Hah, yeah, I just watched his recent interview with Seth Meyers where he talked about that. I guess I don't know what accent I was hearing!

So yeah, this is pretty fantastic. Very reminiscent of Batman Begins in all the right ways, and just fun overall. And you're crazy, Oliver — Foggy is delightful!

Very reminiscent of Hannibal.

HOLY SHIT!

I keep meaning to revisit 12 Years a Slave, but I have to say I mostly agree with IV. It really wasn't that compelling, narratively or emotionally, so while I respected how well made it generally was, it wasn't all that enjoyable. It was basically just a movie that said "slavery was bad" over and over again, then…

Pretty much this. 2 has the better actions scenes — and they really are outstanding — but 1 is the more compact, ultimately more enjoyable of the two.

I loved both, but ended up liking Avengers more. I feel like TDKR gets unfairly criticized for things that were just as much a problem in TDK, but for me the biggest issue is how overly-bloated it is.

Oof, I know this is the wrong crowd, but I think Goodfellas is vastly overrated. It's still a really good movie, with great actors and great individual scenes, but it doesn't really add up to a compelling whole.

I also thought the movie improved on second watch. I originally thought it was entertaining but kind of cold, but the low-key melancholy was more apparently the second time. I'd still rank Moonrise Kingdom above it, though.

You mean Inception? Interstellar was not on the list.

I feel kind of the opposite. I thought the movie was exceedingly dull, and tried too hard to be a modern gritty badass action movie without having any actual real style or entertaining aspects.

As much as I didn't like War Horse, it was a movie that made me appreciate Spielberg more, somehow. Between that and Lincoln, which I loved, I realized he could basically just make whatever movie he wants at this point, be it a gorgeous and schmaltzy old style war movie, or a way-more-entertaining-than-you'd-expect…

pulling the worn out 'pretend to be ill but really is dying in the middle of the con'

That's what I was thinking too. While at first I thought the waitress might be Midge, she was just representative of the brunette flings Don has always chased as a replacement for his (step-?) mother. Rachel was the ur-mistress, and the waitress bore a passing resemblance to her too.

This whole story sounds like it came from the same Scary Black People Mad Libs used by the likes of Darren Wilson and that guy who shot the black teens in their car for playing music too loud.

How's B&S live? Considering seeing them an a couple months.

The girlf's parents came over for Easter dinner, so we spent the weekend cleaning and prepping which got my house relatively clean (relative to the entire time I've lived there).

You gotta get the Winds of Winter Season Pass, bro.

This season has been more problematic than those preceding it because it
tried to make so much of the Boyd/Raylan conflict, which the show fled
always from in earlier seasons.

The Gettysburg one is certainly worth it. It shows a mostly different perspective from Killer Angels, with a lot more tactical detail. Definitely worth a look.