It's not rare that when finally made, protracted passion projects by stellar filmmakers turn out stiff, it's like they're been festering in their minds for too long and by the time they come out are staid and overlong, a terrible combo of overindulgence and fear (see "Hook", and I lkinda like "Hook" but it's the…

Well, that's the crux of every war or crime movie that has any interest in considering the consequences of violence, since said violence is inherently exiting when viewed trough the protecting layer of the screen.

SPARTACUS DOES EVERYTHING WELL.

While agreeing with your general point I want to mention that you can go ahead and watch "Onn The waterfront" in peace since it was shot to be safely projected in 1.33:1, 1.66:1 and 1.85:1, and there was apparently no aspect preferred by both Kazan or cinematographer Boris Kaufman.

What's worse is that at that level of production you don't even have to do your own research, that's what political advisors are for! You can be lazy and accurate! So you can imagine that the people that made this political thriller don't care and don't have the bare minimmum respect for their audience to force…

Leave it to the Coens to lampshade the central metaphor of their movie.
Secretary: Llewyn Davies is the cat.
And it only works because of the sincerity that the tone in the rest of the movie has. If this line was in one of the smartass movies of the Coens it could came across as too much, like they think they're being…

There should be a moratorium on gangster movies. Nobody should get a dime to make one unless they have something legitimately new to say about the topic, or an honest-to-god-not-ripped-from-scorsese point of view about it. And no long steadicam shots, that's just embarassing at this point (how ridiculous is that…

Well, it's been almost twenty years now but he did wrote L.A. Confidential and directed Pyback. As for 42 I haven't seen it yet - I plan to, the guy have a lifetime pass for me due to the aforementioned movies - but he most likely didn't have any choice on the matter of the smoking. Period piece or not, there's not…

Annaud movies made fun are Carroll Ballard movies; make them deep and are Herzog movies. Thera are no discernible reason for this man to exist (besides his apparent talent to get money from exotic countries while dutifully treating them as such).

Yeah, like Michael Mann and Steven Soderbergh - those hacks!

Another great one was SPUN, were he seemed to blend with the rusty filthy walls of his trailer/meth lab, and Jhonny Handsome, probably my overall favorite of his behind Domino (wich I firmly believe is the part he was born to play - see the scene when he complains to a hurt Edgar Ramirez that he made him miss the…

He's wonderfully unhinged in it, but I think is of a piece with the more aggresive mode that he showed a few years before in "Deconstructing Harry" (not casually his first movie with an extensive use of profanity) and the uber asshole played by Sean Penn in "Sweet and Lowdown".

I've yet to see a Woody allen film that I haven't enjoyed on some level, and never regretted seeing them in theaters.

One could argue (me being that one) that have gotten better. I have never seen a night as authentic as the yellow drenched night of Collateral, or the night sky in the roof scenes in Miami Vice, where you coud see an impending storm, far in the distance making you almost feel the humid wind in your face.

Malick wins for sunsets, Mann wins for nights.

It more or less has been, though…

Spotato Scortato.

I can imagine both Scorsese and Tarantino gladly putting themselves as runner-ups to Sturges and Torneur respectively, but this is not their list.

I SAID FUTURISTICS DADADOOS! TRUST THE FUTURISTIC DADADOOS!

Well, let's see: