That franchise is literally the only lifeline Diesel has to a successful career. I mean, you can name GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY but he's not a selling point. Johnson is spinning shit into gold constantly and Diesel is still trying to get another Riddick movie made.

I mean to be fair, this has been going on since last year. And according to some critic responses I read yesterday, they don't actually share a scene in the movie, which is pretty glaring when they're supposed to be in the same scene.

Yeah I think Carrey is a great example of someone who 'studied hours of footage' of Kaufman. You always hear it when actors tend to play real people. But it feels like he let that inform his whole performance.

It's interesting in they both have the same fatal flaw; the people involved don't 'get it' the way they think they do. MAN ON THE MOON paints Kaufman as this loveable 'alien' type figure almost, when he supposedly was anything but that. The scene posted above kind of shows that. The real Kaufman is a lot more calm and…

Yeah, it seems pointless really. I'm ready for the 'washed out' filter to go and die a death because it's somehow become synonymous with 'arty'.

Yeah I believe that Lynch suggested they should be watched as well. I think there's a fan cut out there that cuts the two together using the script as a guide.

What's clear is that the original ROGUE ONE trailers were designed to get across the tone of the movie, hence them using shots which they just got on the day because they looked good, or ominous line readings.

I liked part one fine, it was part two that ruined it. Part One felt like a lot of build up that's going to get paid off, but it never really does. The second one just sort of continues the long slog to the end.

Ratner has made as many good X-MEN movies as Singer has.

I believe that a lot of the time, whenever you're seeing an actor act and Fox isn't on camera with them, they're the takes from when Stoltz was in the role.

It's really not very good at all. Everything with Gosling and Pitt is pretty good, but it belongs in a better movie. The rest is just late 90s/early 2000's bland thriller.

What, no love for Frozen Jap?

ARMY OF DARKNESS would make a lot more sense in that discussion. I'm just not sure why they'd change it from RESERVOIR DOGS.

It's ultimately a dramatic device and that's fine. A talking head segment would stop any episode dead, and would frankly feel too much like homework. And I think you're ignoring that often Donna and Josh will have discussions about an issue. Like tax returns, or bailing out Mexico.

The one thing that annoys me is that it's described as having a "kick ass" soundtrack. Now I love EVIL DEAD II, but the soundtrack is not what I would call "kick ass".

To be fair, in WW a big point was that Sam was engaged in an ongoing relationship with a call girl and was occasionally a dick to other people about it (Whereas she was treated with more respect as a character than I expected for the time). I think it's just a trope he likes to come back to a lot.

Mandy was a massive misstep. But I think that on the WW at least, he wrote women just as capably as he wrote men.

Ultimately though, if that's Sorkin's experience - which it seemed to be - then of course that's what he's going to think. It's even a theme throughout his work. He's naive and optimistic to an alarming degree.

Yeah but to be fair, THE WEST WING is full of scenes of people who *should* know something having it explained to them for the audience benefit.

1) The thing is huge.
2) People keep saying this as though they're on a perfectly level plain where they can run in a straight line and not on a rocky, uneven terrain where running isn't that easy to begin with.
3) People do not make the best choices under intense pressure. Both in life and in movies.