He's great in Girls, and he's my favorite part of The Force Awakens by a fair margin (though I like Daisy Ridley and John Boyega quite a bit - for all its faults, that movie was impeccably cast).

I saw a blu-ray bonus feature shot inside a German silent film vault, and the curator mentioned that the vault is constructed to deflect the force of an explosion outward so that it won't blow a hole in the street if/when one of the prints finally ignites. Holy shit.

People use the term "lifetime pass" liberally, but Terry Gilliam seems to be someone who legitimately earned a lifetime pass from film buffs. Personally I would rather just watch 12 Monkeys again, unless movie that even approaches that level.

It's not called "rent" if you're living in a car. If you ever looked out the window you would notice you've been living in an impound lot.

Is it collecting feathers?

Wow, that was a great year for insane shit at the multiplex.

To be fair, that scene comes at the end of the film, and by that time practically everything happening before has undermined its historical value. And since Costner is such a lifeless slab of wood, we as an audience deserve some retribution for being deprived of Sean Connery's charisma - any considerations of history…

My brother had a friend who would rephrase that whole exchange being about STDs. The phrase "he gives one of yours syphilis, you give him the AIDS" has been branded in my head for waaay too long.

Wait you mean the guy who directed the first episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer did other stuff?

It pretty much has two "action" sequences (the Canadian border and the Union Station standoff) and a number of suspense scenes that culminate in someone getting shot. It's mostly remarkable for the amount of gore it pack in - pretty sure four characters' brains are visible in their death scenes.

As an aside, can I just say how delightful I find it that Adam Driver was medically discharged from the Marines for injuries sustained in a mountain-biking accident?

It was my favorite movie when I was about 5 years old - my mom actually gave me $2 and told my brother to drive me to the video store and rent the Untouchables one time, which was out of character for her. As an adult I feel fine saying it's about as resolutely stupid as a movie can get. The one thing DePalma brings…

The choice of "hysterical" isn't coincidental - this kind of dismissive writing about women and effeminate men succumbing to their emotions abounded whenever feminists instigated a social outcry. Fortunately no one does that sort of thing anymore…

For that you would have to play the last-gen game Lord of the Rings Conquest, which lets you sack Rivendell.

And I realize that within the framework of the fantasy world, that is logical, but it still bothers me that the basic theme of the story is "it's not his fault." I think the movie is sloppy in general, but the way that it touches on real things - unjust incarceration being a big one, collateral deaths being another -…

Oh yeah, I didn't take it that way.

Like thirty percent of men?

I strongly object to the idea of rebooting a gritty piece of urban realism like "She's All That" as a fairy tale!

Fuck those guys. You could fill your tombs with robots for all eternity, but you couldn't survive a few wars? Lazy punks.

It's a serious problem - if she leaves the diacritic off her name people randomly pronounce it "clo," "clee," "cloy," or "cler."