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YOU LEAVE KAREN GILLAN ALONE

That movie was so horrendous.

Lebowski's sweater would be insanely great to own. And it looks so damn comfortable.

Nigel's X-ray t-shirt would be pretty rad.

I almost bid on the Backgammon set from Lost when it was up for auction— would have been cool, but I just couldn't justify the cost.

Explaining this is a tall order. I would never say that their comedy was for everyone. Comedy is so weird to quantify anyway.

I laugh at almost everything they do. Even that terrible-ass movie was sort of funny.

I feel like Don Johnson earned his stripes in Django and should be back. He was like the funniest/best thing in the movie.

Inception was an interesting case, because the concept was fascinating and there was definitely room for ambiguity— Nolan's one concession to that (the spinning top) was actually, in my mind, a pretty cool coda that gives you something to mull over. I'm reminded of the end of Philip K. Dick's "Ubik," how one little

Hope you enjoy it! And Primer will forever have a spot in my heart.

I'm not sure 2001 would be an "event" today. It's hard not to view it through rose-colored glasses. I have a suspicion we'd all roll our eyes at the opening flash-forward.

I get that impression also— "exposition" is as dirty a word as "adverb" in many writers' lexicons. But I do believe it serves a purpose when the concept warrants. Granted, you can overdo it, and there comes a point where perhaps you've stopped trusting the audience and you're hurting your cause. But in Nolan's case,

One comment that specifically interests me is when people get on Nolan's case for using exposition. Is this criticism based on the idea that his use of exposition represents a storytelling failure, or is this just recognizing a stylistic fetish and ragging on it because he uses it to excess?

We're gonna be famous!

You may be right. Though the presentation, to my memory, was extremely spare and didn't seem to carry any of the filmmakers' opinions at all. Which is maybe the point, as you suggest.

The thing is, if that's what it is about, it plays that very close to the chest. So "Room 237" is doing for its viewers sort of what "The Shining" did for those people that have the floor in "Room 237."

It's weird how obstinate King is on this whole Kubrick thing. Maybe he's just painted himself into a corner and refuses to swallow his pride. "The Shining" is a good movie. It's a compelling movie. Is it great? That's debatable, but to treat it like a pariah is flat-out bizarre.

Maura Tierney! She seems cool and really mellow. And Gene Hackman was nice to her, so it must be true.

*cough* Katee Sackhoff *cough*

This is ridonkulous. I hope they manage to find a painless way to transition out of their main stable of actors, if that is indeed the plan. Though I hope they all stick around. I long to see RDJ and Chris Evans in Avengers 3: Rise of The Cumberbatch.