Sounds like sour grapes.

C.J., it's a great movie, just a weird cast for a Christopher Nolan film (Robin Williams, Al Pacino, Hillary Swank???). I think it also requires an empathic response to Pacino's insomnia, and perhaps a familiarity with the way daylight fucks with you at the higher latitudes. If you've ever woken up in Alaska at 3…

Haha. I like that you came back and admitted your dopiness though. That endears you to me. Too many people on here would have doubled down and started a huge flame war. I'd heart you, but I don't think that feature exists any longer.

It's the "maybe only" that subverts the writer's intended meaning:

Well put. I'm not religious myself (and I tend find evangelicals to be insufferable), but Battaglia is basically criticizing Hall for finding a little serenity in his life.

I'm lazy, so I'll just recopy my comment from elsewhere, but:

It's most definitely a double helix. Take a look at this picture:

I posted to someone else making the same point (I agree, it looks like a single helix), but the actual post states: "The tower features double stairs that allow different groups of visitors to move up and down without interruption."

You should click through: "The tower features double stairs that allow different groups of visitors to move up and down without interruption."

True. Patrick Bateman among them.

Give this to a kid, and I'll show you one seriously disappointed kid.

I don't get the Polish joke about the Bat-Gorilla. Not even a little bit. Is there a common trope about Polish men being gorillas?

Mickey Rooney: Hi, Milhouse. The studio sent me to talk to you, being a former child star myself, and the number one box office draw from 1939 to 1940.

I agree. I was prepared to hate it, and I just had to tell myself "This guy isn't Nathan. Nathan is gone. He is not coming back." When you get over the psychological hump, Rudy has some pretty spectacularly offensive and hilarious lines. What he's missing, I think, is that Irish cheekiness and baby face that…

Charlie Jane just said "You don't think of Neill Blonkamp as a comedy mastermind." And it's true. I don't. If I think of Neill Blonkamp at all, I think "Wait, the girl from Hairspray??" And then I remember that's Nikki Blonsky.

I could only imagine this happening if Joss Whedon held Disney hostage and said "I won't make Avengers 2 unless you greenlight a new Firefly film." I think the biggest problem though is that Firefly was a Fox show and Serenity a Universal film, so I'm not sure who he could hold hostage.

I didn't even realize there was source material for it, because Southland Tales made zero sense to me. Enjoyable film, however, just... nonsensical. I may check out the books.

"3 of 5 Mobile Patent Lawsuits Involve Apple"

It is, evidently, not a very good film. From the NY Times: "It really isn't easy to make a movie as mind-bendingly bad as Best Defense. It takes hard work, a very great deal of money and people so talented that it matters when they fail with such utter lack of distinction."

This is reminding me of the Eddie Murphy/Dudley Moore movie "Best Defense." The movie was already shot and completed. Audiences hated it, so they brought in a new writer to add material that could logically fit into the pre-existing structure, and they basically grafted an entirely separate movie starring Eddie…