I said this above, but I think that this interview subject is discussing the way second-unit is done now and then reaching back and overly applying it to "Lord of the Rings". Either that or everybody in the making-of docs was full of shit, because there is a LOT of talk in there about how Jackson would sit behind his…

Her power is that she has vague powers that do stuff, but not *too* hard.

It's weird; at the time that "Lord of the Rings" was actually being shot, and in the documentaries and whatnot, they repeatedly emphasize that Jackson had a direct line to the other units and could watch the shots as they were being shot (or immediately after) and make adjustments, creating the impression that he was…

From what I remember reading, Spielberg never used to believe in second-unit, but they had to shoot "Raiders of the Lost Ark" so cheap (relatively cheap for what they needed, I mean) that he had to hand over the truck chase to the second-unit. So he went over it all in the storyboards, and then crossed his fingers,…

I have no idea what point you think I am making, but I literally can not say what I meant any clearer.

Here's the thing; on a basic level, you are suggesting that the most plausible explanation is that the police screwed up their jobs so royally that they found literally no evidence of murder, yet the murder was so obvious that randos on the pre-Internet were able to figure out exactly how it happened based solely on…

I don't know all of the details about this case, but why is it important that the police didn't interview somebody who was a great liar?

I think "she does heroin, therefore she could be a murderer" is a pretty huge leap.

Because the time he tried to commit suicide via OD, Courtney Love saved his life. Shotgun is a little more final.

"allow for pretty basic murder plots that qualify as criminal conspiracies to go unsolved for several decades, and remain unsolved even after being reopened."

"Why is it so hard to believe that a man worth millions was killed by his soon to be ex-wife who has a long history of violence, and disturbing behaviour?"

Are there really people outside of Hollywood who care at all about Sean Penn?

He would be shooting himself for the same reason that he does the heroin, to dull the pain of life, and he would take the heroin before shooting himself to work up the courage to shoot himself.

Yeah, a junkie engaging in self-destructive behavior? Maybe in Crazy-NonsenseLand, but this is America!

It was true of the show, but not right away. The show evolved to be more and more like that. So a lot of people tapped out, and a lot of other people didn't really notice the escalation because it was gradual.

It wasn't incoherent, the problem was the structure. The IMDb put up a plot summary that made sense and sounded amazing as the set-up for a movie, the problem is that instead of the set-up, they were describing the ending revelation.

Then he's a sober alcoholic.

That was announced, but it seemed destined to fall apart so nobody really believed it.

No, the insurance company would. The investors on that one are probably happier than the investors on anything he has made since, they got paid off when the movie fell apart.

It's a Showtime show, so it peaked in the first season, then spent another season wrapping that plotline up reasonably well, and then it just kept going long after it's raison d'etre was gone. (But the 4th season was better than the 3rd.)