Yeah, something tells me they're gonna just skip all that and have him be handsome from the get go.

Yeah there was something about buying a bowflex or whatever kind of machine. But I recall when he deliberately gets arrested by creditors and gets his head shaved, I thought they emphasize that he's gross. Or that he has no self-esteem cause he's ugly, or thinks he's ugly?

Wasn't there a scene where he has to do all the dialogue from War Games and gestures and all that perfectly? Cline sets it up as a pivotal moment, and then is just like, "well, our hero has memorized everything about this movie, so he does it perfectly."

Isn't he a bit schlubby in the book? Not a new move, obviously, but certainly funny that a book so proudly self-aware and inundated with references still falls victim to the aesthetic upgrade the protagonist has to have from page to screen.

I feel like The Straight Story is probably always going to take the prize for most tightly constructed Lynch movie.

God, I love each and every Balthazar Getty takedown by DFW in his David Lynch Keeps His Head essay.

I tend to think Social Network is his best, or at least the most consistently enjoyable. Zodiac, by virtue of having to go cold and dull in places, has some stretches where my attention wanes. Social Network, benefiting from an amazing score and great screenplay, absolutely hums from start to finish.

I liked his stuff up through and including Big Daddy, which I think is why I got suckered into giving Click a shot and, holy shit, is that a piece of garbage.

I mean, Federer is killing it these days with that one-handed backhand.

Yeah, health and body armor and that type of stuff is always the line in the sand of whether you're truly good or not. If you need it and feel shamed to use it, you're not as good as you think.

With the "License to Kill" one-shot kill setting, though, the Klobb becomes a pretty useful gun.

Yes, semantically it's a contradictory statement. I was going more for the idea that, like, I think most people consider The Beatles to be objectively good, or that I think sunsets are objectively pretty. Obviously there are curmudgeons all over.

The Verve made that particular song. Is it really eardrum-piercingly bad? I get not liking the style, maybe, but it's a pretty beautiful string arrangement - for which they have to pay Jagger/Richards handsomely - with simple drums and vocals. It's probably been played to death but I thought it was a pretty…

Wholeheartedly agree. It was his American Hustle, a movie where the setting and costumes and music were somehow supposed to be enough and very much were not. I love me some Joaquin, and I mean, you're adapting a Thomas Pynchon novel - no one's expecting straightforward, but the last thing that should be is, as you…

At one point he had an insanely weird website that was like navigating through a spaceship. It was really awesome and hilarious.

They'd hopefully give him a noble ending like Ser Barristan Selmy.

Yeah, the performance aspect makes it great. Even someone like Miranda - his talent is undeniable but all orbits musical theater.

If I remember correctly, he's the general in the control room overseeing the whole mission.

Yeah, Burn After Reading was an unenjoyable watch for me, save for Brad Pitt and the scene where Malkovich is singing the Princeton fight song hammered.

Oh I know, was trying to blend the geographical part of the conversation with the reference. Should've known not to stray from purity w/r/t The Simpsons.