I don't know about directing another writer's script (unless he was working closely with them), but maybe adapting someone's novel.

He wrote a remake of a French film called "My Best Friend" for Ron Howard to potentially direct but it never came to fruition. I read it once. It was pretty good! It was a little more funny and light than his own work, but still had a lot of his trademarks.

Right. I think what makes it an interesting entry in the rom com genre is that people watch it and think "oh Julia and Dermot are gonna get together in the final reel" and then — no. It doesn't happen and the audience is sort of forced to accept they're complicit in the actions of a woman who set out to destroy a…

This story is mentioned in the Wikipedia entry. This does sound substantially similar.

I read this script was going to be made for $35 million originally. I'd like to know how much the story changed by the time the budget ballooned to almost $90 million more than that. I'm guessing there were some concessions made.

I'm sure this has been suggested, but I wonder if the movie may have been more effective and less unintentionally creepy (and more intentionally so) if the audience didn't see Pratt waking up and deciding to wake her up, but instead began with both of them already awake, made Lawrence the protagonist and it became…

I read it when I was probably 14, my memory is of a guy who offers to cut another guy's lawn, and the guy finds the lawnmower man naked and eating the grass? That's all I recall. It felt like almost a long joke or something.

I think you're right. It's tarnished but I don't think it has to be dead and buried. I think it could be brought back to life with some finesse and care given to it instead of the more slap-dash method employed with season 2.

Some Michael Mann in there, too. But yeah, he would've done better to just straight up adapt an Ellroy novel.

Yes, he had something like a near-death experience which would probably impact a lot of people's lives in some way, even a pessimist. I never took it that he was suddenly religious or born again or anything, but just that maybe the world had some light in it and wasn't all dark like he thought.

Didn't he threaten people on the Seinfeld set with a knife or something along those lines?

SPOILER ALERT FOR 35 YEAR OLD MOVIE They've found a way to tape Andy Garcia's head back on!

Right. It's a delicate balance between not wanting to crush people's dreams and wanting people to recognize their limitations. I think the show is so well set up with the knowledge that Mike and Frankie would ultimately do anything in their power to help their kids that it manages to steer clear of making them look…

This sounds semi-interesting but Owen Wilson and Willie Nelson's presence gives it an heir of "we're just fucking around." I mean, those dudes literally just fuck off in Hawaii together most of the time.

Agree about the CGI holding up. Knowing Cameron, he probably did extensive tests to see what the CGI was actually capable doing and build the script around the effects he knew would look the best. We could use more of that spare approach these days.

Worth mentioning James Cameron was heavily involved in Point Break as a producer and did a rewrite on the script. Not to take anything away from Bigelow who sometimes doesn't get her due (or didn't used to, at least).
Man I miss original action movies that valued badass stuntwork and a tight (if possibly ridiculous)…

My god

That got so weird I started wondering if it was some sort of joke account I didn't know about.

It still makes me laugh, but the quality has dropped. I agree with some of the below comments that the characters need to grow more. The relationships are actually good when they concentrate on them. The '80s references can be fun, but they don't need to be the focus of the show like they sometimes are. It feels like…

They all make me laugh, gasp, and want to hurl in equal measure, which is all he's really trying to do. Only a couple of the early ones have ever bored me. I'd say Hairspray is an actual good movie; the rest are trashy fun.