Nobody is harmed by jimmy doing his thing.

Btw, anytime I hear that I think about Jack on 30 rock saying he doesnt sleep on planes because he doesn't want to be incepted.

Darn you beat me to it.

Richard Kiel circa when he played "Jaws" would have been perfect for that part. I forget how the Swedish version did it.

Rapace was better at conveying Salander's "punk" attitude but I think Mara's pixie-ish physical qualities did a better job selling the character as a whole. In other words, Rapace was a bit too big for the role, though she did a good job anyway.

Travolta could easily do Clinton especially since he's basically already played him.

Taken opened in January 2009

How is inglorious basterds an action movie? It's great but all the real suspense is in the talking.

Speaking of Grisham and thrillers, The Pelican Brief was from 1993 also. It's a pretty watchable movie.

Ride of the Valkyries is in minor so that's an easy one to distinguish.

Thanks though the insult is a bit much.

I think it's at least slightly different. I'm not sure it matters for the apple ad whether you've heard of Salonen or not. I'm sure the vast majority of people seeing the ad had no idea who Salonen is but it's clear from the ad he's a creative artistic type and therefore he fits into Apple's core demo. I think the…

So what do people say about Hailey?

I'm glad that someone with more expertise than me pointed out that it's not really realistic the orchestra would have been able to play Turangalila without any rehearsal. It's a minor nitpick in the scheme of things. I ultimately liked the episode though agree some of the documentary stuff was a bit off. Like why show…

Hmm… I disagree. I thought it was a good scene. While neither actors know anything about conducting technique, which I don't really care about, I thought Thomas's advice was quite sound and I'm glad they made it nuanced with both Hailey and Thomas rejecting the idea that a conductor should be a dictator

My hackles (almost all from the first season) were mostly that the show almost went out of its way to seem like it was clueless. For instance, in an early episode Rodrigo decides on the spur of the moment to program Mahler's 8th symphony, probably one of the biggest, most expensive undertakings for an orchestra to…

Yeah that scene (from a 2nd season episode) was cool to me since I recognized the cameos but I can see how if you didn't really know much about classical music you wouldn't find it especially interesting. I did love the joke early in season 2 where Gustavo Dudamel, famous conductor of the LA Philharmonic ( and the…

Yes much better. The first season was entertaining for me but mostly to see how ridiculously unrealistic they were about classical music and musicians. The second season was far more realistic and pretty good though still not extremely compelling. I thought the third season was really good. This episode especially was…

I kept waiting for her to cry out for a big beef and cheddar!

hmm… I wonder how she would have been in this show. I think Lola Kirk is fine but I loved Winstead in Scott Pilgrim. Maybe Winstead's Hailey would be a bit "cooler".