Ah, I had forgotten all about that one. Definitely my least favorite Mann now that I think about it.

And fucking terrible.

I think I still prefer Ultimatum, mostly for Paddy Considine. That Waterloo sequence is intense.

I really love The Insider, which doesn't get enough love when people talk about Mann's best work.

I've said this here before but Collateral captures the way LA looks at night better than any movie I've ever seen. People bitch about digital vs film, but damn if Mann hasn't made great expressive use of digital in his work since Collateral.

I was suddenly thinking I had somehow missed the new Waxahatchee. Glad to hear it's good enough to already be on this list two weeks before it actually comes out.

I was surprised how much Blackcoat's Daughter stuck with me. It really wedged itself in my brain and I thought about it for days afterwards. Odd because I agree that it doesn't really have any ideas - I guess it's just that the execution was so unnerving.

I'm totally fine hating it. The critical love for it is baffling to me.

Me too. Loved my NES but had stopped playing games for a bit when the SNES hit.

Agreed. At least 3 has a consistent tone and vision. 4 is all over the place tonally, and has some good ideas which are totally squandered.

I'm more unnerved by how that statement's grammatical structure makes Ridley sound like Trump.

But Bill Murray often takes his top off so that wasn't too surprising.

Alien 3 is a mess, but it's a visionary mess. That movie's got more atmosphere in 5 seconds than most other movies can manage for their entire run times.

Comment/username synergy.

Holly Hunter is a top three all time actress for me, so glad to hear she has a great role in this. She's so underrated.

This sounds like the sort of thing that if I came across it on cable at 2am, I'd be mildly intrigued by the imagery. But not surprised that it doesn't offer much beyond the look…

That scene is amazing. Every set piece in FD2 is great, but the dentist office might be the best one.

It is too long but they always feel even longer because Bay has no sense of pacing. Nothing happens and then a bunch of stuff happens too fast and too loud for too long.

I'd rather wait for the spinoff that has the autobots getting into crazy adventures with Shakespeare and FDougs (this is what one of those racist jive robots calls him, in my glorious imagination).

"Lighten up, Francis"