THIS, sir, is a MASTERPIECE!!!

Brazil is not a mess at all. And neither is Synecdoche, NY.

I thought Cloud Atlas has the chance to be brilliant but missed the mark crucially twice: Once in the casting single actors for multi-racial parts and again in not mirroring the structure of the novel. The former takes the audience out of the film unnecessarily (and undercuts the theme of the book by suggesting that…

I have only seen this once (and have not read the source material yet), so there is always the possibility that a reconsideration is in order, but I think it might be brilliant. Anytime something this weird and ambitious comes along there is going to be polarization—it's a complete and messy failure or an audacious…

Dear Zachary: A Letter From A Father To His Son, has to be the most devastating entry into this list.

But it contains potassium benzoate… That's bad.

Okay, no… But it does have free Frogurt!

Yes, and I'm not the biggest fan of butterscotch, so you can have most of it.

I've never seen the show, and I'm not sure who Jim Parsons is, so does that mean I live on another world? If so, you can come visit.

I'm not sure if I care about this show anymore. It's just not very good at all. Bad characters who continue to do dumb things.

Also, where I live the trains stop at every stop. I've never seen a subway just barrel through a stop without, you know, STOPPING. But I'm no New Yorker, so it could just be me. Even if it's true, it's not the dumbest thing about this show.

I'm a Tigh guy, all the way. Not because he's hot, but he's my most interesting character on the show.

And then watch Caprica. What little is there is great.

Also, am I the only one who's kinda into the Cylon base ship woman? "JUMP!"

Crush: Six, Dee, and Starbuck. Can't I have em all?

Yes, we have different criteria for what constitutes greatnes, and that's okay. I'm all about discovery and promoting world cinema, since the amount of sheer greatness out there in obscurity (as you say) far outweighs the mainstream Western compilation of greatness (which is largely from the Big Three and mostly from…

I probably would have, too, when I was in high school.

You'll find some of the most respected names in world cinema is all. Your initial statement is the kind of subjective absolute that drives me nuts, and I usually associate with philistines. I am not calling you that, just stating that I have an aversion to that kind of thing. Kubrick was great, and I'm a big fan and…

This was a good piece, but my eyes REALLY lit up when I saw, "Next up: The Tree of Wooden Clogs." Man, I loved that film and it definitely needs more exposure.

Tap the breaks there and broaden your horizons. Tarkofsky, Vlacil, Angelopolous, Shepitko, Jansco, Ozu, Mizoguchi, Godard, just to name a few.