This is going to be a tough movie to pull off. The script is a big of a trainwreck. The Counselor character starts off already involved in a very oblique drug scheme, then things go bad in an almost completely inscrutable way. There is no drug lord, no antagonist, and no plot.

Brad Wesley knew how to get things done. 

Now Idiotking, you know better than to be that reasonable on the internet. Shame on you.

No no, I'm pretty certain he promised full government health care. And a total revision of the social programs. And completely uncompromising standards with the republicans. Pretty sure I remember him saying all of that…

That speech feels like a good mix of the realistic valiance that Coppola would write and the hyper-machismo of John Milius.

Dude had TWO movies up for Best Picture in 1974 alone. And another nominee was Chinatown. Holy shit.

Woman in the Dunes is straight-up phenomenal. 

I could not have been more excited for it, and could not have been more let down. Great performance by Gosling, very interesting music, phenomenal long/still shot at the end of Gosling. I get what the guy below says in that it is a 'tone poem' and not a narrative movie. Totally get it. Existentialist crime drama with…

(I'm being honest ) Diablo Cody is nice midwestern girl who, in interviews, comes across as self-deprecating and genuine.

Wait, he had ESP? That is a….provable thing now?

Is Bellflower good? Or totally shithouse rat awful/crazy? (no in between, you must decide!)

I think it is more that he had absolutely no follow-up ideas when anyone asked him what he was doing next. His latest script is absolutely bonkers sci-fi about kids finding a nano-replicator in the woods and a traffic analyst discovering patterns in municipal blueprints.

Flicker! I thought I was the only one who read that!  
I should read it again, that book will make no sense to anyone in probably a decade. It would be similar to if someone wrote a mystery thriller about a worldwide conspiracy centered around wax audio cylinders.

No kidding, Miller. I watched that movie in a theater in Australia with one other person. When she came out of the well and out of the TV, I was making plans to run out of the damn theater and into the damn streets and just never, ever stop running.

If anyone is going to talk about 'They Live', we really need to bring up the phenomenal short story that half that movie is based on: Ray Nelson's 'Eight O'Clock in the Morning'.

Even better, Buntline, those effects were done by a pre-Terminator James Cameron.
The commentary on The Thing is about the same. Just a riot. Kurt Russell seems like one of the all-time coolest motherfuckers.

That scene with the kerosine and the geiger counter…goddam, that is some good cinema.

You mean this?
http://www.filmdailies.com/…
I can barely glimpse at this. I think the casual head-tilt and bare skin of the crawler really put the knife in.

Oh nice, Scott! I was having a hard time coming up with a parallel.
 Killing children is something you rarely, rarely see in movies. In ONCE UPON A TIME…, at least it is justified (in that the kid is a witness to a massacre). In Precinct 13, it just seems utterly callous. She's just hanging around an ice cream truck…

That's a good point. I wonder if when Neil Marshall and whomever were creating that movie, they thought that the caving stuff just wasn't 'enough'. I think its still a good movie, but I remember saying (after screaming like a girl) "Man, these crawlers seem like bad news. At least they don't have to deal with cave-ins…