That scene in Detour is sort of logistically ridiculous, but with an undeniably effective nightmare logic.

Funny…I never saw an episode of that show, so I always think of him as vaguely handsome middle age-ish guy with a pronounced shifty side, a la the Lang movies and 3:10 To Yuma.

Poor Gloria…just by coincidence, saw her and Ford in Lang's Human Desire a few nights ago, she and ol Glenn just weren't meant to be in Fritz's noir world.

General topic makes me think of the (semi?) famous "coke bottle" moment in the Long Goodbye. Had a shocking suddenness that didn't exactly leave the act to the imagination, but kind of showed it from an oblique angle, and maybe a bit of an effect of some sort. Which at about 20 years remove from The Big Heat (and…

Shame. Hollywood. Whaddaya need, a roadmap to the real world?

So a gray circle spins around and around in a black void? Too cerebral, I don't get it.

sounds like my wife on our wedding night

I pick worlds.

Bingo. Both about the song, and its place in Vega's overall body of work. Not that I'm overly familiar with her entire career, but it's not really fair to dismiss her as "preachy" based on the one song that was a radio hit. It isn't even all that reflective of the album it's on.

Well, he actually did say, O eff star star kay you, universe.

Well, could be. The main thing for me, though, is the difference between sloughing off your son when he's a kid and declining/squirming out of the chance to hang out with your dad who hadn't bothered to take those opportunities when he should have…and then essentially equating those two things as tragedies of…

Hmmmm. Explain?

Once again, I feel it necessary to point out that the son in Cat in the Cradle did not grow up just like the narrator, according to the song's own lyrics. The kid having the flu is one of the reasons proferred for not spending time with old-man dad, indicating that he's not doing something with his father BECAUSE HE…

Off with your head.

I like that better than the hand-on-bible routine.

Poorly motivated? His dad was killed. And then his uncle, who got his kingship thanks to the death, married his mother. Whaddaya need, a roadmap?

I guess I was thinking that maybe it was a sly way of making him come off like (more of) a dipshit, to end it like that. But that doesn't really jibe with the we-agree-with-whatever-you-say tone these always have.

I like to think he's the same character from No Country For Old Men, his encounter with Anton was so disturbing, yet so enlightening somehow, that this is the result…

It's self-evident that Gandolfini to Turturro, by way of DeNiro, is a double downgrade? A major major one? I think the burden of proof's on you.

Why?