Heh, or you wait till we get an Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind device. People could have a whole experience of wiping out and then rewatching great movies. Bulimia with experiences.

I think there's just a distinction between a real classic movie and other good movies that don't become classics. There are plenty of good movies like The Departed, that (at least for me) don't hold up as much on a second watch because they devoted themselves to showing tense cat and mouse action. Where as movies…

I remember hearing it pointed out once that Bruce Willis was so key in that movie, because *every* Bruce Willis character has such problems with his wife, that it is taken for granted that the wife isn't speaking to him because of some anger/obsession/work related thing.

I wonder about that myself… to me, Citizen Kane is such an entertaining movie, the 'it was his sled' thing seems like small potatoes. But we experience it differently, I think, as classic movie than we would as a first time viewer at the time too. The fact that it is more than its final resolution is probably why it…

You have to imagine the huge final season Breaking Bad ratings were mostly due to fear of being spoiled. Just like how by the end of Harry Potter, people I knew were taking days off and reading the book straight through so they weren't spoiled by random people on the interwebs.

At least for me, the tension and suspense in a movie are based almost entirely on not knowing what's coming next. Its a very rare sort of thriller that can keep that tension on rewatch (The Thing does, at least in part because I don't ever quite remember which of the characters is going to die). The movie can still…

Which now makes me think of some weird situation where she had put a really fancy knife on her wedding registry, and had a tiny moment of "Oh yeah, the Celephon Katana series!" before all the stabbing.

I wish I could have watched The Matrix without knowing the whole computer simulation setting. I actually enjoyed it more on later viewings than I did on that first time.

Huh, that explains a lot.

And then there's The Crying Game, with that guy who played Ra in Stargate.

It is nice to see a bit of the other side of the coin, all those hard working, white addicted Jem Hadar soldiers and their Vorta masters working together to stop a potentially catastrophic hit to an unknown weakpoint, both to save their lives, and to insure that the Dominion can fix the weakpoint on its other ships.

I'm sure Brett the Bionic Bullet Sponge will be back in time.

It means "The Bart The"

I think Holt and Agent Broyles from Fringe should have a Deadpan Fight. Read increasingly ridiculous things, and see who can hold their neutral expression the longest.

I suppose you could build it with screws, like a fancy pool cue.

I have no idea… I wanted to ask the same thing. I think Hugo just won because it was about film nostalgia though.

I skipped the movie after reading the book, mostly because Pi's internal monologues about religion really struck me as the naivety of an author that grew up without religion, but kind of liked all the rituals they have and personal attention that you get from religious people interested in converting you.

As a counter point (I'm lukewarm on Kong) I found the apes from the new Planet of the Apes movie to be a very compelling special effect not because it was technically challenging, but because they did a great job of turning those toons into characters. Course, that involves acting, writing, and directing too, not…

I've long wanted adult-skewed animated tv shows. There's a lot of Sci-fi and fantasy, like Hyperion, The Culture Novels, or the Bas-Lag cycle, where there's so much weird exotic that it would be just better to animate it all, and do it over the course of a few seasons.

I just opened up the Warrens webpage…. wow, just… wow. I haven't seen webdesign like that since I was running a page on geocities.