I don't know if it was this year or I merely watched it this year, but "The Stanford Prison Experiment" really stuck with me. The kid from Sky High played a really convincing creep, and the whole young cast was uniformly excellent.

Yeah I'm with you on the Wolf of Wall Street, that was probably his best-ever role and I'm not sure another actor could've done it as convincingly. Maybe Bale, if he's channeling Patrick Bateman.

I think he is getting that press, for sure, but back to back wins is just so rare. And I think the movie itself is getting kind of middle of the road reviews, which tends to hurt the actor's chances, fairly or not. If ever there were a year for DiCaprio to sneak in with a win, this would seem to be it.

Who is the main competition even going to be this year? Redmayne won't win in consecutive years. I feel like Cranston getting a nomination alone would be a victory, making the TV to movies transition successfully. I thought Fassbender was great in Steve Jobs, I wouldn't mind him taking it down.

It reminded me of the scene in Mulholland Dr. where the fat lady knows the blonde hit man is gonna kill her and she's doing pretty much the same thing, like if she says it hard enough he won't do it.

127 Hours, because that will bother me if I let it go unmentioned.

With non-fiction you're at least always learning. With fiction, there's more trust involved that the author knows what he/she is doing. If after enough you pages that trust begins to falter, the inclination to tough it out wanes. I'm usually not one to quit on books, but I've been doing it more lately when I have…

Far too soon.

Why aren't they pointing out that they're human beings as well and not actual eagles?

That's an affect a lot of people have done over the years though, right? Wasn't that a Johnny Cash thing?

Haven't seen the latter 2 but what made you bail on Gone Girl?

Though there is the stakeout Ep in Parks where Tom explains that he deliberately chose a watered down white guy name because he fancied a career in politics and felt his birth name would be alienating.

Wasn't the Maginot line quickly and effectively bypassed by Germany through Belgium?

I like that David Carradine is re-animated and there's old footage of Bela Lugosi, but for some reason Bernie Mac's presence is just not qualified.

"Dirty Work"'s MIB-porn these days would he heralded as a brave, challenging entry into sexual identity in a digital age.

haha, well as a lot of people are saying here, opinions are divided on whether it is considered a horror movie. it doesn't have frankenstein or anything, but i'm always way more unnerved when i put on a david lynch movie than I am 95% of typical horror fare, so take that for what it's worth. he and his collaborators…

You don't want it spoiled, just watch it. No description can do it justice.

Good father? Fuck you, go home and play with your kids.

I've been debating an Inherent Vice rewatch but I think you just talked me out of it. If I didn't like it in theaters (which I didn't), sounds like it doesn't improve. I don't know how that combination of people and source didn't work (for me, anyways).

It's definitely tough to swallow *unless* you've had a similar sing along / relieve the tension moment with friends, which I have, and then it resonates.