You don't *get* it, Eddie's dreams are actually coming true.

They show him in the trailer, but give him no lines, which makes me think that the people involved in this movie have no idea what the appeal of Christopher Walken is.

Sure, if you like things easy.

You also have to be able to devote yourself to training full-time for months if not years where you can't work regular hours and need to buy top of the line equipment, but way to wear your privilege right out there where everybody can see it.

So, basically, the boring athletes are right to resent the worse but less boring athletes because people who don't care about athletics like them more.

But you're acting as if the difference is between "Did you get to meet Eddie?" and "Oh, man, you're amazing, how did you do that last triple barrel?" As opposed to the actual difference, which is between "Did you get to meet Eddie?" and "Skiing? Sounds fun."

Maybe this was just how I read it, but I didn't think Fast was being homophobic so much as just saying "These Romans use everybody and then discard them immediately." But I admit it's a fine line.

I have to admit — I never really clicked with "Rashomon".

If you are talking about the restoration and the movie itself, even the old non-Criterion blu-ray blows the Criterion DVD out of the water, let alone the new 2015 restoration.

If you're going to make that list, it's worth pointing out, the book they were adapting was openly Communist propoganda too. If anything, blacklisted Dalton Trumbo tuned it down.

If you read the book for "Spartacus", the movie feels a lot more like a Kubrick picture.

And one of the reasons Kubrick didn't want to do it was that Douglas was miscast.

You know, I was kidding before, but what you just wrote really does seem hard to distinguish from "That's not how the future really turned out!"

Interesting, the color is the very thing that I have always heard criticized about this release. I have only seen the film on DVD, never an original print, so it seems "off" to me without the cold metallic blue, but I have no idea what it's supposed to be.

P.T. Anderson says that "Punch Drunk Love" is his Tati movie, and Spielberg said that "The Terminal" was his Tati movie, and when I heard that, I thought, "Who the hell is this Tati guy to inspire two such disparate movies?" I see more what Spielberg means, though it is heavily filtered through his own sensibilities.…

Imagine how boring — yet what an achievement — if the movie just looked exactly like today.

At the time, Hopkins was considered such a long shot for either award that the studio decided to humor him when he insisted that they push him for Best Actor. They half-heartedly tried to convince him that he couldn't possibly win, that Nolte was the favorite and that if they'd vote psycho, they'd vote De Niro over…

In theory, I think that makeup is worth rewarding. However, in practice, it seems as if they find *one* movie where the make-up is important to the actual movie — "Benjamin Button" is probably the quintessential perfect example — and then fill out the category with "Hey, they looked dirty" and "Hey, they looked 18th…

If it was Star Wars vs The Martian, Star Wars would win out, but Star Wars vs Mad Max, it goes to Mad Max.

Miller has more of a shot than he gets credit for here. Two out of the last three years, they split Picture and Director and gave Director to a 3-D blockbuster which had technical chops and all of that, versus nobody since 1950 winning Best Director twice in a row. I still think Innaritu takes it, but it's between…