This is like when I found myself sitting through Jumper on a long plane ride and entertained myself by pointing out moments in the movie where Hayden Christiansen should have died — "should" in both the moral and logical sense — and how his dying and the movie ending there would've vastly improved the film as a whole.

This is like when I found myself sitting through Jumper on a long plane ride and entertained myself by pointing out moments in the movie where Hayden Christiansen should have died — "should" in both the moral and logical sense — and how his dying and the movie ending there would've vastly improved the film as a whole.

The very concept of Meet Joe Black really pissed me off, and IIRC Roger Ebert was also deeply pissed off by it — the idea that the very incarnation of Death needed to learn what life meant, and that life meant, basically, indulging in the material comforts afforded by being a rich guy with a beautiful family…

The very concept of Meet Joe Black really pissed me off, and IIRC Roger Ebert was also deeply pissed off by it — the idea that the very incarnation of Death needed to learn what life meant, and that life meant, basically, indulging in the material comforts afforded by being a rich guy with a beautiful family…

@avclub-94d231f11cdc1fae024849f33f7a7156:disqus Look, the fact that people — including the protagonist of Falling Down — who have an outsized hatred of things like street gangs and runaway inflation frequently hold those views together with other views that are pretty loathsome doesn't mean we can't sympathize with…

@avclub-94d231f11cdc1fae024849f33f7a7156:disqus Look, the fact that people — including the protagonist of Falling Down — who have an outsized hatred of things like street gangs and runaway inflation frequently hold those views together with other views that are pretty loathsome doesn't mean we can't sympathize with…

Any movie like Falling Down is going to have problems with mixed messaging and getting fans for the wrong reasons. Ultimately the work has to stand on its own merits and the author has to take responsibility for how the work was actually received by the audience regardless of their intentions — but I can still…

Any movie like Falling Down is going to have problems with mixed messaging and getting fans for the wrong reasons. Ultimately the work has to stand on its own merits and the author has to take responsibility for how the work was actually received by the audience regardless of their intentions — but I can still…

I think of American Beauty, The Matrix and Fight Club as being specifically the "white-collar white guy has boring job, boring life and GOES FUCKING INSANE" trilogy of 1999. Office Space fits that bill too — what was it about 1999? Millennial angst or something?

I think of American Beauty, The Matrix and Fight Club as being specifically the "white-collar white guy has boring job, boring life and GOES FUCKING INSANE" trilogy of 1999. Office Space fits that bill too — what was it about 1999? Millennial angst or something?