Spoiler-alert: there's also a Chuck Palahniuk-reference soon after he first meets El Chapo. I don't know what's worse: that Sean Penn went third-person, Fight Club-style, or that I noticed it.

The entire article can be summed up by this excerpt:

Not to be a stickler, & yes, I know Penn & Chapolito got final cut, but JESUS is this thing unedited. It reads like a first draft (email, at that), the grammar is inconsistent & often incorrect, & the structure is totally confused confused, the tone is all over the place, it's WAY too long, & the whole thing borders…

Of course. His awful personality protects him being subject to Ripley's whole game. Which is why he (SPOILER ALERT) ends up how he ends up. But yes, a brilliant and surprising performance: PSH as the adult version of a prep school bully.

I'm surprised to see no mention of Brendan Dassey..?

It's weird, he looks NOTHING like Elvis, but he's playing an Elvis that looked nothing like hisself, so it kinda sorta works out perfect.

Also: a young, thin, & excellent Philip Seymour Hoffman playing the spoiled, smug piece-of-shit too smug & spoiled to be charmed by Ripley.

This is one of my favorite movies, & although I suppose I can point to some reasons why (Nicholas Ray plays the forger; Sam Fuller plays the New York gangster; it has one of the best-edited & subtly-intense chase sequences I've ever seen; Dennis Hopper's oft-kilter, deranged, & often-stilted version of Ripley actually…

Dexter Holland is publishing peer-reviewed research on viral oncology while he completes his phd candidacy after putting it off to become a "rockstar." Whoa. Thank you for that Wikipedia link. Stranger than fiction, alright. I'm not even sure how to feel. Should I laugh ? Should I be impressed ? Should I cry ? …

Not that I know of ?

You can't spoil that movie, trust me. There isn't really a story to spoil, & I don't mean that derisively at all. It's just not that kind of movie. You KNOW where it's going from the moment the plot sets in.

Also, while I didn't end up on minding it TOO much in watching the film, the idea that they ADDED in a made-up son (bleh) while cutting out the apparently-true scenario in which Hugh Glass had to force bugs onto his rotting flesh to prevent necrosis from taking hold (!!) is a bit baffling to me.

The best part of THE REVENANT is every time it cuts back to Tom Hardy & Will Poulter, who are both incredible, & whose scenes are by far the strongest throughout. I didn't dislike the movie as much as many on here (&, in fact, ended up liking much more than I had initially anticipated, especially after seeing the…

SLOW WEST was pretty good, too, although it only barely qualifies as a Western, proper.

That role single-handedly made it impossible for me to watch Tobey Maguire act in anything, ever, again, ever. He's THAT bad. I truly believe that Leo told Baz, "I'll only do it if you cast my buddy Tobey as Nick Carroway," which is something he's notorious for doing (see: Lukas Haas getting a small part in nearly…

he's not the star. he's in less than half the episodes, & barely in the trailer.

This looks way better than I expected. Anyway, it's a very good, very well-edited trailer.

I strongly agree with this strong disagreement.

I found myself feeling almost EXACTLY the opposite: that the "you always did like reading history books"-type lines were so expertly & cleverly used, in a way that very clearly illuminated how much tension there was between the characters, but also shined a light on how stilted & rehearsed their communication had…

Not only back-in-the-day, but to-day, too.