Watch out, Itchy! He's Irish!

As it happens, I'm also your guy for that… and it's hard to tell how disappointed you're going to be.

You're not wrong, but also: I've seen this and Collateral Beauty and Space Between Us and I am POSITIVE the same person had a heavy hand in all of them.

Ha, sorry, I missed this comment and went on a similar rant. I also missed Just Go With It, which I guess is his one actual hit since 21.

Loeb is an even more classic example of Hollywood hack falling up than any of these middling directors. It's hard to judge screenwriters because their credited work can be tampered with so easily, but SWEET JESUS look at his filmography. He wrote or co-wrote 21, Wall Street 2, The Switch, The Dilemma, Rock of Ages,…

I wouldn't even call them terrible, just proficient and unable to elevate a movie or really show they have something to say. It was inevitable that a lot of middlebrow studio hacks would get their start in fresh-seeming indies, and that's been happening for a while now, but it is jarring to see someone start out with…

Why is the central relationship dumb? I actually think the movie is pretty smart about Jack and Rose, in that it's careful to point out all the cool stuff Rose did after Titanic. I found that, more than their puppy love, really touching — that she goes on to live a better life because of this romantic experience that…

I decided to behave myself and not put A Life Less Ordinary on my ballot, because it's not really justifiable, but I do quite like it. Also, Tomorrow Never Dies totally is the best Brosnan Bond. YOU HAVE CORRECT OPINIONS.

I literally don't drink and I voted Titanic over Confidential. I've spent two or three viewings of the latter (a.) fighting sleep and (b.) trying to figure out why I was fighting sleep instead of loving it, because it's way up my alley (love the cast, love noir/Old Hollywood stuff). I'm overdue for another attempt but…

I think the movie itself courts that kind of reaction because as an ultraviolent man-versus-giant-bugs war-horror movie, it's fucking awesome. If it were purely satire, I'm not sure if I would have placed it so high on my list. I don't think it's supposed to be read as simply as "these humans are the bad guys, aren't…

I think Basterds might be his best film (I think he might think so too, based on the ending). But Jackie is up there. I think it's a sign of his strength as a filmmaker that he could make a movie as universally well-known and beloved as Pulp Fiction and still have me totally happy to hear arguments that at least two…

I voted it for it though I haven't seen it in ages. It does feel a little ickier now.

Huh! I screwed up. I even specifically thought I checked that, not wanting to assume his non-English movies didn't take place here, and messed it up — I read a couple of places that they were Taiwan-shot and U.S.-cofinanced, and completely missed that they took place (and must have been at least partially shot) in…

I think both this and Gifted (which I did not see) probably are personal/passion/heartfelt/whatever projects for him. Some of these guys, it turns out, just don't have super great taste.

I saw BEAN and STARSHIP TROOPERS on the same day (actually, it was: Bean, Starship Troopers, then Starship Troopers again) and while Bean may not be all that great, it has one scene that made me laugh harder than maybe anything else in a movie that year.

I mean, there are blurbs for both movies above and you just used question marks so I think the ball is in your court here. ;)

Hell and yes.

I got sleepy in the middle slog, too! It went faster the second time, and ultimately I loved a lot of what came before and after it, so 10-15 boring/redundant minutes didn't ruin it. But it is probably my least favorite of the eight, if only by default.

Thank *you* for trolling months-old comment threads!

Well you can cram it with walnuts, ugly!