Please leave a message at the beep
I must be out or I'd pick up the phone
Where could I be!?

I think Jaden provides the key / partial explanation for what might have possessed Will to take on this kind of project. Collatoral Beauty totally sounds like something that Jaden would Tweet out ( https://imgur.com/gallery/9… ), and father and son are likely swimming in the same philosophical brain stew.

Other bad creative decisions aside, that actually does sound like an inspired casting choice.

My sense from Romanian friends is that 'Steven Segal movie' is kind of a genre of employment.

I'm actually quite looking forward to the Trump Presidential Library. They're exercises in spin anyway, and his will either be an unavoidable mountain of failure and controversy, or tone-blunt decaying propaganda hut that serves to accuse itself by omission, like the cobbled-together statue parks and Soviet-era…

Magnetic tape drives for data storage were the digital standard in the late 70s, so it does make sense.

35mm film and the need to build a physical set. "Material" is the word I'd use to describe it that a lot of more modern films lack.

A friend of mine who spent a few years in Australia was a huge fan. She sat me down to watch it. I thought it was a perfectly acceptable comedy, consistently funny.

It sucks that the burden of introspection falls on the liberal side. But stats suggest that alienated more one-time Democratic voters than Trump picked up new supporters*. It may be comforting to complain about sexism, racism, and other -isms in the campaign (and don't get me wrong - it is partially necessary and has…

Cool, that's what I read it as! I regret my tone probably sounded a little more aggressive than I wanted it to be; my initial reaction was pretty much your comment :) .

I was disheartened when I read that, too, and thought I'd double-check it. It was apparently passed up by "National Parks Adventure", which grossed $17.6 million domestically to "Hillary's America's" $13.1 million.

Agreed. 2008 was an underwhelming year overall, and despite The Dark Knight's problems, it was clearly among the year's most iconic, zeitgeist-y, and ambitious films. One of the underlying issues with the Academy is that they couldn't see that, but films like Benjamin Button and The Reader appeared to just…

Here's the links if you want to read them; if you don't like what he's said about campus 'political correctness' (which I haven't read), they're for me the go-to bits that demonstrate how his thought process is often driven more by ideology than rationality. Not meaning to pick a fight (I agree with what you said…

I recall being really supportive of Bush in '92, when I was an elementary school student, despite it not aligning with my parents' politics much. I think it was probably because he was the incumbent and I wanted security, not in the political conservative sense but the 'keep things the way they are' one. Our family…

Just checking… Have you read his exchanges with Bruce Schneier and Noam Chomsky?

It was certainly the first I'd seen it. Those early seasons the show was really tense, wondering who would live and die and how much Jack would succeed or fail along the way.

The impression I get when Mel Gibson is brought up online is that when alcoholics are at really low points - and do and say awful things while blitzed beyond coherence - we should treat their actions as representative of their unchanging, innermost essences and ostracize them accordingly.

I do have a soft spot for the film in concept (I've never actually seen it), because it was Nathan Rabin's empathetic dissection of it that made me a regular reader of this very site.

Agreed: the biggest problems with Crystal Skull weren't the ideas but the execution, especially a script full of unmotivated characters swept along from inconsequential set-piece to set-piece.

And NOFX had The War on Errorism