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Sorry, don't agree. I see where you're coming from, but for me it worked. The suspense was tight for me in this one, and that's what I'd expect from show 11. It's the payoff next time that is the determinant factor here. If THAT sucks, I will happily concede all your points, though.

Remember the mediocre version of THE HANDMAID'S TALE he was in?

Kidman's monologues in EWS—especially the first, one of the few bits almost verbatim from DREAM STORY—are actually what make the rest of the film look sick by comparison.

It has more to do with the shallow boilerplate criticisms Kubrick haters think are clever.

Another reason to hate Duvall
He aided in GODFATHER 3 being bad. George Hamilton is in the place he would have been because Duvall insisted on being paid as much as Pacino.

I can see that. It's just that the skeletons etc. moment always disrupted what had been a perfect formalist approach till then. For me. It's still a minor quibble. You have to realize, I'm a Kubrick freak(only Lynch and the 70s Herzog rank higher to me) and THE SHINING in particular—well, I stopped counting times I've…

I said OCCASIONAL. And you should also read BLUE MOVIE.

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>>Duvall has to be spitting venom at David Fincher, too.

>>It's facilely clever, but it approaches its issue with all the nuance and complexity of a comic strip,

Every time you badmouth Sid Haig, God kills a kitten.

>>McDowell must have given all his bravado to the role, cause he hasn't done anything since that is half as good - performance-wise. Well, maybe O Lucky Man!

He has a painting in his closet that looks really, really young, which he feeds with the blood of prostitutes.

I stand corrected. Wait, what are those? No I don't.

As clear as an unmuddied lake. As clear as an azure sky in springtime. You can rely on me.

SAFELY I mean. Gah.

Was that not what he was best known for in the UK? No, that's not an insult—he was, I believe, the face of a campaign to teach kids to cross the street safety, the "Green Crossing Man."

Actually, watching the film, I find Sellers the sole irritating presence in it. He looks like he's intruding from another film.

To me, D'Onofrio always looks like he's about to eat you. Or his own face. I have a Jewish friend who keeps kosher, and tells me it's against his religion to watch him.

Yes, yes it does.

JUst be sure to play safe. Lord knows what he picked up in TENDER MERCIES.