Game over man!

Long Way Round was awesome. Really just the idea of it is awesome for a geography nut, but the execution was pretty cool too. I tried watching Long Way Down, but the concept wasn’t as interesting to me and I didn’t get past episode 1. I don’t have Apple TV so I probably won’t watch this, but everyone interested in…

haha, well I think for a comedy movie, those things are a little less bothersome. The few times a year I want to see a movie in theaters, I try to go to the AMC/Dolby near me where views are usually not blocked. Miss those sticky floors, though....

A lot of comedies can be tough unless you can watch them along with a crowded theater of other people laughing (an airline bottle of Jack or Bacardi poured into your movie theater cola also helps).

Glory is great. It’s more of an ensemble war movie than a serious biography of the soldiers or Shaw, so it works in spite of a white director. I haven’t seen Gandhi (I feel a little bad since it was the Oscar winner the year for movies released the year I was born, but no real interest for me.), nor Cry Freedom.…

Hmmm... well really a director is the boss of the film (though of course they can be overruled on certain things by the studio, producers, etc.). The director is responsible (along with editors of course) for the movies pacing, focusing on certain aspects of the story and characters and ideas that may be important…

I agree to some extent. I would imagine Zemeckis’s own politics run towards Clintonian neoliberalism. I would say, however, that the military people who cut his microphone at the rally are certainly not meant to be seen as heroes, nor is the Vietnam War, in general portrayed as anything other than a stupid clusterfuck.

Ok, but “Shipping Up to Boston” opening “The Departed” was a bit on the nose. Good song, though.

Yeah, but I think though that up until about 2000 or so, anyone good with computers was thought to be a “hacker”.

He occasionally picks on Martin, but he’s also bullied by Nelson, Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearny, so I don’t think you can really call Bart a “bully”. Prankster or mild hooligan would be more apt.

Braveheart is better, though due to my extreme distate for Mel Gibson, I doubt I will watch it very much, if at all.

I’m not a huge fan of Gladiator, though when recently prompted by some FB post that asked what my favorite movie of the year I graduated high school (2000) is, I was forced to select Gladiator as there’s not much else from that year. The first Coliseum scene in gladiator is one of the best action scenes of all time.…

I hear you about it being shot in LA but I think the establishing shots and its NYC “attitude” are enough. The sequence of Tulley being chased down Central Park West, being mauled outside of Tavern on the Green, and then the diners inside immediately returning to their meals would probably be enough for it to be on…

Yeah this has to be on a shortlist of top NYC films. Obviously most of Woody Allen’s would be on it, but I’m going to leave them out for obvious reasons.

These edits are great. There’s also one with Ligeti’s Requiem (the creepy music from 2001: A Space Odyssey, when they see the monolith on the moon).

Interesting. Yeah, I’ve heard that song. I agree with it winning best song. Crazy that morricone wasn't nominated though.

Yikes. John Barry won it that year for “Born Free”. I don’t know it, but I’m sure it’s not as good as “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.” It wasn’t even nominated.

I haven’t seen Mad Men (I know, I really should) but from what I’ve heard, that bit in Mad Men wasn’t supposed to be a joke at all. I understand it was presented as purely horrifying, not some joke about the character. I think something like that is more acceptable than these comedic depictions of blackface, which…

I think some staff at McDonald’s a few years ago might disagree.

But what if he did...?