'Prisoners' was great, hindered only by a somewhat cliched ending with a generic villain. Other than that, though, there wasn't a film that messed with me emotionally more than that one. Gyllenhall and Jackman both put in great performances. I think it suffers somewhat from the fact that it came out in August…

I come up blank when I actually try to think of new Mystery Strategy, but I feel like there has to be a way to exploit the fact that everybody and everybody uses alliances.

Fact: I watched 'Spring Breakers' on a laptop in a Chinese hotel the night before I left that country. I had been living in China for ten months. I will always remember 'Spring Breakers' as "that James Franco movie I watched just before I left China." 'Spring Breakers' will forever be part of a life moment. I…

I know jump scares have the ability to annoy, but they're so prevalent in horror films and have been for so long that to knock 'The Conjuring' for them seems really, really nitpicky. Sure, you can make a horror movie without them, but their presence isn't an automatic downgrade of film quality. And a lot of the jump…

Wasn't that sort of the point, though? Just throw a bunch of funny people together in a room and let them go wild? Yeah, the premise didn't drive the movie, but this is a movie that really didn't need the premise to drive it.

Well, if we know this NOW, why is everybody posting here still handing over their money for these movies? I being one of those, as I'll be going to see it tonight. Didn't watch the first one, have my expectations on the ground, feel like I'll come away enjoying the thing just because that's three hours in a movie…

I'm not sure how much the constant gimmicks (for lack of a better word) are necessary, but I don't fault the producers for using them. Any reality TV show going on thirty seasons risks becoming stale. Once alliances became such an integral part of strategy, the show was automatically locked into certain formulas. …

My favorite thing with the reunions is always the interactions between cast members, which, unfortunately, are almost completely nullified by the format. Thus, I'm left paying hyper-attention to who people are talking to right before commercial breaks, who they're looking at, body contact, etc.. On the plus side, it…

Memorable? Probably not. I mean, I can't remember anything specific that he did beyond almost literally shaking Monica last night during their one-on-one conversation about Ciera v Tina. He was a consistent, enjoyable presence, though.

Really, any labels the show tosses out there become (more or less) defunct after however many days. They're useful at the beginning, just for sorting purposes, but by the time the show reaches post-merge, the dynamics have become their own thing, and by the time it is a few episodes past the merge, the labels are…

The jury thing is usually hugely entertaining (it pumps in drama even when there shouldn't be drama and I find the questions asked and the responses to be generally interesting), but you'd have to have a very, very even Final 3 in order for the question/answer session to actually sway more than one or two votes.

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He seemed sort of sheepish telling Tyson that he wasn't going to vote for him. At least, as sheepish as Vytas can be. I don't think he was actually bitter.

I had him as the Brains part of the equation, but he is a self-described Challenge Monster, and I would love to see him surrounded by a bunch of species of Culpepper.

I would have preferred that filling a portion of the finale to what we ended up getting: Monica, Monica, Monica, Monica, Monica.

My initial thoughts were Malcolm, Cochran and Brenda. Then I realized that they all played on last season, but I was tired and I couldn't think of anybody else. Those three are the archetype of Brawn/Brains/Beauty, though, though.

I think that first time, it was one of those deals where he could technically be medically evacuated as he was, but had he demanded to stay in the game rather than being a loser, they would have let him stay. Thus, Colton can argue that he only quit once, and he's technically right. I'm sure Jeff didn't want to get…

The acting was awful. If you slapped Michael Bay's name on that movie and didn't change anything about the movie itself, we aren't talking about it at the end of the year.

I know 'Pacific Rim' gets a lot of love in these parts, but I ain't a lover to that film. Maybe I'm just exhausted from all of these movies going big and destroying cities and crap. All of my favorite movies this year have been the smaller scale, more intimate films. 'Gravity' was another big, cinematic film that I…

No offense to the intelligence of the Culpeppers, but I'm guessing the name Rex was not forged out of pretension.