Interesting. Personally, I'd rather watch 'Mr. Ed' reruns than sit through the Ark again, but to each their own.

I was talking at you, not responding to you

It's a very boring film unless you have a comprehensive background in Russian history, then I could see it being exciting

Maybe. Colvin himself didn't think so in that monologue to Weebay, said Namon didn't have it in him to be out on the streets whether as a drugdealer or a police officer.

I think the idea was that Namon is going to escape the cyclical nature completely, most likely do something beyond the streets of Baltimore that doesn't involve either dealing drugs or arresting those who do.

No, he's a famous writer

My favorite is when the stockholm syndrome kicks in, and they veer off into poignant monologues about the film's merits.

Trying to predict the box office headlines this weekend if the movie does well. But 'Focus' is just such a meh title.

Absolutely. They're a bunch of lovable Kiwis, but instead of using a stock photo of them wearing fuzzy Christmas sweaters and looking adorably awkward they used a picture that makes them look like castoffs from the Jersey Shore.

Surprised to see all the hate, I really enjoyed this podcast. It's less hipsters sneering at a bad movie than it is about the descent into madness that would happen with watching almost any movie every week for a year and having to discuss the experience each time. The fact that its Grownups 2 just makes it all the…

In terms of ambition it clearly isn't on the same level as a Sopranos, Wire, or Deadwood (shows striving to be about 'America').

that would be a jump the shark moment not a clever twist

I think it was pretty cool of U2 to give out Rolling Stone's Best Album of 2014 for free

Something like that, but I also thought it went little deeper. Like, everybody wants to get rich but most of us lack either a) the imagination or b) the nerve of someone like Belfort to do so and therefore try to live vicariously by paying money to see something like Wolf of Wall Street and be entertained by it.…

Thanks. I wasn't aware there were that many factions. I saw a bunch of people trashing Birdman on my twitter, so I assumed Boyhood was the favorite of the twenty to thirty something crowd. Having seen neither, I was rooting for Budapest.

Wow. I had it on good authority the Hobbit 3: Battle of the Five Armies was going to sweep the Oscar on a write-in vote.

I haven't seen either and haven't been following awards coverage. Was there a social network/king's speech or pulp fiction/forrest gump dichotomy here?

A lot of backlash on here. Just curious, were most people pulling for Boyhood?

I thought the grand point was contained in the film's final shot

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