That doesn't make any sense. It's so self explanatory, they literally repeat the scene from the beginning at the end to drive home his cycle of self-defeat.

Thats a harsh take AND I LIKE IT

I think the problem with Skyfall is that despite some amazing sequences and fucking DEAKINS THE GOD, halfway through it became a cynical Nolan movie that wasn't really much fun. Everyone praised Javier Bardem's performance but he was just an amalgamation of every villain from every "dark" comic book movie of the last…

You're telling me the AV Club likes something that's desperately meta and not actually funny? No way.

That and an absolute NEED for a clear plot. Fuck plot!

Thats how I felt about Taxi Driver.

Its why YOU suck though OHHHHHHH

I thought the film did a good job of combining the perspectives of "look how despicable this lifestyle is" and "this could be anyone" (the last shot).

Personally Im just furious MacGruber didn't make the cut

I am?

On a list that contains Looper, Cabin in the Woods, Skyfall, and Haywire, you guys happen to go after The Master, Toy Story 3, 12 Years a Slave, and a Wes Anderson film.

The Master is one of the most affecting films I've ever seen, but I'm glad a bunch of assholes in a comment section let me know that I actually like it because I'm a pretentious/smug/blind hipster that really wanted to like it in the first place.

Wow SMART people dislike The Master too? I better change my opinion on it quick

Or people see something in it you didn't, and hope that you could find the same thing

Him not changing is kind of the entire point of the movie… Its a movie about self defeat

You just seem to have arbitrarily selected a way in which to analyze a film that suggests nothing remotely close to what you're getting at, in order to make some snarky comment with your infallible perspective of the day

It's already being looked back upon with extreme reverence in a "how the fuck did everyone miss how good this was" way by film nerds so I highly, highly doubt that it will be forgotten.

Well you have to be on board for basically any of the theme-heavy Coens. Even No Country which people generally loved had a lot of "I DONT GET IT" about the ending, but that doesn't make the fools right!

When I think of freshman year of film studies I think of the script for Birdman

I get that but I feel like with The Master what people hate about it has a lot to to with the experience of trying to figure it out the first time through. Once you set that aside you can focus on what's there.