That's what I thought too! Thank you. But people are writing that he "nailed" it. I don't understand.

That "HELLO" routine was just fantastic. I could watch him do that all day.

Of course! He's just a casualty of it all. Even more tragic since it's never dwelt upon…he's just told he's "a mistake" and then that's the end. (And he doesn't have Cooper's keen intellect, so he doesn't draw any conclusions from being in the Black Lodge beyond just "this is strange" or whatever.)

That whole thing was the funniest joke in the entire new season, so far. The way they blithely reveal it, so late in the game, makes it even funnier.

I've already watched them all twice.

I love that theory, too.

Can someone explain to me why Michael Cera is being described by Alan Sepinwall and others as delivering a "pitch-perfect Brando impression"? Like, an "exact replica" of the Wild One performance?

Twin Peaks ain't!

I think what happened is they started, and Pitt immediately realized, Oh my God, this is such a bullshit misfire and these people are so incompetent that I'll just mug my way through it.

Oh my God, I am so relieved and happy that this is as good as it is, against all odds!

That was great! Come on.

He IS kowtowing to fan expectations! This is EXACTLY what we want, and then some!

"He said 'titular'"

Yeah, exactly! Or those horses riding off the the boats in the beginning. With the first shot of Dead Man's Chest — the rain in all the abandoned teacups — I knew we were in good hands.

But I'm saying; that's what I like about it — the crazy story combined with the infinite budget (and ILM doing their best work in years) creates this drug-like hallucinogenic effect that I really enjoy. If the production values weren't so high and the stuff didn't look so amazing and real, those two movies would be MST…

Also, in these movies Keira Knightley is at a ratio of youth to lip-collagen-filler/hair-extensions/spray-tan that she really hasn't been anywhere near since. It's pretty astounding; pretty much any frame of her could be a Vogue cover.

Nonsense. Even Dan Quayle spoke more intelligently than Trump.

I really like the first three, because I think Verbinski is an incredible talent (I love his The Ring and a couple of his others really appeal to me more than they have any right to, like The Mexican, which is hilarious and very stylish).

That's not the problem. The problem is more subtle, but more devastating than that: he wins every battle but loses the war because, while being a visual genius, and while, yes, getting everything right in a way that brings joy to old-school fans like myself, and clearly trying as hard as he could, the fact remains…

I think this is a very sophisticated and subtle takedown of Shia Leboeff in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and, by extension, a profound dismissal of Spielberg (and all of Hollywood conventions Lynch has bucked his entire career) and of George Lucas, whose offer to direct Return of the Jedi Lynch…