It's like he's "hitching" his movie's music to Vertigo's. 

Agreed.  I like Albert Brooks alot, and while he absolutely nails his role in Drive, it's pretty small in terms of screen-time, and there's nothing obviously incredible about it.  I'm thrilled he and the movie are getting alot of press, but I don't see what the craze is about for him in that.

@Shan At the end of Jerry Maguire he makes a plan in a prime time game and does a nifty little dance, it kind of shows there. 

Regarding movies about people who are bad all the way through: I feel like that's where There Will Be Blood loses me.  I think there's something about his success in life that bothers me.  Through no fault of the movie, it's obvious he's a preternaturally motivated and clever person in booming industry, so his riches…

I wonder if he thinks Mookie did the right thing.

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Yeah there really isn't an argument for Goodfellas being bad.  At least, the OP didn't make one.

@ Renaton: I thought Dunst was good, but yeah, Gainsbourg had the tougher role.  I find that to be a recurring theme, like with 'Rachel Getting Married' and 'Martha Marcy May Marlene", where Rosemarie DeWitt and Sarah Paulson, respectively, have the more difficult assignments to realistically play off these characters…

Forrest Gump also has a baby-boomer friendly soundtrack, not-too-distracting  use of CGI, I assume it made a ton of money…  I used to really like it, and I still have no problem appreciating some of the acting and writing (it's got to challenge Casablanca for number of lines that became ridiculously famous), but I…

What the hell are you on about?

I call hogwash, I remember being truly sad and moved during the period when Rafael was rehabilitating and they were all training at that farm-house with April and there was something about a burned out volkswagen and a bathtub.  Also, c'mon, "Ninja! Vanish!" is how I exited rooms for a good couple of months.  This…

Guy on the far left looks like Joel Coen. 

I kind of liked it.  The drive of the main character isn't really given enough believability / reason to exist, but Charlize Theron is pretty awesome at being a repellent personality, and all the supporting people are good as well.  It does a good job, at the least, of showing the daily routines of someone who drinks…

If that's the working definition for science fiction, then yeah it qualifies.  I always thought science fiction was any story where a technology not currently available exists, and the implications that has on society allows for social judgements, critiques, etc.  That pretty much aligns with your possible if not…

Death Race 2000 isn't really science fiction, though, right?  I think it's just a dystopian future.  I watched that a few months ago and was really excited to love it, I think AV Club did a write up about it as well, maybe a dvd review, but it didn't do much for me.  Stallone is hilarious, and some of the gags are…

Dazed and Confused is one of those movies I first saw as a young high schooler, and obviously most of the plot and language and all that just seemed "cool" to me at that age.  Thankfully, though, I rewatch that movie at least once every two years, and it holds up so damn well and possibly gets better, it's just so…

And "wielded Darth Vader's lightsaber" comes second. 

Well the ridiculous is part of the charm.  Pete and Pete and Salute Your Shorts and the like were all so deilghtfully weird, but in that way that as a young kid it makes immediate sense to you.  Watching it too young, you wouldn't get it, too old you're probably a bit too jaded or mature to enjoy the goofy stuff.  I'm…

Woody Allen for best director?  I can see a Screenplay nomination, the guys got like 30 of those, and while Midnight in Paris was alot of fun, there was nothing great about the direction.  If you bought into the nostalgia, i'd say it was more because of the acting, costumes, cinematoraphy and all that vs. skillful…

Is that a Jeffrey Wright in 'Shaft' reference?