The only thing I remember about Volcano is a guy heroically melting in a pool of lava. It's supposed to be poignant and look amazing but instead he just looks like the Wicked Witch of the West.

He hid the spare clip in the place he put the thing that time.

"Sunsets are beautiful, newborn babies are beautiful, this is fucking spectacular!"

So:

Were more babies made to "How Do I Live" or the song it lost out to at the Oscars that year, "My Heart Will Go On". Or, probably more accurately, which has been more frequently used as a wedding song?

Hell, there's a guy quoted above actually recommending ketchup on a hot dog. That says it all, though he is from Nebraska.

I think he was one of the high points of American Hustle but that movie's wall-to-wall with fun performances.

Fair point. But it is a very cool scene.

Really? “Every movie has minor roles that are deliberately underwritten”? Does the script just say, “Actor adlibs”? To continue using Gangs of New York as an example, are you saying the roles played by Jim Broadbent and Brendan Gleeson are deliberately underwritten as well? It’s just that those guys are better…

Roger Ebert's old editor, Jim Emerson, did a great video essay on the incoherence of the action scenes in The Dark Knight. Here's a link if you've never seen it (it's also part of a larger series if you're into it):

I give Ultimatum a directorial pass for the Waterloo sequence alone. That's just a beautifully constructed scene. Reporter Paddy Considine, when Jason Bourne tells you not to deviate from your course you DO NOT DEVIATE.

I don't know if Diaz is miscast in Gangs or it's just an underwritten role. That character doesn't get a whole lot to do beyond nursing DiCaprio back to health. I will concede that her accent makes no sense, but that applies to everyone in that movie not named Neeson or Gleeson.

DiCaprio also has an excellent reaction to the chief ending up splattered on the pavement in front of him; part disgust, primarily resignation.

Everyone's better off watching Ronin a few times.

Renner’s just a better supporting/character actor than he is a leading man. He broke out with The Hurt Locker and while he’s excellent in it, it’s a very internal and intense performance. Not the type that lends itself to the cookie-cutter CGI spectacles and romcoms that movie stars get. He’s very good in secondary…

I always assumed the look was intentional. Striking fear in the hearts of his victims and all that. And he has a bit of a snake fetish.

Nah, these days we put Adam Sandler in the Burt Reynolds role and Burt Reynolds in the Michael Conrad role.

"Hey, you guys remember when Swan was singing the Snowman song? How did he make that tapping noise with his feet?"

I agree, it would be nice to see more gray people in movies.

Watchmen point of order! Dollar Bill got his cape caught in a revolving door and was subsequently shot to death.