He was all prepared to do LIFE OF PI and the resulting film really did seem more Jeunet than Ang Lee.

I guess it's better than Kenny Ortega. Because they are American directors there can't be any Oshima or Ozu, but I would have probably pushed for Olivier. Frank Oz kind of brings down the level of discourse.

That seems weirdly myopic to me. If you have the ability to make CITIZEN KANE make CITIZEN KANE. Don't waste your life and our time making shit. Comparing directors to one another is kind of silly, but if were to do it I would judge them based on what they put out in either 1998 or 1999. All these major directors…

Why do we judge directors by their best work instead of their worst work? Wes Anderson has never made anything as middling as MELINDA AND MELINDA or ALICE. While I hated Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE I have a lot more seething contempt for Lumet's remake of GLORIA. Spielberg has made some not-very-good movies, but nothing as…

Has anybody complained about the inclusion of Frank Oz? He's really pretty awful, I may even go so far as to say that he has never made a good movie. I find his work so grating and self-satisfied, pulling out laughs like a catheter draws urine to quote Pauline Kael. I absolutely hated his last two films STEPFORD WIVES…

Hammond's death is a little heavy-handed. He's killed by the compys and the compys were created because they would eat the dinosaur droppings and make more manageable piles. So……

He said that in an Answer Man column in reference to a similar Russ Meyer bio-pic. It was PSH or Jack Black actually. Excited about this because I added that factoid on Roger Ebert's IMDB page myself and I really am that pathetic. I shit you not, he also said James Garner should have played Russ Meyer except that even…

"All the other kids with the sick sick sicks better run better run, outrun God's son!" I think the singing isn't terribly bad, but the parody is terrible. If you ignore the lyrics you can pretty much listen to the same song they are parodying.

I would say "no", but that's a light non-recommendation. I found it extremely off-putting and offensive- particularly the AIDS jokes, though there's also jokes about heroin addiction, lots of racial caricaturing, and a female character is raped and then dumped by her boyfriend as a slut. Oh and jokes about…