They are running plays right out of the New Coke playbook all over again. Sales must be down.

It's the film where he's most successful at threading that needle, absolutely.

It was indeed. It was the best year for college football memes as well.

I think my favorite random part of that season was that when #2 USF played unranked Rutgers, they were only favored by one point. One point! Over an unranked rutgers!

"Put Your Money on Me" even sounds like it should be the name of an ABBA song.

I recommend it! Nolan's films tend to make for especially good rewatching because he's so good about layering in his third act reveals throughout his films. This information is there before you know it is, and you don't need to know it in advance for the film to work, but it's rewarding to see it again with a more…

Yeah, it shouldn't work at all, but it does. Nolan!

On the one hand, they've definitely established a robust world with lots of potential corners to explore. On the other hand, the fact that this world has only been explored in tantalizing hints is part of what makes it work. So…

I thought avuncular first time, shell shocked second.

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I thought Rylance was fine the first go round, but he clicked on my second viewing.

Nolan is good about letting the audience figure it out for themselves, except when he isn't. The images of the books falling in Murph's room would have been enough for us to figure out what the deal was with a minimum of explanation. The other big (non-Inception) offender in his works is how Batman Begins keeps…

It was like he wanted to address any possible question the audience could have about anything in order to get internet "plot hole" seekers to shut up, and his way of addressing those questions was to have Ariadne ask every single one of them.

Him, too.

Some people needed more of it, though.

And these articles do! It was really all of calendar year 2007. Like, I remember maybe half of these events and the half I had forgotten happened in 2007 are equally ridiculous.

The arrival of the boats at Dunkirk. I went from zero to crying just like that. There are four elements that made it work on me: the score, the zoom on Branagh's face as he looks into the distance, him saying "home", and the shot of the soldiers standing up on the Mole. I'm going to break them down further because I…

It bugged me more in Inception than either of the others since the way things just kept getting dropped into scenes made it feel like Nolan was making it up on the fly. I don't mind a film pausing to have Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, and Anne Hathaway explain astrophysics to me because I like having Michael Caine,…

Any of you with even a passing interest in sports should read this series about the 2007 college football season, the craziest goddamn season of any sport ever.

They were fine, which is a step down when everything else is, in fact, perfect. Although their presence did lead directly to my favorite sequence in the film.