"The caffeine helps us feel alive, to discard the awful weight of our meaningless existence, but it is brief. Soon we return to the malaise, adrift in time and thought, and oh look a Roy Rogers, pull over here."

Comedians discussing comedy with other comedians might be the least funny thing out there.

Seems like they were only mentioning folks they wrote Obits / articles about. I highly doubt Cruyff got any kind of treatment here, which is fair, it's an American pop culture site. The times they do athletes seems to be rather rare, when, like Ali, they simply transcended sports, or they'll surely do someone like a…

Oh okay. Yeah the dialogue, somewhat ironically in a movie extolling the beauty of communication, was definitely stilted and bizarre in portions. Almost everything Forrest Whitaker said was ridiculous, as I recall.

For Arrival, do you mean the mathematical term they're trying to conjure? If so I agree - I was kind of flummoxed thinking of what word she could be trying to think of, and then felt better about myself but worse about the movie when that was the term they landed on. There had to be a more elegant way to phrase all…

It's kind of a weird feeling that I really liked Hell or High Water but think it's getting overpraised in some ways. I thought it was well acted with a great consistent look and tone, if not a particularly great or subtle story.

I could see Moonlight, both for being a great, well acted movie, as well as this being the follow-up year to the oscars-so-white thing, having a really big night.

I definitely understand the appeal, or at least the proposed appeal. The music is great, I love David Wingo's scores for Nichols movies. I think it's successfully atmospheric, shuttling between dark safe houses at night, the evening driving being effectively moody. Shannon and Edgerton give good performances, and…

La La Land, even with a skull-rattling hangover, product of a poorly thought out night-before-a-date-night-out, was incredibly charming and fun. One of those movies that makes great movies seem they like they should come along more often because every step of the way is so self assured. Chazelle, only two movies in,…

The only really annoying thing about his performance is the constant voice cracking, and what are ya gonna do, puberty sucks.

I love this anecdote (not sure how true but I'll give the benefit of the doubt) from Paul Thomas Anderson on film school in general and his affinity for T2:

"Utah, get me (T)2!"

He gives a shout out to the Abyss.

That's one of those "written by committee" things that just owns so hard regardless.

The end of that pilot is a veritable cure-all if you're having a down day (which is to say, nothing really wrong). When Sam, through sheer force of will, makes himself start dancing faster and then Lindsay's half-cry/half-smile dancing with Ben Foster…so lovely.

Why so low for Barry Lyndon, if I may ask? And considering we're talking about a master, "low" in this case could easily still be B+/A- range.

When Bullock does his Wu impersonation saying "Swearengen!" I fucking lost it. Maybe the flat-out funniest moment on a show that can manufacture huge laughs.

Gene Parmesan!

Gosling is always a treat, but Crowe is…not funny. I'm not sure if the theater I saw it in was just too empty to really enjoy it more, but I was pretty 'meh' on that whole thing. The actress who plays the missing girl is horrendous, too.

I think I know the scene you mean (i.e. Lee's reason for being who he is later in life) and while I did agree at first, I feel like it goes on for long enough that it justifies the operatic-ness. If I remember correctly, it's still going well into the follow-up scene until the cut back to present, which might have…