It's more the fault of the material than him, I think. He's only been given two good films and two really horrible ones. And the best of them isn't quite as good as it get credits for being, I think. (Casino Royale winks too often at the audience and for too long in each instance IMO.)

Eh, if you can't laugh in the face of annihilation, everything in this world is going to be kind of a letdown.

OK, I'm starting to think this isn't as dark a joke as I thought when I up-voted. I was thinking you were making a super black joke about most of us probably being dead before we reach old age because global warming is turning out to be exponentially worse than even the most alarmist figures in science have been…

I think the third act problems all revolve around the fact that Cooper's and DeHaan's characters are designed to be the emotional anchors of it and can't bear that weight. We don't spend enough time with Cooper and DeHaan's character goes from being a baby in the Gosling character's segment to a maladjusted teen who…

The film makes it pretty clear why the marriage is ending if you pay attention to what the characters say—and especially what they do—during the sequences set in the past. Basically, Dean is the kind of guy who can settle down and be content with a simple life and Cindy is ultimately a careerist chasing the horizon…

I guess this confirms he's not the hooded figure in that bacta tank scene in the trailer. If it's not him and it's not Snoke, who is it?

It really depends on what state you live in and how volatile rents are, whether it's one of the states whose title system was relatively unscathed by the financial crisis, etc.

I think the point is that it didn't have a cultural impact or moment the way Raising Arizona, Fargo, Lebowski, O Brother, or No Country did and isn't widely recognized as a relatively obscure modern classic like Miller's Crossing. It's a film you sort of have to have more than the average awareness of their body of…

He's not as stupid as most people think. (He can analyze political polling in sophisticated ways in his head.) But the idea that the top private schools are where the best and brightest go is equal parts cultural propaganda and marketing. It's where the rich go. Some are smart, some are dumb, all of them have parents…

Thanks for the clarification. I was responding like the comment was about Jonah Hill for some reason.

If we're jumping to that conclusion, I'd use the fact that he's a spoiled rich kid whose dad is one of the sleaziest fucks in Hollywood as the basis of it rather than his choice of roles after riding daddy's coattails into the spotlight.

Received/BBC/whatever you want to call it Pronunciation wasn't really a thing in England until the 19th century. The Original Pronunciation in Southern England sounds more like a cross between pirate and cockney.

Still, it gives you an excuse to answer questions about how old you are at birthday parties with "Few and evil have the been the days of the years of my life."

We're living in a neo-capitalist society where most of the money these huge corporations make are made by playing games with money rather than from consumer demand. It's why they aren't particularly concerned with the size and scope of the current demand crisis.

Outside of the Law & Order franchise, most of the legal procedurals on air have been on the defense side of things. They've just also avoided the kind of shift in perspective you're describing by:

I think this is unfair to Vince Vaughn. Entertaining delivery of dialogue is more or less the foundation of his entire career. I really don't think anyone could have done a lot with staring at a ceiling and mapping out that time your drunk father locked you in a room with rats to your wife of several years for no…

I think she was forgetting that Titanic was basically an action movie with a love story and a young Kate Winslet's bare breasts stuck in the middle of it and was introduced to market before internet porn became ubiquitous. Sort of an extreme case of apples and oranges.

The Salvation is very, very good. Bleak as all Hell but good. It's beautifully shot and has Mads Michelsen, Eva Green, and Henry Dean Morgan giving strong performances.

People who have very strong stances about how other people use language tend to be pathologically insecure assholes who need to exert control over others, e.g. people who insist on the idea that crude language is a sign of "a limited vocabulary,"self-professed "grammar Nazis,"and so on.

We're not even through the 32nd week of the year yet, meaning you're reading about 2.5 books a week at that rate. How is that even pleasurable? There can't be much time for leisurely reading or rereading at that pace.