So Cyborg's Iron Man, and Aquaman's Thor, and Wonder Woman's Captain America, and Flash is… well, let's be heretic and say Quicksilver… Superman doesn't show up, but I guess he's a Hulk-level trump card. Which leaves Batman as Hawkeye? Is that what DC Snyder is trying to pull?

I wish. Most people never ever get to hear the original story at all, though. In fact, they don't like original stories, cause they sound funny and weird…

It's a cool analogy, but there was a time when there were bards from all kinds of distant lands, each one of them providing some new narrative flavour to the common lore of stories, and they were wont to travel around and be welcome in different communities, and make a living. These days I have the feeling that one…

I have to agree, coming from A Separation, The Past is kind of a letdown. But it's still a strong film, which makes me think Farhadi could really work anywhere in the world and still make great stories, unlike other filmmakers who feel lost outside their own cultural context.
Having said that, I'm more than happy if…

To me it feels like Hitchcock, if Hitchcock had made films about real people with everyday-life problems…

Actually, it makes perfect sense that he comes from a theatrical background. It takes a lot of hard work and rehearsal to achieve such a "natural" feeling. I don't know what kind of theatre work he may have done in Iran, but on a stage such as the one they used to perform Death of a Salesman in the movie a more…

As long as the cream stays on the right side of the First Amendment, you'll be fine…

Well, I'm not knowledgeable at all about Bacharach's lyrics, so I'll have to trust you in that. But I guess the point of Bacharach and Costello writing those songs was creating the music that particular character might have written in that that particular context. And yeah, some might have a certain pop it factory…

Grace of my Heart was really good. Saw it a million years ago, but I think it is very underrated…

Hmmm, don't know. When is the right time to tell your spouse your child is gonna die and there's nothing either of you can do? I think her choices are limited to telling him BEFORE she is conceived, when he might leave her and hence the child would never be born, or AFTER, when it would be too late for him to do…

Chest a little now and then…

That's bloody amazing. Werner Herzog could build a whole movie around that…

Apparently, he also stone cold stunned the little girl in red during a bar brawl. Hence the 46% final figure.

Great actors both, but doesn't hide the fact of yet one more unnecessary remake… I often wonder why it is considered culturally okay to remake foreign films, but not foreign novels…

And here it is… We didn't have to wait that long… :(
https://www.indiewire.com/2…

I thought the same thing. Some aging actors looking for a vanity project to show their comedy chops must be wrestling to win the part of the father in the remake… They will ask for more jokes, and a clearer redemption arc. And maybe a romance with a much younger actress…

That's right! The stain on the shirt. Though it's also true that the guys express interest in having the pretty assistant present at the meeting…

Frankly, watching Stephen Colbert videos are among the few things that stop me from jumping off a cliff out of utter despair these days. So children's song? Yes, please, more please.

I agree. There is nothing like the kind of cruelty you find in Ricky Gervais' humour or anything. Also nothing the father puts the daughter through compares to the casual misogynistic treatment she gets from her bosses….

Saw it today, lived up to the expectations. Birthday party as hilarious as the reviewer claimed and more. I know you asked Neuroticmoose's opinion and not mine, but hey, why not.