He lost me at the something-something about real soundtracks at the time. Rancid, the Presidents, the Toadies and Green Day pervaded the airwaves; none of whom were on the ER soundtrack.

I saw Empire records as more of a "day in the life" for a bunch of aimless twenty-somethings who worked at a music store. When I was that age, everyone was struggling with life-defining issues and locally, the indie music stores were run very similarly. Clearly, for some, a movie like this can be overthought, with…

If you'd had them for roommates, you'd discover all kinds of homemade smoking devices. After 5 times, I stopped replacing the screens in the faucets.

I have to wonder how much I'd have liked Singles had it not been immersed in the grunge era. It is still genius, though.

I was referring to the Jaqen incarnation, sorry. You're right, Arya is on the same path….

What he did was reveal that shocking events, if written well and effectively integrated into the story, will keep people watching. Even more so if they're blinded by the fact that this season was only about 5 episodes worth of relevant material stretched out over an entire season (this included me until 4 episodes…

You nailed on like, 1600 levels

The Faceless Men have not returned in the books from their initial introduction so this entire storyline is new from the TV writers.

Right? I keep waiting for the real proof that he's not a saint.

Or give some philosophical reason that the fight was only some triviality in the grand scheme of sovereignty.

Serious? I wondered about that.

I agree, and the end result is that the last 4 eps have all the meat, leaving the rest of the season as a veggie salad sans dressing.

"If a superhero knocks over a building and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they’re not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it’s the worst thing we’ve ever seen."

I have my three staples - The Hot Chick, The Animal and of course, Deuce Bigelow. Most of the stuff he did for Sandler's pics were obligatory and throwaway material.

I think "Emma Stone" was a marketing ploy, not a character.

This makes me think of Tarantino; esp. his characters played by him.

I think Amy Heckerling put him up to it.

She's busy, she bought a zoo, I heard. With Matt Damon or some other H'wood darling.

It was a sorry-not-sorry, from Crowe's standpoint. Apparently he didn't get the memo that you can't make a film in Hawaii without it being ABOUT Hawaii. I don't think Sandler or Apatow got that memo either.

Because he had to pay for the rights to use the clever dialogue "twister with your sister".