Bernie Kopell? The guy from Love Boat? Might be fun.

We were having fun?

You're forgetting that "Fargo" was intended as a way of inspiring us to ask, how "far" will the Coens "go," you see…

Yours or his?

googled her to see if I wasn't getting a reference or a joke. I had no idea Leigh Brackett was also a science fiction novelist!

I'm sure nobody can talk you out of your hatred at this point (assuming you first saw it and hated it years ago), but I'd only say it's probably better to look at it as an Altman movie with Elliot Gould rather than an adaptation of the Chandler book.

Well, if the recommendation is supposed to be based on the crime/detective fiction angle, The Player isn't a bad choice. Or maybe The Gingerbread Man, which is good-not-great. Or even Gosford Park, if you're okay with a more Agatha Christie-ish setting. (I say that having never read a word of Agatha Christie, however.…

Oh, so that's what that giant sigh-of-relief-sounding thing was.

After fucking it.

JimTreacher, you're getting the hang of it.

It's been a few years since I've seen this, so I can take it as a given that it's flawed. But to your general point, I think it's important to remember that the "flaws" in older movies aren't always visible exclusively to modern eyes. I remember reading a review of One Two Three by Pauline Kael that basically amounted…

Agreed with Miller. The slobbiness and sex "addiction" (or at least the pervasiveness of sex to everything they do and say) IS the assertion of masculinity in those movies. That's not entirely a "movie these days" critique, Apatow generally portrays those things as something that has to be outgrown to some extent. But…

Upvoting the explanation, not the, uh, affair.

Isn't that the lesson of the X-Men? When you've gotten to the action-movie sequel that casts Kelsey Grammer, it's about time to wrap up.

Goddamn you! Now my classmate's mom has appeared, and she's staring at me from the bedroom closet.

At this point, before we analyze every one of his self-critiques, we should maybe stop to address whether Steven Soderbergh likes any of Steven Sodergbergh's films.

mmmmm…smacks of self-flagellation…

btw, is Katherine Heigl's reputation for being difficult based on an ongoing pattern of behavior, or does it all still come from the bros-circling-the-wagons response to her (not entirely wrong) critique of the gender politics in Knocked Up several years ago?

Sorta like the time Barry Manilow made an impromptu backstage visit to someone or other, and a writer referred to it as "a Barry Manilow surprise." Which, actually, seems no more disgusting than "impromptu backstage visit." IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

Goddammit, I told you to stitch that note inside your jacket.