Yeah, most movies are mediocre to crappy. If he wants to make movies, he's not powerful/famous enough to get offered a role in all 3 non-shitty movies made each year.

I think they're making comedies. At least that is how I reacted to Crank 2.

Here's my vote: none of these, just go home and count your money. Maybe take up an ill-advised rap career so that you will provide me endless fodder for amusement.

Tatum can be the random dude in the room where Matt Bomer and Taylor Kitsch make out, as long as he keeps his mouth shut.

What up?

oh yeah. But then the movie I really want to see this weekend is Ghost Rider 2, but no one will see that with me. Why isn't America as invested in Nic Cage's career as I am?

Mm. I kinda agreed to see this probable crapfest with a friend because an hour and a half ogling Mr. Hardy isn't the worst thing in the world. Especially with his accent intact.

mmm, I think my favorite scene is the ride on the streetcar. Surely one of the greatest moving camera tracking shots in cinema; I remember first being impressed (this was the '20s!) and then struck by its beauty and fluidity.

Murnau's Sunrise is a strange masterpiece; it's profound and beautiful (as noted in the review) and yet it's about as cliched a story as can be. I remember being moved even while I was thinking, what a hokey story.

ah yes, the tragedy of the unexamined life.

Strange. Giving a show a Friday timeslot in the US is essentially a death sentence (R.I.P Firefly) because nobody watches TV on Friday. And absolutely nothing of consequences airs on Saturday.

and the upcoming Avengers movie. Hulk SMASH NYC?

I'm halfway convinced that blowing up DC in a movie (hey, you can have establishing shots of the Washington Monument, the White House, various memorials) would not strike today's audiences with any particular sadness.

Is our skyline so recognizable, really? It's not like we have the Chrysler Building or anything — it's a bunch of skyscrapers + one pointy triangular one (aforementioned Transamerica building) set against the background of the bay. The Golden Gate bridge is super recognizable, but not really in the shot of downtown. 
I…

Hm, for an international audience, would seeing Washington DC get obliterated cause cheering in the theaters? Just curious.

This is only sideways related to the topic at hand, but after watching MI:4, I couldn't help but notice that my hometown, San Francisco, is getting a disproportionate amount of abuse in the movies. Like: Magneto destroyed the GG Bridge in X3, monkeys went apeshit in last Planet of the Apes. In MI4, a nuclear missile…

Holy shit indeed. It would be the best thing ever if she pulled a Keith Richards.

I can't believe that Courtney Love survived Whitney Houston…

and most of the time, they don't kill you. The handful of times I've watched that Intervention show, I've always wondered: how are you still alive?! but reality is, the human body can take a lot of abuse and keep on ticking. Until it doesn't.

if a review by anyone in the world uses "so bad it's good," I'm probably there.