Amazing, Amazing movie. It's so rare to see movies of people of any kind just 'doing work', much less criminals actually executing a score in a fairly clean way, long-take method. This is just a master class on how things are done, prepared, executed. There's no dazzling cuts, no glossing over weird techno-nonsense,…

Is there a naturally darker or grimier movie ever? Few movies seem to be that easily and realistically horrible, like it was filmed by a golem of cigarette ash and city trash and echoing coughs.

He was great as Wildcat! (Also, R.Lee Ermey was Wildcat in Batman: Brave and the Bold, which was pretty odd)

Did a small child almost certainly ask about the tarantula?

Here's a theory that he is, in fact, a Crossroads Devil, and he drove a satanic bargain with Catherine O'Hara to return home again. It's flimsy, but perhaps your adoration of Gus Polinski is misplaced.

His line readings in Dr. Strange are really fantastic.

Does anyone listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History? Anyone check out the latest one "Destroyer of Worlds?"

Brother, you ain't kidding. That movie is…well, hard to say overrated, because it's pretty good, but christ, there is a solid hour of absolutely NOTHING interesting, remotely, at all, happening, and that includes Harrison Ford shooting a woman in the back while she's running away.

Chris Cooper was the guy in the movie who did that!

Shootouts are weird. The North Hollywood Shootout had the robbers shoot a thousand rounds: four cops shot, none dead. Those police emptied SIX. HUNDRED. ROUNDS. at the two robbers, and one of them only died when he killed himself (albeit at the same time someone finally shot him in the spine).

It's completely realistic! It's INCREDIBLY hard to shoot someone on target during an actual live scenario, esp when the someone else is 1) armed, 2) moving, 3) at a distance.

That legal document gets into it. Owning a chateau in france, a horse farm in Kentucky, a bunch of penthouses in LA, that kind of thing. Paying a bunch of family members bills, living extravagantly, keeping the yacht in working condiction, keeping the houses staffed and upkeep. I would imagine mostly the staff,…

I gotta re-iterate. Man, that ending was pretty good. The whole movie was much more interesting than the laser punch battles of the MCU, and the ending battle was, well, fascinating in that it revovled around a time loop and the hero dying an infinite number of times to trick the villain into giving up, rather than by…

It's not the academy who makes those choices, it's the actor/actors "people", right? Like how Viola Davis in the supporting category this year instead of main for Fences, even though it is clearly not a supporting role.

Arnold Vosloo is amazing in this as a South African henchman. Inspired choice. He does that fantastic shotgun window break/flip.

Wasn't that role and subplot supposed to be fairly large? A massive subplot about how he becomes a doctor again and regains his faith in medicine and romance with foxy Julianne Moore, or something?

That would make for a great HBO type of series now.

The only movie of his before the 2000s that failed to make money failure.

Exactly. It's a hard thing to figure because that scene doesn't have any sign that its key and it comes at a pretty weird time (same deal in the book, too). The dream stuff seems like it should be the "message of the movie", but its that scene with Barry Corbin (his uncle, right?), telling him his relative was killed…

Is there anything close to this kind of movie being made now? A modern techno-thriller using current technology? It's very, very hard to capture anything interesting on computers at all. At least in this movie, you had Harry Caul doing all sorts of NEAT STUFF! Moving knobs, twisting dials, rewinding physical tape,…