Yeah, and he was even better in “For All Mankind”. Do people just not like Joel Kinnaman, for some reason? This is the first I’ve seen people express this kind of frustration with him. Is this like the Anthony Mackie thing where some people just dislike them for reasons that are hard to pin down?

I think the last time that I genuinely laughed at a fart joke was in 1994 when Henry Rollins said in a spoken word performance that he has trouble with idealizing women and as an example claimed that he can only imagine them delicately pooting puffs of talcum powder.

“made me smile so wide for so long that the muscles creating a smile got tired. Which I don’t think I’ve ever felt before, at least consciously.”

It was amazing. More than one of the best social satires I’ve seen in a minute, it was also just one of the best sci-fi comedies I’ve ever seen. It was like They Live through an Atlanta filter. The performances were pitch perfect and it has one of the most consistent and effective uses of tone ever. Plus, it looks…

Ah, I see. That makes more sense.

As time has passed, I actually think it’s kind of cool that The Wire never got nominated for anything. It’s almost like the show was so realistic that it didn’t even read to the Academy as theatrical. Like they just thought that it was a sad reality show or something. And now it can stand forever as the prime example…

Yeah, I’m no lawyer or anything, but calling famous gay people to the stand just to testify that they don’t know anything about this seems like a remarkably weak character defense. 

Yeah, even if intelligence people do sometimes talk that way (and I’m in no way certain that they even do), they sure as shit shouldn’t do it in an actual movie. It’s confusing and goofy and way too winking-to-the-audience for my liking.

Good. I hope it scares the living shit out of everyone. People are entirely too comfortable living under the shadow of potential nuclear holocaust. We need reminders.

The “big moment” is clearly in reference to a scene where Oppenheimer gets a blowjob while straddling the atomic bomb.

I feel like I have a fragile handle on things that’s probably about the best that could be expected by an engaged non-physicist viewer. Short answer is basically yes. Following the film, he’s basically been working for and with him for years and they accomplish many missions in the future. The guy that we see in the…

‘Nolan Summons Undead Ghoul of Einstein from Beyond the Veil for New Oppenheimer Film, horrifying scientists and religious scholars alike’; “We Shall Fight This Zombie Brainiac to the Last Man!”, promise World Leaders’

Less so now, but they were around a lot more in the 90's. Plus, I think the Goodyear blimp just kind of circled Atlanta all the time for a long time since we have a lot of airports for it to park overnight.

He should return to the role that earned him an Oscar and call it...

Semi-related story: My mother has always had a pathological fear of blimps. It actually turned her against the entire concept of therapy when, as a young woman, a psychologist tried to suggest that it had something to do with a generalized fear of penises likely stemming from childhood trauma. She rejected that…

“Cilian Murphy is jaw-dropping in Oppenheimer!” 

I think you’re kinda misreading that scene. It’s Bubs who is being wistful, thinking that he’s explaining to another admirer about how much better it was for the addicts. When Colvin asks him if it was a good thing, hoping for some validation for everything that he sacrificed, Bubs misreads it as judgement and gets…

Random Kind of Hilarious and Weird Fact: at one point, she tried to reach out to Meryl Streep on twitter. Luckily, her state of mine was skewed to such a degree that she wasn’t able to detect the level of off-putting creepiness that would be conveyed by tweeting a one-line quote from “The Witch” asking Meryl Streep if…

Glad he’s okay. He’s one of those character actors that I always perk up to see in things. I still have my dvds of the first and only season of “Invasion”, the great Wiliam Fitchner Everglades body snatcher show that ended way too early for reasons that never made sense.

Man, he was one of my absolute favorites. Sometimes he would just pop up in these tiny little almost cameo roles and end up being one of the funniest things in the movie. Like in “America’s Sweethearts”.