Exactly - it's lose-lose. I think he could win the presidency and quit a month later, spinning the narrative that no one was willing to make deals with him and the system is too corrupt to be fixed. And then instead of just delegitimizing our first black president, he will have deligitimized the entire federal…

I won't pretend I know what you're going through, but I've been on a repeat of Spending 10 Minutes Per Hour Seriously Considering Jumping Out the Window at Work for the past month. I won't say it gets better (it hasn't yet), but there's good times and bad times. Hang in there, brother.

YES! It's JEFFREY WRIGHT! Your movie is already overstuffed with other garbage, just throw him in the mix too! A little Wright is never wrong*! (*trademark pending)

Yeah, for some reason I think I've commented today more than in the past month - and it's not like I'm some sort of Bond aficionado.

I definitely agree with Monica Belluci - HOW DO YOU CAST HER and have her speak like FIVE LINES and then walk out of the movie FOREVER (with a dumb reference to Felix Leiter, to boot, if I remember correctly)!

You shut your filthy mouth about the Dragonlance novels! They are great (if you're a 7th grade nerd in 1992)!

That's interesting. I liked Skyfall ok, but I found Spectre to be a goofy-but-somehow-boring slog. Granted, I've seen Skyfall more times so it has grown on me, but I can't imagine that happening with Spectre. The latter film's script felt like it was adapted from a book of James Bond Madlibs ("The sexy psychiatrist's…

Yeah, that opera scene really redeems a lot of the movie for me. And I actually like that it maintains the same real-world tone as its predecessor. Once we started getting winks in Skyfall (like the musical sting accompanying the appearance of the Aston Martin) I feel like the whole point of the reboot lost something.

First hearing Wilder shriek out "PURE PUSSY?!?!" at the car Pryor has just stolen was one of the joys of my young life.

I don't think it would be possible to call what you just wrote "cynical."

If anyone is interested in the early days of the network, I recommend the book "I Want My MTV". It's an exhaustive oral history of the network's creation and maybe the first 10 years after.

Th-th-the next clue is at the White House!

I'm just happy that I could tell this was Sean's writing as soon as I got to the end of the second paragraph.

Yeah, this reminds me of those old stories about how they kept the Deltas and the Omegas separated on the set of Animal House to preserve the animosity between the two groups; there's no way Susan was going to join the gang, she was designed to be an outsider. Wasn't the actress Heidi doing exactly what she was…

Agreed. For all the talk about how it was the anti-sitcom or a "show about nothing," I think that only held true in the early-to-mid-90s. It was only unusual in relation to what was around it. There was no gimmick - no pizza place or workplace or bar where everyone hung out, and no through-line to the stories. Any…

Agreed with all of this. I can't tell enough people that watching Fringe is like getting an acting masterclass (particularly season 3). Joshua Jackson is fun, but he's by far the weakest link. Watching John Noble play two versions of the same character, both imbued with such deep pain from their past, or watching Anna…

I certainly understand that feeling on first watch - everything was so different and shitty, the whole tone and setting of the show changed so dramatically. But on rewatch (for me at least) the characters are still so compelling and so richly drawn that watching them in this universe is heartbreakingly engaging. And…

That tattoo makes me incredibly happy!.

I read your comment and knew exactly which shot you're talking about. What an incredible concert film.

tl;dr - I love this show