And that one is a relative highlight compared to the rest of the stuff they've done since "Mary." Stuck On You is just so damn boring.

I still think their first three movies are some of the finest examples of pure comedy filmmaking out there. I don't know what happened after that.

I'm the opposite. I found 13 to be a bore. 12 is self indulgent as hell but in a fun way.

That and Gringos are the only Portis novels I haven't read. Damn, I need to get on that.

Yeah, that sounds not very good. It's also directed by some joker who seems to have been mostly produced TV music specials. On the bright side, it does feature Joe Namath trying to act. Definitely prime candidate for a remake. I think Bill Hader wanted to make The Dog of the South, another Portis classic…unfortunately…

When people write it off as schmaltzy and overwrought, it's frustrating to try to explain to them that THAT'S THE POINT.

Brian Koppelman (who I generally like but he can be a blowhard) did a tweetstorm recently where he talked about the time he was working as an A&R man and Jim Steinman called him up to come listen to "I Would Do Anything For Love" in the studio. Pretty cool description https://twitter.com/punywea…

It probably seems worse now than it did then because he's leaned on it so hard in subsequent projects like Roadies. At the time it was still kind of a trivia question "did you know the guy who made Jerry Maguire wrote for Rolling Stone as a teen? Wow!" Now it's sort of his whole thing.

This is an example of the exact opposite case.

Almost Famous and Forrest Gump were both very well reviewed at the time (Gump maybe less so), they just maybe haven't aged as well. (Although I didn't realize there was a contingent of people who hate Almost Famous; it's so sweet and harmless).

Duchovny is 56, how many decades we talkin here?

Is the movie with Glen Campbell good? I love the novel.

I think the remake sets you on edge with that absolutely terrifying shot of Watts' niece's deformed corpse in the closet. After that shot I basically had my hands at the ready to cover my eyes at any moment for the rest of the movie.
Also the only movie where I've seen a man and woman run out of the theater screaming…

I watched Infernal Affairs after The Departed and was pretty disappointed.

It's impressive and bizarre he could get funding for that kind of movie, even after the financiers no doubt saw the returns on movies like Truth and W.

And the writer Shusaku Endo had himself actually experienced discrimination as a Roman Catholic in Japan.

From his NYT obit:
"While training at stateside posts, Private Doss faced harassment from fellow soldiers for his devotion to prayer and his refusal to handle weapons or work on the Sabbath. At one point, he recalled, an officer sought to have him discharged on the ground of mental illness."

He really has, and I definitely don't mean to suggest otherwise. His charisma still comes through in a big way, particularly on something like Curb. He's definitely gone way beyond what anyone could expect of him.

Michael J. Fox is a great call. His illness is a true tragedy for TV and movie lovers. I know he still acts, but not as much as he otherwise could, and he's unfairly limited by his disease. As my dad, who rarely says any kind thing about a celebrity, put it "he made everything he was in better with his presence."

I would think the same, but what's the point of lying about it? I suspect he was trying to shame them or something but they DGAF. Plus he's old and writes WWII books now so he probably DGAF either.