy.

Well, whatever you think about my post, I think we can all agree that Anderson should make a movie about lawyers who go skiing with suitcases in their hands.

For my take on the film's meaning, see above.

Pick a crime: he was out in the nick of time,
To get paid another day and live to kick a sicker rhyme.
For illa, it's like Miller malt liquor time;
Up town finery where it's probably not best to flaunt.
Everyone's your best friend V steps into the restaurant.

Are you prepared?
My body is afraid, but I am not.

The Madvillainy follow-up is nearing completion and Ghostface claims Swift and Changeable is more than half done (his half, unsurprisingly).

The Films of Wes Anderson
…attempt, and at their best manage, to capture a sense of being passed by by the world, of existing out of time in a place of your imagination. He sets his films in the worlds their characters perceive and focuses on the disjunct between this world and the world as we perceive it; he derives…

Close enough, anyway. No Paul Thomas, though.

Bitch, even L. Ron Hubbard could own your alien ass tonight.

Once More into the Breach,
…a DOOM quote thread (not a firstie attempt).

As for the scene featuring Owen walking down the street, I must ask whether there is something odd to you about a long cut following a single character as he/she goes about an ordinary activity. There is for me. Such a cut risks lulling the audience to boredom; no one wants to watch every single second of a guy…

@Mike:
When I watch such a sequence as that excerpted I could not care less about the difficulty to which the filmmakers went to achieve it if- imagine italics on that "if"- the sequence is intellectually and emotionally satisfying to me. As my post suggests, Cuaron's long takes are satisfying to me in such a manner.…

There is an atmosphere created by talented stage actors of participation in a common event that is typically lacking from cinema; this scene has that atmosphere. That atmosphere is used to heighten the reality of the scene by grounding the viewer in the reality of the characters. We watch the scene progress from…

Matt Damon?

Chiwetel Ejiofor and Julianne Moore were crap?!

Well, the Hammett jam was certainly a peanut butter pudding surprise.

Horsefellow, Biastioc, ZMF, EVL, and Hulkster need to get adjacent apartments in NYC and a multi-camera sitcom to document their wacky exploits.