Yeah, say what you want about the US - and I do, I hate a lot of things about this country - but if even Ted Nugent said something along these lines, it would be the end of his career for good.

@avclub-4095a01e6ce9fd93ba5f955048310e2b:disqus , You want fucking cynical?  The next time Clapton had a kid, I thought "Schmucko hasn't had a hit in a while, that kid better avoid open windows."  I do have to agree, sometimes it's no picnic being this cynical.

Wasn't he a ticket scalper or something?  I thought it was ok, SIGNS was the movie where he started to give himself way more than he could handle as an actor.  I'm sort of surprised he hasn't started having title songs with him singing them yet.

LADY IN THE WATER is actually worse than THE VILLAGE.  In fact, I'd nominate the scene where Paul Giammati acts like an infant to charm the old Korean lady - my mind has blocked out why he needs to do this - as the worst scene I've ever seen in any movie.  Completely stupid and really pretty revolting.

I think my favorite dumb aspect of it is Marky Mark getting all wound up because his wife had dessert with another man and lied about it.  Especially when you consider that in real life MM has probably fucked more than one other man's wife in the ass.

I don't.  I think it's a pretty good movie, I enjoyed its morose tone for some reason, but I don't think I'd ever gush over it.  And THE SIXTH SENSE is still better.  Of course, UNBREAKABLE is CITIZEN KANE compared to what M. Night served up after that.

Hold on.  Is it "genius" or "extremely solid?"  I am an Old, so maybe "solid" has a new meaning with the young 'uns I'm not hip to.

Here's the truth… you really shouldn't use the phrase "here's the truth" if you're stating your opinion about something.  This site is tobogganing downhill.

I think he's still really pissed about getting booted off of MONEYBALL, I'd bet that's the movie the big bad studio ran the numbers on.  And to be fair to them, his concept for it did sound pretty bad.

Ok, I saw it, and now I'm wondering if Rabin actually saw it.  I know these things are subjective, but I honestly don't see how anybody could see this movie as a celebration of aggression.  The fact of the characters' immense stupidity is front and center every minute.  It also didn't match the description that made…

"It’s the film Wahlberg and John C. Reilly’s characters in Boogie Nights would have written as a vehicle for themselves in a coked-up, narcissistic delirium, fatally unaware that the narrative makes them look like oblivious, dim-witted assholes, not the swaggering, Tony Montana-like badasses of their…

According to Lem Dobbs, who worshipped Alan Sharp and eventually made his acquaintance, the line was originally about Claude Chabrol films.  But I think whoever changed it made the right call, even though I've had a perfectly good time with the Rohmer films I've seen.

Hmmm, while it's certainly not upbeat I'd call the last shot of RTHC mythic and elegiac rather than bleak (and yes, I did have to look "elegiac" up).  

Of course, this character has nothing on Homer Simpson, who IIRC once threatened to make Bart smoke an entire carton.

With the possible exception of THE HUNTING PARTY (another Hackman film… hmmmm…..)

Yep, ask the Chinese.

Yep.  Looking forward to watching THE HIRED HAND, which I haven't seen yet.  He also wrote Peckinpah's THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND, which is not nearly in the same league as the other films or even really successful, but does have its moments and is worth seeing.

Not to mention the phrase "at play."

Pretty much everything I've read and heard, from 20 years to about 5 minutes ago, indicates that Noth really is a major dick and has been one for some time, and I've heard that from people who have actually met and dealt with him.  One of my sources says he writes shitty poetry, on top of every other dickwad thing…

True, forgot about that one although for me Foster and Stewart's survival was overshadowed by Whitaker sort of getting the shaft.