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May they settle the guild arbitration with blasters.

He looks like fucking Jared Kushner, and he's complaining about not being allowed enough leeway as a leader, so I'm pretty sure he's a dick.

I'd argue 5-6 of these are actually good movies - Showgirls, Final Destination, Demolition Man, Cellular, Save the Last Dance, and Road House. And a few others are knowingly campy, like Anaconda.

Final Destination 2 is a B-movie masterpiece. Such perfectly orchestrated carnage.

I'm so innately terrible at math that I have no idea if you are joking or not.

They need to add a "Go Polyamorous" button to the Roku remote.

"The Maybe Pile"?

Only if we get Tron Deadly Discs.

I think Salvador holds up the best of all those, thought I haven't rewatched it in over a decade. Platoon has great sequences, especially that jungle shoot-out in the dark, but suffers from an overly simplistic approach to both the war and its characters. Stone's a talented guy for sure, but almost entirely on a

Stone is deeply idiotic for someone who considers himself well-informed. Even his best movies, like JFK, reflect a faux-naive worldview that eagerly embraces rhetoric over common sense at every turn. I loved his movies when I was 12, but I also thought Jim Morrison was a poet when I was 12.

For sure. It's pure uncut Bay.

It's more than bad. It's evil.

This is really a conversation for the next column but Greengrass generally uses his camera for a doc-style immediacy that has been misappropriated by lesser talents. The real problem is when a bad filmmaker takes this approach and combines it with incoherent editing, which is more the influence of Bay. I never feel

The only good Olympics coverage was the coverage provided by Letterman's mom (RIP).

No one seizes the zeitgeist quite like NBC.

No, the shark was at the front door to deliver a candy gram.

Hey look, they are drinking just like…friends from college!

Is that even possible?

I was not expecting funny, and was honestly kind of hoping for dread. The comparison to Marienbad is what really sells it for me - too often these things are incompetent in an obvious way, not genuinely, uniquely weird in their awfulness. That may not actually be the case here, but I hope that when I see it, I'll see

Oh god I need to see this. That bit about just turning the picture frames around to face the walls is too good.