It always aggravated me that someone as supposedly intelligent as his character didn’t recognize that the “zombies” hadn’t lost all capacity for reasoning (his words) - they were trying to rescue their loved one.  The guy who ended up breaking through the plexiglass in Smith’s lab tried to follow him out into the…

Candice Bergen flubs a ventriloquist joke; history marches on.

Lorne Michaels is the only one there who knows who he is.

It’s not just about wether he lives or not, it completly changes the premise for a sequel. Who the hero and who the villain is...

I have no doubt that that starfucker Lorne Michaels has yukked it up with Kissinger at a cocktail party or two.

I figure this is Leigh (not Lee...sorry, I AM that guy sometimes) doing a riff on her accent from the vastly (IMO) underrated Coen movie, The Hudsucker Proxy.

Even if you’re 500 years old, when times are tough, you can always move back in with your mom.

Totally. North is a stinker (all these years later, my family has never stopped making fun of my mom for bringing this home for movie night) but Reiner’s had a good run. And I’ll forgive him North because it’s fun going back and reading Ebert’s review every now and again.

And also Stand by Me and The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally and A Few Good Men.

I thought the Kramer Vs Kramer...VS Godzilla joke was hilarious when I first heard it on DVD extras of Spinal Tap, 25 years ago. To be fair, it was really well delivered and in the context of a straight faced talking head from director Marty DiBergi. It loses a lot in print and out of context.

“They were still booing him when we came onstage!”

It’s the “Why do they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself” part. It can be read as implying that the media is only covering the Israeli side because the Jews control the media, which is an antisemitic trope. And if Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, or Steve Bannon had said it, I’m pretty sure that’s where everyone’s…

That’s not grounds for a lawful termination suit, unless she was bringing some sort of whistleblower info to light.

Really? Even your insipid little summary-sentence there is “complicated”: it inherently acknowledges the incitement to this military campaign was the *hostage-taking* (while ignoring the overwhelming accompanying slaughter of the 10/7 surprise attack) while simultaneously dismissing its relative central importance.

Yes, everyone with eyes can see that a complex situation that has raged forever can be boiled down to “The Jews are building a concentration camp” and that language has no Holocaust impact whatsoever, as anyone with eyes can plainly see, and the killing of 6 million Jews is exactly the same thing as the Israeli-Gaza…

One grows down from the ceiling, the other grows up from the floor.

Um, no? Do you think a majority of Americans who support Israel do so because of this prophecy? Or because they are the only Western democracy in the region? Just think about which is more likely.

A nippleologist? They must have a very particular areola expertise.

This is very much a reduction to the absurd in the topic of appropriation: filmmakers should only tell stories related to their very specific circumstances as good faith empathy does not exist. I really don’t think this take has any concern about justice or equality, but bad faith and crabs in a bucket mentality. 

I don’t know how people got the impression that he’s some uneducated mook that only makes gangster movies. He’s got intelligent things to say about Edith Wharton and one of his all time favorite movies is Tales of Hoffman. His movies are about lots of different people and ideas.