Well, considering this is just the longest video game cut-scene, I'm sure 2001 has a lot more.

@avclub-5dedb42b34e50082065a783265ce28a8:disqus Post-Ararat Egoyan is pretty terrible but, jesus, to insult the acting in Exotica and then praise it for having a good script? Yeesh. I don't even know how to reconcile these disjointed opinions on how you'd view Exotica as a whole.

Not a film, but a collection of dumb, fascist, pretentious, self-important, hollow stills.

@avclub-63706c2231765ca840e9a60a76fae00a:disqus Uncompromising, maybe (I'm doubtful), but there's nothing of vision. What have you learned from watching Haneke films? What does he explore that isn't already readily apparent about life? It's all ludicrous self-importance. He thinks the viewers are morons, while also…

Truth. Haneke is probably the most lauded and widely-touted of directors that are complete hacks.

@avclub-e999715dfab2ab6a1fca1b7e45b295a3:disqus I was thinking about how they never showed Walt's thoughts on that voicemail message. He was using his phone, so there's that. I doubt Todd's Neo-Nazis will bend to the will of Walt. It's a subtle scene, hinting that they've got plans for Walt and/or Jesse (and, of…

@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus More like underlines to hell. Michael Slovis got that across plenty without the played out jokes. Unnecessary.

Ugh, this is one of the few things that I didn't like about the episode. Such a cheap earnest-waiter-interrupts-tense-scene joke. Such a blatant attempt to get a laugh, checking off boxes.

"yuck Taxi Driver"

Good comparison/starting point (though I'd debate whether the point of the last sequences in both are their dreamlike qualities—heightened reality, yes but there's more to them than fantasy) and these are my top 2 Scorsese films.

As well they should. As D'Angelo alluded to ("the flat, locked-down impersonality of the era’s TV programming"), this is one of the greatest anti-television-as-institution films ever made.

Yes and no. She's a fully-formed character, not an argument. Films/TV that use characters as part of a polemic instead of just letting them be characters who do what they do is one of my least favorite things. This article sounds like it wants Skyler to be an argument though. An argument with more screen time.…

"too wan a character to exist"

Glad to see the consensus has been reached here, the groupthink is firmly in place, and no thought of this being a subversive film that actually takes the genocide of an entire group indigenous people seriously is even being entertained in the slightest.

No, this: http://reverseshot.com/arti…

@TheTuckPendletonMachine:disqus Yes, so I'll see how that goes this time.

@Scrawler2:disqus @avclub-6e3b2cb658a36cff9d66c3371c46c4a6:disqus Guy Ritchie's gangster movies don't have characters, so it's difficult to decide how Idris Elba fares.

Sounds like a good idea. This was the first of the 3 that I had seen in a theater but I watched the other two years ago, so I can't say if it's a good idea or not to "shotgun" them. But they are so so so worth seeing!

I meant because it is turning into a consensus favorite for 2013 cinema and I can't help but resist consensus sometimes and that's why I was afraid my answer was boring. I didn't mean to imply that I was talking about the way I decided to marathon the trilogy.

Saw Before Midnight yesterday evening (after marathoning/rewatching Before Sunset that afternoon and Before Sunrise in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm—something that really added to the eventual crumbling of the American male fantasy in Europe experience) and it is definitely one of the best films of the…