As your avatar reflects, Twitter was also Winston Churchill's undoing. Nothing but #youwillstillbeugly and #youknowyoureoverthirtyandhavenobrainwhen hashtags.

Ballions and ballions

I blame Brian de Palma. I suspect he spiked his drink and he just went on a trip from which he never came back.

Overrated? Yes, slightly. But he was still very good. However, if your name is not John Hughes, you do not need to be making movies about teenagers. It's one of the easiest things to get wrong and one of the surest ways to make your movie unbearably self-important.

A Little Less Conversation

Depends on the music. I was at one once where nothing but Elvis was played. I'd count that.

If you want some encouragement, here's something I wish more young filmmakers would try. Don't try make a Sundance movie about your angst or your quirkiness. Try to make a David Lean movie about mature historical figures doing something of significance. I know that takes money too, but if you fail, you'll fail for…

Au Revoir Les Enfants. Louis Malle is an underappreciated director.

Decoration-wise and junk-wise, I had four or five movie posters, a couple of framed movie stills, a globe, and a cluttered dressertop in my bedroom as a teenager. Nothing so wall-to-wall as what you see in movies.

My favorite was "I was thinking a tomato color for the bed." "You do remember that the floor is a tomato color."

This is a really good one, actually. An actually great job, person on the internet!

I resemble that remark. I have definitely come around on Cruise as an entertainer, whereas my Depp tolerance is at an all-time low. But the pendulum will keep doing what it does, I imagine.

The Hobbit needs to be remade as a low-budget indie.

Upvoted for Captain EO

Boy, that's an unimpressive (or impressive) run of trying to sound smart. I feel kind of embarrassed for the guy.

I'm just hoping that son has come around a bit since his now-resolved (IIRC) falling-out with Christopher.

And it's not the first Peter Jackson Silmarillion anthology, about Oromë?

I'm supposed to believe that you can rent a palace just because you aren't in new York anymore? Anyone lived around a major campus before. It ain't happening.

I didn't spend a lot of energy following the specifics of the Darth Maul retconning, but I disagree with your takeaway from it; one of the most impressive things about Darths and Droids, for me, is the way it reworks the plots of the films, in many cases improving them by linking new information to what has gone…

Or just use clips from various Joan Rivers sets and interviews. The more non-sequitur the better.