I often get this feeling that Metallica's longtime fans are punishing them for not making Ride the Lightning over and over again.

Fuck St. Anger
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I think I must be the only person in the free world who likes that album.

Supposedly they filmed the mom's funeral, and it was a hugely affecting scene. They decided to leave it out, so as not to drag everybody down.

This isn't on TV, but:

a more interesting movie, for my money, than The Martian

I don't know if it was "chemistry" exactly. But both of them were excellent. Another great movie.

Magic Mike is so sneaky good. I feel like that's about where I finally conceded on Soberbergh as auteur. You'd think I would have been there after, say, Solaris (which I really enjoyed). But I guess the Ocean movies threw me off.

I lean the same way; but my wife swears by The Wedding Planner. So, I dunno, maybe.

Unmentioned in the discussion of Damon's roles, and his funniness, is his role in The Adjustment Bureau. The first act, and especially his flirtations with Emily Blunt, is Matt Damon as Funny Regular Guy at its peak. He plays "Holy shit is she hot!" as well as anybody ever has.
(Not exactly a challenge, with Emily…

On the DVD commentary for Out of Sight, Soderbergh says that he cast Lopez because – he said that they had a bunch of great actresses in to read with Clooney for the role, some big names, and they were great. They were fine with Clooney. Maybe a couple of them were better even than Lopez was. But Soderbergh said…

"I once told you about a sailor who described drowning to me."
"Yes, he said it was like going home."
"I was lying. He said it was agony."

I found the twist-reveal at the end of the Illusionist to be at lot more intriguing than of the Prestige. The whole "brothers" thing felt like kind of a lame payoff and the weird sci-fi element at the end came completely out of left field in the last 20 minutes of the film.

This is that theory: http://www.insidehoops.com/for…
It's fucking dumb, honestly.

You tracked with this movie much, much more closely than I did. …I only dimly tracked which one loved which woman; I never separated them throughout the movie.

Remember the scene in Solaris, where they kill the reappearing loved ones from their past? This was a little like that.

I know a few who were pissed that the answer to one of the central mysteries was ACTUAL MAGIC

The Prestige, and everything else for me. Memento and Inception and Intersteller on a next tier, I guess.

The actor who lays on the juiciest accent, just ladles it on with a trowel, is the one member of the cast whose accent I can't possibly criticize: Moichael Cuyne. He just fills his mouf wi marbles and starts chewing!

I didn't realize Soderbergh was involved with XXL; never mind so intimately (cameraman and editor!). I skipped the movie; but now I guess I want to see it.

(That came out a little more dickish than it sounded in my head.)