He's a total nutjob on every level.

A fair point, and agree that my sort-of joke should by no means let this kind of stuff slide or implicate the rest of us who don't behave this way. We should absolutely call it out, much as us more elevated men should continue to be mindful of our own capacity for grossness.

Joel will be revealed as the true original architect of C-3PO.

Everything you love will eventually become an expanded universe of shit.

This is 100% correct.

I'd like to be the first to welcome our new robot overlord, Urkelbot.

Sure. But, like nature, we always…find a way.

Idiots

Let me mansplain this to you:

I know Tree of Life has its detractors, but people actually shit on Thin Red Line?!?!?!?!

Still gonna listen to new Spoon and Real Estate. Even lesser Spoon is better than most bands can manage.

A common complaint that I see applying more to post-Tree of Life Malick than New World and everything that came before it.

As someone who considers The New World one of the greatest films ever made (top 20, maybe top 10 for me), I'm utterly bewildered by this comment.

Ha. I'd blocked all that out. I do remember lots of those in 127 Hours.

He was fairly restrained in that one, even if the dutch angles got a little out of hand. I think the Sorkin screenplay, with that very tight, specific structure, actually helped to rein him in a bit.

I still want to see this but those comments about Boyle's pointless directorial choices gives me pause. That's my least favorite tendency in him, as if he suddenly gets bored and adds flashy bullshit for no reason.

Trainspotting is a great movie all around.

I wouldn't call it tame, exactly, but it's not that shocking by today's standards.

True. I also think they just didn't like his arrogance, and that he was this boy wonder of theater and radio coming in to their medium with such confidence.

Eh, I'd honestly say that's a half and half thing. The more I read about Welles, the more it becomes apparent that he was both impatient and bad with other people's money. I'm generally okay with some light nibbling of the hand that feeds you, but Wells went after the Hollywood hand like a large man hungry for peas.