'Cause it's the motherfucking Shining and it's, in the words of our great poet laureate, NOT FUCKING OPTIONAL.

Or Chris Brown's music.

And the heroine of Haynes' Far From Heaven has pretty close to the same name as Carol White (Cathy Whitaker).

Also, I'm genuinely interested if the people who lose respect for the actors who work with Polanski feel the same way about his technical collaborators. I mean, two of those cinematographers have also worked with Woody Allen, and yet I'm not seeing people boycotting Persona or The Immigrant because of who they've…

That's not a bad idea, actually.

Yeah, personally (while others may certainly disagree, and that's alright as along as they don't insult me for my preferences), Polanski's films are worth viewing just for the input of the cinematographers alone. The man's worked with Gilbert Taylor, Sven Nykvist, Darius Khondji, Douglas Slocombe, John A. Alonzo,…

But seriously, stop this shit. I want to have a fucking worthwhile discussion on a movie and have to trudge through this shit to get to it.

Well, I don't know what I was expecting.

I'm sure Harmony Korine made that movie at some point.

Not the most impossible hint out there, Criterion

Spectre is getting good reviews thus far (obviously, nothing but compliments for Hoyte van Hoytema's work), although it apparently opens with the best sequence in the movie and it's left with nowhere else to go but down.

Hey now, what about… *looks on Wikipedia*… shit, you're right.

Many reviews have neglected to mention Mitch Glazer and Bill Murray's last collaboration, that being Passion Play, or the movie where Mickey Rourke befriends Megan Fox with angel wings. I watched it, and it was so brutally unwatchable that I knew to stay away from this one.

Lens flare gets a bad rap, honestly. It can look great when it's not over-the-top, and it looks like Abrams has toned it down for this (maybe, we'll see when the movie comes out).

First impressions: "Oh my god, they actually got a performance out of Harrison Ford" and "Wowee, this looks like one well-shot motherfucker".

The final ghost (not saying more due to spoilers) looked almost exactly like Santi from Backbone, too.

And then the dull, soft noise the banging makes, yikes.

That and the nostril procedure at the beginning fucked me up as much as pretty much the entirety of the first season.

It's like Soderbergh is calling every comedian he couldn't book for The Informant! and getting them on the show.

This could very well be the best-shot thing Soderbergh has ever made, with only Che coming to mind as a serious competitor (and all of his movies, even the purposely ugly ones, look great).