The fact that he mostly got away with it was part of the point of the movie. It's the main thing that set it apart from conventional "inspirational teacher" bullshit.

Sunset Boulevard. Barton Fink. Adaptation. I could go on and on.

Several major film critics, actually. The review snippet in the film's poster reads "There are great American movies, and then there are great movies that take America as their very subject, from Greed and Citizen Kane to There Will Be Blood and The Social Network. Foxcatcher has that same, soaring ambition, and it…

Are you talking about the fire scene? Because if so, I was so taken aback by it that I didn't even pay attention to the quality of the CGI. I'm still trying to figure out what the fuck happened there.

I liked it. It manages to be a heightened Hollywood satire without giving up the weirdness of Cronenberg's other films. It's very flawed, yes, but the direction is good, and so are most of the performances. The scenes with Mia Wasikowska and Robert Pattinson, in particular, I think go against your claim that every…

It's like how everybody thinks Foxcatcher is trying to be some big, important meditation on America when the only thing it really says about America is that it's full of egotistic people and ruled by fucked-up billionaires.

Mia Wasikowska is the anti-Jennifer Lawrence — she broke out as the lead in a huge box office hit, then went on to appear in tons of arthouse/independent films. I really hope Crimson Peak wins her some recognition because she definitely deserves it.

A Most Wanted Man was fucking great. They should have given Hoffman a posthumous Oscar nomination for that.

Hey, didn't you get the memo? Hating Interstellar stopped being cool months ago. Go complain about Boyhood like everyone else.

I'm legitimately asking. What is a "gimmick"?

Why did it fall off, though? I mean, is it really that absurd for a movie to try to make points? Even if you didn't agree with some of the things Birdman was saying about the state of Hollywood and all that, the fact that movies that try to say something about something are consistently put down for daring not to be…

The grumpy old Academy people hated Gone Girl, as I've heard, so it's a little surprising that they nominated Pike at all.

Christ, sitting through Gone Girl with my dad was enough of a chore. I don't even like to think about what would have happened if I'd seen The Master next to him.

Amen. I mean, I'm not the only one here who thinks Argo is pretty good, right?

Okay.

had the style not been as it was (shot with the same cast over such a long time), would it have even crested the base levels of attention?

Yes, and it wasn't pretty.

You know, picking one positive aspect of a movie and pointing out the absence of that one aspect in another movie isn't a very reasonable way to compare the worth of two films.

These superhero reboots are really getting out of hand.

To be fair on Meryl Streep, she is hardly a perpetual winner. Three wins out of 19 nominations is an okay track record at best.