*Enters pedantic drug user character*

Bunker Buster is my shit.

They could call themselves "Roseanne Barr's Queef Machine" and it wouldn't matter because they're fucking great.

He's definitely channeling Death Grips to some degree on Yeezus at times, but I wouldn't call it a "cheap" emulation, 1. because Death Grips doesn't have a monopoly on industrial hip-hop (Hello El-P!) and 2. so much of the production is still so surprising and stunning. The production on Blood On The Leaves alone…

Comparing him to Diddy is frankly ridiculous. Diddy was never much of a "producer" (more of a business guy who put himself on tracks and in videos); he was never taken seriously as a musical presence while Kanye is widely regarded as one of the greatest producers of all time, from even before he was a performer. Also,…

I don't think "One of the most" influential is a stretch. You mention Slacker's influence, but also, Dazed and Confused has inspired every High School comedy that's come after it. Without Waking Life, I'm not sure there'd be a Waltz With Bashir. And God knows all the indie films inspired by Before Sunrise.

You all are fucking crazy. The last shot of Wolf of Wall Street alone says more about contemporary America than most movies do in their entire runtimes. It or Her should have won Best Pic last year, and I suspect those will be the movies most remembered from that slate.

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Not to mention The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. He was an often excellent journeyman, but Linklater is, to be snooty and pretentious, an auteur.

Slacker is awesome, you guys, come on. Nobody here is getting my Madonna pap smear.

You're right. No way 6,000 people can vote as strategically as so many people think.

I thought it was perfectly paced and not long at all. Remember, Linklater has 12 segments (though they're not signposted as such) to deal with: Age 6, Age 7, Age 14, 15, etc., and let's just say each age gets about say, 14 minutes. He can't overemphasize one age over the other by giving it too much time, or another…

It was just a ribbing from someone who's clearly a friend.

Oh shit, I accidentally upvoted myself and now I feel about myself. I need Terrence Howard to emotionally praise me all out of proportion.

Yes, because Richard Linklater, one of the most important and influential filmmakers of his generation, is on the same level as Martin Ritt. What the actual fuck?

Yeah, the big three frontrunners were easily the best the Oscars have had in years.

Whiplash is incredibly edited and it's a great film (the last 10 minutes alone make it's award earned), but it IS super showy. Remember, the Oscars always give it to the "most" of something instead of the "best", it's just that sometimes the best and most can overlap. I do think the fact that Linklater and his editor…

Historically, you're right, but 3 of the last 5 winners have been about the importance of or inner complexity of actors (Birdman, The Artist) or the importance of Hollywood (Argo), leading me to think films about ordinary life are more likely to get overlooked. Hell, remember when Crash beat Brokeback and everybody…

It's a weird movie (and a very good one), but it's a film about the importance of actors with very BIG acting; of course it will win from a voting body that is majority actors, in lieu of a more "Oscary" choice. I just think, on some level, that Boyhood was too great to win, so I resigned myself to Birdman winning (at…

Eddie Redmayne's performance in The Theory of Everything is literally almost entirely grinning.