Oh man, high five for obscure Bloom County reference.

I mean, part of me feels like the person responsible for Audition probably shouldn't be allowed in society, but I mean that in a good way.

I will also throw my hat in as the toke 3/4 white, 1/4 Puerto Rican male who also uses a picture of him and his child as an avatar.

OUTLAW COUNTRY! WOO!

You know I swapped in Benicio del Toro at first and I was like "huh, that's kind of an odd choice for a 3 person committee, but sure".

Well because almost every other thing I'd seen Will Ferrel in I had really disliked (or rather I'd really disliked Will Ferrel). Elf is, arguably, Will Ferrel at his Will Ferreliest, so in addition to seeing it in the first place because someone else insisted, I had to overcome my immediate negative reaction (somewhat…

*Shrug*. I don't really feel much investment in a Han Solo movie one way or the other. If it gets well reviewed, I'll see it. I'm not saying the new Star Wars stuff is perfect, but I've been happy with the first two efforts on that front.

Well NYTimes is more likely to string 3 things together like that. Jeopardy usually sticks to before and after/first and last.

What? Directing is a job. That job has limitations. Those limitations are less than "complete control of everything that goes into the movie". Forget the executive producer if you want, the producer is *every bit as much* an artist as the director is who as as much or more control over the broad artistic vision, and…

It's going to be great for NYT crossword clues. "Tony and Angela raise Baldwin-voiced wheel-man." "Who's the Boss Baby Driver"

Indeed. I have never understood his appeal. I feel like his primary talent is a willingness to make an ass out of himself. That said, I did kind of like Stranger than Fiction, and if you hold my feet to the fire I will admit I begrudgingly liked Elf.

Well except it's not "their" movie, it's the executive producers' movie. Unless something's in the contract the director should no more be rewriting big chunks of dialog than the screenwriter should be coming on to set and insisting how something be shot.

Hah. That would be entertaining (especially if we later got to see the leaked Ford curmudgeonathon).

I don't know the context, but it sounded like the applause was for "we're getting rid of these guys!" not, "you know how we got rid of those guys? Well we have a new guy (who happens to be a well known and respected director!)"

Not all comedy is improv or welcomes improv…

Also: the movies with a lot of improv in them were *designed* to have a bunch of improv in them. Everyone from the producer to the director to the actors expected that they would do a lot of improv and different versions of scenes. The actors and anyone else making such suggestions would have been part of the project,…

I'm…not sure what you're talking about. Despite the numerous rewrites and whatnot on Suicide Squad (and Jared Leto, umm, Jared Leto-ing), people will still pretty hopeful that it would be good (though of course not completely optimistic). I don't see anyone saying "oh this is no problem this will all be fine". Canning…

Also, they didn't actually use his "improvised" take in Raiders. They thought it was funny and reshot with that in place.

I don't know that he's "miffed", it's just more that he wants to focus on creating his own things (and he sounds fairly aware and ok with the fact that nothing he writes may ever be as popular as Silicon Valley).

Hey now, this is the internet. Don't you know that the correct response to well-reasoned, insightful comments is to call me a Nazi? :)