FWIW, Brando didn't speak to Bertolucci after making the film, said he felt violated by it, and regretted making it. So I don't think it was a great experience for Brando either. Betolucci seemed to have a weird, manipulative, relationship with both Brando and Schneider. Which doesn't excuse anything Brando agreed…

He's given contradictory answers. He said he raped her in the past, but lately he's been saying the sex was real but she gave consent. I feel like he's just changed his story because he realizes actually raping someone in a movie will no longer be seen as sign of being a bad boy "auteur" as much as just being a…

I don't think any of Bertolucci's films have aged well at all. He seemed to be highly regarded in the 1970s for some reason, but I've never really seen what the fuss was. I guess "The Last Emperor" is OK in a Oscar Bait spectacle sort of way, but most of his 1970s stuff has struck me as meandering and masturbatory…

This whole story seems unlikely to me. I've actually worked in university literary archives. Given what a big figure Wells is, I don't understand how someone didn't catalog this at some point. I once spent two semesters combing through various first editions of a prolific poet who often self-published, looking for…

Grade schoolers haven't read Wells in like half a century. Your satire is off point, bro.

I think Wal-Mart settled ages ago already. There was a gag order on how much the families got, but it was allegedly a fuckload as Wal-Mart wanted to avoid a high profile case like this going to trial.

The past is made to be shit on. Honestly, at this point I'm more tired of whiney fan boys on the internet bitch about how X remake ruined their childhood more than I am that Hollywood keeps making remakes.

No shit? I had no interest, but will definitely watch this now. Tarsem is a great visual director who's never quite had the scripts to match his visual talent (I did love "The Fall," but that's really the only film of his I can fully endorse).

I don't get the fuss. Their shrimp is OK for fastfood fried shrimp, I guess, but to me they tast indistinguishable from KFC.

These seems dumb at first glance, but when I tried it on my own I realized how hard it is.

Yeah, plot heavy shows that don't invest much thought into whether episodes work, stand alone, always work better on binge. "Game of Thrones" is the perfect HBO show because, despite having season long arcs, the writers still tend to give each episode a theme and they have very clear beginnings, middles, and ends as…

Which would explain why Teddy arrived with the hosts on the train at the start.

Complexity for Complexity's sake is basically the Nolans' stock and trade. Even their good movies (The Dark Knight) always have endless, needlessly convoluted, plot twists along (the whole "Commissioner Gordon is dead….no wait he's not!" plot twist is idiotic and would have to rely on a zillion coincidences to work)…

Memento is shit because all of its dramatic tension relies on its central gimmick. If you watch it in reverse order, it doesn't work as a film. Which is the test of a truly good non-chronological narrative. Pulp Fiction works perfectly played in chronological order. So does "Code Unknown." Memento is barely a…

They didn't have to be idiots. They work for a soulless corporation. They should have just established that they are mistreated, pissed at upper management, and want to get back at them. Instant motivation. Of course, why do that when you can just leave everything vague and kind of half assedly undeveloped, as…

Yeah, this show's problem is that it's all plot machinations, without any of the characterizations that would make them believable. When big dramatic moments happen on this show, I just tend to think, "OK, that happened now." Thandie Newton is the only character that is in anyway interesting.

Nah. It's weirdly worded, but what she means is "Even at a 14" (i.e. even when I had a 14 INT) "you were still no match for me" (you were still too stupid to outwit a person with 14 INT).

That was some other guy, I think. Not Felix.

There's a really, really, fascinating interview with the woman who single handedly ported Doom to 3DO back in the 90s. It turned out shit, but apparently there were so many restrictions that it's a miracle it worked at all.

You're an old timey gold prospector, apparently.