I watched it tonight and thought it was dreadful, fast forwarding through large parts with the subtitles on so I could somewhat keep up with the theoretical plot. The military concept was particularly terrible - about the only thing worthwhile about it was providing another meta of civilian writers who genuinely don’t…

Thanks for reading and reviewing this so I don’t have to do the former.

This is a headspinning analysis. You almost completely leave out the Sienna Miller at-home storyline, which is the one redeeming part of the movie for most of us who dealt with the vast disconnect between civilians and military over the last 20 years (or in many cases, longer.)

What jumped out of that for me is that the judge had to slow her down twice. Given the well publicized bipolar diagnosis along with the gushing and often incoherent statement, the combination does not exactly inspire confidence that she’s currently being treated effectively, especially with the comment about being…

CinemaTyler put out a great Youtube series late last year on the filming of Apocalypse Now, and one episode is entirely devoted to breaking down that whole scene. Apparently Ford had either just hopped off the plane and was exhausted or just nervous, and Coppola realized he had a chance to duplicate the basis for one…

I gave up watching shortly after the beginning of Season 2 but have largely kept up via the reviews (less schadenfreude than can’t avert your eyes from the dumpster fire), and I’ll reiterate the conclusion I reached back in Season 1: while legal issues made it extremely hard to find a copy for decades, the movie…

For me, the flying leap from the counter followed by face planting.  Genius over the top moment.

I’d agree with you that The Wedding Singer is the superior movie and has aged a lot better. I’ve only rewatched this once or twice in the last decade and while I thought it was hilarious on release, I’ve never been a fan of gross out humor. This really opened up the gates, afterwards it was done to death, and that’s a…

This is a very strangely timed piece considering the first episode of Season 2 has been out for months - and save for a vague and somewhat inaccurate single article based off the screeners (which only went to episode 8, and thus missed some massive plot twists), AV Club punted on reviewing it.

Yep, first partner, best partner.

As far as the lie, among other things she maintained that it was due to the disassociative state of the protagonist and that only second person could properly capture it - stuff of that nature. Being a psychologist by trade, most people gave her the benefit of the doubt and praised her for it since Only Very Talented…

I loved the first and thought it deserved every award, thought the second was mediocre (and the 20 page infodump especially terrible writing), and the third was somewhere in between (although it did show she’d been outright lying to readers about why she was using the second person narration, which came off as pretty…

Thanks for that - I had honestly forgotten that interview.

I’ll agree only in that Meg Ryan’s Texas accent is, well, distracting; the rest of the performance isn’t Oscar worthy - and it largely took her out of Serious Actor Roles for a decade - but it’s not horrific either, particularly when we finally get to what actually happened (“There will be a reckonin’”).

If you have no idea of how it was received at the time, it was a. run with a campaign of Medal of Honor recipients saying ‘this actually could have happened’ b. the issues in it - friendly fire, the shit that women face in the military, the debate over their combat worthiness, Gulf War Syndrome - were presented years…

Yeah, I vaguely remembered that it opened up other roles for him but had forgotten the details.

A year too late; the best pre-stardom Matt Damon was his supporting role as the medic in 1996's Courage Under Fire, still one of the better war movies of the last few decades - and really underseen in recent years.

Late to the party - only watched it a couple of nights ago - and maybe I didn’t pay close enough attention, but that entire scene just felt contrived to get Kate Winslet another action sequence.

Well, we had a bunch of pot bellied male streamers in hot tubs today so we’ll see who wins.

13 year old me would have loved these streams and wanted to borrow Mom’s credit card.