SELMA is gaining momentum and FOXCATCHER is dead in its tracks; I'd be surprised if those two didn't flip for the Oscars, or if it's just the other nine and neither of those.

Yeah, they're just harking back to the glory days of cinema when 3-D Godard movies were at every corner cinema.

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT is what every subsequent depiction of war asprises to be.

I think that THE DOORS is a fantastic movie about the '60's rock scene, but not a very good biography of Jim Morrison, if that makes sense. (Similarly, I think that JFK is a wonderful depiction of the post-assassination paranoia, but it fails at its stated intent to present the truth of what happened.)

Yeah, that is definitely the point, and it is drilled deeper and deeper into the viewers head over the course of 45 minutes.

Because she enthusastically videotaped her fiancee murdering a little girl, the woman has been condemned to be repeatedly run through an emotional torture chamber vaguely relating to her crime. The entire thing is a combination nature reserve, theme park, and game show.

Not quite; she said "check the movie and make up your own mind". Like, don't take my word for it, but watch my word brought to life dramatically and then read his boring words and decide for yourself. This isn't really a "both sides" issue, the recordings exist and are readily available.

That is a little surprising, but I do know that in the years of development, there was a lot of push to do a "warts and all" type biopic of MLK.

"John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the Fourth of July in 1826."

"feel the movie should highlight this bright part more then this stained one over here."

In that scenario, being gay wouldn't really be the character flaw, and it is obviously intended to indict the level of anti-homosexual laws in the UK at the time… but, yeah, that is still a pretty shitty thing to invent.

"The movie's about MLK Jr., and quite frankly that LBJ aide quoted seems to have wanted a portrayal where every advance and push is "balanced""

I found her dismissiveness kind of disengenuous, as if there is still some debate as to whether Johnson supported the Civil Rights Act. It's not exactly an open question. If somebody made a movie where MLK was a thug punching people in the face, I wouldn't need to interrogate history by seeing the movie to know that…

I think that the writers were in a tough position, because they needed somebody to fill the Dax void in the finale arc, but they needed the audience to know who she was. Any development of her in the 7th season is going to come at the expense of further developing characters you already know and like. So it is one…

Nah, Bajor applied and then pulled out their application to remain neutral. They eventually joined the Federation's side in the war, but they never actually joined the Federation. Sisko gives her a rank in Starfleet, and I think it's only implied that she keeps it when she takes over the station, but you can join…

"which the Federation seemed to be losing badly for so long,"

"there is never any moral quandry to wiping them off the face of the galaxy."

Oh, wait, looking back, you missed the thing that makes that even more of a money quote, which is that that is also something women should tell their husbands.

To be fair, I met one of the writers for that show… I've never watched it, but talking with him made me feel better about Bronies, because the current show isn't quite as exclusively pitched towards six-year-old girls as I'd been led to believe. Not far enough to make me watch it, but I just felt less skeevy about…

It will help them get dates with girls who think that giving in and letting their boyfriend have sex with them will turn him into a feral murderous animal.