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His characterization of Elmore Leonard's Ray Nicolette edges into comedy. (This is the famous example of the same actor playing the same character in two movies written and directed by two different people) (not counting Mr. Spock or whatever bullshit other franchise examples.) He's considerably funnier in the

I want somebody to remake The Godfather Part III. Go get Pacino, Keaton, Duvall, etc. and move the story a bit further along in time, and then come up with a brand new story. Do a Halloween/Nightmare on Elm Street and just make a brand new Part III that replaces the 1990 version in the canon, eradicating it completely.

The element in Spielberg's brain that made him believe that she was a legitimate screen presence has returned and is responsible for Shia LaBoeuf's career.

I'm picturing the Hulk saying that, and I'm loving it.

You're forgetting the slow-motion machine-gun-the-running-legs shot.

Show them any episode of The Walking Dead

Because it's a bad thing. It's not as bad a thing as when they buy television networks (and their news divisions), but it's bad.

You lose me at "I was enjoying it for how bad it was." I don't know what baffles and enrages me more: the fact that people do this, or the fact that people who do this seem to believe that everyone liking the things that they "enjoy" this way "must" also be "enjoying it for how bad it was."

"Don't touch me MAN!"

"Good afternoon gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H. A. L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January, 1992. My instructor was Mr Langley, and
he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it, I can sing it for you."

Nick Fury is fairly subdued. (And vastly more erudite than his comic-book iteration.)

A downvote? Come on. Who on this planet is having more fun than Aaron Paul? Look at every single photograph and video of him (when he's not Jesse Pinkman or the new angry-driving guy).

Leonard Rosenman's one of those awful, awful Hollywood utility players who keeps getting more work despite his awfulness. Kind of like Franklin W. Schaffner, who directed Patton and Planet of the Apes and Papillon, each of which succeeds despite his terrible, artless directing, but still.

Yeah, the whole Kurtwood Smith storyline is so wonderful. It's a great combination of 1) a Dutch director (who's not steeped in the contemporaneous American "urban" paranoia that lead to, say, the Cobra villain) and 2) the straight-up economic satire that suggests that a man like Boddecker (with his Hunter S. Thompson

But what's great about the Verhoven Detroit is, it's plausible that a lot of awful right-wing "family values"/"law and order"/"private sector"/"small government" types would applaud the OCP version of the city and say it's preferable to the alternative.

Somewhat off topic: You know what makes those conference room scenes in the original work so well? I mean, lots of elements, but the fact that it's obviously shot in a real skyscraper with a real vista out the window. The sense of an actual locale and an actual company and city is sold so hard that the crayon-thick

Discus is owned by Omni Consumer Products.

Nobody says, "slow zombies aren't scary." They say, "fast zombies are also scary, and allow for interesting new setups and threats."

…behave like those two "black" Transformers that Michael Bay somehow got away with?

Who plays Nancy Allen?