I gave it a chance despite my gut telling me that it was going to be exactly what it was.

It’s not that. I just feel dumb because I genuinely enjoy both movies (granted, for much different reasons) and because I didn’t consider that I was making a comparison. I thought I was making a statement about how hard it is to choose between two things. I wonder why I made a comment to begin with. Why the fuck…

This whole trend recently of “Hate the game, not the player” is understandable - who doesn’t love a redemption arc, after all? - and to be fair there are no winners on any side in the kind of vapid, self-aggrandizing, vicious world in which the Paris Hiltons, Courtney Stoddens, and, indeed, Donald Trumps of this Earth…

That'll teach me to use the internet!

I’ll always have a soft spot for Hoop Dreams since there was a scene filmed at my high school. 

Can Hoosiers and Hoop Dreams share the number one spot? It doesn’t seem acceptable to place either at #2.

Came here to see where Hoosiers ended up. About half of my high school’s basketball team were among the cast. That’s now-Doctor Steve Hollar with the big grin in the header photo — he got to punch another player and coach Gene congratulated him, sort of.

While Space Jam is not a good movie, it’s weirdly enjoyable. I saw it in the theater when it came out and thought it was a lot of fun at the time. Looking back on it, it’s pretty much a long, crass commercial yet retains some measure of goofy charm in part because nobody seems to be taking it or themselves too…

I get that a lot of people wanted Angela Bassett to win, but calling out Jamie Lee Curtis’ win as “nepobaby-ism” is just an insane complaint. I would bet that over half of the Academy voters couldn’t even name one of JLC’s parents, let alone both. And she’s 64 and never had an Oscar-worthy role before this. Even if…

Re Hugh Grant. Vanity Fair and “Graham assumed he meant the magazine, or perhaps the Oscar party it throws every year, but it wasn’t clear whether Grant meant it in either way.”

I’m not into the whole “actor wins an then has the most uncontrollably emotional reaction of their life” it feels borderline inappropriate.

Loved Kimmel’s teasing about Nicole Kidman’s AMC campaign.

I typically enjoy Kimmel’s hosting. He’s the next Billy Crystal in my eyes: amusing, the right balance of cutting when needed, not above goofy skits or videos, never too cringy. Not perfect by any means, but out of any hosts in recent memory, I think he fits…

She didn’t really help make any famous movies though.

In other news, the list of deceased actors who the Academy either forgot about or plain couldn’t be bothered about includes Anne Heche, David Warner, Paul Sorvino, Philip Baker Hall, Gilbert Gottfried, Fred Ward and both Theo from Die Hard and the Bartender from The Shining:

I have to agree. I fell a asleep in the theater for part of it. I was bored out of my mind. 

Is The Black Dahlia really worse than Mission to Mars? I find that hard to believe.

I’m guilty in my recent post of spelling Frederic Forrest’s name with a k too. Sorry. But it does let me point this out - that man is one of the best actors. Always, no matter the movie. As you point out, Hammett wasn’t great - he was. Same with The Two Jakes. I first saw him in When the Legends Die (and no, I don’t…

Nice straw man. I also happen to be a no-longer-practicing certified nurse midwife but I led with what (I thought) would lend medical credibility - clearly I was wrong. The FACTS are that she received a D&C and you don’t get a D&C without a verified flat-line. Your OPINION is that she went somewhere to get an abortion…

Even among people who love TVH, TWoK is almost universally lauded as the better film as well as specifically the better Trek film.

Voyage Home feels like an excellent episode of the show, which itself went back to the “ “travel to our present time” well” a lot itself, even without counting the oblique “we found a Nazi/Roman/hippie planet” pseudo time travel stories. I think Khan is a better movie, but not a better example of the show.…