It's too bad you stopped after the first book.

I agree. Especially considering how well Felicity worked.

That is an exceptionally perceptive analysis, I tip my hat to you. What was your take on the pilot?

Penny being a cool guy?

She was so good in Winter's Bone.

I thought it was pretty good. In terms of tone, the major difference is the book was about how depressing it would it be to be a wizard in a world where Voldemort doesn't exist and nobody is a "chosen one." It looks like right from the first scene we're getting more of a traditional fantasy world building series which…

Interesting. I actually thought the religious angle was pretty important. Arguably what the whole movie was building up to at the end.

The Departed is an excellent example. But then you've got something like Old Boy, which was a shot for shot remake with American actors. When I heard the movie was set in Louisiana with Samuel Jackson and Spike Lee attached I was interested, but the movie did nothing with that backdrop. They even duplicated the…

Hard to see how this translates well unless they figure out an American spin on the Arab/Corsican aspect. Otherwise it's just a standard rise to power narrative.

Greta Gerwig in a Solondz movie is something I will avoid

A Google search like that will get you raided

Which one is Depp's daughter, I can't tell.

Probably at least another 200 years away, so your grandkids should be dead and buried by then.

That was a hilarious example of being nominated for the wrong movie. Blood Diamond?

Nick Kroll was the MVP

isn't there money involved? That could explain away a lot of the strangeness.

It's not NBC's fault none of you fools watched it live

I know he has his defenders, but Brother Mouzone just doesn't do it for me

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Kevin Smith leads a charmed life