Ah, good, I was hoping that wouldn't get all Twilight Zone weird coincidence and turn out that you were sitting behind me.

True, and Ridley Scott is 79, still churning out one a year more or less. But Mann has never really been prolific. His last three theatrical movies were 2006, 2009 and 2015. (there was the ill-fated LUCK in between).

You are not gonna believe this….but yesterday, I was on a plane, and I watched, yes, Dr. Strange! United airlines by chance?

"It took three Wolverine movies to make as much as one Bond movie, an average Transformers movie, and one generic talking animal cartoon" doesn't sound like such a great self-fellating press release though.

Eh…so? That's not particularly noteworthy for three superhero movies. Deadpool made 783 million on its own. Suicide Squad 745. Dr. Strange 677 etc etc

Eh, course I'll see it but I'd rather Mann do some more crime shit. He's 74 now so you gotta figure he's got 3 more films, tops

Blackhat was great, except for the wooden block in the lead role

Horror. On a film by film basis, surely it churns out more garbage than any other genre!

Yeah I guess that makes sense. The prisoner didn't start a fight, just gets in his face, its Romero who throws the first punch. So yeah maybe seeing Norman in person taunting him gave him a new plan - get transferred somewhere else that's easier to escape from (his lawyer mentioned "work farm"), and just kill Norman…

Are we to assume Norman told someone at the prison that Romero was a cop? He seemed to have been doing fine on the inside, and gets attacked right after Norman's visit…

We call that feeling "an erection"

What James Woods sees when he's on coke.

I have a vague memory of seeing it…ok Bill Paxton AND Michael Ironside, yes there's no way I didn't watch this

Ah yes, so the Oscars gives its opening number over to that film that everyone's been talking about all year - Trolls. In any case, what was the second song all about?

Well there are other reasons - even if he was 100% innocent and guaranteed a win in court, he's a public figure and didn't want to be a fixture on tmz for months on end.

Yeah. I watched the pilot but I kind of felt like, well I don't need to watch this mediocre Bill Paxton project, as there will be other better Bill Paxton projects, but obviously now you gotta take any Paxton that's out there.

We really needed a Tommy Lee Jones "what is this shit" reaction in there somewhere

Andrew Garfield could have taken the stage and bravely pulled the victims away through the piles of corpses and viscera

Agreed. What the hell was that opening ten minute ego-stroke all about? What did any of that have to do with movies?

Since all the usual suspects have been covered, gonna shout out to TRESPASS, TRAVELLER, and BOXING HELENA, a trio of interesting and oddball underseen flicks on his resume. And THE DARK BACKWARD if you're feeling *really* adventurous.